Following on from my previous post about the editors' and readers' picks on SF Site, I thought I'd regale you with BSFA's 2007 nominations and shortlists so you can draw your own conclusions.
Here are the lists in full for those of you with a pile of cash in your pocket and Amazon on speed-dial (or the online equaivalent, whatever that should be...)
2007 BSFA Awards: Shortlists.
The shortlists for the 2007 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) awards were announced on 21 January 2008, as follows:
Best Novel
- Alice in Sunderland – Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
- Black Man – Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
- Brasyl – Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- The Execution Channel – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- The Prefect – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate)
Best Short Fiction
- ‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations)
- ‘Terminal’ – Chaz Brenchley (disLocations)
- ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate’ – Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
- ‘The Gift of Joy’ – Ian Whates (TQR)
- ‘The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter’ – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #209)
Best Artwork
- ‘Cracked World’ – Andy Bigwood (cover of disLocations, ed. Ian Whates; Newcon Press)
- ‘H P Lovecraft in Britain’ – Les Edwards (cover of chapbook by Stephen Jones, published by the British Fantasy Society)
- ‘Lunar Flare’ – Richard Marchand (cover of Interzone #211)
- ‘Metal Dragon Year’ – Kenn Brown (cover of Interzone #213)
BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958
- A Case of Conscience – James Blish (Ballantine)
- Have Spacesuit, Will Travel – Robert A Heinlein (first published in F&SF, August – October 1958)
- Non-Stop – Brian Aldiss (Faber)
- The Big Time – Fritz Leiber (Galaxy, March & April)
- The Triumph of Time – James Blish (Avon)
- Who? – Algis Budrys (Pyramid)
