Book Awards By Year

1998 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe SparrowMary Doria RussellThe Sparrow is one of my favourite science fiction novels and it destroyed me in the best way when I read it. It is so beautifully written and the construction of the narrative is masterful.' Emma Newman, acclaimed author of Planetfall Set in the 21st cen...Amazon1998 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA Son of the RockJack DeightonAmazonEarthquake WeatherTim PowersAmazonJack FaustMichael SwanwickAmazonSigns of LifeM. John HarrisonAmazon

1997 BSFA - Novel WinnerExcessionIain M. BanksThe fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It wa...Amazon1997 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonHoly FireBruce SterlingAmazonInterfaceStephen BuryAmazonThe Memory PalaceGill AldermanAmazonThe Stone CanalKen MacLeodAmazon

1996 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterThe highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke....Amazon1996 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBloodMichael MoorcockAmazonChagaIan McDonaldAmazonFairylandPaul J. McAuleyAmazonThe Nano FlowerPeter F. HamiltonAmazonThe PrestigeChristopher PriestAmazon

1995 BSFA - Novel WinnerFeersum EndjinnIain M. BanksA superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for...Amazon1995 BSFA - Novel ShortlistEnginemanEric BrownAmazonNecrovilleIan McDonaldAmazonNorth WindGwyneth JonesAmazonPermutation CityGreg EganAmazon

1994 BSFA - Novel WinnerAztec CenturyChristopher EvansBritain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race. Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to fight the...Amazon1994 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAmmoniteNicola GriffithAmazonGreen MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonHarm's WayColin GreenlandAmazonSnow CrashNeal StephensonAmazon

1993 BSFA - Novel WinnerRed MarsKim Stanley Robinson...Amazon1993 BSFA - Novel ShortlistDoomsday BookConnie WillisAmazonHearts, Hands and VoicesIan McDonaldAmazonHot HeadSimon IngsAmazonLost FuturesLisa TuttleAmazon

1992 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Fall of HyperionDan Simmons“State of the art science fiction . . . a landmark novel.”—Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Now, in the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the wo...Amazon1992 BSFA - Novel ShortlistEternal LightPaul J. McAuleyAmazonThe Architecture of DesireMary GentleAmazon

1991 BSFA - Novel WinnerTake Back PlentyColin GreenlandA fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha J...Amazon1991 BSFA - Novel ShortlistHyperionDan SimmonsAmazonRats and GargoylesMary GentleAmazonThe Difference EngineWilliam Gibson & Bruce SterlingAmazonUse of WeaponsIain M. BanksAmazon

1989 BSFA - Novel WinnerLavondyssRobert HoldstockAt the heart of the wildwood lies a place of mystery and legend, from which few return and none emerged unchanged: Lavondyss . . . the ultimate realm, the source of all myth. When Harry Keeton disappeared into Ryhope Wood, his sister Tallis was just an inf...Amazon

1988 BSFA - Novel WinnerGráinneKeith RobertsWinner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1987 Meet Gráinne: blue-stocking seductress, darling of the media, painfully human yet mysterious as her great namesake, the proud girl-goddess who plunged all Ireland into war and shadow......Amazon