BSFA Awards: winners & nominees

BSFA Awards 2025

• 🏆When There Are Wolves Again· Best Novel
• 🏆The Apologists — Tade Thompson· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦Project Hanuman — Stewart Hotston· Best Novel
• ✦The Salt Oracle· Best Novel
• ✦Edge of Oblivion· Best Novel
• ✦A Granite Silence — Nina Allan· Best Novel

BSFA Awards 2024

• 🏆Three Eight One· Best Novel
• 🏆Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole — Isabel J. Kim· Best Short Fiction
• 🏆Saturation Point — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦Calypso· Best Novel
• ✦Rabbit in the Moon — Fiona Moore· Best Novel
• ✦Alien Clay — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Novel
• ✦What Happened at the Pony Club — Fiona Moore· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦Navigational Entanglements — Aliette de Bodard· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦Charlie Says — Neil Williamson· Best Shorter Fiction

BSFA Awards 2023

• 🏆The Green Man's Gift — Juliet E. McKenna· Best Novel
• 🏆How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Short Fiction
• 🏆And Put Away Childish Things — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — Wole Talabi· Best Novel
• ✦Descendant Machine — Gareth L. Powell· Best Novel
• ✦Airside — Christopher Priest· Best Novel
• ✦Him — Geoff Ryman· Best Novel
• ✦Copper — Jendia Gammon· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Spoil Heap — Fiona Moore· Best Short Fiction
• ✦A Little Seasoning — Neil Williamson· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report — Suyi Davies Okungbowa· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Broken Paradise — Eugen Bacon· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦I Am AI — Ai Jiang· Best Shorter Fiction
• ✦The Book of Gaheris — Kari Maund· Best Shorter Fiction

All 15 2023 entries →

BSFA Awards 2022

• 🏆City of Last Chances — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Novel
• 🏆Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances — Aliette de Bodard· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The This — Adam Roberts· Best Novel
• ✦The Red Scholar's Wake — Aliette de Bodard· Best Novel
• ✦Stars and Bones — Gareth L. Powell· Best Novel
• ✦The Coral Bones· Best Novel
• ✦Luca· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Seller's Remorse· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Ogres — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Short Fiction
• ✦A Moment of Zugzwang — Neil Williamson· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2021

• 🏆Shards of Earth — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Novel
• 🏆Fireheart Tiger — Aliette de Bodard· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Green Man's Challenge — Juliet E. McKenna· Best Novel
• ✦Purgatory Mount — Adam Roberts· Best Novel
• ✦Blackthorn Winter — Liz Williams· Best Novel
• ✦Skyward Inn· Best Novel
• ✦A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine· Best Novel
• ✦O2 Arena — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Things Can Only Get Better — Fiona Moore· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Light Chaser — Peter F. Hamilton· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Light Chaser — Gareth L. Powell· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2020

• 🏆The City We Became — N. K. Jemisin· Best Novel
• 🏆Infinite Tea in the Demara Café — Ida Keogh· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson· Best Novel
• ✦Club Ded· Best Novel
• ✦Threading the Labyrinth· Best Novel
• ✦Piranesi — Susanna Clarke· Best Novel
• ✦Comet Weather — Liz Williams· Best Novel
• ✦The Doors of Eden — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Novel
• ✦Light of Impossible Stars — Gareth L. Powell· Best Novel
• ✦Water Must Fall — Nick Wood· Best Novel
• ✦The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again — M. John Harrison· Best Novel
• ✦Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Ivory's Story — Eugen Bacon· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Isn't Your Daughter Such a Doll — Tobi Ogundiran· Best Short Fiction

All 16 2020 entries →

BSFA Awards 2019

• 🏆Children of Ruin — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Best Novel
• 🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Max Gladstone· Best Short Fiction
• 🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Green Man's Foe — Juliet E. McKenna· Best Novel
• ✦Atlas Alone — Emma Newman· Best Novel
• ✦Fleet of Knives — Gareth L. Powell· Best Novel
• ✦The Rosewater Insurrection — Tade Thompson· Best Novel
• ✦To Be Taught, If Fortunate — Becky Chambers· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Jolene — Fiona Moore· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Ragged Alice — Gareth L. Powell· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Survival of Molly Southbourne — Tade Thompson· Best Short Fiction
• ✦For Your Own Good — Ian Whates· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Revenant Gun — Yoon Ha Lee· Overall

BSFA Awards 2018

• 🏆Embers of War — Gareth L. Powell· Best Novel
• 🏆Time Was — Ian McDonald· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Revenant Gun — Yoon Ha Lee· Best Novel
• ✦Europe at Dawn — Dave Hutchinson· Best Novel
• ✦Before Mars — Emma Newman· Best Novel
• ✦Rosewater — Tade Thompson· Best Novel
• ✦The Land of Somewhere Safe — Hal Duncan· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Gift of Angels: An introduction — Nina Allan· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Phosphorus — Liz Williams· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Purpose of the Dodo Is to Be Extinct — Malcolm Devlin· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Kingfisher — Marian Womack· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Exit Strategy — Martha Wells· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2017

• 🏆The Rift — Nina Allan· Best Novel
• 🏆The Enclave — Anne Charnock· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Provenance — Ann Leckie· Best Novel
• ✦Exit West — Mohsin Hamid· Best Novel
• ✦Dreams Before the Start of Time — Anne Charnock· Best Novel
• ✦These Constellations Will Be Yours· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Uncanny Valley — Greg Egan· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Angular Size — Geoff Nelder· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Murders of Molly Southbourne — Tade Thompson· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2016

• 🏆Europe in Winter — Dave Hutchinson· Best Novel
• 🏆Liberty Bird — Jaine Fenn· Best Short Fiction
• ✦A Closed and Common Orbit — Becky Chambers· Best Novel
• ✦Daughter of Eden — Chris Beckett· Best Novel
• ✦Occupy Me — Tricia Sullivan· Best Novel
• ✦Azanian Bridges — Nick Wood· Best Novel
• ✦Taking Flight — Una McCormack· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Presence — Helen Oyeyemi· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Arrival of Missives· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The End of Hope Street — Malcolm Devlin· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Apologists — Tade Thompson· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2015

• 🏆The House of Shattered Wings — Aliette de Bodard· Best Novel
• 🏆Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight — Aliette de Bodard· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Europe at Midnight — Dave Hutchinson· Best Novel
• ✦Glorious Angels — Justina Robson· Best Novel
• ✦Luna: New Moon — Ian McDonald· Best Novel
• ✦Mother of Eden — Chris Beckett· Best Novel
• ✦Binti — Nnedi Okorafor· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Ride the Blue Horse — Gareth L. Powell· Best Short Fiction
• ✦Witches of Lychford — Paul Cornell· Best Short Fiction
• ✦No Rez — Jeff Noon· Best Short Fiction

BSFA Awards 2014

• 🏆The Wasp Factory — Tessa Farmer· Best Artwork
• 🏆Ancillary Sword — Ann Leckie· Best Novel
• 🏆The Honey Trap· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Race — Nina Allan· Best Novel
• ✦Wolves — Simon Ings· Best Novel
• ✦Europe in Autumn — Dave Hutchinson· Best Novel
• ✦Lagoon — Nnedi Okorafor· Best Novel
• ✦Cuckoo Song — Frances Hardinge· Best Novel
• ✦The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August — Catherine Webb· Best Novel
• ✦The Moon King — Neil Williamson· Best Novel
• ✦Scale-Bright — Benjanun Sriduangkaew· Best Short Fiction
• ✦The Mussel Eater — Octavia Cade· Best Short Fiction