BSFA Awards 2004 - Nominations

Nominations closed on 22 January 2005. The following eligible works had been nominated by that date: 

Novel

• Century Rain – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz SF)
• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (Sceptre)
• Cowl – Neal Asher (Tor Books)
• Exultant – Stephen Baxter (Gollancz SF)
• Faces of Mist and Flame – Jon George (Tor)
• Forty Signs of Rain – Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins)
• How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff (Puffin Books)
• Jim Giraffe – Daren King (Jonathan Cape)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Mobius Dick – Andrew Crumey (Picador)
• Newton's Wake – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
• Nine Layers of Sky – Liz Williams (Tor Books)
• Pandora’s Star – Peter F Hamilton (Tor Books)
• Recursion – Tony Ballantyne (Tor)
• River of Gods – Ian McDonald (Simon and Schuster)
• Singularity Sky – Charles Stross (Orbit)
• Stamping Butterflies – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz SF)
• The Algebraist – Iain M Banks (Orbit)
• The Confusion – Neal Stephenson (Heinemann)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower – Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Etched City – K J Bishop (Tor)
• The Flood – Maggie Gee (Saqi Books)
• The Iron Council – China Miéville (Macmillan)
• The Last Battle – Chris Bunch (Orbit)
• The Moth Diaries – Rachel Klein (Faber & Faber)
• The New World Order – Ben Jeapes (David Fickling Books)
• The Roses of Roazon – Cherith Baldry (Tor Books)
• The Seagull Drovers – Steve Cockayne (Orbit)
• The Snow – Adam Roberts (Gollancz SF)
• The System of the World – Neal Stephenson (Heinemann)
• The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (Jonathan Cape)
• The Well of Stars – Robert Reed (Orbit)
• The Year of Our War – Steph Swainston (Gollancz SF)
• White Devils – Paul McAuley (Simon and Schuster)
• Worldstorm – James Lovegrove (Gollancz SF)

Short Fiction

• 'A Choice of Eternities' – Eric Brown (Postscripts #1) 
• 'Collateral Damage' – Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's, August)
• 'Deletion' – Steven Bratman (Analog, Jan / Feb)
• 'Delhi' – Vandana Singh (in So Long Been Dreaming, ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan)
• 'Flat Diane' – Daniel Abraham (F&SF, October / November)
• 'Everlasting' – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #193) 
• 'Footvote' – Peter F Hamilton (Postscripts #1)
• 'Inappropriate Behaviour' – Pat Murphy (Scifiction, 11 February)
• 'Inherit the Vortex' – Ramona Louise Wheeler (Analog, January/February)
• 'Inside Outside' – Michaela Roessner (Scifiction, 21 January)
• 'Loosestrife' – Liz Williams (Interzone #193) 
• 'Mayflower II' – Stephen Baxter (PS Publishing)
• 'My Death' – Lisa Tuttle (PS Publishing) 
• 'Native Aliens' – Greg van Eekhout (in So Long Been Dreaming, ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan)
• 'Point of No Return' – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (New Scientist, Christmas/New Year)
• 'Return to the Planet of the Humans' – Will Self (from collection Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe)
• 'Steep Silence' – Lena DeTar (Asimov's, June)
• 'Super 8' – Terry Bisson (Scifiction, 24 November)
• 'Tetrarchs' – Alan DeNiro (Strange Horizons, May)
• 'The Annals of Eelin-Ok' – Jeffrey Ford (The Faery Reel, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling)
• 'The Defenders' – Colin P Davies (Asimov's, October/November)
• 'The Faery Handbag' – Kelly Link (The Faery Reel, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling)
• 'The Opposition' – Daniel Kaysen (The Third Alternative #38)
• 'The People of Sand and Slag' – Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF, February)
• 'The Star Called Wormwood' – Elizabeth Counihan (Asimov's, December)
• 'The Voluntary State' – Christopher Rowe (Scifiction, 5 May)
• 'The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz' – Howard Waldrop (Scifiction, 22 September)
• 'Three Days in a Border Town' – Jeff VanderMeer (Polyphony 4, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake)
• 'Tis the Season' – China Miéville (Socialist Review, December 2004)
• 'You Will Hear The Locust Sing' – Joe Hill (The Third Alternative #37

Artwork

• Antares – David A Hardy (from Futures: 50 Years in Space: also cover of Analog)
• Cover of Cowl by Neal Asher – Steve Rawlings
• Publicity poster/art work for the film Howl's Moving Castle 
• Concept art work from the film I, Robot – example here 
• Iguana – photo by Sebastiao Salgado (article here)
• The Millau Bridge – photo by Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty
• Ministry of Space #3, page 7 – Chris Weston (Image Comics)
• n-tnshn – Richard Marchant (cover of The Third Alternative #39)
• Cover of Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod (Tor US) – Stephan Martinière
• Cover of Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod (UK) – artist uncredited
• Cover of Recursion by Tony Ballantyne – Dominic Harman
• Publicity shot for the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 
• Cover of Scheherazade #26 – Gerald Gaubert 
• Cover of The Algebraist by Iain M Banks (original photo credited to NASA!)
• Cover of The Cassini Division by Ken Macleod (new edition) – Lee Gibbons
• Cover of The Iron Council by China Miéville – David Stevenson & Carl D Galian
• Cover of The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston – Edward Miller