BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
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| BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The best science fiction or fantasy non-fiction published in the previous calendar year |
| Country | UK |
| Presented by | British Science Fiction Association |
| First awarded | 2002 |
| Currently held by | 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.
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] | |||||||
| Michelle Le Blanc & Colin Odell | Tim Burton | The Pocket Essentials | |||||||||
| Andrew M. Butler | Terry Pratchett | The Pocket Essentials | |||||||||
| Justina Robson | Storming the Bastille | The Alien Online (Jul '01) | |||||||||
| Gene Wolfe | The Best Introduction to the Mountains | Interzone (#174, Dec '01) | |||||||||
| 2002 | David Langford* | Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek | Big Engine | [2] | |||||||
| Nick Gevers & Christopher Priest | The Interrogation | Interzone (#183, Oct '02) | |||||||||
| Oliver Morton | Mapping Mars | Fourth Estate | |||||||||
| Lucius Shepard | Film review of The Time Machine | Electric Story 2 (Apr '02) | |||||||||
| Frederick E. Smith | Once There Was a Magazine | Beacon | |||||||||
| 2003 | Farah Mendlesohn* | Reading Science Fiction | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction | [3] | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| Mike Ashley | The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory | Foundation (#87) | |||||||||
| M. J. Simpson | Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams | Hodder & Stoughton | |||||||||
| Cheryl Morgan | A Sick Mind book review of The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases | Emerald City (#97) | |||||||||
| 2004 | No award | ||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||
| Paul Gravett | Great British Comics | Aurum | |||||||||
| Justine Larbalestier | Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century | Wesleyan | |||||||||
| Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | St. Martin's | |||||||||
| Farah Mendlesohn | Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute | Old Earth | |||||||||
| 2007 | No award | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Farah Mendlesohn* | Rhetorics of Fantasy | Wesleyan | [6] | |||||||
| John Clute | Physics for Amnesia talk at the Science Fiction as a Literary Genre symposium | Gresham College | |||||||||
| Roz Kaveney | Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films | I.B. Tauris | |||||||||
| Paul Kincaid | What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction | Beccon | |||||||||
| 2009 | Nick Lowe* | Mutant Popcorn film review column | Interzone | [7] | |||||||
| John Clute | Canary Fever: Reviews | Beccon | |||||||||
| Deepa D. | I Didn't Dream of Dragons | Deepa D. Blog | |||||||||
| Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James | A Short History of Fantasy | Middlesex | |||||||||
| 2010 | Paul Kincaid* | Blogging the Hugos: Decline | Big Other | [8] | |||||||
| Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe | Notes from Coode Street Podcast | Notes from Coode Street | |||||||||
| Francis Spufford | Red Plenty | Faber & Faber | |||||||||
| Adam Roberts | Book reviews of The Wheel of Time | Punkadiddle | |||||||||
| Abigail Nussbaum | With Both Feet in the Clouds | Asking the Wrong Questions | |||||||||
| 2011 | John Clute*, Peter Nicholls* & David Langford* | The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition | SF Gateway | [9] | |||||||
| Mike Ashley | Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It | British Library | |||||||||
| Abigail Nussbaum | Review of Arslan | Asking the Wrong Questions | |||||||||
| Ian Sales | SF Mistressworks | SF Mistressworks | |||||||||
| Graham Sleight, Tony Keen & Simon Bradshaw | The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who | Science Fiction Foundation | |||||||||
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
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