The list of nominations is growing and growing… you are finding so many books, stories and works of non-fiction to nominate. In this latest update there are no additions to the Best Artwork category, though, so more nominations in this category would be particularly appreciated – even if it’s just for something already on the list.
Members have until midnight to get their nominations in and can find all the rules and regulations of what to do here.
Rather unfortunately, we seem to be having difficulty with our nomination form today. However, I will take the time to check back every nomination received to make sure I have noted everything you wish to nominate. If you prefer you can just email awards@bsfa.co.uk
Best Novel
| Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publisher |
| Red Country | Abercrombie | Joe | Gollancz |
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Ashby | Madeleine | Angry Robot Books |
| The Drowned Cities | Bacigalupi | Paulo | Atom |
| The Hydrogen Sonata | Banks | Iain M. | Orbit |
| Elves: Rise of the TaiGethen | Barclay; Rapoza | James; David | Gollancz |
| Nod | Barnes | Adrian | Bluemoose Books |
| Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice | Baxter | Stephen | BBC Books |
| Iron Winter (Northland 3) | Baxter | Stephen | Gollancz |
| The Teleportation Accident | Beauman | Ned | Sceptre |
| Dark Eden | Beckett | Chris | Corvus |
| Alt.Human | Brooke | Keith | Solaris |
| Helix Wars | Brown | Eric | Rebellion |
| Folly of the World | Bullington | Jesse | Orbit |
| Empire State | Christopher | Adam | Angry Robot Books |
| Doctor Who: Dark Horizons | Colgan | J. T. | Random House UK |
| London Falling | Cornell | Paul | Tor |
| The Outcast Blade | Courtenay Grimwood | Jon | Orbit |
| The Eternal Flame: Orthogonal Book Two | Egan | Greg | Gollancz |
| The Sigil Trilogy | Gee | Henry | ReAnimus Press |
| Black Opera | Gentle | Mary | Orbit |
| The Ward | Grey | S. L. | Atlantic Books |
| Great North Road | Hamilton | Peter F. | Macmillan |
| Angelmaker | Harkaway | Nick | Windmill Books |
| Empty Space: a Haunting | Harrison | M. John | Gollancz |
| The Troupe | Jackson Burnett | Robert | Orbit |
| The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879) | Karlinsky | Harry | The Friday Project |
| The Wind Through the Keyhole | King | Stephen | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Redemption in Indigo | Lord | Karen | Jo Fletcher Books |
| Age of Aztec | Lovegrove | James | Rebellion |
| In the Mouth of the Whale | Macauley | Paul | Gollancz |
| Intrusion | Macleod | Ken | Orbit |
| Defiant Peaks (The Hadrumal Crisis) | McKenna | Juliet E. | Solaris |
| Transmission | Meaney | John | Orion |
| Railsea | Mieville | China | Macmillan |
| The Broken Isles (Legends of the Red Sun 4) | Newton | Mark Charan | Tor |
| Channelskin | Noon | Jeff | Amazon Media |
| The Long Earth | Pratchett; Baxter | Terry; Stephen | Doubleday |
| Blue Remembered Earth | Reynolds | Alastair | Gollancz |
| Jack Glass | Roberts | Adam | Gollancz |
| Doctor Who: Shada | Roberts; Adams | Adam; Douglas | BBC Books |
| Red Shirts | Scalzi | John | Gollancz |
| The Explorer | Smythe | James | Harper Voyager |
| 2312 | Stanley-Robinson | Kim | Orbit |
| The Apocalypse Codex: A Laundry Novel (The Laundry Files) | Stross | Charles | Orbit |
| Grandville, Bete Noir | Talbot | Bryan | Jonathan Cape |
| Entanglement | Thompson | Douglas | Elsewhen Press |
| Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych) | Tregellis | Ian | Orbit |
| Deathless | Valente | Catherynne M. | Corsair |
| Among Others | Walton | Jo | Corsair |
| Alif the Unseen | Willow Wilson | G. | Corvus |
| Reflections | Wynne Jones | Diana | David Fickling Books |
| The Method | Zeh | Juli | Harvill Secker |
Best Short Fiction
| Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publication | Publisher |
| The Green | Beukes | Lauren | Armored | Baen Press |
