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  "description": "Some excellent works from 2025",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T17:43:14.000Z",
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  "textContent": "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!\n\nFirst 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.\n\nThe BSFA announced its winners of its annual award on Sunday. Here's the full list (winners are marked in **bold**)\n\n### Best Novel\n\n  *  _A Granite Silence_ , Nina Allan (Riverrun)\n  * _Project Hanuman_ , Stewart Hotston (Angry Robot)\n  * **_When There Are Wolves Again_ , E.J. Swift (Arcadia)**\n  * _Edge of Oblivion_ , Kirk Weddell (Troubador)\n  * _The Salt Oracle_ , Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)\n\n\n\n### Best Shorter Fiction (for novelettes and novellas)\n\n  * _Cities Are Forests Waiting to Happen_ , Cécile Cristofari (Newcon)\n  * _The River Has Roots_ , Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)\n  * “The Art of Time Travel”, Teika Marija Smits (One Million Times)\n  * “Descent”, Wole Talabi (_Clarkesworld_ 5/25)\n  * **“The Apologists”, Tade Thompson (_Clarkesworld_ 11/25)**\n\n\n\n### Best Short Fiction\n\n  * “25 Peppercorns”, Emma Burnett (_Mythaxis_ Fall ’25)\n  * “One Step at a Time”, Rick Danforth (Vivid Worlds)\n  * **“Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds (_PodCastle_ 7/29/25)**\n  * “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)\n  * “Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers”, A.J. Van Belle (_Augur_ 8.2)\n\n\n\n### Best Collection (for collections and anthologies)\n\n  * _The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories_ , André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)\n  * _Uncertain Sons and Other Stories_ , Thomas Ha (Undertow)\n  * _Black Friday_ , Cheryl S. Ntumy (Flame Tree)\n  * _Who Will You Save?_ , Gareth L. Powell (Titan)\n  * _Creative Futures: Beyond and Within_ , Allen Stroud, ed. (Flame Tree)\n  * **_Blood in the Bricks_ , Neil Williamson (NewCon)**\n\n\n\n### Best Fiction for Younger Readers\n\n  *  _Sunrise on the Reaping_ , Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)\n  * “The Ghost Merchant”, Rick Danforth  _(The Colored Lens_ Spring ’25)\n  * _The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel_ , J. Dianne Dotson (Android)\n  * _Doctor Who: Lux_ , James Goss (Penguin)\n  * _Secrets of the First School_ , T.L. Huchu (Tor)\n  * **_Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution_ , Una McCormack (Target)**\n\n\n\n### Best Non-Fiction (Long)\n\n  * _Writing the Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction_ , Dan Coxon & Richard Hirst (Dead Ink)\n  * _Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914_ , Kate Holterhoff (Ohio University Press)\n  * **_Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction_ by Paul Kincaid (Briardene)**\n  * _That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American With Film,_ Payton McCarty-Simas (Luna Press Publishing)\n  * _Fantasy: A Short History_ , Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)\n  * _Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Colour Re-imagining a Genre_ , Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)\n\n\n\n### Best Non-Fiction (Short)\n\n  * **“Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (_Strange Horizons_ 3/24/25)**\n  * “The Legacy of Discworld”, Rick Danforth (The British Fantasy Society)\n  * “When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident”, Grigory Lukin (self-published)\n  * Review of When There Are Wolves Again, Paul March Russell (_Strange Horizons_ 10/6/25)\n  * “Comparing colonialisms in Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror and its AMC Adaptation”, Fiona Moore (_Foundation_ 4/1/25)\n\n\n\n### Best Translated Short Fiction\n\n  * “Pollen”, Anna Burdenko, tr. Alex Shvartsman (_Clarkesworld_ 3/25)\n  * “Elasticity”, Andrés González Galante, tr. Lucy Corrie-Tannen (_Samovar_ 10/27/25)\n  * **“Liecraft“, Anita Moskat, tr. Austin Wagner (_Apex_ 10/7/25)**\n  * “Still Water”, Zhang Ran, tr. Andy Dudak (_Clarkesworld_ 4/25)\n  * “Zephyr”, Sofia Rhei, tr. Marian Womack (_Samovar_ 4/28/25)\n  * “Bodyhoppers”, Rocio Vega, tr. Sue Burke (_Clarkesworld_ 2/25)\n  * “Beyond Everything“, Wang Yanzhong, tr. Stella Jiayue-Zhu (_Clarkesworld_ 1/25)\n\n\n\n### Best Artwork\n\n  * Jenni Coutts for the cover art of Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)\n  * Jenni Coutts for “Mushroom Fairy” (self-published)\n  * Spencer Fuller for the cover art of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)\n  * Sam Gretton for the cover art of The Salt Oracle (Solaris)\n  * **Nick Wells for the tesselated cover art of _The Fractal_ Series (Flame Tree)**\n  * Tziano Zhou for “Highway Above the Clouds” (self-published)\n\n\n\n### Best Audio Fiction\n\n  *  _Just Let Me Help_ , Tara Campbell (Space Cowboy)\n  * _Five Finger Stories_ , Rick Danforth (Tall Tale TV)\n  * _Unicorn Spotting_ , Rick Danforth (The Tiny Bookcase)\n  * **_Wasteland: A Dex Legacy Story_ , Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)**\n  * _The Dex Legacy Series 3_ , Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories)\n\n\n\nCongratulations to the finalists!",
  "title": "This year's BSFA and Philip K. Dick Award winners",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-06T17:43:14.748Z"
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