BSFA Awards shortlists, 2006

The BSFA Awards shortlists, 2006 is out. Here's the list, go to the BSFA site for the links, especially the artwork to view. As usual I've read none of them, but probably will once they come out in paperback.

Novel

• Darkland, Liz Williams (Tor)
• End of the World Blues, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
• Icarus, Roger Levy (Gollancz)
• The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Weidenfield & Nicholson)
• Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)

Short Fiction

• The Djinn's Wife, Ian McDonald (Asimov's Science Fiction, June)
• The Highway Men, Ken MacLeod (Sandstone Press Ltd)
• The House Beyond Your Sky, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons)
• The Point of Roses, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice, Gollancz - original to UK edition, 2006)
• Signal to Noise, Alastair Reynolds (Zima Blue and Other Stories, Nightshade Books)
• Sounding, Elizabeth Bear (Strange Horizons)

Artwork

• Angelbot, Fangorn (Cover of Time Pieces, ed. Ian Whates)
• Cover of Farthing magazine, issue 2, Spring 2006. Credited to 'Vertebrate Graphics'.
• Droid, Fahrija Velic (Cover for Interzone 206)
• The Return to Abalakin, Alexander Preuss
• Ring of the Gods, William Li (Cover of Holland SF 226)