| One Way Ticket | Brown | Nigel | Interzone #239 | TTA Press |
| The Flight of the Ravens | Butler | Chris | Immersion Press | |
| The Girl Who Went Out For Sushi | Cadigan | Pat | Edge of Infinity | Solaris |
| Conquistadors | Cairns | Iain | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| One Day in Time City | Cleary | David Ira | Interzone #241 | TTA Press |
| Fata Morgana | Cluley | Ray | Interzone #238 | TTA Press |
| On 20268 Petercook | Cook | Andy | Tor.com April | Tor.com |
| Forests of Eden | Counihan | Elizabeth | PS | |
| Immersion | de Bodard | Aliette | Clarkesworld #69 | Clarkesworld |
| Ship’s Brother | de Bodard | Aliette | Interzone #241 | TTA Press |
| Let’s All sing Like the Birdies Sing | Di Filippo | Paul | Daily Science Fiction | |
| Black Box | Egan | Jennifer | The New Yorker | |
| Dancing on the Red Planet | Ellingsen | Berit | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| The Grinnell Method | Gloss | Molly | Strange Horizons | |
| Doctor Who: the Art of Death | Goss | James | BBC Audiobooks Ltd | |
| The Lonely Hunter | Grant | John | PS Publishing | |
| Attenuation | Harkaway | Nick | 1.2 | Arc Magazine |
| Switchgirls | Hershman | Tania | Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces | Negative Press |
| Shuffle | Hill | Will | Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric & Arcane | Solaris |
| A Hundred Ghost Parade Tonight | Jia | Xia | Clarkesworld #65 | Clarkesworld |
| Not Because They are Easy | Kepfield | Sam S | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| The Battle of Candle Arc | Lee | Yoon Ha | Clarkesworld #73 | Clarkesworld |
| He Reminds Us | Linnaea | Jennifer | Strange Horizons | |
| Mono No Aware | Liu | Ken | The Future is Japanese | Haikasoru |
| Song of the Body Cartographer | Loenen-Ruiz | Rochita | Philippines Genre Stories, June | Philippines Genre Stories |
| Limited Edition | Maughan | Tim | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
| Pathfinder | McGrath | Martin | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| Three Moments of an Explosion | Mieville | China | Rejectamentalist Manifesto | |
| Eyepennies | O’Driscoll | Mike | TTA Press | |
| Proposition 23 | Okogu | Efe | AfroSF | StoryTime |
| A Biosphere Ends | Palmer | Stephen | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| Ghost in the Machine | Parvin | Christopher | Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology vol. 5 | Bristol Review of Books |
| The Tomb | Quifan | Chen | The Apex Book of World SF | Apex Publications |
| Twember | Rasnic Tem | Steve | Interzone #243 | TTA Press |
| Trauma Pod | Reynolds | Alaister | Armored | Baen Press |
| Lune and the Red Empress | Reynolds, Williams | Alastair, Liz | ODYSSEY 2010 SOUVENIR BOOK | |
| Doctor Who: Devil in the Smoke | Richards | Justin | BBC Digital | |
| How We Ran the Night | Ridgway | Keith | Hawthorn and Child | Granta Books |
| What did Tessimond Tell You | Roberts | Adam | Solaris Rising 1.5 | Solaris |
| The Kendal Iconoclasm | Rooney | Paul | Dust and Other Stories | Akerman Daly / Aye-Aye Books |
| Red at The End of the World | Rucker | Lynda E | Daily Science Fiction | |
| Where the Summer Dwells | Rucker | Lynda E | Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2012 | F&SF |
| Adrift on the Sea of Rains | Sales | Ian | Whippleshield Books | |
| Courtship in the Country of Machine Gods | Sriduangkaew | Benjanun | Future Fire 24 | Future Fire |
| The Complex | Swift | E. J. | Interzone #238 | TTA Press |
| A Spotted Trouble at Dolor-on-the-Downs | Tanzer | Molly | A Pretty Mouth | Lazy Fascist Press |
| Volwys | Thompson | Douglas | Albedo One | |
| A Lexicon of Steam Literature of the Third Reich | Tidhar | Lavie | website | |
| Choosing Faces | Tidhar | Lavie | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
| The Indignity of Rain | Tidhar | Lavie | Interzone #240 | TTA Press |
| I Dream of Ants |
