Book Awards By Year

1987 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Ragged AstronautsBob ShawLand and Overland - twin worlds a few thousand miles apart. On Land, humanity faces a threat to its very survival - an airborne species, the ptertha, has declared war on humankind, and is actively hunting for victims. The only hope lies in migration. Throu...Amazon1987 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBlood MusicGreg BearAmazonCount ZeroWilliam GibsonAmazonQueen of the StatesJosephine SaxtonAmazonSchismatrixBruce SterlingAmazon

1986 BSFA - Novel WinnerHelliconia WinterBrian W. AldissFrom a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it. Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-...Amazon1986 BSFA - Novel ShortlistFree Live FreeGene WolfeAmazonKiteworldKeith RobertsAmazonThe Anubis GatesTim PowersAmazonThe Warrior Who Carried LifeGeoff RymanAmazon

1985 BSFA - Novel WinnerMythago WoodRobert HoldstockDeep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, int...Amazon1985 BSFA - Novel ShortlistEmpire of the SunJ. G. BallardAmazonNeuromancerWilliam GibsonAmazonNights at the CircusAngela CarterAmazonThe GlamourChristopher PriestAmazon

1984 BSFA - Novel WinnerTik-TokJohn SladekA Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm'. That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law. But something had gone t...Amazon1984 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCat KarinaMichael G. ConeyAmazonGolden WitchbreedMary GentleAmazonHelliconia SummerBrian W. AldissAmazonThe Citadel of the AutarchGene WolfeAmazon

1983 BSFA - Novel WinnerHelliconia SpringBrian W. AldissFrom a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it. Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-...Amazon1983 BSFA - Novel ShortlistLittle, BigJohn CrowleyAmazonNo Enemy But TimeMichael BishopAmazonThe Divine InvasionPhilip K. DickAmazonThe Sword of the LictorGene WolfeAmazon

1982 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeSeverian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian h...Amazon1982 BSFA - Novel ShortlistHello AmericaJ. G. BallardAmazonThe AffirmationChristopher PriestAmazonWhere Time Winds BlowRobert HoldstockAmazon

1981 BSFA - Novel WinnerTimescapeGregory BenfordDetecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner....Amazon1981 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA World BetweenNorman SpinradAmazonBeyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlAmazonEngine SummerJohn CrowleyAmazonMolly ZeroKeith RobertsAmazonTransfigurationsMichael BishopAmazon

1980 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Unlimited Dream CompanyJ. G. Ballard"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to ...Amazon1980 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA.K.A.: A Cosmic FableRob SwigartAmazonBlind VoicesTom ReamyAmazonOn Wings of SongThomas M. DischAmazonThe Fountains of ParadiseArthur C. ClarkeAmazon

1979 BSFA - Novel WinnerA Scanner DarklyPhilip K. DickBob Arctor is a junkie and a drug-dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. In or...Amazon