Parece que la temporada de nominaciones y demás votos va calentando motores. Por el momento, aquí tenemos la longlist de candidatos a los BSFA. Ojo, que lo de long va en serio.
MEJOR NOVELA
Naomi Alderman The Power (Viking)
Charlie Jane Anders All The Birds In The Sky (Titan Books)
Stephen Aryan Bloodmage (Orbit)
Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds The Medusa Chronicles (Gollancz)
Chris Beckett Daughter of Eden (Gollancz)
Elizabeth Bonesteel The Cold Between (Harper Voyager)
Gavin Chait Lament for the Fallen (Doubleday)
Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit (Hodder & Stoughton)
Matthew de Abaitua The Destructives (Angry Robot)
Mark de Jager Infernal (Del Rey)
Daniel Godfrey New Pompeii (Titan Books)
Matt Hill Graft (Angry Robot)
Dave Hutchinson Europe in Winter (Solaris)
N. K. Jemisin The Fifth Season (Orbit)
Yoon Ha Lee Ninefox Gambit (Solaris)
Cixin Liu (traducido por Ken Liu) Death’s End (Head of Zeus)
Paul McAuley Into Everywhere (Gollancz)
Alan Moore Jerusalem (Knockabout/Liveright)
Claire North The Sudden Appearance of Hope (Orbit)
Christopher Priest The Gradual (Gollancz)
Alastair Reynolds Revenger (Gollancz)
Al Robertson Waking Hell (Gollancz)
V. E. Schwab A Gathering Of Shadows (Titan Books)
Johanna Sinisalo (traducido por Lola Rogers) The Core of the Sun (Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press)
Charles Stross The Nightmare Stacks (Orbit)
Tricia Sullivan Occupy Me (Gollancz)
Steph Swainston Fair Rebel (Gollancz)
Adrian Tchaikovsky The Tiger and the Wolf (Pan)
Lavie Tidhar Central Station (Tachyon/PS Publishing)
Peter Tieryas United States of Japan (Angry Robot)
Simon Kurt Unsworth The Devil’s Evidence (Del Rey)
Ren Warom Escapology (Titan Books)
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad (Fleet)
Nick Wood Azanian Bridges (NewCon Press)
MEJOR FICCIÓN CORTA
Vajra Chandrasekera “Applied Cenotaphics of the Long, Long Longitudes” (Strange Horizons)
Ian Creasey “No Strangers Any More” (Analog July/August 2016)
Ian Creasey “The Language of Flowers” (Analog May/June 2016)
Claire Dean “Is-and (Dead Letters ed. Conrad Williams, Titan Books)
Malcolm Devlin “The End of Hope Street” (Interzone #266)
Jaine Fenn “Liberty Bird” (Now We Are Ten, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press)
Dan Grace “Winter” (Unsung Stories)
Caroline Grebbell “Model Organisms” (Shoreline of Infinity #4)
Peter Haynes “Build a Cat” (Unsung Stories)
Kij Johnson “The Dream Quest of Vellit Boe” (Tor.com)
Carole Johnstone “Wetwork” (Black Static #52)
Inés G. Labarta “McTavish Manor” (Holland House)
Ian R. MacLeod “The Visitor from Taured” (Asimov’s 09/2016)
Paul McAuley “Elves of Antarctica” (Drowned Worlds, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris)
Una McCormack “Taking Flight” (Crises and Conflicts, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press)
China Miéville “This Census Taker” (Picador)
Helen Oyeyemi “Presence” (What Is Not Yours Is Not Nours, Picador)
Vaughan Stanger “Insider Art” (Abyss & Apex 58)
Bruce Sterling “Pirate Utopia” (Tachyon Publications)
Tade Thompson “The Apologists” (Interzone #266)
Sarah Tolmie “The Dancer on the Stairs” (Two Travelers, Aqueduct Press)
Susana Vallejo (traducido por Lawrence Schimel) “Gracia” (Strange Horizons)
Ian Watson “Himmler in the Barcelona Hallucination Cell” (Barcelona Tales NewCon Press)
Ian Watson “The Brain from Beyond” (PS Publishing)
Aliya Whiteley “The Arrival of Missives” (Unsung Stories)
Kai Ashante Wilson “A Taste of Honey” (St. Martin’s Press)
MEJOR NO FICCIÓN
John Clute “Scores column, articles published in 2016” (Strange Horizons)
Rob Hansen THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 (Ansible Editions)
Erin Horakova “Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven” (Strange Horizons)
Paul Kincaid “This is Science Fiction?” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Joel Lane This Spectacular Darkness: critical essays by Joel Lane ed. Mark Valentine & John Howard (Tartarus Press)
Michael Levy & Farah Mendelsohn Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (CUP)
Anna Macfarlane Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Ed. Christos Callow Jr. & Anna Macfarlane, Gylphi)
Jonathan McCalmont Nothing Beside Remains: a History of the New Weird (Big Echo)
Paul Graham Raven “New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World” (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Ed. Christos Callow Jr. & Anna Macfarlane, Gylphi)
Geoff Ryman 100 African Writers of SFF (Tor.com)
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer “Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction” (Vintage)
Glen Weldon The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture (Simon & Schuster)
ILUSTRACIÓN
Juan Miguel Aguilera portada de ‘The 1000 Year Reich’ de Ian Watson
Mark Allison “Goblin Santa” (Bad Machinery)
Patricio Betteo Auzh-Aravik (Strange Horizons)
Tara Bush portada de Black Static #51 (Black Static/TTA Press)
Dave Hardy portada de ‘Disturbed Universes’ de David L. Clements (NewCon Press)
Sarah Anne Langton portada de Central Station de Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
Chris Moore portada de The Iron Tactician de Alastair Reynolds (NewCon Press)
Vincent Sammy portada de Azanian Bridges de Nick Wood (NewCon Press)
Vincent Sammy portada de Mementores de Keith Brooke (NewCon Press)
Mahendra Singh “The Thanatos Mode” (Strange Horizons)
(Desconocido) portada de ‘The Sunlight Pilgrims’ de Jenni Fagan, William Heinemann
(Desconocido) portada de Version Control de Dexter Palmer (Pantheon Books)