The shortlists for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA)’s 2011 awards have been released. The winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Olympus, the weekend of 6-9 April.
The nominees are:
Best Novel:
Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith (Newcon Press)
Embassytown by China Mieville (Macmillan)
The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Best Short Fiction:
“The Silver Wind” by Nina Allan (Interzone 233)
“The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s Science Fiction, July)
“Afterbirth” by Kameron Hurley (Kameron Hurley’s own website)
“Covehithe” by China Mieville (The Guardian)
“Of Dawn” by Al Robertson (Interzone 235)
Best Non-Fiction:
Out of This World: Science Fiction but not as we Know it by Mike Ashley (British Library)
The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls and David Langford (website)
Review of Arslan by M J Engh by Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions blog)
SF Mistressworks edited by Ian Sales (website)
Pornokitsch edited by Jared Shurin and Anne Perry (website)
The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction), edited by Graham Sleight, Tony Keen and Simon Bradshaw (Science Fiction Foundation)
Best Art:
Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed by Dominic Harman (Solaris)
Cover and illustrations of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls by Jim Kay (Walker)
Cover of Lavie Tidhar’s Osama by Pedro Marques (PS Publishing)
Cover of Liz Williams’s A Glass of Shadow by Anne Sudworth (Newcon Press)
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 2 April.