Science Fiction Awards Watch

The British Fantasy Society announced the results of their annual awards at FantasyCon in Nottingham last night. The list of winners is available on their website, but to save you the trouble of clicking through here they all are:

• Best Novel: the August Derleth Fantasy Award: One, Conrad Williams (Virgin Horror)
• Best Novella: The Language Of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS Publishing)
• Best Short Fiction: “What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night”, Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)
• Best Anthology: The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 20, edited by Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)
• Best Collection: Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
• The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award: Telos Publishing, David Howe
• Best Comic/Graphic Novel: Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?, Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC Comics/Titan Books)
• Best Artist: Vincent Chong, for work including covers for The Witnesses Are Gone (PS Publishing) and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Constable & Robinson)
• Best Non-Fiction: Ansible, David Langford
• Best Magazine/Periodical: Murky Depths, edited and published by Terry Martin
• Best Television: Doctor Who, head writer: Russell T Davies (BBC Wales)
• Best Film: Let The Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
• Best Newcomer – the Sydney J. Bounds Award: Kari Sperring for Living With Ghosts (DAW)
• The British Fantasy Society Special Award: the Karl Edward Wagner Award: Robert Holdstock

Our thanks to Damien G. Walter who tweeted the results from Nottingham last night, enabling us to get the news out quickly.