2019 BSFA Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2019 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced.
Best Novel
- The Green Man’s Foe, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
- Atlas Alone, Emma Newman (Gollancz)
- Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
- Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
- The Rosewater Insurrection, Tade Thompson (Orbit)
Best Shorter Fiction
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
- This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Jo Fletcher)
- “Jolene”, Fiona Moore (Interzone 9-10/19)
- Ragged Alice, Gareth L. Powell (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)
- “For Your Own Good”, Ian Whates (Wourism and Other Stories)
Best Non-Fiction
- The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
- Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction, Glyn Morgan & C. Palmer-Patel, eds. (Liverpool University Press)
- About Writing, Gareth L. Powell (Luna)
- HG Wells: A Literary Life, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit, Jo Lindsay Walton (Big Echo)
Best Artwork
- Cover for Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, Aitch & Rachel Vale (Macmillan)
- Cover for Wourism and Other Stories by Ian Whates, Chris Baker (Luna)
- Cover for Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell, Julia Lloyd (Titan)
- Cover for The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson, Charlotte Stroomer (Orbit)
- Cover for Interzone 11-12/19, Richard Wagner
The awards will be voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). The winners will be announced at Concentric: Eastercon 2020, to be held April 10-13, 2020 at the Birmingham Hilton Metropolis Hotel in Birmingham, UK. For more information, see the BSFA website.
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Hello Locus:
Thanks for publishing the 2019 BSFA Shortlist for your readers. I noticed that you didn’t have a link to the cover art that I created for Interzone issue #284 so I thought that I would provide one below.
https://shop.ttapress.com/collections/interzone/products/interzone-284-nov-dec-2019
Best Wishes,
Richard Wagner
Thanks, we’ve updated the post.