This year's BSFA and Philip K. Dick Award winners

This weekend saw a couple of conventions taking place in the UK and North America: EasterCon and Norwescon 48. Both cons held awards ceremonies for two big SF awards: the British Science Fiction Association and the Philip K. Dick Awards!

First up: the Philip K. Dick Award, which saw a great slate of novels on the ballot: this year's winner was Outlaw Planet by M. R. Carey, with Thomas Ha's collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories earning a special citation.

The BSFA announced its winners of its annual award on Sunday. Here's the full list (winners are marked in bold)

Best Novel

• A Granite Silence, Nina Allan (Riverrun)
• Project Hanuman, Stewart Hotston (Angry Robot)
• When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (Arcadia)
• Edge of Oblivion, Kirk Weddell (Troubador)
• The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)

Best Shorter Fiction (for novelettes and novellas)

• Cities Are Forests Waiting to Happen, Cécile Cristofari (Newcon)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)
• “The Art of Time Travel”, Teika Marija Smits (One Million Times)
• “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)
• “The Apologists”, Tade Thompson (Clarkesworld 11/25)

Best Short Fiction

• “25 Peppercorns”, Emma Burnett (Mythaxis Fall ’25)
• “One Step at a Time”, Rick Danforth (Vivid Worlds)
• “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds (PodCastle 7/29/25)
• “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)
• “Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers”, A.J. Van Belle (Augur 8.2)

Best Collection (for collections and anthologies)

• The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
• Black Friday, Cheryl S. Ntumy (Flame Tree)
• Who Will You Save?, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Creative Futures: Beyond and Within, Allen Stroud, ed. (Flame Tree)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson (NewCon)

Best Fiction for Younger Readers

• Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• “The Ghost Merchant”, Rick Danforth (The Colored Lens Spring ’25)
• The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel, J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
• Doctor Who: Lux, James Goss (Penguin)
• Secrets of the First School,  T.L. Huchu (Tor)
• Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, Una McCormack (Target)

Best Non-Fiction (Long)

• Writing the Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard Hirst (Dead Ink)
• Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914, Kate Holterhoff (Ohio University Press)
• Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Briardene)
• That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American With Film, Payton McCarty-Simas (Luna Press Publishing)
• Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
• Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Colour Re-imagining a Genre, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)

Best Non-Fiction (Short)

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• “The Legacy of Discworld”, Rick Danforth (The British Fantasy Society)
• “When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident”, Grigory Lukin (self-published)
• Review of When There Are Wolves Again, Paul March Russell (Strange Horizons 10/6/25)
• “Comparing colonialisms in Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror and its AMC Adaptation”, Fiona Moore (Foundation 4/1/25)

Best Translated Short Fiction

• “Pollen”, Anna Burdenko, tr. Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld 3/25)
• “Elasticity”, Andrés González Galante, tr. Lucy Corrie-Tannen (Samovar 10/27/25)
• “Liecraft“, Anita Moskat, tr. Austin Wagner (Apex 10/7/25)
• “Still Water”, Zhang Ran, tr. Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “Zephyr”, Sofia Rhei, tr. Marian Womack (Samovar 4/28/25)
• “Bodyhoppers”, Rocio Vega, tr. Sue Burke (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “Beyond Everything“, Wang Yanzhong, tr. Stella Jiayue-Zhu (Clarkesworld 1/25)

Best Artwork

• Jenni Coutts for the cover art of Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
• Jenni Coutts for “Mushroom Fairy” (self-published)
• Spencer Fuller for the cover art of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)
• Sam Gretton for the cover art of The Salt Oracle (Solaris)
• Nick Wells for the tesselated cover art of The Fractal Series (Flame Tree)
• Tziano Zhou for “Highway Above the Clouds” (self-published)

Best Audio Fiction

• Just Let Me Help, Tara Campbell (Space Cowboy)
• Five Finger Stories, Rick Danforth (Tall Tale TV)
• Unicorn Spotting, Rick Danforth (The Tiny Bookcase)
• Wasteland: A Dex Legacy Story, Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)
• The Dex Legacy Series 3, Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)

Congratulations to the finalists!