2016 British Fantasy Award Nominees

The British Fantasy Society website has announced the shortlist for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Harper Voyager)
• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Macmillan)
• Guns of the Dawn, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
• The Iron Ghost, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit UK)
• The Silence, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
• A Cold Silence, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Lost Girl, Adam Nevill (Pan)
• The Death House, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
• Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

Best Novella

• Witches of Lytchford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
• The Bureau of Them, Cate Gardner (Spectral)
• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)
• Albion Fay, Mark Morris (Spectral)
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• “When the Moon Man Knocks”, Cate Gardner (Black Static 10-11/15)
• Strange Creation, Frances Kay (Tenebris Nyxies)
• “The Blue Room”, V.H. Leslie (Skein and Bone)
• “Dirt Land”, Ralph Robert Moore (Black Static 11-12/15)
• “Hippocampus”, Adam Nevill (Terror Tales of the Ocean)
• “Fabulous Beasts”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 7/27/15 )

Best Collection

• Probably Monsters, Ray Cluley (ChiZine)
• Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime)
• The Stars Seem So Far Away, Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit)
• Monsters, Paul Kane (The Alchemy Press)
• Scar City, Joel Lane (Eibonvale)
• Skein and Bone, V.H. Leslie (Undertow)

Best Anthology

• The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• African Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir & Jo Thomas, eds. (Fox Spirit)
• Best British Horror 2015, Johnny Mains, ed. (Salt)
• The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)
• Aickman’s Heirs, Simon Strantzas, ed. (Undertow)

Best Independent Press

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)
• Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)
• Fox Spirit (Adele Wearing)
• Newcon (Ian Whates)

Best Non-Fiction

• Fantasy-Faction, Marc Aplin & Jennie Ivins, eds. (Fantasy-Faction)
• The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, Stephen Jones, ed. (Applause Theater & Cinema)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod, ed. (gingernutsofhorror.com)
• Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, ed. (Twelfth Planet)
• Matrilines, Kari Sperring (Strange Horizons)
• King for a Year, Mark West, ed. (kingreviews2015.blogspot.com)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Beneath Ceasless Skies
• Black Static
• Holdfast Magazine
• Interzone

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Julie Dillon
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Jeffrey Alan Love

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Bitch Planet (#2-5), Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV & Cris Peter (Image)
• Red Sonja (#14-18), Gail Simone & Walter Geovani (Dynamite)
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
• Saga (#25-32), Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
• Ms. Marvel, Vol 2: Generation Why, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt & Adrian Alphona (Marvel)

Best Film/Television Production

• Inside No. 9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
• Jessica Jones: “AKA WWJD?”
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Midwinter of the Spirit
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Zen Cho for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)
• Peter Newman for The Vagrant (HarperVoyager)
• Steven Poore for The Heir to the North (Kristell Ink)
• Marc Turner for When the Heavens Fall (Titan)

Winners will be chosen by jury, except for the special award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award) which is chosen by the BFS committee. Winners will be announced September 25, 2016 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2016 at the Grand and Royal Hotels in Scarborough, England.