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BSFA Awards 2005 - Shortlists

Artwork

Cover of Neal Asher's novel Brass Man (Tor UK) -- Steve Rawlings
Cover of Brandon Sanderson's novel Elantris (Tor) -- Stephan Martinière
Cover of Interzone #200 -- Pawel Lewandowski
'Megara' (cover of F&SF, January) -- Max Bertolini
'Run!' (chapter 2, pages 2-3 from We3 -- graphic novel with Grant Morrison and Jamie Grant; Titan Books) -- Frank Quitely
'Weapon Shop' (cover of Interzone #198) -- Kenn Brown

Short fiction:

'Bears Discover Smut' -- Michael Bishop (SciFiction, 26 October)
'Bird Songs at Eventide' -- Nina Allan (Interzone #199)
'Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch' -- Rudy Rucker (Interzone #200)
'I, Robot' -- Cory Doctorow (Infinite Matrix, 15 February)
'Imagine' -- Edward Morris (Interzone #200)
'Magic for Beginners' -- Kelly Link (Magic For Beginners; also F&SF, September)
'Soft Apocalypse' -- Will McIntosh (Interzone #200)
'Two Dreams on Trains' -- Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons, 3 January)

Novel:

9Tail Fox -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
Accelerando -- Charles Stross (Orbit) (Free ebook edition)
Air -- Geoff Ryman (Gollancz)
Learning the World -- Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
Living Next Door to the God of Love -- Justina Robson (Macmillan)

Non-Fiction:

This list was agreed by the judges for the award at the same time as they selected the winner, as a list of 'recommended reading' from 2005 for anyone interested in science fiction and members of the BSFA in particular.

'Speculative Poetry: A Symposium' -- Mike Allen, Alan DeNiro and Theodora Goss, ed. Matthew Cheney (Strange Horizons, editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi): parts one and two
'Science Fiction, Parable, and Parabolas' -- Brian Attebery (Foundation #95, ed. Farah Mendlesohn)
'Blank Pages: Islands and Identity in the Fiction of Christopher Priest' -- Paul Kincaid (Christopher Priest: The Interaction, ed. Andrew M Butler; SF Foundation)
'A Young Man's Journey to Ladbroke Grove: M John Harrison and the Evolution of the New Wave in Britain' -- Rob Latham (Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M John Harrison, ed. Mark Bould & Michelle Reid; SF Foundation)
The History of Science Fiction -- Adam Roberts (Palgrave)
'Perverting Science Fiction: Thinking the Alien Within the Genre' -- Chris West (Foundation #94, ed. Farah Mendlesohn)
Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 -- Gary K Wolfe (Beccon Publications)