Attention BSFA Members!

[coalescent]

As of today you have one (1) week to send in your nominations for this year's BSFA Awards.

The nominees so far:

9Tail Fox – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
Accelerando – Charles Stross (Orbit)
Against Gravity – Gary Gibson (Tor)
Air – Geoff Ryman (Gollancz SF)
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman (Review)
Band of Gypsys – Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz SF)
Double Vision – Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
Fifty Degrees Below – Kim Stanley Robinson (Harper Collins)
Judas Unchained – Peter F Hamilton (Macmillan)
Learning the World – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
Living Next Door to the God of Love – Justina Robson (Macmillan)
Mind’s Eye – Paul McAuley (Simon & Schuster)
Resolution – John Meaney (Bantam Press)
Shadowmasque – Michael Cobley (Simon & Schuster)
The Rainbow Opera – Elizabeth Knox (Faber Children’s Books)
Vellum – Hal Duncan (Macmillan)
Woken Furies – Richard Morgan (Gollancz SF)

Remember that just being on this list doesn't say much about a book's chances of making the final ballot; it's the works with the most nominations that go forward to form the shortlist. So if there's something you like but haven't nominated on the above list--and especially if there's something you like that's not on the above list--send your vote to awards[at]fishlifter.demon.co.uk.

‘A World of His Own’ – Christopher East (Interzone #197)
‘Anyway’ – M Rickert (SciFiction, 24 August)
‘Bears Discover Smut’ – Michael Bishop (SciFiction, 26 October)
‘Bird Songs at Eventide’ – Nina Allan (Interzone #199)
‘Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers’ – Ian Watson & Mike Allen (Interzone #197)
‘Deus Ex Homine’ – Hannu Rajaniemi (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction, ed. Andrew J Wilson & Neil Williamson)
‘Down in the Deepflux’ – Jake West (Rogue Worlds #13)
‘Ducks in Winter’ – Neal Blaikie (Interzone #196)
‘Dusk’ – Jack Deighton (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction)
‘Going the Jerusalem Mile’ – Chaz Brenchley (TTA #41)
‘Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch’ – Rudy Rucker (Interzone #200)
‘Harrowfield’ – Neil Williamson (Dark Horizons #47)
‘Heads Down, Thumbs Up’ – Gavin Grant (SciFiction, 27 April)
‘I, Robot’ – Cory Doctorow (Infinite Matrix, 15 February)
‘Imagine’ – Edward Morries (Interzone #200)
‘Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations of the Harpsichord with Two Manuals’ (excerpt online) – John G McDaid (F&SF, January)
‘Kivam’ – Dave Hoing (Interzone #197)
‘Magic For Beginners’ – Kelly Link (Magic For Beginners; also F&SF, September)
‘Magic in a Certain Slant of Light’ – Deborah Coates (Strange Horizons, 21 March)
‘Planet of the Amazon Women’ (parts one and two) – David Moles (Strange Horizons, 16-23 May)
‘Pupate’– Brian Rideout (Neometropolis #5)
‘Second Person, Present Tense’ – Daryl Gregory (Asimov’s, September)
‘Smile Time: The Comic’ – Astrid (LiveJournal community ats_endofdays)
‘Soft Apocalypse’ – Will McIntosh (Interzone #200)
‘SS’ – Nathan Ballingrud (TTA #41)
‘Summer Ice’ – Holly Phillips (In The Palace of Repose; also Fantasy Magazine #1)
‘The Bennie and the Bonobo’ – Neil Williamson (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction)
‘The Chiaroscurist’ – Hal Duncan (Electric Velocipede #9)
‘The Conservation of Thelos’– Lawrence Schoen (Apex #1)
‘The Crying Queen’ – Lila Garrott (Not One of Us magazine #34)
‘The Emperor of Gondwanaland’ – Paul Di Filippo (Interzone #196; also The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories)
‘The Euonmyist’ – Neil Williamson (Electric Velocipede #9)
‘The Face of America’ – David Ira Cleary (Interzone #196)
‘The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)’ – Howard Waldrop (SciFiction, 2 November)
‘The Intrigue of the Battered Box’ – Michael Cobley (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction)
‘The Kansas Jayhawk vs. the Midwestern Monster Squad’ – Jeremiah Tolbert (Interzone #197)
‘The Last Shift’ – Hal Duncan (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction)
‘The Leopard Girl’ – Tim Lees (The Life to Come)
‘The Little Goddess’ (excerpt online) – Ian McDonald (Asimov’s, June)
‘The Monoxide Age’ – Julian Todd (Not One of Us magazine #33)
‘The One Millionth Smile’ – Neil Williamson (The Elastic Book of Numbers, ed. Allen Ashley)
‘The Scribble Mind’ – Jeffrey Ford (SciFiction, 25 May)
‘The Tetrahedron’ – Vandana Singh (Internova #1, April)
‘The Vulture, 4-17 March’ – Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction)
‘The Western Front’ – Patrick Samphire (TTA #41)
‘This is Where the Title Goes’ – Scott Edelman (The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, volume 2)
‘Threshold of Perception’ – Scott Mackay (Interzone #197)
‘Totems’ – Will McIntosh (Interzone #196)
‘Two Dreams on Trains’ – Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons, 3 January)
‘Vessels of Light, Chapels of Darkness’ – Paul Edwards (Whispers of Wickedness, 14 October)
‘What the Dead are For’ – Terry Gates-Grimwood (The Future Fire #2)
‘Winning Mars’ – Jason Stoddard (Interzone #196)
‘Written in the Stars’ – Ian McDonald (Constellations, ed. Peter Crowther)
‘Zima Blue’ – Alastair Reynolds (Postscripts #4)

