BSFA Awards 2006 - Nominations

Artwork

• Bad Gifts, Alison Scott (Cover of Plokta 36)
• Cover for Interzone 206: "Droid" by Fahrija Velic
• Cover for The Demon and the City (Liz Williams, Nightshade Books), Jon Foster
• Exiles by Mark Garlick, cover of Interzone #203
• The Fountain (Vertigo graphic novel cover) by Kent Williams
• Cover of Farthing magazine, issue 2, Spring 2006. Credited to 'Vertebrate Graphics'.
• Cover of Farthing magazine, issue 4.  "Barking up the right tree", by Johnny White.  (Photograph dates from 2001; nomination is for use as magazine cover.)
• 'The Lucid Moment', Chris Mars. (Chris Mars Publishing)
• Cover for Nova Swing by M John Harrison
• Orbital Station & Boy, SMS (Interzone 202 internal artwork, accompanies The Macrobe Conservation Project)
• Cover for Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
• "The Return to Abalakin" by Alexander Preuss
• Ring of the Gods, William Li (Cover of Holland SF 226)
• Cover of US edition of River of Gods, Stephen Martiniere
• Sarabande by Lucy Huntzinger
• Cover for the DVD and reissued book of A Scanner Darkly
• Publicity still for A Scanner Darkly
• Cover for Science Fiction: The Best of the Year (ed. Rich Horton), Les Edwards 
• Cover of "The Servicing and Maintenance of Wayland Snowball", by Terry Cooper. (Novel by Steve Dean.)
• Poster for Superman Returns
• Cover of Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns, Stephen Martiniere
• Cover of Temeraire (Naomi Novik), Dominic Harman
• Cover of Time Pieces, Fangorn
• Cover of Whispers of Wickedness #12, Marcia Borell,

Short fiction:

• The American Dead, Jay Lake (Interzone 203)
• Among the Living, Karen Fishler (Interzone 203)
• The Angel of Gamblers, Hal Duncan (Eidolon #1)
• The Barrowlands' Last Night, Philip Raines & Harvey Welles (Extended Play)
• The Beekeeper, Jamie Barras (Interzone 206)
• A Billion Eves, Robert Reed (Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November)
• Bizarre Cubiques, Hal Duncan (Fantasy #4)
• Blue Glass Pebbles, Steven Mills (Interzone 205)
• Caer Cold, Liz Williams (Time Pieces, edited Ian Whates, published NewCon press)
• The Cartesian Theatre, Robert Charles Wilson (FutureShocks, ed. Lou Anders)
• The Codsman and his Willing Shag, Neil Williamson (The Ephemera)
• Damascus, Daryl Gregory (F&SF December)
• The Dead which were in it, Barry J House (Whispers of Wickedness 13)
• Diplomatic Relations, Don D'Ammassa (Talebones 23)
• The Disappeared, Sarah Singleton (Time Pieces, edited Ian Whates, published NewCon press)
• Distro, Tim Akers (Interzone 206)
• The Djinn's Wife, Ian McDonald (Asimov's Science Fiction, June)
• Down the Wall, Greer Gilman (Salon Fantastique: Thirty Original Tales of Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling)
• The End of the Road, Brent Knowles (Not One of Us 35)
• Epilogue, Stephen Melling (Whispers of Wickedness 12)
• Epiphanies Even Here, Matt Bright (Jupiter 13)
• The Exchange, Tony Ballantyne (PostScripts #7)
• fight Music, Tim Nickels (Extended Play)
• Frankie on Zanzibar, David Mace (Interzone 207)
• Freedom, Martin McGrath (Jupiter 12)
• Funny Money, Paula Stiles (Neometropolis 8)
• Gin, Holly Phillips (Eidolon #1)
• Happy Days, Jerome Kemp (Future Fire 5)
• Hieronymous Boche, Chris Lawson (Eidolon #1)
• The Highway Men, Ken MacLeod
• The House Beyond Your Sky, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons)
• iKlawa, Donald Mead (F&SF, April 2006))
• In the Pines, Rosanne Rabinowitz (Extended Play)
• In the River, Justin Stanchfield (Interzone 205)
• The Last Reef, Gareth Lynn Powell (Interzone 202)
• Leaves of Glass, Lavie Tidhar (Triquorom 1, Pendragon Press)
• The Little Drummer Boy, Marion Arnott (Extended Play)
• Longing for Langalana, Mercurio D Rivera (Interzone 204)
• Looking Glass Vacation, Sarah Ann Watts (Future Fire 7)
• The Macrobe Conservation Project, Carlos Hernandez (Interzone 202)
• Make Things Good, Barry J House (Black Petals 36)
• The Nature of the Beast, Jae Brim (Interzone 206)
• A Night in Tunisia, Tony Richards (Extended Play)
• Palestina, Martin J. Gidron (Interzone 204)
• The Point of Roses, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Gollancz - original to UK edition, 2006)
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter, Geoff Ryman (F&SF)
• The Purring of Cats, Dave Hoing (Interzone 207)
• The Revenant, Lucy Sussex (Eidolon #1)
• Saving for a Sunny Day, or, The Benefits of Reincarnation, Ian Watson (Asimov's Science Fiction #369/370)
• Signal to Noise, Alastair Reynolds (Zima Blue and Other Stories)
• "Soulkeepers" by Steve Dean (Hadesgate Publications)
• Sounding, Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons)
• Spheres, Susanne Palmer (Interzone 207)
• State Your Name, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Time Pieces, edited Ian Whates, published NewCon press)
• Sundowner Sheila, F. Gywnplaine McIntyre (Interzone 203)
• The Tamarisk Hunter, Paolo Bacigalupi (High Country News, Summer Reading Issue)
• The Thirty-Million Day Dance Card, John Grant (Triquorom 1, Pendragon Press)
• This Happens, David Mace (Interzone #205)
• Tiger, Burning, Alistair Reynolds (Forbidden Planets)
• 2+2=5, Rudy Rucker and Terry Bisson (Interzone 205)
• The Unsolvable Death Trap, Jack Mangan (Interzone 202)
• Wane, Elizabeth Bear (Interzone 203)
• Weather, Alastair Reynolds (Galactic North)
• Willy and Topsy, William I. Lengeman III (Farthing #4)
• The World and Alice, L Timmel Duchamp (Asimov's Science Fiction, June)
• Yellow Card Man, Paolo Bacigalupi (Asimov's Science Fiction, December)
• You Have Never Been Here, M. Rickert (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & Joh Kessel)

Novel:

• Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon (Random House)
• 'The Brief History of the Dead', Kevin Brockmeier (John Murray)
• Darkland , Liz Williams (Tor)
• End of the World Blues, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, GW Dahlquist (Viking) (originally published in ten parts, also available as a single volume)
• Gradisil, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Hav, Jan Morris (Faber)
• His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik (also published as Temeraire)
• Icarus, Roger Levy
• Ilario: The Lion's Eye, Mary Gentle (Gollancz)
• Keeping it Real, Justina Robson
• Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard
• The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Weidenfield & Nicholson)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
• Nova Swing, M. John Harrison
• Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Lydia Millet (William Heinemann)
• 'The Osiris Revelations', Andrew Marshall (MPress Publishing)
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
• Sakkara, Michael Carroll
• The Servicing and Maintenance of Wayland Snowball, Steve Dean (Hadesgate Publications)
• Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff Vandermeer
• Streaking, Brian Stableford (PS Publishing)
• Ten-second Staircase, Christopher Fowler
• The Testament of Gideon Mack, James Robertson
• The Toyminator, Robert Rankin
• The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Neal Asher
• Weapons of Choice, John Birmingham
• Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett

Non-Fiction:

• The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology, ed. Paul Kincaid with Andrew M. Butler (Serendip Foundation)
• The Darkening Garden, John Clute
• Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press)
• Great British Comics, Paul Gravett
• Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale, Andy Murray
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St Martin's Press)
• The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman
• Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute, ed. Farah Mendlesohn
• La science-fiction: Lecture et poétique d'un genre littéraire, Irene Langlet (Armand Colin)
• Space, Time and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature, Brian Stableford (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, No. 39)