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
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.

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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

YearAuthor(s)WorkPublisher/PublicationRef.
2001 Stephen Baxter * Omegatropic BSFA [1]
Gene Wolfe The Best Introduction to the Mountains Interzone (#174, Dec '01)
Andrew M. Butler Terry Pratchett The Pocket Essentials
Justina Robson Storming the BastilleThe Alien Online (Jul '01)
Michelle Le Blanc & Colin Odell Tim Burton The Pocket Essentials
2002 David Langford *Introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John SladekBig Engine [2]
Nick Gevers & Chistopher Priest The Interrogation Interzone (#183, Oct '02)
Oliver Morton Mapping Mars Fourth Estate
Frederick E. Smith Once There Was a Magazine Beacon
Lucius Shepard Film review of The Time Machine Electric Story 2 (Apr '02)
2003 Farah Mendlesohn *Reading Science FictionThe Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction [3]
M. J. Simpson Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams Hodder & Stoughton
John H. Arnold & Andy Wood Nothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution QuartetThe True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod
Mike Ashley The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory Foundation (#87)
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 1992-1996Beccon [4]
2006 Paul Kincaid & Andrew M. Butler The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology Serendip Foundation [5]
Justine Larbalestier Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Wesleyan
Paul Gravett Great British Comics Aurum
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 FictionBeccon
2009 Nick Lowe *Mutant Popcorn film review column Interzone [7]
John Clute Canary Fever: ReviewsBeccon
Deepa D.I Didn't Dream of DragonsDeepa D. Blog
Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James A Short History of Fantasy Middlesex
2010 Paul Kincaid *Blogging the Hugos: DeclineBig Other [8]
Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe Notes from Coode Street PodcastNotes 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 CloudsAsking 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 ArslanAsking the Wrong Questions
Ian Sales SF MistressworksSF Mistressworks
Graham Sleight , Tony Keen & Simon BradshawThe Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who Science Fiction Foundation
2012 Lavie Tidhar *The World SF BlogThe World SF Blog [10]
Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Cambridge
Karen BurnhamThe Complexity of the Humble Space Suit in the book Rocket ScienceMutation
Maureen Kincaid SpellerThe Shortlist ProjectPaper Knife
Paul Kincaid The Widening Gyre Los Angeles Review of Books
2013 Jeff VanderMeer *Wonderbook Abrams Image [11]
John J. JohnstonGoing Forth by Night in UnearthedJurassic
Liz BourkeSleeps with Monsters Tor
2014 Edward James *Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great Warfantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com [12]
Paul Kincaid Call and ResponseBeccon
Johnathan McCalmontDeep Forests and Manicured Gardens: A Look at Two New Short Fiction MagazinesRuthless Culture
Karen BurnhamGreg Egan Illinois
Niall Harrison The State of British SF and Fantasy: A Symposium Strange Horizons
2015 Adam Roberts *Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014Steel Quill [13]
Jeff VanderMeer From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey The Atlantic (Jan ‘15)
Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra PierceLetters to TiptreeTwelfth Planet
Nina Allan Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die Interzone (Nov/Dec ‘15)
Jonathan McCalmontWhat Price, Your Critical AgencyRuthless Culture
2016 Geoff Ryman *100 African Writers of SFF tor.com [14]
Erin HorakovaBoucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven Strange Horizons
Anna McFarlaneBreaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation TrilogyAdam Roberts: Critical Essays
Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer IntroductionThe Big Book of Science Fiction
Paul Graham RavenNew Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked WorldAdam Roberts: Critical Essays
Rob Hansen THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 Ansible
2017 Paul Kincaid *Iain M. Banks Illinois [15]
Nina Allan , Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AMThe 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 & FantasyGender 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 EndWells at the World's End
2018 Aliette de Bodard *On Motherhood and Erasure: People-Shaped Holes, Hollow Characters and the Illusion of Impossible AdventureIntellectus Speculativus [16]
Ruth EJ BoothNoise and Sparks 2018 articlesShoreline of Infinity
Adam Roberts Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance Cambridge
Liz BourkeSleeps With Monsters 2018 articles tor.com
Nina Allan Time Pieces 2018 articles Interzone
2019 Farah Mendlesohn *The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein Unbound [17]
Glyn Morgan & C. Palmer-PatelSideways 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 MeritBig Echo
2020 Adam Roberts *It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid OfElliot & 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. BurgmannScience 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 FictionLuna Publishing [19]
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
Mark Bould The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture Verso Books
John Coxon, Alison Scott & Liz BattyOctothorpe Podcast Octothorpe
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]
Fiona Moore Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in WesterosEdward Elgar Publishing
Wole Talabi and the ASFSPreliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SFFSFWA
Maureen Kincaid Speller The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner’s Treacle WalkerStrange Horizons
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer’s PerspectiveUncanny Magazine
2023 Nina Allan *A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid SpellerLuna Press [21]
Niall Harrison All These WorldsBriardene
Chinelo Onwualu Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of ColorHydra House
Tiffani Angus and Val NolanSpec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorLuna Press
Farah Mendlesohn The Female Man: Eastercon talkn/a

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