BSFA Award

The British Science Fiction Association Award (also British Science Fiction Award, British SF Award and BSFA Award ) is a literary prize awarded by the "British Science Fiction Association " ( BSFA ) since 1970 annually at the Eastercon in different categories. Considering all the works from the field of science fiction and fantasy, which were published in the previous year to come (novels in the UK, Short Fiction worldwide). The winners will be determined by the votes of the members coming from different nations of the Association. The date specified in the price corresponds to the year of publication ( that is, for example, 2007, the BSFA Award was awarded in 2006 ).

The permanent categories are:

• Novel ( novel)
• Short Fiction (short form: narrative, short novel, short story)

Comparatively regularly is a category of " artwork ", " Artist" or " Cover Artist " offered are excellent in graphics and illustrations, and / or the respective artist. Occasionally, prizes for the best non-fiction book about SF / F ( Non-Fiction ), Best Screenplay for a SF / F film, etc. forgiven.

Categories

Technical Notes

• Title of fiction as a short ( novella, novelette, short story) cataloged works (as is often the case for distinguishing homonymous anthologies, anthologies, collections and novels ) including "ordinary" in quotation marks and not in addition italics.
• There are exceptions for stories that were published as a single book and are already so long that there is no danger that they will be expanded to the novel (compatible with the information in the Locus Index to SF Awards).
• In order to reduce the number of redundancies and thereby increase the maintainability, it is best, " original title" on an item to attach a link, in which the associated German editions are listed.

Novel ( novel)

Short Fiction (short form)

This category was designated 1979-2000 as the " Short", 2001 "Short Story" and since 2002 as a " Short Fiction ".