Congratulations to Genevieve Valentine , who won the 2012 William L. Crawford Fantasy Awardfor her novel Mechanique : A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti . This award observe the best unveiling fantasy novel bring out in the late year , and the smuggler up were Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus , Téa Obreht for The Tiger ’s Wife , Stina Leicht for Of Blood and Honey , and Ransom Riggs for Miss Peregrine ’s Home for Peculiar Children .
Meanwhile , the British Science Fiction Associationannounced the finalists for the British SF Awards , with China Miéville , Adam Roberts and Christopher Priest riding high once again . Also respect was newcomer Lavie Tidhar , with his alternate reality tale Osama . Here ’s the complete list , viathe Guardian :
Best Novel
Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin - Smith ( Newcon Press )
Embassytown by China Miéville ( Macmillan )
The Islanders by Christopher Priest ( Gollancz )
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts ( Gollancz )
Osama by Lavie Tidhar ( PS Publishing )
Best Short Fiction
The Silver Wind by Nina Allan ( Interzone 233 , TTA Press )
The Copenhagen Interpretation by Paul Cornell ( Asimov ’s , July )
Afterbirth by Kameron Hurley ( Kameron Hurley ’s own website )
Covehithe by China Miéville ( The Guardian )
Of Dawn by Al Robertson ( Interzone 235 , TTA Press )
Best Non - Fiction
Out of This humankind : Science Fiction but not as we live it by Mike Ashley ( British Library )
The SF Encyclopedia , 3rd Edition ed . John Clute , Peter Nicholls and David Langford ( site )
Review of Arslan by M J Engh , Abigail Nussbaum ( Asking the Wrong Questions blog )
SF Mistressworks , erectile dysfunction . Ian Sales ( website )
Pornokitsch , ed . Jared Shurin and Anne Perry ( web site )
The Unsilent Library : Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who ( Foundation Studies in Science Fiction ) , ed . Graham Sleight , Tony Keen and Simon Bradshaw ( Science Fiction Foundation )
Best Art
Cover of Ian Whates ’s The Noise Revealed by Dominic Harman ( Solaris )
binding and illustrations of Patrick Ness ’s A Monster shout out by Jim Kay ( Walker )
Cover of Lavie Tidhar ’s Osama by Pedro Marques ( PS Publishing )
Cover of Liz Williams ’s A Glass of Shadow by Anne Sudworth ( Newcon Press )
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