2019 British Science Fiction Association Awards Shortlist

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards shortlist for works published in 2019 has been announced.

2019 BFSA Awards Shortlist

Best Novel

• Juliet E. McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press)
• Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz)
• Gareth L. Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books)
• Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor)
• Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

• Becky Chambers – To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – This is How You Lose the Time War (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Fiona Moore – Jolene (Interzone #283)
• Gareth L Powell – Ragged Alice (Tor.com)
• Tade Thompson – The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)
• Ian Whates – For Your Own Good (Wourism and Other Stories, Luna Press)

Best Non-Fiction

• Farah Mendlesohn – The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (Unbound)
• Glyn Morgan and C Palmer-Patel (Eds) – Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction (Liverpool University Press)
• Gareth L. Powell – About Writing (Luna Press)
• Adam Roberts – HG Wells: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Jo Lindsay Walton – Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit (Big Echo)

Best Artwork

• Aitch and Rachel Vale – Cover for ‘Deeplight’ by Frances Hardinge (UK edition) (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• Chris Baker (Fangorn) – Cover for ‘Wourism and Other Stories’ by Ian Whates (Luna Press)
• Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘Fleet of Knives’ by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
• Charlotte Stroomer – Cover for ‘The Rosewater Redemption’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
• Richard Wagner – Cover for Interzone #284 (Interzone)

The BSFA Awards will be presented at the 2020 Eastercon, Concentric, on Saturday, April 11, 2020.