Book Awards By Year

2008 BSFA - Novel WinnerBrasylIan McDonaldThis is rich, epic SF that opens our eyes to the world around us and posits mind-blowing alternative sciences. It is a landmark work in modern SF from one of its most respected practitioners....Amazon2008 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAlice in SunderlandBryan TalbotAmazonBlack ManRichard MorganAmazonThe Execution ChannelKen MacLeodAmazonThe PrefectAlastair ReynoldsAmazonThe Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael ChabonAmazon

2007 BSFA - Novel WinnerEnd of the World BluesJon Courtenay GrimwoodKit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl ...Amazon2007 BSFA - Novel ShortlistDarklandLiz WilliamsAmazonIcarusRoger LevyAmazonNova SwingM. John HarrisonAmazonThe Last WitchfinderJames MorrowAmazon

2006 BSFA - Novel WinnerAirGeoff RymanChung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power ...Amazon2006 BSFA - Novel Shortlist9Tail FoxJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazonAccelerandoCharles StrossAmazonLearning the WorldKen MacLeodAmazonLiving Next Door to the God of LoveJustina RobsonAmazon

2005 BSFA - Novel WinnerRiver of GodsIan McDonaldA superpower of two billion people, a dozen new nations from Kerela to the Himalayas, artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, a...Amazon2005 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCentury RainAlastair ReynoldsAmazonForty Signs of RainKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSusanna ClarkeAmazonNewton's WakeKen MacLeodAmazonStamping ButterfliesJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazon

2004 BSFA - Novel WinnerFelaheen, Jon Courtenay GrimwoodThe Third ArabeskNo longer El Iskandryia's Chief of Detectives Ashraf Bey is taking stock of his life, but now a revolt is breaking out across North Africa and Raf comes out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on his Excellency. Going underground in the d...Amazon2004 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAbsolution GapAlastair ReynoldsAmazonMaulTricia SullivanAmazonMidnight LampGwyneth JonesAmazonNatural HistoryJustina RobsonAmazonPattern RecognitionWilliam GibsonAmazon

2003 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe SeparationChristopher PriestDuring World War II, identical twins, Jack and Joe, one a fighter pilot and the other a conscientous objector, are divided both by their love for the same woman and their attitudes towards the war. But as the brothers' story emerges from books, letters, an...Amazon2003 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCastles Made of SandGwyneth JonesAmazonEffendi: The Second ArabeskJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazonLightM. John HarrisonAmazonThe ScarChina MiévilleAmazonThe Years of Rice and SaltKim Stanley RobinsonAmazon

2002 BSFA - Novel WinnerChasm CityAlastair ReynoldsCome to Chasm City and embark on a mind-bending ride through the universe of Revelation Space Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmorta...Amazon2002 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAmerican GodsNeil GaimanAmazonBold as LoveGwyneth JonesAmazonLustGeoff RymanAmazonPashazade: The First ArabeskJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazonThe Secret of LifePaul McAuleyAmazon

2001 BSFA - Novel WinnerAsh, A Secret History...Amazon2001 BSFA - Novel ShortlistParadoxJohn MeaneyAmazonPerdido Street StationChina MiévilleAmazonredRobeJon Courtenay GrimwoodAmazonRevelation SpaceAlastair ReynoldsAmazon

2000 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Sky RoadKen MacLeodCenturies after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious lover, Merrial, has sedu...Amazon2000 BSFA - Novel ShortlistChildren of GodMary Doria RussellAmazonHeadlongSimon IngsAmazonSilver ScreenJustina RobsonAmazonThigMOOEugene ByrneAmazon

1999 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe ExtremesChristopher PriestBritish-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a...Amazon1999 BSFA - Novel ShortlistInversionsIain M. BanksAmazonQueen City JazzKathleen Ann GoonanAmazonThe Cassini DivisionKen MacLeodAmazonTo Hold InfinityJohn MeaneyAmazon