British SF Association Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: March 29, 2024
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April 1, 2024
Convention: Eastercon
Where: Telford International Centre
Eligibility Year: 2023
Convention: Eastercon
Where: Telford International Centre
Eligibility Year: 2023
Novel
- Winner: The Green Man's Quarry, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard Tower)
- Airside, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
- HIM, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (Gollancz)
Shorter Fiction (novelette Or Novella)
- Winner: And Put Away Childish Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Rebellion)
- Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna)
- Europa, Allen Stroud (Flame Tree)
- I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- “Knotted Thorn”, Kari Sperring (The Book of Gaheris)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)
- “Copper”, Jendia Gammon (Interzone 295)
- “Lady Koi Koi: A Book Report”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex 20 Jun 2023)
- “A Little Seasoning”, Neil Williamson (Interzone Digital)
- “The Spoil Heap”, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld Mar 2023)
Translated Short Fiction
- Winner: “Vanishing Tracks in the Sand”, Jana Bianchi, translated by Rachael Armoruso (The Bright Mirror)
- “Bacterial”, Marcelo Cohen, translated by Kit Maude (Samovar 23 Oct 2023)
- “My Guy”, Izumi Suzuki, translated by Sam Bett (Hit Parade of Tears)
- “A Pilgrimage to Memories Tattooed”, Elena Pavlova, translated by Elena Pavlova & Desislava Sivilova (Samovar 26 Jun 2023)
- “Retreat from the World Outside”, Gabriela Damián Miravete, translated by Adrian Demopulos (They Will Dream in the Garden)
- “The Unknown Painter”, Henry Lion Oldie, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Future SF 23 Jan 2023)
Fiction For Younger Readers
- Winner: The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (HarperCollins)
- The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern, Jendia Gammon, as by J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
- Mindbreaker, Kate Dylan (Hodder & Stoughton)
- A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- We Who Are Forged in Fire, Kate Murray (Hardie Grant)
Collection Or Anthology
- Winner: The Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Donna Scott, ed. (Newcon)
- Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Bloomsbury)
- Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
- No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
- Strange Attractors, Jaine Fenn (Newcon)
Nonfiction (long)
- Winner: A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Nina Allan, ed. (Luna)
- All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
- Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
- “The Female Man”, Farah Mendlesohn (Eastercon talk) (Eastercon talk)
- Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna)
Nonfiction (short)
- Winner: “Project Management Lessons from Rogue One”, Fiona Moore (adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com)
- “Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction”, Eugen Bacon (Aurealis 158)
- “Exposition Tax: The hidden burden of writing from the margins”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Ex Marginalia)
- “Prisoners in the Temple of the Muses”, Wole Talabi (Ancillary Review of Books 17 Aug 2023)
- “Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real”, Charles Stross (Scientific American 20 Dec 2023)
- “Weaving the Rainbow: Worldbuilding and SF”, Gautam Bhatia (Bombay Literary Magazine Apr 2023)
Artwork
- Winner: Leo Nickolls for The Surviving Sky by Krikita H. Rao (Titan)
- Juliana Pinho for “The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon” by Eugen Bacon (Interzone Digital)
- Elena Betti for Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Apex)
- Julia Lloyd for Descendant Machine by Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
- Christine Kim for Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu (Erewhom)
- Vinayak Varma for “Strung Along in Seaforth” by Jonathan Laidlow (Interzone 295)
Audio Fiction
- Winner: The Dex Legacy, Emily Inkpen (www.thedexlegacy.com)
- “Carlos Explained”, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Welcome to Night Vale 14 Jul 2023)
- “The Pigeon”, Michelle Knudsen (Drabblecast 21 Jul 2023)
- Simultaneous Times Podcast, Jenna Hanchey & Abigail Guerrero (Space Cowboy)
- “When a Portal Comes Around”, Rick Danforth (Upbeat Tales Sep 2023)
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