BSFA Awards 2004 - Shortlists

Novel

• Century Rain – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz SF)
• Forty Signs of Rain – Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Newton's Wake – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
• River of Gods – Ian McDonald (Simon and Schuster)
• Stamping Butterflies – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz SF)

Short Fiction

• 'Delhi' – Vandana Singh (in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan)
• 'Mayflower II' – Stephen Baxter (PS Publishing)
• 'Point of No Return' – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (New Scientist, Christmas/New Year)
• 'The Faery Handbag' – Kelly Link (The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling)
• 'The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz' – Howard Waldrop (Scifiction, 22 September)

Artwork

• Iguana – photo by Sebastiao Salgado (article here)
• The Millau Bridge – photo by Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty
• Cover of Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod (Tor US) – Stephan Martinière
• Cover of The Algebraist by Iain M Banks (Orbit; original photo credited to NASA!)
• Cover of The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston (Gollancz SF) – Edward Mille

The BSFA award for non-fiction was suspended from 2004. Although a strong shortlist emerged for the 2003 award, nominations in this category had always suffered from confusion about the eligibility criteria and a sense that they prevented effectively coverage of the field. The BSFA has therefore been looking for another way to recognise good writing about science fiction or fantasy, and will make a further announcement shortly