BSFA Finalists
The nominees for the British Science Fiction Award have been announced. The winner will be announced at Eastercon in Brighton the weekend of March 29.
Best Novel
- Dark Eden, by Chris Beckett
- Empty Space: a Haunting, by M John Harrison
- Intrusion, by Ken MacLeod
- Jack Glass, by Adam Roberts
- 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Best Short Story
- “Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard
- “The Flight of the Ravens,” by Chris Butler
- “Song of the Body Cartographer,” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- “Limited Edition,” by Tim Maughan
- “Three Moments of an Explosion,” by China Miéville
- “Adrift on the Sea of Rains,” by Ian Sales
Best Artwork
- Ben Baldwin for the cover of Dark Currents
- Blacksheep for the cover of Jack Glass
- Dominic Harman for the cover of Helix Wars
- Joey Hifi for the cover of Thy Kingdom Come
- cover artwork for Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden
Best Non-Fiction
- “The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit,” by Karen Burnham (Rocket Science, Mutation Press)
- “The Widening Gyre,” by Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
- The Shortlist Project, by Maureen Kincaid Speller
- The World SF Blog, edited by Lavie Tidhar