The shortlists for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA)’s 2010 awards have been released. The winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Illustrious, the weekend of 22-25 April.
The nominees are:
Best Novel:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit)
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
Best Short Fiction:
“Flying in the Face of God” by Nina Allan (Interzone 227)
“The Shipmaker” by Aliette de Bodard (Interzone 231)
“The Things” by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 40)
“Arrhythmia” by Neil Williamson (Music for Another World, Mutation Press)
Best Non-Fiction:
“Blogging the Hugos: Decline” by Paul Kincaid (Big Other)
“Review of With Both Feet in the Clouds” by Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions)
“Review of Wheel of Time” by Adam Roberts (Punkadiddle)
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford (Faber and Faber)
The Coode Street Podcast by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe (Notes from Coode Street)
Best Art:
Andy Bigwood for the cover of Conflicts edited by Ian Whates (Newcon Press)
Charlie Harbour for the cover of Fun with Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
Dominic Harman for the cover of The Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
Joey Hi-Fi for the cover of Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
Ben Greene for “A Deafened Plea for Peace”, the cover of Crossed Genres 21
Adam Tredowski for the cover of Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Corvus)
The full list of nominees, along with links to most of the nominated works, is available on this page.
BSFA members and attendees of the Eastercon convention are eligible to vote. For voting information, again, see this page. Balloting deadline is 18 April.