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 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	Farah Mendlesohn, The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
Website	BSFA 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*	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.com	[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	Luna Press	[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]

External links

• Official website

References

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2. "2002 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
3. "2003 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
4. "2005 BSFA Awards". sfadb.com.
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