The 2007 BSFA Award shortlist has been announced:
Best Novel
- Alice in Sunderland – Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
- Black Man – Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
- Brasyl – Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- The Execution Channel – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- The Prefect – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate)
Best Short Fiction
- ‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations)
- ‘Terminal’ – Chaz Brenchley (disLocations)
- ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’ – Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
- ‘The Gift of Joy’ – Ian Whates (TQR)
- ‘The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter’ – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #209)
Best Artwork
- ‘Cracked World’ – Andy Bigwood (cover of disLocations, ed. Ian Whates; Newcon Press)
- ‘H P Lovecraft in Britain’ – Les Edwards (cover of chapbook by Stephen Jones, published by the British Fantasy Society)
- ‘Lunar Flare’ – Richard Marchand (cover of Interzone #211)
- ‘Metal Dragon Year’ – Kenn Brown (cover of Interzone #213)
BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958
- A Case of Conscience – James Blish (Ballantine)
- Have Spacesuit, Will Travel – Robert A Heinlein (first published in F&SF, August – October 1958)
- Non-Stop – Brian Aldiss (Faber)
- The Big Time – Fritz Leiber (Galaxy, March & April)
- The Triumph of Time – James Blish (Avon)
- Who? – Algis Budrys (Pyramid)
Predictably, the non-fiction category didn’t quite make it: “although a number of works were nominated there was no consensus and so no shortlist could be formed. A non-fiction award will therefore not be presented this year.”
It’s a shame, of course. Hopefully a reading list will be compiled as last year, at least. Maybe we can also avoid repeating last year’s non-fic debate. Happily, Farah Mendlesohn has set up a LiveJournal community for discussion of non-fiction SF and fantasy writing.
Hopefully a reading list will be compiled as last year
Extremely unlikely; the reading list last year was compiled in the same manner that would have produced a shortlist this year – by taking the works with the most nominations. That this couldn’t be accomplished can only mean that there just weren’t enough nominations to be able to compile a shortlist. The full list of nominations can be found here: http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/website/awardscurrentnoms.aspx which could just be taken as a rather longer reading list.
That’s a shame – though at least the long list is there, as you say. I was about to observe that it was out of date, but happily it has been updated today.