2019 BSFA Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)

• The Green Man’s Foe, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
• Atlas Alone, Emma Newman (Gollancz)
• Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• The Rosewater Insurrection, Tade Thompson (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

• WINNER: This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Jo Fletcher)

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
• “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

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: Cover for Wourism and Other Stories by Ian Whates, Chris Baker (Luna)

• Cover for Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, Aitch & Rachel Vale (Macmillan)
• 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 were voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). The winners were announced in a video ceremony on May 17, 2020. For more information, see the BSFA website.

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