#BSFA Awards

[reachingforthevoid]

News: BSFA Awards long list is out

🎉 The long list for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards is out. Congratulations to everyone on it, and it's an honour to be among this amazing list. 

If you want to explore recent works in the field, then do have a look. And if you're thinking about nominations for the Hugo Awards, many of these will be eligible.

If you are a member of the BSFA and would like to vote for The Disinformation War in the Best Novel category, then you have until 23:59 GMT on 20 February 2024 to cast your votes.

[rsagarcia]

2025 Awards Eligibility for THE NIGHTWARD

2024 wasn’t over before the 2025 Awards season began, but I held off on posting this because I always feel it’s crazy to start talking about awards when people have work out on December 31st every year. However, we’re now two days into 2025 so here is my awards eligibility post for last year. Don’t worry, it’s really simple to remember. I wrote a novel called THE NIGHTWARD, and it’s eligible…

[gollancz]

We're so excited to see some Gollancz authors and books on this list and in such wonderful company!

The winners of this year's BSFA Awards will be announced at Conversation 2023. The BSFA Awards ceremony is free to attend by all members of Eastercon. See you there!

Here are the shortlists, including works by two of our wonderful Guests of Honour - Adrian Tchaikovsky and @tkingfisher Best Artwork

Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz

Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan

Chris Baker, Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32, Shoreline of Infinity

Vincent Sammy, Cover of Parsec 4, PS Publishing

Miguel Co, Cover of Song of the Mango and Other New Myths, Ateneo De Manila UP

Jay Johnstone, Cover of The Way the Light Bends, Luna Press Publishing

Best Fiction for Younger Readers

T. Kingfisher, Illuminations, Argyll Productions

Frances Hardinge, Unraveller, MacMillan Children's Books

Kate Dylan, Mindwalker, Hodder and Stoughton

Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns, Hodder and Stoughton

Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Harper Voyager

Vanessa Len, Only A Monster, Hodder and Stoughton

Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Margaret K. McElderry Books

Best Short Fiction

Or Luca, ‘Luca’, Luna Press Publishing

Aliette de Bodard, ‘Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances’, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

Rick Danforth, ‘Seller's Remorse’, Hexagon Magazine, Issue 11

Adrian Tchaikovsky, ‘Ogres’, Rebellion

Neil Williiamson, ‘A Moment of Zugzwang’, ParSec #4

Best Novel

Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances, Head of Zeus

Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake, Gollancz

Adam Roberts, The This, Gollancz

Gareth Powell, Stars and Bones, Titan Books

EJ Swift, The Coral Bones, Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction,

Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Doubleday

Maureen Kincaid Speller, The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner's Treacle Walker  http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-critic-and-the-clue-tracking-alan-garners-treacle-walker/

Fiona Moore, Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros, Edward Elgar Publishing

Wole Talabi and the ‘ASFS, Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SFF’ , https://www.sfwa.org/2022/06/01/preliminary-observations-incomplete-history-african-science-fiction-fantasy/

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki , ‘Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer's Perspective’, https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/too-dystopian-for-whom-a-continental-nigerian-writers-perspective/

[drfionamoore]

Here's my eligibility post! And here's a long skeet thread of other things I liked this year: https://bsky.app/profile/drfionamoore.bsky.social/post/3lccxgz6jqc2o

[nkjemisin]

Me, scrolling tumblr reading a good strike for screenwriters thread

Also me: HUGO THREE TIME AWARD WINNER AND FAMOUS AUTHOR NK JEMISIN?!?

LOL. Well, yeah. I wrote a script last year (before the strike) for "The Fifth Season" film that Sony/Tristar is currently developing, so I'm now qualified to join the WGA. (Haven't done it yet bc of the strike, but I will when I can.) And even if I weren't qualified, writers are writers, and I'm always gonna show solidarity with my fellow creatives when they're fighting The Man.

(ID: A rainy sidewalk. N. K. Jemisin stands in the foreground holding a picket sign that reads WRITERS GUILD ON STRIKE! Handwritten underneath: Book Writers Stand for WGA. Jemisin is wearing shorts and a black shirt that reads "PENCILS THE F*CK DOWN". In the background are several other people carrying picket signs, text blurry.)

Also. ::cough:: It's, uh. Five Hugos. 😅

(ID: Photo of a glass trophy cabinet. Visible are 5 Hugos, a Nebula, and the top of a BSFA.)

[valya-dudycz-lupescu]

Last week, the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) released their longlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards, for work published in 2023. Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction from Ukraine and the Diaspora was among those listed for Best Collections! I am honored that we were included; I'm also so excited to see Ukrainian fiction on a list like this.

When I was a young reader in the 80s and 90s, I dreamed of such an opportunity; and I am heartened to know that readers are enjoying and discussing these stories by writers in Ukraine and the Diaspora.

There are so many thoughtful collections and fantastic stories on this list, and I encourage you to take a look. Congratulations to my incredible co-editors, Olha Brylova & Iryna Pasko and to all the nominees!

[ineffable-writer]

And then write “retellings”

People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

[breathingxspace]

Breathing Space is on the British Science Fiction Association Award's long list!

