The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced during Sci-Fi-London 9: The Ninth Annual International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film. This year, the award included a prize of £2013. The winner is Chris Beckett for the novel Dark Eden.
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The winners of the 2013 BSFA Awards were announced at Eastercon on March 31.
- Novel: Jack Glass, by Adam Roberts
- Short Fiction: “Adrift on the Sea of Rains,” by Ian Sales
- Artwork: Cover of Adam Roberts’s Jack Glass, by Blacksheep
- Non-Fiction: The World SF Blog, by Lavie Tidhar
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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
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The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced during the opening ceremonies of Sci-Fi-London 8: The Eighth Annual International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film. This year, the award included a prize of £2012. The winner is Jane Rogers for the novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb.
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The winners of the 2012 BSFA Awards were announced at Eastercon on April 8.
- Novel: The Islanders, by Christopher Priest
- Short Fiction: “The Copenhagen Interpretation,” by Paul Cornell
- Artwork: Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed, by Dominic Harman
- Non-Fiction: The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition edited John Clute, Peter Nicholls, David Langford, and Graham Sleight
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The British Science Fiction Awards nominees have been announced. The awards will be presented at Eastercon in April.
Best Novel
- Cyber Circus, by Kim Lakin-Smith
- Embassytown, by China Miéville
- The Islanders, by Christopher Priest
- By Light Alone, by Adam Roberts
- Osama, by Lavie Tidhar
Best Short Fiction
- “The Silver Wind,” by Nina Allan
- “The Copenhagen Interpretation,” by Paul Cornell
- “Afterbirth,” by Kameron Hurley
- “Covehithe,” by China Miéville
- “Of Dawn,” by Al Robertson
Best Non-Fiction
- Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as We Know It, by Mike Ashley
- The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls, & David Langford
- Review of Arslan, by M.J. Engh & Abigail Nussbaum
- SF Mistressworks, edited by Ian Sales
- Pornokitsch, edited by Jared Shurin & Anne Perry,
- The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who, by Graham Sleight, Tony Keen, & Simon Bradshaw
Best Art
- cover for The Noise Revealed, by Dominic Harman
- cover for A Monster Calls, by Jim Kay
- cover for Osama, by Pedro Marques
- cover for A Glass of Shadow, by Anne Sudworth
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Fan artist Terry Jeeves died on May 29. Jeeves was a founder of the British Science Fiction Association and served as editor of its ‘zine, Vector. He also published his own fanzine, Erg for more than forty years and was the co-editor of Triode with Eric Bentcliffe. Jeeves won the Doc Weir Award for service to British fandom , the Rotsler Award, and in 2010 was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame. In 2010, Thomas Sadler published Wartime Daze, a fanzine tribute to Jeeves that included numerous articles and art by Jeeves.
The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced during the opening ceremonies of Sci-Fi-London 8: The Eighth Annual International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film. This year, the award included a prize of £2011. The winner is Lauren Beukes for the novel Zoo City. The judging panel for this year’s award included Martin Lewis and Jon Courtenay Grimwood for the British Science Fiction Association, Phil Nanson and Liz Williams for the Science Fiction Foundation and Paul Skevington for SFCrowsnest.com. Paul Billinger represents the Arthur C. Clarke Award as the Chair of Judges.
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The winners of the BSFA Awards were announced at Illustrious 2011, this year’s Eastercon, in Birmingham. The winners were selected by the con’s membership and announced at a banquet.
- Best Novel: The Dervish House, by Ian McDonald
- Best Short Fiction: “The Shipmaker,” by Aliette de Bodard
- Best Art: Cover for Zoo City, by Joey Hi-Fi
- Best Non-Fiction: “Blogging the Hugos,” by Paul Kincaid
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The British Science Fiction Awards nominees have been announced. The awards will be presented at Eastercon in April.
Best Novel
- The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes
- The Restoration Game, by Ken Macleod
- The Dervish House, by Ian McDonald
- Lightborn, by Tricia Sullivan
Best Short Fiction
- “Flying in the Face of God,” by Nina Allan
- “The Shipmaker,” by Aliette de Bodard
- “The Things,” by Peter Watts
- “Arrhythmia,” by Neil Williamson
Best Non-Fiction
- Blogging the Hugos: Decline, by Paul Kincaid
- Review, With Both Feet in the Clouds, by Abigail Nussbaum
- Review, Wheel of Time, by Adam Roberts
- Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
- The Notes from Coode Street Podcast, by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Best Art
- cover for Conflicts, by Andy Bigwood
- cover for Fun With Rainbows, by Charlie Harbour
- cover for The Cat’s Cradle, by Dominic Harman
- cover for Zoo City, by Joey Hi-Fi
- A Deafened Plea for Peace, by Ben Greene
- cover for Finch, by Adam Tredowski
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