> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andrewliptak.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # This year's BSFA and Philip K. Dick Award winners - URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/bsfa-philip-k-dick-award-winners-science-fiction-books/ - Published: 2026-04-06T17:43:14.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-06T17:43:14.000Z - Description: Some excellent works from 2025 - Author: Andrew Liptak - Tags: News, Awards, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Books 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! ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2c/d7/2cd7d323-e6ed-4666-8092-07e380dbdf2a/content/images/2026/04/image-2.png) First up: the Philip K. Dick Award, [which saw a great slate of novels on the ballot](https://www.andrewliptak.com/philip-k-dick-award-2025-samatar-tchaikovsky/): 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!