Best Translated Novel

• WINNER: Eversion, Alastair Reynolds, tr. Naoya Nakahara (Tokyo Sogensha)
• WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang, tr. Yoshimichi Furusawa (Tokyo Sogensha)

• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks, tr. Yasuko Kawano (Hayakawa Bunko SF)
• The Book of Elsewhere, China Miéville & Keanu Reeves, tr. Masayuki Uchida & Rei Yasuno (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko (Hayakawa)
• The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart, tr. Ken Mogi (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow, tr. Masayuki Uchida (Takeshobo)

Best Translated Short Story

• WINNER: “After Zero”, Greg Egan, tr. Makoto Yamagishi (Hayakawa SF 2/25)

• “Hémisphères”, Tristan Garcia, tr. Kei Takahashi (7)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachel K. Jones, tr. Chiori Sada (The Silverfish Notebook 8/25)
• “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker, tr. Izumi Ichida (A Place That Once Existed Somewhere)
• “Security Check”, Han Song, tr. Tachihara Touya (Hayakawa SF 10/25)
• “Blowout”, Wole Talabi, tr. Masato Naruniwa (Hayakawa SF 12/25)

There are also winners in the Japanese Novel, Japanese Short Story, Media, Comic, Artist, Non-Fiction, and “Free” (other) categories. The awards will be presented at the 64th Japan SF Convention in Oita, Japan, to be held July 11-12, 2026.

For more information, including a complete list of winners and other nominees, see the SFFAN’s website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)

• La Nuit ravagée, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Gallimard)
• Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
• Le Solstice des ombres, Sœurs de haine, tome 1, Benjamin Lupu (Mnémos)
• La Fille du feu, Aurélie Wellenstein (Outre Fleuve)

Foreign Novel Translated

• WINNER: La Sorcière à la jambe d’os [Mladenka kostonoga], Želimir Periš, tr. Chloé Billon (Du Sonneur)

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, tr. Patrick Marcel (Nouveaux Millénaires)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (Atalante)
• L’Oiseau qui boit des larmes [The Bird That Drinks Tears], Young-Do Lee (Le Rayon Imaginaire)
• Le Livre des passages [The Book of Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas, (Le Cherche-midi)

Young Adult

• WINNER: Le Cercle de ronces, Camille Anssel (Gallimard jeunesse)

• L’Alchimie des fantômes, Estelle Castadere (Rageot)
• Artemisia Shepard, Descendante de la Pythie, Christelle Da Cruz (Scrineo)
• La Cité d’Archeflèche [Arkspire], Jamie Littler, tr. Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon (Nathan)
• Diamant et émeraude and Jais et grenat, Stéphanie Benson & Nelly Labere (Syros)

Illustration

• WINNER: Dominik Mayer for Incendium (Caurette)

• Clara Debray for L’Ourse qui danse (Les Étages)
• Beatriz Martin-Vidat for Petit Chaperon (Grasset)

Comic Book

• WINNER: Helen de Wyndhorn, Tom King, illustrated by Evely Bilquis (Glénat)

• Le Château des animaux, Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Félix Delep (Casterman)
• Islander, Caryl Férey, illustrated by Corentin Rouge (Glénat)
• Downlands, Norm Konyu (Glénat)
• Drome, Jesse Lonergan (404)

Picture Book

• WINNER: Dodorama, Marion Arbona (Sarbacane)

• Le Bus jaune, Loren Long, tr. Chun-Liang Yeh (HongFei)
• Le Dictionnaire à l’envers [The Dictionary Story], Sam Winston, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, tr. Claire Billaud (Kaléidoscope)
• J’ai un ami, Manon Fargetton, illustrated by Lili Wood (Milan)
• Tom poulpe, Gaëtan Dorémus (La Partie)

Additional awards were given, such as the Prix des collégiens, the Prix des écoliers, and others. For more information, visit the Prix Imaginales website.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) amazon / bookshop
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) amazon / bookshop
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) amazon / bookshop
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop

FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) amazon / bookshop

HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop

• The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop
• It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen) amazon / bookshop
• The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• WINNER: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
• The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton) [F] amazon / bookshop
• I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F] amazon / bookshop
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop

FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F] amazon / bookshop

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H] amazon / bookshop
• When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF] amazon / bookshop

