All Book Awards

2018 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe RiftNina AllanSelena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena see...Amazon2018 BSFA - Novel ShortlistDreams Before the Start of TimeAnne CharnockAmazonExit WestMohsin HamidAmazonProvenanceAnn LeckieAmazon

2017 BSFA - Novel WinnerEurope in WinterDave HutchinsonA Fractured Europe. A Parallel World. A Global Threat. Union has come. The Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. So what is the reason fo...Amazon2017 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA Closed and Common OrbitBecky ChambersAmazonAzanian BridgesNick WoodAmazonDaughter of EdenChris BeckettAmazonOccupy MeTricia SullivanAmazon

2016 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe House of Shattered WingsAliette de BodardMulti-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy… In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the...Amazon2016 BSFA - Novel ShortlistEurope at MidnightDave HutchinsonAmazonGlorious AngelsJustina RobsonAmazonLuna: New MoonIan McDonaldAmazonMother of EdenChris BeckettAmazon

2015 BSFA - Novel WinnerAncillary SwordAnn LeckieThe sequel to Ancillary Justice, the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the second book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling series. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlli...Amazon2015 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCuckoo SongFrances HardingeAmazonEurope in AutumnDave HutchinsonAmazonLagoonNnedi OkoraforAmazonThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustClaire NorthAmazonThe Moon KingNeil WilliamsonAmazonThe RaceNina AllanAmazonWolvesSimon IngsAmazon

2014 BSFA - Novel WinnerAck-Ack MacaqueGareth L. PowellIn 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque.’ The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he’s starting to doubt everyt...Amazon2014 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieAmazonEvening's EmpiresPaul McAuleyAmazonGod's WarKameron HurleyAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazon

2013 BSFA - Novel WinnerJack GlassAdam RobertsJack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it....Amazon2013 BSFA - Novel Shortlist2312Kim Stanley RobinsonAmazonDark EdenChris BeckettAmazonEmpty SpaceM. John HarrisonAmazonIntrusionKen MacLeodAmazon

2012 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe IslandersChristopher PriestA stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a nar...Amazon2012 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBy Light AloneAdam RobertsAmazonCyber CircusKim Lakin-SmithAmazonEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonOsamaLavie TidharAmazon

2011 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Dervish HouseIan McDonaldAnother day, another tram bomb. It seems everyone is after a piece of Turkey. But the shock waves from this random act of twenty-first-century terrorism will ripple far beyond Necatibey Cadessi. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House—the great, ancient,...Amazon2011 BSFA - Novel ShortlistLightbornTricia SullivanAmazonThe Restoration GameKen MacLeodAmazonThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiAmazonZoo CityLauren BeukesAmazon

2009 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Night SessionsKen MacLeodA bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Ter...Amazon2009 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAnathemNeal StephensonAmazonFloodStephen BaxterAmazonThe Gone-Away WorldNick HarkawayAmazon