2018 BSFA Awards

The Winners of the 2018 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced. at Ytterbium, the 70th Eastercon. Winners in green.

Best Novel

Best Shorter Fiction

Best Novel

• Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• Before Mars by Emma Newman  (Ace Books)
• Embers of War by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
• Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

• The Gift of Angels: an Introduction by Nina Allan (Clarkesworld)
• The Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct by Malcolm Devlin (Interzone #275)
• The Land of Somewhere Safe by Hal Duncan (NewCon Press)
• Time Was by Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Tor.com)
• Phosphorus by Liz Williams (NewCon Press)
• Kingfisher by Marian Womack (Lost Objects, Luna Press)

Best Non-Fiction

• Nina Allan’s Time Pieces column 2018 articles (Interzone)
• Ruth EJ Booth’s Noise and Sparks column 2018 articles (Shoreline of Infinity)
• Liz Bourke’s Sleeps With Monsters column 2018 articles (Tor.com)
• Aliette de Bodard – On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures (Intellectus Speculativus blog) [link]
• Adam Roberts – Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance (Cambridge University Press)

Best Artwork

• Ben Baldwin’s wraparound cover for ‘Strange Tales’ slipcase set (NewCon Press)
• Joey Hi-Fi’s cover for ‘Paris Adrift’ by EJ Swift (Solaris)
• Sarah Anne Langton’s cover for ‘Unholy Land’ by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
• Sing Yun Lee and Morris Wild’s artwork for ‘Sublime Cognition’ conference (London Science Fiction Research Community)
• Likhain’s In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II (Inprnt)
• Bede Rogerson’s cover for ‘Concrete Faery’ by Elizabeth Priest (Luna Press)
• Del Samatar’s artwork for ‘Monster Portraits’ by Sofia and Del Samatar (Rose Metal Press)
• Charlotte Stroomer’s cover for ‘Rosewater’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit)