Yatterings

The shortlists for the 2006 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) awards were announced yesterday, 14th January, as follows:

Best Novel

Darkland - Liz Williams (Tor)

End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)

Icarus - Roger Levy (Gollancz)

The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow (Weidenfield & Nicholson)

Nova Swing - M. John Harrison (Gollancz) 

 Best Short Fiction

The Djinn’s Wife, Ian McDonald (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June)

The Highway Men, Ken MacLeod (Sandstone Press Ltd)

The House Beyond Your Sky, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons)

The Point of Roses, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Gollancz - original to UK edition, 2006)

Signal to NoiseAlastair Reynolds (Zima Blue and Other Stories, Nightshade Books) Sounding, Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons)

Best Artwork

Angelbot, Fangorn (Cover of Time Pieces, ed. Ian Whates) Cover of Farthing magazine, issue 2, Spring 2006. Credited to ‘Vertebrate Graphics’.

Droid, Fahrija Velic (Cover for Interzone 206) The Return to Abalakin, Alexander Preuss Ring of the Gods, William Li (Cover of Holland SF 226)

Best Non-Fiction - BSFA Recommended Reading List

The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology, ed. Paul Kincaid and Andrew M. Butler (Serendip Foundation)

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press)

Great British Comics, Paul Gravett (Aurum Press Ltd)

James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St Martin’s Press)

Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute, ed. Farah Mendlesohn (Old Earth Books)