BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction

BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
Awarded for The best science fiction or fantasy non-fiction published in the previous calendar year
Country UK
Presented by British Science Fiction Association
First awarded 2002
Currently held by Paul Kincaid, Iain M. Banks
Website BSFA Awards

The BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Non-Fiction award is open to any written work about science fiction or fantasy which appeared in its current form in the previous year. Whole collections of work that has been published elsewhere previously are ineligible as is work published by the BSFA.

Winners

Shortlisted works

2001

  • Stephen Baxter - Omegatropic (book, BSFA)
  • Gene Wolfe - The Best Introduction to the Mountains (essay, Interzone #174)
  • Andrew M Butler - The Pocket Essential Terry Pratchett (book, Pocket Essentials)
  • Justina Robson - Storming the Bastille (review, The Alien Online)
  • Michelle Le Blanc & Colin Odell - Tim Burton (book, Pocket Essentials)

2002

  • David Langford - Introduction to Maps (essay, Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek)
  • Nick Gevers - The Interrogation: An interview with Christopher Priest (interview, Interzone #183)
  • Oliver Morton - Mapping Mars (Fourth Estate)
  • Fred Smith - Once There Was a Magazine (book, Beccon Publications)
  • Lucius Shepard - The Time Machine (review, Electric Story, F&SF)

2003

  • Farah Mendlesohn - Reading Science Fiction (essay, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction)
  • M. J. Simpson - Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (book, Hodder & Stoughton)
  • John H. Arnold & Andy Wood - Nothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution Quartet (essay, The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod)
  • Mike Ashley - The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory (essay, Foundation #87)
  • Cheryl Morgan - A Sick Mind: The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (review, Emerald City #97)

2004

  • No award

2005

  • No shortlist

2006

  • Paul Kincaid & Andrew M. Butler - The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology (book, Serendip Foundation)
  • Justine Larbalestier - Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (book, Wesleyan University Press)
  • Paul Gravett - Great British Comics (book, Aurum Press)
  • Julie Phillips - James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon(book, St. Martin's)
  • Farah Mendlesohn - Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute (book, Old Earth Books)

2007

  • No award

2008

  • John Clute - Physics for Amnesia
  • Roz Kaveney - Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films (book, I.B. Tauris)
  • Paul Kincaid - What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction (book, Beccon)
  • Farah Mendlesohn - Rhetorics of Fantasy (book, Wesleyan)

2009

  • John Clute - Canary Fever (book, Beccon)
  • Deepa D - I Didn’t Dream of Dragons (blog post)
  • Hal Duncan - Ethics and Enthusiasm (blog post - withdrawn from consideration by the author)
  • Nick Lowe - Mutant Popcorn (column, Interzone)
  • Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James - A Short History of Fantasy (book, Middlesex University Press)

2010

2011

2012

  • The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit by Karen Burnham (Rocket Science, Mutation Press)
  • The Widening Gyre by Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books)
  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
  • The Shortlist Project by Maureen Kincaid Speller
  • The World SF Blog, Chief Editor Lavie Tidhar

2013

  • Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image)
  • Going Forth by Night by John J. Johnston (Unearthed, Jurassic)
  • Sleeps with Monsters by Liz Bourke (Tor.com)

2014

  • Call and Response by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Books)
  • Deep Forests and Manicured Gardens: A Look at Two New Short Fiction Magazines by Jonathan McCalmont
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and the First World War by Edward James
  • The State of British SF and Fantasy: A Symposium by Various (Strange Horizons)
  • Greg Egan by Karen Burnham (University of Illinois Press)

2015

  • Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die by Nina Allan (Interzone 261)
  • Letters to Tiptree by Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce (Twelfth Planet Press)
  • What Price Your Critical Agency by Jonathan McCalmont (Ruthless Culture)
  • Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 by Adam Roberts (Steel Quill Books)
  • From Annihilation to Acceptance: a writer’s surreal journey by Jeff Vandermeer (The Atlantic, January 2015)

2016

  • THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 by Rob Hansen (Ansible Editions)
  • Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven by Erin Horáková (Strange Horizons)
  • Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy by Anna McFarlane (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi)
  • New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World by Paul Graham Raven (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi)
  • 100 African Writers of SFF by Geoff Ryman (Tor.com)
  • Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage)

2017

  • Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
  • The Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & Fantasy by Juliet E McKenna (in ‘Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction’ edited by Francesca T Barbini, Luna Press)
  • Wells at the World’s End 2017 blog posts by Adam Roberts (Wells at the World’s End blog)
  • The 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blog by the Shadow Clarke Award jurors (The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy)
  • The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement by Vandana Singh (Strange Horizons)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bsfa.co.uk/2011-bsfa-awards-winners/ "2011 BSFA Awards winners", accessed on 23 April 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-announced "BSFA Award winners announced", accessed on 23 April 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-award-winners-announced "BSFA Award winners announced", accessed on 23 April 2014
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