Shortlists For The 2010 BSFA Awards

Here are the shortlists for the 2010 BSFA Awards (announcement here).

That’s a pretty good selection of novels, and I’ve actually read three of them (still to read Zoo City and Lightborn). Out of those three my favourite is The Dervish House, which I loved a lot.

I’ve only read one of the short stories though (by Peter Watts) and none of the non-fiction so I can’t really comment there other than noting: that’s two shorts for Interzone, a trio of blogs and a podcast. Varied, and I’d guess pretty representative. Also, some great artwork nominated, hard to choose a favourite.

Best Novel

• Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl (Orbit)
• Lauren Beukes – Zoo City (Angry Robot)
• Ken Macleod – The Restoration Game (Orbit)
• Ian McDonald – The Dervish House (Gollancz)
• Tricia Sullivan – Lightborn (Orbit)

Best Short Fiction

• Nina Allan – ‘Flying in the Face of God’ – Interzone 227, TTA Press.
• Aliette de Bodard – ‘The Shipmaker’– Interzone 231, TTA Press.
• Peter Watts – ‘The Things’ – Clarkesworld 40
• Neil Williamson – ‘Arrhythmia’ – Music for Another World, Mutation Press

Best Non-Fiction

• Paul Kincaid - Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Big Other
• Abigail Nussbaum - Review, With Both Feet in the Clouds, Asking the Wrong Questions Blogspot
• Adam Roberts - Review, Wheel of Time, Punkadiddle
• Francis Spufford – Red Plenty (Faber and Faber)
• Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe the Notes from Coode Street Podcast

Best Art

• Andy Bigwood – cover for Conflicts (Newcon Press)
• Charlie Harbour – cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
• Dominic Harman – cover for The Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
• Joey Hi-Fi –cover for Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)