We just found out that our season 3 episode “Five-Foot Ten, & Two-Fifteen” has been nominated! Which is a ridiculously exciting honor. If you’re a member of the BSFA, maybe consider voting for us!

And our most sincere thanks to whoever nominated us.

Want to listen to the episode?

It can be found here.

[elizabethrobertajones]

Can I recommend my series of novels about very silly teenagers getting into nonsense with fairies and gods and mythological beings around their cutesy little town?

What is coming of age for if not dealing with the Immortal Boyfriend Age Gap quandary, discovering you are really into giant horned deer gods, being a cursed teenage witch with a crush on your new bestie, or being the friend who saw it all coming months in advance?

[reachingforthevoid]

'tis the season for SFFH award eligibility posts...

My novel, The Disinformation War, is eligible for the BSFA and Hugos. Published by GoldSF (imprint of Goldsmiths Press) in June 2023 (e-book coming in December 2023). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380809/

Eternally grateful for any boosting 😅

[shopboughtchaos]

Holy Shit I've got an update to this! Lies is longlisted for a BSFA! I didn't even know I'd even been considered, and here I am longlisted for Best Shorter Fiction! https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist Holy Debut Luck, Batman! ANYWAY! if anyone likes science fiction and fantasy, maybe pick up a book about queer pirates who never call themselves that, but really like to see things burn! (it's currently really cheap on the Big River place, too) And on the offchance anyone is in a position to vote - I'm not begging, I know the amazing competition I'm up against in my category, I'm happy with the win I currently have, but if anyone is a member of the British Science Fiction Association, please check out the longlist and make someone's day with a little vote!

Okay, I'm not very used to showing off my stuff but... it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day and I would be remiss not to take advantage and mention that I wrote a story about pirates. I mean, they never refer to themselves as such, but that's just semantics, really. So, may I introduce my adult dark fantasy novella: The Lies We Tell Ourselves. *** "In a world still bearing the scars from an ancient magical conflict, those who wield magic – or are changed by it – are condemned as abominations, their lives forfeit.

Raised at sea under the tyrannical rule of his father, there is nothing the young Captain Fiaer Dradorn won’t do for the knowledge of a lost treasure that drove his father’s obsession. Even start a war.

Betrayed to the mercy – and consequences – of catastrophic, uncontrolled, magic, Fiaer is left with nothing but the belief in his own monstrosity and the overwhelming desire for revenge.

As his plans take form, he realises that true monstrosity is less what someone is, and more who they chose to be. A choice he must make before others make it for him." *** It's available from all reputable booksellers, I believe, worldwide but for certain I know for a fact it's in Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, the Big River, and best of all, direct from the publisher: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/the-lieswe-tell-ourselves In summary:

And a couple of Sneak Peeks, cause I'm nice, I'm new, and I'm not at all sure what I'm doing:

[rsagarcia]

2023 Eligibility for Awards

Happy New Year everyone! Glad to be with you again in 2024. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that the new year brings you health, wealth and prosperity! I should have done this ages ago, but I was ill over the holiday season, so this is my very late post about my eligibility for speculative fiction awards this year. I had a banner year in 2023 re my work for 2022, and I was so…

[deehollowaywrites]

Some exciting news: Little Nothing has a spot on the British Science Fiction Association's awards longlist! Many incredible works on this list, across genres and formats--check it out, and if you're a BSFA member, I'd love your vote.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith was born in 1960 in Yorkshire, England. Griffith published her first novel, Ammonite, in 1993. She is best known for her historical novel, Hild, as well as her novels featuring lesbian PI Aud Torvingen. Griffith has won six Lambda Literary Awards, the Washington State Book Award, a Nebula Award, and a World Fantasy Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award.

[gollancz]

The 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist has been announced - and Gollancz has two titles!!!

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE by Aliette de Bodard

Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Novel, WINNER of the BSFA award for Best Cover, this sweeping sapphic space opera can now add another award nod to the list. It's a stunning romance between a sentient pirate spaceship and the woman she marries in order to find out who killed her first wife. TorDotCom compared the dynamics to that of classic gothic novels, Tasha Suri said it was "so romantic I may simply perish". Inspired by Vietnamese culture, and the famous Chinese pirate Ching Shih, it's the sort of book that will make you go feral with delight.

PLUTOSHINE by Lucy Kissick

Winner of the inaugural Working Class Writers' Prize, PLUTOSHINE was written while Lucy Kissick completed her PhD, looking at the composition of Martian lakes by recreating them in a lab and extrapolating how they interacted with the atmosphere. This novel takes her knowledge of planetary atmospherics and geology and blends them with a thrilling story about terraforming, colonisation, and the impacts on everyone involved.

We're so so delighted to be the publishers of two of the three women shortlisted for the 2023 prize, and that they represent the diverse voices that Gollancz is striving to champion!

[creature-reads]

Good day everyone! I'll be starting the read-along to Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie shortly. This is the first book of the Imperial Radch Trilogy.

This book has won a heaping amount of awards including Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clark, Locus, and BSFA.

From the back blurb it seems to be about a former starship in a space opera. 🍿 🚀