BSFA Awards 2024 Shortlist

Best Novel

• Calypso, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
• Rabbit in the Moon, Fiona Moore (Epic)
• Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)
• Three Eight One, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)

Best Shorter Fiction (for novelettes and novellas)

• Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• “What Happened at the Pony Club”, Fiona Moore (Fusion Fragment 8/24)
• Saturation Point, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• Charlie Says, Neil Williamson (Black Shuck)

Best Short Fiction

• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
• “The Portmeirion Road”, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld 5/24)
• “Unquiet on the Eastern Front”, Wole Talabi (Subterranean 10/24)
• “Intrinsic – Extrinsic – Terrific”, Aliya Whiteley (The Utopia of Us)

Best Collection (for collections and anthologies)

• Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future, Jasen Bacon, ed. (HyphenPunk)
• Fight Like a Girl 2, Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall, eds. (Wizard’s Tower)
• Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities), Pippa Goldschmidt (Goldsmiths)
• Human Resources, Fiona Moore (NewCon)
• Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)
• Nova Scotia Vol 2, Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Fiction for Younger Readers

• Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor)
• Rebel Dawn, Ann Sei Lin (Walker)
• Doctor Who: Caged, Una McCormack (Penguin)

Best Non-Fiction (Long)

• Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
• Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion, Paul Kincaid (Palgrave)
• J. G. Ballard’s Crash: A Critical Companion, Paul March-Russell (Palgrave)
• Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)

Best Non-Fiction (Short)

• “An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal”, Eugen Bacon (Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction)
• “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”, Chris M. Barkley & Jason Sanford (File 770 & Genre Grapevine)
• “Considering the Cosy Turn in SFF: Who Gets to be Comforted?” by Liz Bourke (blog post 10/4/24)
• “Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art”, Ted Chiang (New Yorker 8/31/24)
• “Science Fiction and Abolishing the Police”, S. J. Groenewegen (Shoreline of Infinity Summer 2024)
• “Beyond Conventions: Unleashing the Palestinian Struggle through the Lens of Science Fiction”, Yasmin Kanaan (Shoreline of Infinity Spring 2024)
• “Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Jo Lindsay Walton (SFRA Review Winter 2024)

Best Translated Short Fiction

• “You Glow in the Dark”, Liliana Colanzi, translated by Chris Andrews (You Glow in the Dark)
• “The Coffee Machine”, Celia Corral-Vázqeuz, translated by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld 12/24)
• “The Rambler”, Shen Dacheng, translated by Cara Healey (Clarkesworld 4/24)
• “Unicorn 2512”, Nora Nagi, translated by Mayada Ibrahim (Egypt + 100)
• “Bone by Bone”, Mónika Rusvai, translated by Vivien Urban (Samovar 7/24)
• “Songs of the Snow Whale”, K.A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Reactor 12/24)