BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction

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.

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

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*OmegatropicBSFA [1]
2001 Gene WolfeThe Best Introduction to the MountainsInterzone (#174, Dec '01) [1]
2001 Andrew M. ButlerTerry PratchettThe Pocket Essentials [1]
2001 Justina RobsonStorming the BastilleThe Alien Online (Jul '01) [1]
2001 Michelle Le Blanc & Colin OdellTim BurtonThe Pocket Essentials [1]
2002 David Langford*Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John SladekBig Engine [2]
2002 Nick Gevers & Chistopher PriestThe InterrogationInterzone (#183, Oct '02) [2]
2002 Oliver MortonMapping MarsFourth Estate [2]
2002 Frederick E. SmithOnce There Was a MagazineBeacon [2]
2002 Lucius ShepardFilm review of The Time MachineElectric Story 2 (Apr '02) [2]
2003 Farah Mendlesohn*Reading Science FictionThe Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction [3]
2003 M. J. SimpsonHitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas AdamsHodder & Stoughton [3]
2003 John H. Arnold & Andy WoodNothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution QuartetThe True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod [3]
2003 Mike AshleyThe Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the TerritoryFoundation (#87) [3]
2003 Cheryl MorganA Sick Mind book review of The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited DiseasesEmerald City (#97) [3]
2005 Gary K. Wolfe*Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996Beccon [4]
2006 Paul Kincaid & Andrew M. ButlerThe Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical AnthologySerendip Foundation [5]
2006 Justine LarbalestierDaughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth CenturyWesleyan [5]
2006 Paul GravettGreat British ComicsAurum [5]
2006 Julie PhillipsJames Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. SheldonSt. Martin's [5]
2006 Farah MendlesohnPolder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith CluteOld Earth [5]
2008 Farah Mendlesohn*Rhetorics of FantasyWesleyan [6]
2008 John ClutePhysics for Amnesia talk at the Science Fiction as a Literary Genre symposiumGresham College [6]
2008 Roz KaveneySuperheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and FilmsI.B. Tauris [6]
2008 Paul KincaidWhat It Is We Do When We Read Science FictionBeccon [6]
2009 Nick Lowe*Mutant Popcorn film review columnInterzone [7]
2009 John CluteCanary Fever: ReviewsBeccon [7]
2009 Deepa D.I Didn't Dream of DragonsDeepa D. Blog [7]
2009 Farah Mendlesohn & Edward JamesA Short History of FantasyMiddlesex [7]
2010 Paul Kincaid*Blogging the Hugos: DeclineBig Other [8]
2010 Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. WolfeNotes from Coode Street PodcastNotes from Coode Street [8]
2010 Francis SpuffordRed PlentyFaber & Faber [8]
2010 Adam RobertsBook reviews of The Wheel of TimePunkadiddle [8]
2010 Abigail NussbaumWith Both Feet in the CloudsAsking the Wrong Questions [8]
2011 John Clute*, Peter Nicholls* & David Langford*The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third EditionSF Gateway [9]
2011 Mike AshleyOut of This World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know ItBritish Library [9]
2011 Jared Shurin & Anne C. PerryPornokitschPornokitsch [9]
2011 Abigail NussbaumReview of ArslanAsking the Wrong Questions [9]
2011 Ian SalesSF MistressworksSF Mistressworks [9]
2011 Graham Sleight, Tony Keen & Simon BradshawThe Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor WhoScience Fiction Foundation [9]
2012 Lavie Tidhar*The World SF BlogThe World SF Blog [10]
2012 Farah Mendlesohn & Edward JamesThe Cambridge Companion to Fantasy LiteratureCambridge [10]
2012 Karen BurnhamThe Complexity of the Humble Space Suit in the book Rocket ScienceMutation [10]
2012 Maureen Kincaid SpellerThe Shortlist ProjectPaper Knife [10]
2012 Paul KincaidThe Widening GyreLos Angeles Review of Books [10]
2013 Jeff VanderMeer*WonderbookAbrams Image [11]
2013 John J. JohnstonGoing Forth by Night in UnearthedJurassic [11]
2013 Liz BourkeSleeps with Monsterstor.com [11]
2014 Edward James*Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great Warfantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com [12]
2014 Paul KincaidCall and ResponseBeccon [12]
2014 Johnathan McCalmontDeep Forests and Manicured Gardens: A Look at Two New Short Fiction MagazinesRuthless Culture [12]
2014 Karen BurnhamGreg EganIllinois [12]
2014 Niall HarrisonThe State of British SF and Fantasy: A SymposiumStrange Horizons [12]
2015 Adam Roberts*Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014Steel Quill [13]
2015 Jeff VanderMeerFrom Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal JourneyThe Atlantic (Jan ‘15) [13]
2015 Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra PierceLetters to TiptreeTwelfth Planet [13]
2015 Nina AllanTime Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor DieInterzone (Nov/Dec ‘15) [13]
2015 Jonathan McCalmontWhat Price, Your Critical AgencyRuthless Culture [13]
2016 Geoff Ryman*100 African Writers of SFFtor.com [14]
2016 Erin HorakovaBoucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes SevenStrange Horizons [14]
2016 Anna McFarlaneBreaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation TrilogyAdam Roberts: Critical Essays [14]
2016 Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeerIntroductionThe Big Book of Science Fiction [14]
2016 Paul Graham RavenNew Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked WorldAdam Roberts: Critical Essays [14]
2016 Rob HansenTHEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980Ansible [14]
2017 Paul Kincaid*Iain M. BanksIllinois [15]
2017 Nina Allan, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AMThe 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blogAnglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy [15]
2017 Juliet E. McKennaThe Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & FantasyGender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction [15]
2017 Vandana SinghThe Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh's The Great DerangementStrange Horizons [15]
2017 Adam RobertsBlog posts for Wells at the World's EndWells at the World's End [15]
2018 Aliette de Bodard*On Motherhood and Erasure: People-Shaped Holes, Hollow Characters and the Illusion of Impossible AdventureIntellectus Speculativus [16]
2018 Ruth EJ BoothNoise and Sparks 2018 articlesShoreline of Infinity [16]
2018 Adam RobertsPublishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific RomanceCambridge [16]
2018 Liz BourkeSleeps With Monsters 2018 articlestor.com [16]
2018 Nina AllanTime Pieces 2018 articlesInterzone [16]
2019 Farah Mendlesohn*The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. HeinleinUnbound [17]
2019 Glyn Morgan, C. Palmer-PatelSideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History FictionLiverpool University Press [17]
2019 Gareth L. PowellAbout WritingLuna Press [17]
2019 Adam RobertsH.G. Wells: A Literary LifePalgrave Macmillan [17]
2019 Jo L. WaltonAway Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of MeritBig Echo [17]

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