TRANSLATED NOVEL

• WINNER: On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF] amazon / bookshop

• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H] amazon / bookshop
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F] amazon / bookshop
• Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF] amazon / bookshop
• The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F] amazon / bookshop

NOVELLA

• WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

• The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) amazon / bookshop
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

NOVELETTE

• WINNER: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)

• “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
• “Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
• “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
• “The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
• “The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
• “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
• “Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)

SHORT STORY

• WINNER: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)

• “Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
• “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
• “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
• “Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga) amazon / bookshop

• The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America) amazon / bookshop
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) amazon / bookshop
• The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) amazon 
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) amazon / bookshop
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) amazon / bookshop

COLLECTION

• WINNER: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) amazon / bookshop

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man) amazon / bookshop
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
• The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop

MAGAZINE

• WINNER: Clarkesworld

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.)

• WINNER: Orbit

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Del Rey
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
• Saga
• Solaris
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• WINNER: Neil Clarke

• John Joseph Adams
• Scott H. Andrews
• Ellen Datlow
• dave ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Bogi Takács
• Wendy N. Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
• Sheila Williams

ARTIST

• WINNER: John Picacio

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Kathleen Jennings
• Alan Lee
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• WINNER: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second) amazon / bookshop

• The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) amazon / bookshop
• Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls) amazon 
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
• Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK) amazon / bookshop
• Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive) amazon
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle) amazon 
• Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US) amazon / bookshop
• Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press) amazon / bookshop

NON-FICTION

• WINNER: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD) amazon / bookshop
  

• The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM) amazon / bookshop
• Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) amazon 
• Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton) amazon / bookshop
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad) amazon / bookshop
• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press) amazon / bookshop
• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay) amazon / bookshop
• Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press) amazon / bookshop
   

SPECIAL AWARD 2026: Supporting the Speculative Writing Community

• WINNER: The Submission Grinder, David Steffen & Volunteers
  

Novel

• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
• Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
• The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)

Novella

• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
• DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)

Novelette

• Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
• “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
• The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)

Short Fiction

• “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
• “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
• “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
• “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
• “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Single-Author Collection

• Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
• Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)

Edited Anthology

• Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
• Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)

Winners will be announced on July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burlington MA. For more information, see the award website.

• Dusk, Robbie Arnott (Astra House US; Chatto & Windus UK; Picador Australia)
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon US; Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien (Norton US; Granta UK)

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
• Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando US; Manilla UK)
• Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor Nightfire US; Titan UK)
• The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley US; Tor Nightfire UK)
• Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic UK)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga US; Titan UK)

Best Novella

• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
• Fate’s Bane, C.L. Clark (Tordotcom)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom US; Arcadia UK)
• “Walking A Wounded Land”, Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duos 3)

Best Short Fiction

• “Down Street”, James Bennett (Blood in the Bricks)
• “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike”, E.M. Faulds, narrated by Eliza Chan (PodCastle 7/29/25)
• “Shadow Jack”, CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus 5/1/25)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be the End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves)

Best Collection

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• Wolf’s Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
• Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press Publishing)
• Who Will You Save, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria)

Best Anthology

• Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, J.S. Fields, Heather Tracy & William C. Tracy, eds. (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
• This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
• Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Blood in the Bricks, Neil Williamson, ed. (NewCon)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon

Best Non-Fiction

• “Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other”, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons 3/24/25)
• Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)
• Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
• The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)
• Britain’s Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Mythaxis
• Phantasmagoria
• Remains
• Strange Horizons

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Kelly Chong
• Vincent Chong
• Jenni Coutts
• Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

Best Audio (Fiction)

• The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, narrated by Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• The Folklore Podcast
• Uncanny

Best Newcomer

• M.H. Ayinde for A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
• Annabel Campbell for The Outcast Mage (Orbit)
• MK Hardy for The Needfire (Solaris)
• Ana Sun for Futures to Live By (NewCon)

• King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• All This Could Be Yours, Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

• Mask of the Deer Woman, Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)

Best Juvenile/YA Novel

• Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, Chris Chan (Level Best)
• Miles in Time, Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf)
• The Scammer, Tiffany D. Jackson (Quill Tree)
• Death in the Cards, Mia P. Manansala (Delacorte)

Best Short Story

• “Six-Armed Robbery”, Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier (Donna Andrews Presents Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Humorous)
• “Hollywood Prometheus”, Christa Faust (Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons)
• “The Skies Are Red”, Richie Narvaez (On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology)

Best Anthology or Collection

• Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons,
  John Copenhaver & Salem West, eds. (Bywater)
• On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology,
  Curtis Ippolito et al. (Rock and a Hard Place)

Critical/Non-Fiction

• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story, Pagan
  Kennedy (Vintage)

Other awards categories include Best Paperback Original/E-Book/ Audiobook Original Novel. Winners will be announced during Bouchercon, to be held October 21-25, 2026 in Calgary, Canada. For more information, including complete lists of nominees, see the Bouchercon website.

