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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 byNina Allan, A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller
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. The award was renamed to Best Long Non-Fiction in 2023.

Winners and Shortlists

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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
Jared Shurin & Anne C. Perry Pornokitsch Pornokitsch
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 Lavie Tidhar* The World SF Blog The World SF Blog [10]
Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Cambridge
Karen Burnham The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit in the book Rocket Science Mutation
Paul Kincaid The Widening Gyre Los Angeles Review of Books
Maureen Kincaid Speller The Shortlist Project Paper Knife
2013 Jeff VanderMeer* Wonderbook Abrams Image [11]
Liz Bourke Sleeps with Monsters Tor
John J. Johnston Going Forth by Night in Unearthed Jurassic
2014 Edward James* Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com [12]
Karen Burnham Greg Egan Illinois
Paul Kincaid Call and Response Beccon
Niall Harrison The State of British SF and Fantasy: A Symposium Strange Horizons
Johnathan McCalmont Deep Forests and Manicured Gardens: A Look at Two New Short Fiction Magazines Ruthless Culture
2015 Adam Roberts* Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 Steel Quill [13]
Nina Allan Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die Interzone (Nov/Dec ‘15)
Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce Letters to Tiptree Twelfth Planet
Jeff VanderMeer From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey The Atlantic (Jan ‘15)
Jonathan McCalmont What Price, Your Critical Agency Ruthless Culture
2016 Geoff Ryman* 100 African Writers of SFF tor.com [14]
Erin Horakova 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
Paul Graham Raven New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World Adam Roberts: Critical Essays
Rob Hansen THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 Ansible
Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer Introduction The Big Book of Science Fiction
2017 Paul Kincaid* Iain M. Banks Illinois [15]
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
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
Vandana Singh The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement Strange Horizons
Adam Roberts Blog posts for Wells at the World's End Wells at the World's End
2018 Aliette de Bodard* On Motherhood and Erasure: People-Shaped Holes, Hollow Characters and the Illusion of Impossible Adventure Intellectus Speculativus [16]
Ruth EJ Booth Noise and Sparks 2018 articles Shoreline of Infinity
Nina Allan Time Pieces 2018 articles Interzone
Liz Bourke Sleeps With Monsters 2018 articles tor.com
Adam Roberts Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance Cambridge
2019 Farah Mendlesohn* The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein Unbound [17]
Glyn Morgan & C. Palmer-Patel Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction Liverpool University Press
Gareth L. Powell About Writing Luna Press
Adam Roberts H.G. Wells: A Literary Life Palgrave Macmillan
Jo L. Walton Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit Big Echo
2020 Adam Roberts* It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of Elliot & Thompson [18]
Francesca T. Barbini Ties That Bind: Love in Science Fiction and Fantasy Luna Press
Paul Kincaid The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest Liverpool University Press
Andrew Milner & J. R. Burgmann Science Fiction and Climate Change Liverpool University Press
Jo L. Walton Estranged Entrepreneurs Foundation 137
Jo Walton Books in Which No Bad Things Happen Tor
2021 Francesca T. Barbini* Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Publishing [19]
Liz Batty, John Coxon, & Alison Scott Octothorpe Podcast Octothorpe
Mark Bould The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture Verso Books
Anna McFarlane Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades Routledge
Joy Sanchez-Taylor Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color Ohio State Press
Val Nolan Science Fiction and the Pathways out of the COVID Crisis The Polyphony
2022 Rob Wilkins* Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes Doubleday [20]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Too Dystopian for Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer's Perspective Uncanny Magazine
Fiona Moore Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros Edward Elgar Publishing
Wole Talabi and the ASFS Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SFF SFWA
Maureen Kincaid Speller The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner's Treacle Walker Strange Horizons
2023 Nina Allan* A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller Luna Press [21]
Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Luna Press
Niall Harrison All These Worlds Briardene
Chinelo Onwualu Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color Hydra House
Farah Mendlesohn The Female Man: Eastercon talk n/a
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References

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  5. ^ "2006 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
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  11. ^ "2013 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
  12. ^ "2014 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
  13. ^ "2015 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
  14. ^ "2016 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
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  16. ^ "2018 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
  17. ^ "2019 BSFA Awards Announcement". BSFA. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  18. ^ "2020 BSFA Awards Announcement". BSFA. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
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  21. ^ "2023 BSFA Awards Announcement". BSFA. Retrieved 2024-04-03.