Steve Stone for Natural History by Justina Robson (Macmillan)
David Frankland for Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
Judith Clute for Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 by John Clute (Beccon Publications)
Nonfiction
Winner: “Reading Science Fiction” (introduction), Farah Mendlesohn (The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction)
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, M. J. Simpson (Hodder & Stoughton)
“Nothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution Quartet”, John H. Arnold & Andy Wood (The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod)
“The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory”, Mike Ashley (Foundation #87)
“A Sick Mind” (review of The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff Vandermeer and Mark Roberts), Cheryl Morgan (Emerald City #97)