2006 BSFA Awards Shortlist
January 16th, 2007 by Alan Chudnow
[Via The SFWA News]
The shortlists for the 2006 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) awards were announced January 14, 2007:
Best Novel
- Darkland Liz Williams (Tor)
End of the World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
Icarus Roger Levy (Gollancz)
The Last Witchfinder James Morrow (Weidenfield & Nicholson)
Nova Swing M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
Best Short Fiction
- “The Djinn’s Wife Ian McDonald (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June)
The Highway Men Ken MacLeod (Sandstone Press Ltd)
“The House Beyond Your Sky Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons)
“The Point of Roses Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Gollancz – original to UK edition, 2006)
“Signal to Noise Alastair Reynolds (Zima Blue and Other Stories, Nightshade Books)
“Sounding Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons)
Best Artwork
- Angelbot Fangorn (Cover of Time Pieces, ed. Ian Whates)
Cover of Farthing magazine issue 2, Spring 2006. Credited to ‘Vertebrate Graphics’
Droid Fahrija Velic (Cover for Interzone 206)
The Return to Abalakin Alexander Preuss
Ring of the Gods William Li (Cover of Holland SF 226)
Best Non-Fiction – BSFA Recommended Reading List
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology ed. Paul Kincaid and Andrew M. Butler (Serendip Foundation)
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press)
Great British Comics Paul Gravett (Aurum Press Ltd)
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon Julie Phillips (St Martin’s Press)
Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute ed. Farah Mendlesohn (Old Earth Books)
There will be no individual award for Non-Fiction; instead the whole shortlist is being recognized as a BSFA Recommended Reading List. The shortlists for the awards are compiled from nominations submitted by members of the BSFA, and will then be voted on by BSFA members and by attending members of the convention.
The awards will be presented on Saturday 7th April 2004, during the British national science fiction convention, Contemplation. This convention was organized in just that past few weeks, as the original 2007 British National Convention was canceled.