Compared to previous years, this is an impressively large and eclectic selection of short fiction. And because a large number of the nominees are available online, you can easily check them out and see if you think they deserve a nomination. My picks, for what it's worth, would be 'Anyway' by M. Rickert, 'Magic for Beginners' by Kelly Link, 'Keyboard Practice ...' by John G. McDaid, 'Heads Down, Thumbs Up' by Gavin Grant, 'Summer Ice' By Holly Phillips, and 'Two Dreams on Trains' by Elizabeth Bear ... and of course you can always nominate something that's not already there.

Cover of Charles Stross’s novel Accelerando (UK edition) – Peter Cotton (Orbit)
Cover of Bryan Appleyard’s book Aliens: Why They Are Here – Darren Wall (Simon & Schuster)
Cover of Neal Asher’s novel Brass Man – Steve Rawlings (Tor)
Cover of Brandon Sanderson’s novel Elantris – Stephan Martinière (Tor)
Cover of Interzone #197 – Kenn Brown
Cover of Interzone #200 – Pawel Lewandowski
Cover of Meta #2 – Heather Kelly
Cover of Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction, edited by Andrew J Wilson & Neil Williamson – Allan Wilson & Mark Blackadder (The Mercat Press)
Cover of Ian R MacLeod’s novel The House of Storms – Larry Rostant (Simon & Schuster)
Cover of Tim Lees’s collection The Life to Come – Richard Marchand (Elastic Press)
Cover of William F Nolan’s collection Wild Galaxy – Bob Eggleton (Golden Gryphon)
Cover of Zoo Nation #6 – Pete Young
‘Cloud Dragon Skies’ – Frank Wu (Strange Horizons)
‘Megara’ – Max Bertolini (cover of F&SF, January)
‘Olympia. ET’Daniland City’ – Eugeny V Marinin (cover of Leading Edge #49)
We3 chapter 2 pages 2-3: ‘Run!’ – Frank Quitely and Jamie Grant (Titan Books; story by Grant Morrison)
‘Weapon Shop’ – Kenn Brown (cover of Interzone #198)
‘Winning Mars’ – Josh Finney (cover of Interzone #196)

Most of the above are linked from the original page so, as with the short fiction, it's easy to check them out for yourself.

A Celebration of British SF – ed. Andy Sawyer, Andrew M Butler & Farah Mendlesohn (Science Fiction Foundation)
Christopher Priest: The Interaction – ed. Andrew M Butler (Science Fiction Foundation)
‘Fantasy Films Before and After Peter Jackson’ – Jessica Yates (Tolkien, Influenced and Influencing, ed. Matthew Vernon; Tolkien Society)
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A journey into the mind of Philip K Dick – Emmanuel Carrère, trans. Timothy Bent (Bloomsbury)
Parietal Games: Critical writings by and on M John Harrison – ed. Mark Bould & Michelle Reid (Science Fiction Foundation)
‘Science Fiction, Parables and Parabolas’ – Brian Attebery (Foundation #95, Science Fiction Foundation)
Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 – Gary K Wolfe (Beccon Publications)
Transformations: The story of science fiction magazines from 1950 to 1970 – Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)

Unlike the other categories, the winner of the non-fiction award will be chosen by a panel of judges (of which I am one); like the other categories, we still need your nominations for pieces of writing about sf or fantasy published in 2005, because I know there must be things we've missed. Again, as with all the other categories, nominations should be sent to awards[at]fishlifter.demon.co.uk

To reiterate: nominations close on 21st January. Emails containing nominations should be sent to awards[at]fishlifter.demon.co.uk. Easy, right?

Comments

[sdn.livejournal.com]

i just remembered that i too am a member. whee!

Well, that's depressing

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

9Tail Fox – Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
Accelerando – Charles Stross (Orbit)
Against Gravity – Gary Gibson (Tor)
Air – Geoff Ryman (Gollancz SF)
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman (Review)
Band of Gypsys – Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz SF)
Double Vision – Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
Fifty Degrees Below – Kim Stanley Robinson (Harper Collins)
Judas Unchained – Peter F Hamilton (Macmillan)
Learning the World – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
Living Next Door to the God of Love – Justina Robson (Macmillan)
Mind’s Eye – Paul McAuley (Simon & Schuster)
Resolution – John Meaney (Bantam Press)
Shadowmasque – Michael Cobley (Simon & Schuster)
The Rainbow Opera – Elizabeth Knox (Faber Children’s Books)
Vellum – Hal Duncan (Macmillan)
Woken Furies – Richard Morgan (Gollancz SF)

Not only have I only read four of these, I am a McAuley fan and yet managed to completely miss MINDS EYE. What's the point of living in the Commonwealth if I can't pillage the UK publishing industry to my heart's desire?

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Who are the other non-fiction judges? There is no information on the web site.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm sure I've seen it on there somewhere. But the judges this year are me, Geneva, and Steve Jeffrey.