BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | |
Awarded For: | The best science fiction or fantasy non-fiction published in the previous calendar year |
Presenter: | British Science Fiction Association |
Country: | UK |
Year: | 2002 |
Holder: | Nina Allan, A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller |
Website: | BSFA Awards |
The BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Non-Fiction award is open to any written work about science fiction or fantasy which appeared in its current form in the previous year. Whole collections of work that has been published elsewhere previously are ineligible as is work published by the BSFA. The award was renamed to Best Long Non-Fiction in 2023.
The ceremonies are named after the year that the eligible works were published, despite the awards being given out in the next year.
* Winners and joint winnersYear | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | BSFA | [1] | ||
& Colin Odell | The Pocket Essentials | |||
The Pocket Essentials | ||||
The Alien Online (Jul '01) | ||||
Interzone (#174, Dec '01) | ||||
2002 | Big Engine | [2] | ||
Interzone (#183, Oct '02) | ||||
Fourth Estate | ||||
Electric Story 2 (Apr '02) | ||||
Beacon | ||||
2003 | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction | [3] | ||
The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod | ||||
Foundation (#87) | ||||
Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
Emerald City (#97) | ||||
2004 | No award | |||
2005 | Beccon | [4] | ||
2006 | Serendip Foundation | [5] | ||
Aurum | ||||
Wesleyan | ||||
St. Martin's | ||||
Old Earth | ||||
2007 | No award | |||
2008 | Wesleyan | [6] | ||
Gresham College | ||||
I.B. Tauris | ||||
Beccon | ||||
2009 | Interzone | [7] | ||
Beccon | ||||
Deepa D. Blog | ||||
Middlesex | ||||
2010 | Big Other | [8] | ||
Notes from Coode Street | ||||
Faber & Faber | ||||
Punkadiddle | ||||
Asking the Wrong Questions | ||||
2011 |
| SF Gateway | [9] | |
British Library | ||||
& Anne C. Perry | Pornokitsch | |||
Asking the Wrong Questions | ||||
SF Mistressworks | ||||
, Tony Keen & Simon Bradshaw | Science Fiction Foundation | |||
2012 | The World SF Blog | [10] | ||
& Farah Mendlesohn | Cambridge | |||
Mutation | ||||
Los Angeles Review of Books | ||||
Paper Knife | ||||
2013 | Abrams Image | [11] | ||
Tor | ||||
Jurassic | ||||
2014 | fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com | [12] | ||
Illinois | ||||
Beccon | ||||
Strange Horizons | ||||
Ruthless Culture | ||||
2015 | Steel Quill | [13] | ||
Interzone (Nov/Dec ‘15) | ||||
& Alexandra Pierce | Twelfth Planet | |||
The Atlantic (Jan ‘15) | ||||
Ruthless Culture | ||||
2016 | tor.com | [14] | ||
Strange Horizons | ||||
Adam Roberts: Critical Essays | ||||
Adam Roberts: Critical Essays | ||||
Ansible | ||||
The Big Book of Science Fiction | ||||
2017 | Illinois | [15] | ||
, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AM | Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy | |||
Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction | ||||
Strange Horizons | ||||
Wells at the World's End | ||||
2018 | Intellectus Speculativus | [16] | ||
Shoreline of Infinity | ||||
Interzone | ||||
tor.com | ||||
Cambridge | ||||
2019 | Unbound | [17] | ||
& C. Palmer-Patel | Liverpool University Press | |||
Luna Press | ||||
Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
Big Echo | ||||
2020 | Elliot & Thompson | [18] | ||
Luna Press | ||||
Liverpool University Press | ||||
& J. R. Burgmann | Liverpool University Press | |||
Foundation 137 | ||||
Tor | ||||
2021 | Luna Publishing | [19] | ||
Liz Batty, John Coxon, & Alison Scott | Octothorpe | |||
Verso Books | ||||
Routledge | ||||
Ohio State Press | ||||
The Polyphony | ||||
2022 | Doubleday | [20] | ||
Uncanny Magazine | ||||
Edward Elgar Publishing | ||||
and the ASFS | SFWA | |||
Strange Horizons | ||||
2023 | Luna Press | [21] | ||
and Val Nolan | Luna Press | |||
Briardene | ||||
Hydra House | ||||
n/a |