Tidhar | Lavie | Murky Depths | |
| The Lord of Discarded Things | Tidhar | Lavie | Strange Horizons | |
| Tiger Stripes | Vo | Nghi | Strange Horizons | |
| The History Thief | Warren | Kaaron | Visions Fading Fast | Pendragon |
| Countless Stones | Wood | Lucy | Diving Belles | Bloomsbury |
Best Artwork
| Title | Artist surname | ArtistFirst Name | Publication | Publisher | Associated writer |
| cover | Aja | David | Hawkeye #6 | Marvel | |
| cover | Baldwin | Ben | Dark Currents | Newcon | |
| cover | Baldwin | Ben | Forests of Eden | PS Publishing | Elizabeth counihan |
| The Hermit | Baldwin | Ben | Interzone #241 | TTA Press | |
| cover | Baldwin | Ben | Interzone #238 | TTA Press | |
| cover | Black Sheep | Jack Glass | Gollancz | Adam Roberts | |
| cover | Fangorn | Stories From the Northern Road | Newcon | Tony Ballantyne | |
| cover | Harbour | Charlie | The Flight of the Ravens | Immersion | Chris Butler |
| cover | Harman | Dominic | Saving for a Sunny Day | Newcon | Ian Watson |
| cover | Harman | Dominic | Helix Wars | Rebellion | Eric Brown |
| cover | Hi-Fi | Joey | Thy Kingdom Come | Jurassic London | Simon Morden |
| cover | Maronski | Tomasz | International Speculative Fiction 2 | ||
| cover | McGuiness; Vines; Rodriguez | Ed; Dexter; Javier | Captain Marvel #2 | Marvel | |
| cover | Police | Aurélien | At the Edge of Waking | Prime Books | Holly Phillips |
| cover | TBA | Dark Eden | Corvus | Chris Beckett | |
| cover | Tikulin | Tomislav | Visions Fading Fast | Pendragon | Gary McMahon |
Best Non-Fiction
| Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publication | Publisher |
| The Spider’s House | Allen | Nina | website | |
| Living Architecture | Armstrong | Rachel | TED Books | |
| The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit | Burnham | Karen | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? | Erikson | Steven | Not Your Grandmother’s Epic Fantasy: A fantasy author’s thoughts upon reading The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature: 1 | NYRSF |
| Distrust That Particular Flavour | Gibson | William | Viking | |
| The Blind Giant | Harkaway | Nick | John Murray | |
| Marvel Comics: The Untold Story | Howe | Sean | Harper Collins | |
| Dancing on the Ruins | Ings | Simon | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
| The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature | James, Mendlesohn | Edward, Farah | Cambridge Univeristy Press | |
| The Widening Gyre | Kincaid | Paul | Los Angeles Review of Books | |
| The Shortlist Project | Kincaid Speller | Maureen | website | |
| Cowardice, Laziness and Irony | McCalmont | Jonathon | Ruthless Culture | |
| London’s Overthrow | Mieville | China | Westbourne Press | |
| Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks | Mullan | John | Guardian Book Club | The Guardian |
| A Ray of Sunshine | Patterson | Bill | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
| Hull 0; Scunthorpe 3 | Priest | Christopher | website | |
| Breaking the Fall | Raven | Paul Graham | 1.1 | Arc Magazine |
| Does God Need a Starship | Roberts | Adam | Strange Divisions and Alien Territories | Palgrave Macmillan |
| The Comic Strip Companion: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 – 1979 | Scoones | Paul | Telos Publishing Ltd | |
| Extreme Metaphors – Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967 – 2008 | Sellers; O’Hara | Simon; Dan | Fourth Estate | |
| Pornokitsch | Shurin; Perry | Jared; Anne | website | |
| The Doctor’s Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who | Sleight | Graham | I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd | |
| The World SF Blog | Tidhar | Lavie | website |
I would like to thank everyone for their nominations. We are just collating the results now and aim to have everything ready for an announcement of the shortlists on Friday morning.
Watch this space!
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