British SF Association Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Eastercon,
Belfast :
April 18, 2025
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April 21, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Eligibility Year: 2024
Novel
- Winner: Three Eight One, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)
- Calypso, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan)
- Rabbit in the Moon, Fiona Moore (Epic)
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit) [nomination withdrawn]
Shorter Fiction (novelette Or Novella)
- Winner: Saturation Point, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
- Charlie Says, Neil Williamson (Black Shuck)
- Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- “What Happened at the Pony Club”, Fiona Moore (Fusion Fragment Aug 2024)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Feb 2024)
- “Intrinsic – Extrinsic – Terrific”, Aliya Whiteley (The Utopia of Us)
- “The Portmeirion Road”, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld May 2024)
- “Unquiet on the Eastern Front”, Wole Talabi (Subterranean Oct 2024)
Translated Short Fiction
- Winner: “Bone by Bone”, Mónika Rusvai, translated by Vivien Urban (Samovar Jul 2024)
- “The Coffee Machine”, Celia Corral-Vázqeuz, translated by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld Dec 2024)
- “The Rambler”, Shen Dacheng, translated by Cara Healey (Clarkesworld Apr 2024)
- “Songs of the Snow Whale”, K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Reactor Dec 2024)
- “Unicorn 2512”, Nora Nagi, translated by Mayada Ibrahim (Egypt + 100)
- “You Glow in the Dark”, Liliana Colanzi, translated by Chris Andrews (You Glow in the Dark)
Fiction For Younger Readers
- Winner: Doctor Who: Caged, Una McCormack (Penguin)
- Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
- Rebel Dawn, Ann Sei Lin (Walker)
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor)
Collection Or Anthology
- Winner: Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future, Jasen Bacon, ed. (HyphenPunk)
- Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)
- Fight Like a Girl 2, Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall, eds. (Wizard's Tower)
- Human Resources, Fiona Moore (NewCon)
- Nova Scotia Vol 2, Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Luna Press Publishing)
- Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities), Pippa Goldschmidt (Goldsmiths)
Nonfiction (long)
- Winner: Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
- The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
- J. G. Ballard's Crash: A Critical Companion, Paul March-Russell (Palgrave)
- Keith Roberts's Pavane: A Critical Companion, Paul Kincaid (Palgrave)
- Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press)
Nonfiction (short)
- Winner: “Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art”, Ted Chiang (The New Yorker 31 Aug 2024)
- “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”, Chris M. Barkley & Jason Sanford (File 770; Genre Grapevine)
- “An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal”, Eugen Bacon (Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction)
- “Beyond Conventions: Unleashing the Palestinian Struggle through the Lens of Science Fiction”, Yasmin Kanaan (Shoreline of Infinity Spring 2024)
- “Considering the Cosy Turn in SFF: Who Gets to be Comforted?”, Liz Bourke (blog post 4 Oct 2024)
- “Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Jo Lindsay Walton (SFRA Review Winter 2024)
- “Science Fiction and Abolishing the Police”, S. J. Groenewegen (Shoreline of Infinity Summer 2024)
Artwork
- Winner: Jenni Coutts for Nova Scotia Vol 2 by Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Luna Press)
- Kelly Chong for Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan (Orbit)
- Fangorn for A Jura for Julia by Ken MacLeod (NewCon)
- Fangorn for ParSec (PS Publishing)
Audio Fiction
- Winner: “The Personal Touch”, Rick Danforth (Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast 0937)
- The Dex Legacy, Emily Inkpen (www.thedexlegacy.com)
- Doctor Who: The Quin Dilemma, Chris Chapman, Jacqueline Rayner & Robert Valentine (Big Finish)
- “Mother Death Learns a Trick”, Addison Smith (Escqpe Pod 965)
- Torchwood: The Hollow Choir, Malcolm Devlin & Helen Marshall (Big Finish)
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