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BSFA Awards
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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I have just returned from Eastercon - the UK national SF convention held over the long Easter weekend (we get Good Friday and Easter Monday as public holidays in the UK). As part of the convention the BSFA Awards for the year are announced (and all attendees are eligible to vote as well). So in the same vein as other geeklists featuring SF award winners here is the BSFA Award winners.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1969
Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner.
The classic dystopia about over-population.
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Board Game: Orbit
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1970
The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner.
Second year running for Brunner. Another dystopia, this one examining racial tensions in the US.
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Board Game: Eclipse
[Average Rating:7.25 Unranked]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1971
Moments Of Eclipse by Brian Aldiss
The award went to a wonderful collection of short stories this year.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1972
No award.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1973
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1974
Inverted World by Christopher Priest.
A book about a boy/man discovering the true nature of the world outside his city. Conceptual SF at its best.
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Board Game: Orbito
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1975
Orbitsville by Bob Shaw.
A novel about the discovery of a BDO (big dumb object). In this case a Dyson Sphere.
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Board Game: Arcadia
[Average Rating:7.00 Unranked]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1976
Brontomek! by Michael G. Coney
A novel involving aliens who can mimic humans so well they end up thinking they are real humans. Great characterisation (as usual from Coney) and he blends love interest and SF themese well.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1977
The Jonah Kit by Ian Watson
A perfectly fine book with a few flaws. A young Russian boy is found and he seems to be the subject of an experiment to imprint an astronaut's mind patterns over the top of his own. Meanwhile a scientist discovers the universe is dead and we are living in the afterglow (or ghost) of the real universe.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1978
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
Note that Deathbird Stories a collection by Harlan Ellison also took a prize that year.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1979
The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard.
A phantasmagorical novel about a pilot named Blake and the transformation of Shepperton.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1981
The Shadow Of The Torturer by Gene Wolfe
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1980
Timescape by Gregory Benford
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1982
Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
The start of a magnificent trilogy about a planet in a binary system coming out of a centuries long winter.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1983
Tik-Tok by John Sladek.
A book narrated by a robot on trial for murder. A black comedy and at times very funny.
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Board Game: Myth
[Average Rating:5.12 Unranked]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1984
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock.
A modern fantasy classic.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1985
Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss.
Aldiss returns with the third and final volume in his Helliconia trilogy.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1986
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw.
An exuberant tale of two worlds that orbit each other so closely that they share an atmosphere (they are in a universe where pi = 3) and the exodus of a culture via balloon. Very much the story of one man surviving a sea of troubles set against a world in danger from floating bubbles containing poison.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1987
Grainne by Keith Roberts.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1988
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock.
A sequel to his Mythago Wood which won a few years earlier. Holdstock continues his examination of mythology and its hold on the human subconscious.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1989
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
One of Pratchett's best.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1990
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland
A space opera involving a space tug called Alice Liddell and her captain Tabitha Jute. A fun read.
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1991
The Fall Of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1992
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The start of KSR's trilogy about Mars and the politics of those who go there.
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Board Game: Aztec
[Average Rating:6.63 Overall Rank:3816]
Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
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1993
Aztec Century by Christopher Evans
The Aztec empire has been expanding since Cortez switched sides in the 16th century. Britain now has to submit to their rule.
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Lisle
New York
Peterborough
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That info isn't available for all the years (or at least not very easily). The best you will get is http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Bsfa.html (but they list things by the year the award was awarded which is different to the was the BSFA list things)
The nominees this year were -
* Brasyl – Ian McDonald
* Black Man – Richard Morgan
* Alice in Sunderland – Bryan Talbot
* The Execution Channel - Ken Macleod
* The Prefect - Neal Asher
* The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
We also voted on a retro-award for 1958. The nominees were
* A Case of Conscience – James Blish
* Have Spacesuit, Will Travel – Robert A Heinlein
* Non-Stop – Brian Aldiss
* The Big Time – Fritz Leiber
* The Triumph of Time – James Blish
* Who? – Algis Budrys
The winner of that was Non-Stop.