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Award Category: Best Non-Fiction (British Science Fiction Award)

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2001
Win Omegatropic: Non-Fiction & Fiction Stephen Baxter
Nomination Storming the Bastille Justina Robson
Nomination Terry Pratchett Andrew M. Butler
Nomination The Best Introduction to the Mountains Gene Wolfe
Nomination Tim Burton Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell
2002
Win Introduction (Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek) David Langford
Nomination Films: The Timex Machine Lucius Shepard
Nomination Mapping Mars Oliver Morton
Nomination Once There Was A Magazine: A Personal View of Unknown and Unknown Worlds Fred Smith
Nomination The Interrogation Nick Gevers
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* Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction Rob Kitchin and James Kneale
* The Age of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock Jeff Gardiner
* The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction Justine Larbalestier
2003
Win "Reading Science Fiction" (introduction) Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination "A Sick Mind" Cheryl Morgan
Nomination "Nothing is Written: Politics, Ideology and the Burden of History in the Fall Revolution Quartet" John H. Arnold and Andy Wood
Nomination "The Profession of Science Fiction #58: Mapping the Territory" Mike Ashley
Nomination Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams M. J. Simpson
2005
Win Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 Gary K. Wolfe
2006
Nomination Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Justine Larbalestier
Nomination Great British Comics Paul Gravett
Nomination James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon Julie Phillips
Nomination Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology Andrew M. Butler and Paul Kincaid
2008
Win Rhetorics of Fantasy Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films Roz Kaveney
Nomination What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction Paul Kincaid
2009
Win Mutant Popcorn Nick Lowe
Nomination A Short History of Fantasy Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination Canary Fever: Reviews John Clute
Nomination I Didn't Dream of Dragons Deepa D.
2010
Win Blogging the Hugos: Decline Paul Kincaid
Nomination Notes from Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Nomination Red Plenty Francis Spufford
Nomination Review of The Wheel of Time Adam Roberts
Nomination With Both Feet in the Clouds Abigail Nussbaum
2011
Win The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition John Clute and Peter Nicholls and David Langford
Nomination Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It Mike Ashley
Nomination Pornokitsch Jared Shurin and Anne Perry
Nomination Review of Arslan by M.J. Engh Abigail Nussbaum
Nomination SF Mistressworks Ian Sales
Nomination The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who Simon Bradshaw and Tony Keen and Graham Sleight
2012
Win The World SF Blog Lavie Tidhar
Nomination The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination The Complexity of the Humble Spacesuit Karen Burnham
Nomination The Shortlist Project Maureen Kincaid Speller
Nomination The Widening Gyre: 2012 Best of the Year Anthologies Paul Kincaid
2013
Win Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination Going Forth by Night (Introduction) John J. Johnston
Nomination Sleeps with Monsters Liz Bourke
2014
Win Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and the First World War Edward James
Nomination After the Boom? Maureen Kincaid Speller
Nomination Awards Foreign and Domestic Dan Hartland
Nomination Call and Response Paul Kincaid
Nomination Deep Forests and Manicured Gardens - A Look at Two New Short Fiction Magazines Jonathan McCalmont
Nomination Fandom and Conventions Kari Sperring
Nomination Greg Egan Karen Burnham
Nomination The Art and Business of Short Fiction Nina Allan
Nomination The Market and the Trade Juliet E. McKenna
Nomination The Non-Genre Boom Martin Lewis
2015
Win Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 Adam Roberts
Nomination From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination Letters to Tiptree Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce
Nomination Time Pieces (Interzone #261) Nina Allan
Nomination What Price, Your Critical Agency? Jonathan McCalmont
2016
Win 100 African Writers of SFF Geoff Ryman
Nomination Boucher, Backbone and Blake – the Legacy of Blakes 7 Erin Horáková
Nomination Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Anna McFarlane
Nomination Introduction (The Big Book of Science Fiction) Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World Paul Graham Raven
Nomination Then: A History of Science Fiction Fandom in the UK: 1930-1980 Rob Hansen
2017
Win Iain M. Banks Paul Kincaid
Nomination The 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blog Shadow Clarke Award jurors
Nomination The Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & Fantasy Juliet E. McKenna
Nomination The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement Vandana Singh
Nomination Wells at the World's End 2017 blog posts Adam Roberts
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* "This Is Not Going to Go the Way You Think": The Last Jedi Is Subversive AF, and I Am Here for It Melissa Hillman
* Apocalyptic Fiction Andrew Tate
* Doll Parts: Reflections of the Feminine Grotesque in Frances Hardinge's Cuckoo Song and Neil Gaiman's Coraline Kim Lakin-Smith
* Editorial (Interzone #271) Rob Gray
* Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift Erin Horáková
* Introduction (2084) George Sandison
* Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction Will Errickson and Grady Hendrix
* Review of genre media: "Alien: Covenant" Mazin Saleem
* Science Fiction and the Arab Spring: The Critical Dystopia in Contemporary Egyptian Fiction Sinéad Murphy
* Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System John Rieder
* Science Fiction: A Literary History Roger Luckhurst
* Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies Dr. Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards
* SF Caledonia column 2017 articles unknown
* Sleeps With Monsters column 2017 articles Liz Bourke
* The Sub-Genres of British Fantasy Literature A. J. Dalton
2018
Win On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures Aliette de Bodard
Nomination Noise and Sparks column 2018 articles Ruth EJ Booth
Nomination Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance Adam Roberts
Nomination Sleeps With Monsters column 2018 articles Liz Bourke
Nomination Time Pieces column 2018 articles Nina Allan
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* Constructing a Kinder Future Claudie Arseneault
* Economic Science Fictions William Davies
* Erin Groans: A Gormenvast Review of Every Adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Titus Books Erin Horáková
* Future Interrupted column 2018 articles Andy Hedgecock
* Introduction (Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures) Mike Ashley
* Portrayals of South Africans in Popular Entertainment: Bad Accented Baddies, Prawns and Black Panther Robert S. Malan
* Rupture & Complicity: The 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist Vajra Chandrasekera
* Scientists in Nigerian Science Fiction Polina Levontin
* The Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks Nick Hubble and Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Joseph Norman
* Ursula K. Le Guin and the Three Obstacles Laura Miller
2019
Win The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein Farah Mendlesohn
Nomination About Writing Gareth L. Powell
Nomination Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit Jo Lindsay Walton
Nomination H G Wells: A Literary Life Adam Roberts
Nomination Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel
2020
Win It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? Adam Roberts
Nomination Books in Which No Bad Things Happen Jo Walton
Nomination Estranged Entrepreneurs Jo Lindsay Walton
Nomination Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach J. R. Burgmann and Andrew Milner
Nomination The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest Paul Kincaid
Nomination Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction Francesca T. Barbini
2021
Win Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction Francesca T. Barbini
Nomination Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades Anna McFarlane
Nomination Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Nomination Octothorpe Podcast John Coxon and Alison Scott and Liz Batty
Nomination Science Fiction and the Pathways out of the COVID Crisis Val Nolan
Nomination The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture Mark Bould
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