British Fantasy Awards 2016
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
FantasyCon 2016,
Scarborough, England :
September 25, 2016
Eligibility Year: 2015
Eligibility Year: 2015
Fantasy Novel (robert Holdstock Award)
- Winner: Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Macmillan)
- Guns of the Dawn, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
- Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Harper Voyager)
- The Iron Ghost, Jen Williams (Headline)
- Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
- Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
Horror Novel (august Derleth Award)
- Winner: Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
- A Cold Silence, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
- The Death House, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
- Lost Girl, Adam Nevill (Pan)
- The Silence, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
- Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit UK)
Anthology
- Winner: The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)
- African Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir & Jo Thomas, eds. (Fox Spirit)
- Aickman's Heirs, Simon Strantzas, ed. (Undertow)
- Best British Horror 2015, Johnny Mains, ed. (Salt)
Collection
- Winner: Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime)
- Monsters, Paul Kane (The Alchemy Press)
- Probably Monsters, Ray Cluley (ChiZine)
- Scar City, Joel Lane (Eibonvale)
- Skein and Bone, V. H. Leslie (Undertow)
- The Stars Seem So Far Away, Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit)
Novella
- Winner: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)
- Albion Fay, Mark Morris (Spectral)
- Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
- The Bureau of Them, Cate Gardner (Spectral)
- Witches of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Fabulous Beasts”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 27 Jul 2015)
- “The Blue Room”, V. H. Leslie (Skein and Bone)
- “Dirt Land”, Ralph Robert Moore (Black Static Nov/Dec 2015)
- “Hippocampus”, Adam Nevill (Terror Tales of the Ocean)
- Strange Creation, Frances Kay (Tenebris Nyxies)
- “When the Moon Man Knocks”, Cate Gardner (Black Static Sep/Oct 2015)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, Stephen Jones, ed. (Applause Theater & Cinema)
- Fantasy-Faction, Marc Aplin & Jennie Ivins, eds. (Fantasy-Faction)
- “Ginger Nuts of Horror”, Jim McLeod, ed. (gingernutsofhorror.com)
- “King for a Year”, Mark West, ed. (kingreviews2015.blogspot.com)
- “Matrilines”, Kari Sperring (Strange Horizons)
Independent Press
- Winner: Angry Robot, Marc Gascoigne
- The Alchemy Press, Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards
- Fox Spirit Books, Adele Wearing
- NewCon Press, Ian Whates
Magazine/periodical
- Winner: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Scott H. Andrews, ed.
- Black Static, Andy Cox, ed.
- Holdfast Magazine, Laurel Sills & Lucy Smee, eds.
- Interzone, Andy Cox, ed.
- Strange Horizons, Niall Harrison, ed.
Artist
Comic/graphic Novel
- Winner: Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert IV Wilson & Cris Peter (Image)
- Ms. Marvel, Vol 2: Generation Why, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt & Adrian Alphona (Marvel)
- Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
- Red Sonja, Gail Simone & Walter Geovani (Dynamite)
- Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
Film/television Production
- Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Peter Harness (BBC One))
- Inside No. 9: “The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge” (Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (BBC Two))
- Jessica Jones: “AKA WWJD?” (Scott Reynolds (Netflix))
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris (Warner Bros. Pictures et al.))
- Midwinter of the Spirit (Stephen Volk (ITV Studios))
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt (Lucasfilm et al.))
Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
- Winner: Zen Cho, for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)
- Becky Chambers, for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Peter Newman, for The Vagrant (HarperVoyager)
- Steven Poore, for The Heir to the North (Kristell Ink)
- Marc Turner, for When the Heavens Fall (Titan)
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