The BSFA was founded at the Eastercon in 1958. A number of celebrations
of the BSFA's fiftieth anniversary are being planned for 2008 - including
programme items at the Eastercon - but one of the ways we wanted to
mark this was to give BSFA and Eastercon members the chance to vote
on their favourite novel from 1958.
This isn't a true 'retro' award, in that no one is being asked to nominate
or vote as if this were 50 years ago; it's an opportunity to recognise
the best novel from the year in which the BSFA was formed, from our
standpoint 50 years on.
- The Best Novel of 1958 award is therefore open to any novel-length
work of science fiction or fantasy which is published for the first
time in 1958. (Serialised novels are eligible, provided that the publication
date of the concluding part was in 1958.) Given the state of the SF
market at the time, this includes both books and magazines published
outside the UK.
