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The shortlists for the British Fantasy Society Awards 2020 have been revealed:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

The Bone Ships – RJ Barker (Orbit)
The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
The Poison Song – Jen Williams (Headline)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E Harrow (Orbit)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

The Institute – Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Migration – Helen Marshall (Titan)
Mistletoe – Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Plague Stones – James Brogden (Titan)
The Reddening – Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher (Titan)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)
Alix E Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck Books)
Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tordotcom)
Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna Press)

Best Novella

The Ascent to Godhood – Neon Yang (Tordotcom)
Butcher’s Table – Nathan Ballingrud (Gallery / Saga Press)
The Deep – Rivers Solomon (Gallery / Saga Press)
Ormeshadow – Priya Sharma (Tordotcom)
Ragged Alice – Gareth L Powell (Tordotcom)
The Survival of Molly Southbourne – Tade Thompson (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

Dendrochronology – Penny Jones (Hersham Horror)
I Say, I Say, I Say – Robert Shearman (The Shadow Booth)
The Pain-Eater’s Daughter – Laura Mauro (Undertow)
Tomorrow, When I Was Young – Julie Travis (Eibonvale Press)

Best Anthology

A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, ed. Jennifer Brozek (Pulse Publishing)
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage)
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen (NewCon)
Wonderland, ed. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan)
The Woods, ed. Phil Sloman (Hersham Horror)

Best Collection

The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams – Maura McHugh (NewCon)
Growing Things – Paul Tremblay (Titan)
This House of Wounds – Georgina Bruce (Undertow)
Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight – Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Mauro (Undertow)

Best Non-Fiction

Coffinmaker’s Blues: Collected Writings on Terror – Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart
Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF) – Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
Notes from the Borderland – Lynda E Rucker, for Black Static (TTA Press)
The Pleasant Profession of Robert E Heinlein – Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)

Best Independent Press

Aqueduct Press
Black Shuck Books
Luna Press
NewCon Press
Rebellion Publishing
Undertow Publications

Best Magazine / Periodical

Black Static
The Dark
F&SF
Fiyah
Gingernuts of Horror
Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio

Breaking the Glass Slipper
PodCastle
PseudoPod
Speculative Spaces

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

2000AD, ed. Matt Smith (Rebellion)
Basketful of Heads #1 – Joe Hill (DC)
B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok – Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell et al. (Dark Horse)
DCeased #1-6 – Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano et al. (DC)
DIE – Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image)
The Ozone Diary – Pentti Otsamo & Tero Mielonen (Luna Press)

Best Artist

Ben Baldwin
Vince Haig
Jackie Morris
David Rix

Best Film / Television Production

Game of Thrones: The Long Night – David Benioff & DB Weiss (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
Us – Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions et al.)
Watchmen: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice – Damon Lindelof (HBO / Sky Atlantic)
The Witcher: Rare Species – Haily Hall (Netflix)