The British Science Fiction Association announced their 2016 award nominations. Sarah Anne Langton’s CENTRAL STATION cover garnered a nomination for Best Artwork and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer a Best Non-Fiction nod for their introduction to THE BIG BOOK OF
SCIENCE FICTION.

Best Novel

• Chris Beckett –
  DAUGHTER OF EDEN (Atlantic/Corvus)
• Becky Chambers – A
  CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Dave Hutchinson –
  EUROPE IN WINTER (Solaris)
• Tricia Sullivan –
  OCCUPY ME (Gollancz)
• Nick Wood –
  AZANIAN BRIDGES (NewCon Press)

Best Short Fiction

• Malcolm Devlin –
  The End of Hope Street (INTERZONE #266)
• Jaine Fenn –
  Liberty Bird (NOW WE ARE TEN, NewCon Press)
• Una McCormack –
  Taking Flight (CRISES AND CONFLICTS, NewCon Press)
• Helen Oyeyemi –
  Presence (WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS, Picador)
• Tade Thompson –
  The Apologists (INTERZONE #266)
• Aliya Whiteley –
  The Arrival of Missives (Unsung Stories)

Best Non-Fiction

• Rob Hansen – THEN:
  SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM IN THE UK 1930-1980 (Ansible Editions)
• Erin Horáková –
  BOUCHER, BACKBONE AND BLAKE: THE LEGACY OF BLAKES SEVEN (Strange
  Horizons)
• Anna McFarlane –
  Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s
  Foundation Trilogy (ADAM ROBERTS: CRITICAL ESSAYS, Gylphi)
• Paul Graham Raven –
  New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized
  Text in a Networked World (ADAM ROBERTS: CRITICAL ESSAYS, Gylphi)
• Geoff Ryman – 100
  African Writers of SFF (TOR.COM)
• Ann & Jeff
  VanderMeer – Introduction to THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION
  (Vintage)

Best Artwork

• Juan Miguel Aguilera
  – Cover of THE 1000 YEAR REICH by Ian Watson (NewCon Press)
• Tara Bush –
  Transition (Cover of BLACK STATIC #53)
• Suzanne Dean and Kai
  & Sunny – Cover of THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS by Jenni Fagan
  (William Heinemann)
• David A Hardy –
  Cover of DISTURBED UNIVERSES by David L Clements (NewCon Press)
• Sarah Anne Langton –
  Cover for CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
• Chris Moore –
  Cover of THE IRON TACTICIAN by Alastair Reynolds (NewCon Press)

Congratulations to all nominees.

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton