From a near-future dystopia where genetic defects are eradicated from unborn children to terrorist attacks on the solar system 300 years from now, a universe-spanning shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association’s best novel award has just been announced. Here are the British Science Fiction Awards Finalists for 2012:
Best Novel
- Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
- Empty Space: a Haunting by M John Harrison (Gollancz)
- Intrusion by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
- Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Best Short Story
- “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #69)
- “The Flight of the Ravens” by Chris Butler (Immersion Press)
- “Song of the body Cartographer” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Phillipines Genre Stories)
- “Limited Edition” by Tim Maughan (1.3, Arc Magazine)
- “Three Moments of an Explosion” by China Miéville (Rejectamentalist Manifesto)
- “Adrift on the Sea of Rains” by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books)
Best Artwork
- Ben Baldwin for the cover of Dark Currents (Newcon Press)
- Blacksheep for the cover of Jack Glass (Gollancz)
- Dominic Harman for the cover of Helix Wars (Rebellion)
- Joey Hifi for the cover of Thy Kingdom Come (Jurassic London)
- And the cover artwork for Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden (Corvus)
Best Non-Fiction
- “The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit” by Karen Burnham (Rocket Science, Mutation Press)
- “The Widening Gyre” by Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
- The Shortlist Project by Maureen Kincaid Speller
- The World SF Blog edited by Lavie Tidhar
