AncalagonTheBlack Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 The 2012 BSFA Awards shortlist has been announced:Best NovelDark Eden, Chris Beckett (Corvus)Empty Space: a Haunting, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)Intrusion, Ken Macleod (Orbit)Jack Glass, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)2312, Kim Stanley-Robinson (Orbit)Best Short Fiction“Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #69)The Flight of the Ravens, Chris Butler (Immersion)“Song of the body Cartographer”, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Phillipines Genre Stories)“Limited Edition”, Tim Maughan (Arc Magazine 1.3)“Three Moments of an Explosion”, China Miéville (Rejectamentalist Manifesto)Adrift on the Sea of Rains, Ian Sales (Whippleshield)Best Non-Fiction“The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit”, Karen Burnham (Rocket Science)“The Widening Gyre”, Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books)The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)The Shortlist Project, Maureen Kincaid SpellerThe World SF Blog, Lavie Tidhar (chief editor)Best ArtBen Baldwin for cover of Dark Currents (Newcon)Blacksheep for cover of Adam Roberts’s Jack Glass (Gollancz)Dominic Harman for cover of Eric Brown’s Helix Wars (Rebellion)Joey Hifi for cover of Simon Morden’s Thy Kingdom Come (Jurassic London)Si Scott for cover artwork of Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden (Corvus)The awards will be voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). Winners will be announced during the 2013 Eastercon, March 29 – April 1, 2013 at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford.http://www.bsfa.co.u...list-announced/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 That's...(novels list, anyway)...not bad, actually. I've read two and the three others are on the radar well up the to-read pile, and none of them seems like an obvious clunker. (I'm just used to lists being totally rubbish or not the spirit of the award or something half the time...) I need to get to Intrusion, in the read-all-Macleod project. (I'm going to guess...Scotland is independent in this one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 My vote would go to Dark Eden (Chris Beckett),i think Empty Space (M. John Harrison) will win though.I have to say that this is a much better list than some of the other awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Quite good list, actually. Dark Eden is good to very good, Empty Space very good (even if it is easily the least accessible MJH novel, which is saying something). 2312 is good, if somewhat bloated. Haven't read any Ken MacLeod for some time, but I rather liked his early novels. Adam Roberts I find utterly unreadable. So definitely more hit than miss, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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