The BSFA Awards for works published in 2019 were announced online on Sunday 17th May 2020. Traditionally the Awards are announced at the UK Eastercon, but like many other award ceremonies this has been cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. .
The BSFA Awards are awarded each year to the best Novel, work of Short Fiction, Artwork and work of Non-Fiction as voted for by the members of the British Science Fiction Association. Members of the BSFA and of Eastercon were eligible to vote.
The Award ceremony can be viewed online on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YYQCTMzn8
The winners of the Award are highlighted below in red in each case.
Best Novel:
- Juliet E McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press)
- Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz)
- Gareth L Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books)
- Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor)
- Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit)
Best Shorter Fiction:
- Becky Chambers – To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone – This is How You Lose the Time War (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Fiona Moore – Jolene (Interzone #283)
- Gareth L Powell – Ragged Alice (Tor.com)
- Tade Thompson – The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)
- Ian Whates – For Your Own Good (Wourism and Other Stories, Luna Press)
Best Non-Fiction:
- Farah Mendlesohn – The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (Unbound)
- Glyn Morgan & C Palmer-Patel (Eds) – Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction (Liverpool University Press)
- Gareth L Powell – About Writing (Luna Press)
- Adam Roberts – HG Wells: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Jo Lindsay Walton – Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit (Big Echo)
Best Artwork:
- Aitch & Rachel Vale – Cover for ‘Deeplight’ by Frances Hardinge (UK edition) (Macmillan Children’s Books)
- Chris Baker (Fangorn) – Cover for ‘Wourism and Other Stories’ by Ian Whates (Luna Press)
- Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘Fleet of Knives’ by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
- Charlotte Stroomer – Cover for ‘The Rosewater Redemption’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
- Richard Wagner – Cover for Interzone #284 (Interzone)
Congratulations to all nominees!
