BSFA Award winners 2017.
The British Science Fiction Association has just announced the winners of the BSFA Awards for science fiction published in 2016.
Best Novel: Winner: Dave Hutchinson – Europe in Winter (Solaris)
Shortlisted works were:
- Chris Beckett – Daughter of Eden (Atlantic/Corvus).
- Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit (Hodder & Stoughton).
- Dave Hutchinson – Europe in Winter (Solaris).
- Tricia Sullivan – Occupy Me (Gollancz).
- Nick Wood – Azanian Bridges (NewCon Press).
Best Shorter Fiction: Winner: Jaine Fenn – Liberty Bird (Now We Are Ten, NewCon Press)
Shortlisted works were:
- Malcolm Devlin – The End of Hope Street (Interzone #266).
- Jaine Fenn – Liberty Bird (Now We Are Ten, NewCon Press).
- Una McCormack – Taking Flight (Crises and Conflicts, NewCon Press).
- Helen Oyeyemi – Presence (What is Not Yours is Not Yours, Picador).
- Tade Thompson – The Apologists (Interzone #266).
- Aliya Whiteley – The Arrival of Missives (Unsung Stories).
Best Non-Fiction: Winner: Geoff Ryman – 100 African Writers of SFF (Tor.com)
Shortlisted works were:
- Rob Hansen – THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 (Ansible Editions).
- Erin Horáková – Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven (Strange Horizons).
- Anna McFarlane – Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi).
- Paul Graham Raven – New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi).
- Geoff Ryman – 100 African Writers of SFF (Tor.com).
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer – Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction (Vintage).
Best Artwork: Winner: Sarah Anne Langton – Cover for Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
Shortlisted works were:
- Juan Miguel Aguilera – Cover of The 1000 Year Reich by Ian Watson (NewCon Press).
- Tara Bush – Transition (Cover of Black Static #53).
- Suzanne Dean and Kai & Sunny – Cover of The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan (William Heinemann).
- David A Hardy – Cover of Disturbed Universes by David L Clements (NewCon Press).
- Sarah Anne Langton – Cover for Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications).
- Chris Moore – Cover of The Iron Tactician by Alastair Reynolds (NewCon Press).
