BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction

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BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
Awarded forThe best science fiction or fantasy non-fiction published in the previous calendar year
CountryUK
Presented byBritish Science Fiction Association
First awarded2002
Currently held byFarah Mendlesohn, The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
WebsiteBSFA 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.

Winners and Shortlists[]

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 winners

Year Author(s) Work Publisher/Publication Ref.
2001 Stephen Baxter* Omegatropic BSFA [1]
2001 Gene Wolfe The Best Introduction to the Mountains Interzone (#174, Dec '01) [1]
2001 Andrew M. Butler Terry Pratchett The Pocket Essentials [1]
2001 Justina Robson Storming the Bastille The Alien Online (Jul '01) [1]
2001 Michelle Le Blanc & Colin Odell Tim Burton The Pocket Essentials [1]
2002 David Langford* Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek Big Engine [2]
2002 Nick Gevers & Chistopher Priest The Interrogation Interzone (#183, Oct '02) [2]
2002 Oliver Morton Mapping Mars Fourth Estate [2]
2002 Frederick E. Smith Once There Was a Magazine Beacon [2]
2002 Lucius Shepard Film review of The Time Machine Electric Story 2 (Apr '02) [2]
2003 Farah Mendlesohn* Reading Science Fiction The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction [3]
2003 M. J. Simpson Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Hodder & Stoughton [3]
2003 John H. Arnold & Andy Wood Nothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution Quartet The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod [3]
2003 Mike Ashley The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory Foundation (#87) [3]
2003 Cheryl Morgan A Sick Mind book review of The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases Emerald City (#97) [3]
2005 Gary K. Wolfe* Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 Beccon [4]
2006 Paul Kincaid & Andrew M. Butler The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology Serendip Foundation [5]
2006 Justine Larbalestier Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Wesleyan [5]
2006 Paul Gravett Great British Comics Aurum [5]
2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon St. Martin's [5]
2006 Farah Mendlesohn Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute Old Earth [5]
2008 Farah Mendlesohn* Rhetorics of Fantasy Wesleyan [6]
2008 John Clute Physics for Amnesia talk at the Science Fiction as a Literary Genre symposium Gresham College [6]
2008 Roz Kaveney Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films I.B. Tauris [6]
2008 Paul Kincaid What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction Beccon [6]
2009 Nick Lowe* Mutant Popcorn film review column Interzone [7]
2009 John Clute Canary Fever: Reviews Beccon [7]
2009 Deepa D. I Didn't Dream of Dragons Deepa D. Blog [7]
2009 Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James A Short History of Fantasy Middlesex [7]
2010 Paul Kincaid* Blogging the Hugos: Decline Big Other [8]
2010 Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe Notes from Coode Street Podcast Notes from Coode Street [8]
2010 Francis Spufford Red Plenty Faber & Faber [8]
2010 Adam Roberts Book reviews of The Wheel of Time Punkadiddle [8]
2010 Abigail Nussbaum With Both Feet in the Clouds Asking the Wrong Questions [8]
2011 John Clute*, Peter Nicholls* & David Langford* The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition SF Gateway [9]
2011 Mike Ashley Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It British Library [9]
2011 Jared Shurin & Anne C. Perry Pornokitsch Pornokitsch [9]
2011 Abigail Nussbaum Review of Arslan Asking the Wrong Questions [9]
2011 Ian Sales SF Mistressworks SF Mistressworks [9]
2011 Graham Sleight, Tony Keen & Simon Bradshaw The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who Science Fiction Foundation [9]
2012 Lavie Tidhar* The World SF Blog The World SF Blog [10]
2012 Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Cambridge [10]
2012 Karen Burnham The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit in the book Rocket Science Mutation [10]
2012 Maureen Kincaid Speller The Shortlist Project Paper Knife [10]
2012 Paul Kincaid The Widening Gyre Los Angeles Review of Books [10]
2013 Jeff VanderMeer* Wonderbook Abrams Image [11]
2013 John J. Johnston Going Forth by Night in Unearthed Jurassic [11]
2013 Liz Bourke Sleeps with Monsters Tor [11]
2014 Edward James* Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com [12]
2014 Paul Kincaid Call and Response Beccon [12]
2014 Johnathan McCalmont Deep Forests and Manicured Gardens: A Look at Two New Short Fiction Magazines Ruthless Culture [12]
2014 Karen Burnham Greg Egan Illinois [12]
2014 Niall Harrison The State of British SF and Fantasy: A Symposium Strange Horizons [12]
2015 Adam Roberts* Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 Steel Quill [13]
2015 Jeff VanderMeer From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey The Atlantic (Jan ‘15) [13]
2015 Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce Letters to Tiptree Twelfth Planet [13]
2015 Nina Allan Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die Interzone (Nov/Dec ‘15) [13]
2015 Jonathan McCalmont What Price, Your Critical Agency Ruthless Culture [13]
2016 Geoff Ryman* 100 African Writers of SFF tor.com [14]
2016 Erin Horakova Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven Strange Horizons [14]
2016 Anna McFarlane Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy Adam Roberts: Critical Essays [14]
2016 Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer Introduction The Big Book of Science Fiction [14]
2016 Paul Graham Raven New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World Adam Roberts: Critical Essays [14]
2016 Rob Hansen THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 Ansible [14]
2017 Paul Kincaid* Iain M. Banks Illinois [15]
2017 Nina Allan, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AM The 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blog Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy [15]
2017 Juliet E. McKenna The Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & Fantasy Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction [15]
2017 Vandana Singh The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement Strange Horizons [15]
2017 Adam Roberts Blog posts for Wells at the World's End Wells at the World's End [15]
2018 Aliette de Bodard* On Motherhood and Erasure: People-Shaped Holes, Hollow Characters and the Illusion of Impossible Adventure Intellectus Speculativus [16]
2018 Ruth EJ Booth Noise and Sparks 2018 articles Shoreline of Infinity [16]
2018 Adam Roberts Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance Cambridge [16]
2018 Liz Bourke Sleeps With Monsters 2018 articles tor.com [16]
2018 Nina Allan Time Pieces 2018 articles Interzone [16]
2019 Farah Mendlesohn* The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein Unbound [17]
2019 Glyn Morgan, C. Palmer-Patel Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction Liverpool University Press [17]
2019 Gareth L. Powell About Writing [17]
2019 Adam Roberts H.G. Wells: A Literary Life Palgrave Macmillan [17]
2019 Jo L. Walton Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit Big Echo [17]
2020 Adam Roberts* It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of Elliot & Thompson [18]
2020 Ties That Bind: Love in Science Fiction and Fantasy [18]
2020 Paul Kincaid The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest Liverpool University Press [18]
2020 Andrew Milner, J. R. Burgmann Science Fiction and Climate Change Liverpool University Press [18]
2020 Jo L. Walton Estranged Entrepreneurs Foundation 137 [18]
2020 Jo Walton Books in Which No Bad Things Happen Tor [18]

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References[]

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