French Novel

• WINNER: Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)

• Festin de larmes, Morgane Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Tovaangar, Céline Minard (Rivages)
• Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Le Bélial’)
• Une vie de saint, Christophie Siébert (Au Diable Vauvert)

Foreign Novel

• WINNER: Le Livre des passages [Crossings], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)

• Le Chant des noms [The Naming Song], Jedediah Berry, tr. Jonathan Baillehache (Hachette Heroes)
• Sur toutes les vagues de la mer [All the Seas of the World], Guy Gavriel Kay, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)
• Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)
• Le Cœur des Nagas [The Heart of the Nhaga], Young-Do Lee, tr. Marion Gilbert (Hachette Heroes)
• La Reine sirène [Siren Queen], Nghi Vo, tr. Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante)

French Short Fiction

• WINNER: “L’Âge des tempêtes”, Thomas Day (Bifrost 117)

• “Fiancées du silence”, Sabrina Calvo (Soleil·s: 12 fictions héliotopiques)
• “Les Noueurs”, Chloé Chevalier (Utopiales 2025)
• Épicènes, Thierry Crouzet (À la flamme)
• “La Femme inachevée”, Claude Ecken (Bifrost 120)

Foreign Short Fiction

• WINNER: La Migration annuelle des nuages [The Annual Migration of Clouds] et Ce qui se dit par la montagne [We Speak Through the Mountain], Premee Mohamed, tr. Marie Surgers (L’Atalante)

• Un lieu ensoleillé pour personnes sombres [A Sunny Place for Shady People], Mariana Enriquez, tr. Anne Plantagenet (Le Sous-Sol)
• La Vie secrète des robots [The Secret Life of Bots], Suzanne Palmer, tr. Pierre-Paul Durastanti (Le Bélial’)
• Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

French YA Novel

• WINNER: Station Symbiose, Noëmie Lemos (Critic)

• Les Âmes de l’ouest, Elie S. Green (Gulf Stream)
• L’énigme de Camford, Ariel Holzl (Slalom)
• L’Institut du nouveau lendemain, Chloé Vollmer-Lo (Nathan)

Foreign YA Novel

• WINNER: Le Voleur [The Thief] et La reine d’Attolie [The Queen of Attolia], Megan Whalen Turner, tr. Yoko Lacour (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture)

• Le Miroir sombre [The Dark Mirror], Samantha Shannon, tr. Benjamin Kuntzer (De Saxus)

Jacques Chambon Translation Prize

• WINNER: Les Sœurs de la Muée [The Tiger Flu], Larissa Lai, tr. Sylvie Bérard & Suzanne Grenier (Le Quartanier)

• Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Le Livre des passages [Passages], Alex Landragin, tr. Caroline Nicolas (Le Cherche-Midi)
• House of windows [House of Windows], John Langan, tr. Thibaud Eliroff (J’ai Lu)

Wojtek Siudmak Award for Art

• WINNER: Yvan Belikov for the art of the five-book The Bone Season series, Samantha Shannon (De Saxus)

• Nicolas Caminade for the cover art of the French editions of several books by J.R.R. Tolkien (Pocket)
• Morgane Caussarieu for the cover and interior art of Festin de larmes, Caussarieu & Vincent Tassy (ActuSF)
• Thibault Daumain for the cover and interior art of Petit, Grand ou Le parlement des fées [Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament], John Crowley, tr. Patrick Couton (L’Atalante)
• Anouck Faure for the cover art of Hard Mary, Sofia Samatar, tr. Patrick Dechesne (Argyll)

Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Petites histoires de la science-fiction française, Alain Grousset (ActuSF)

• L’Encyclopédie H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz (Bragelonne)

Prix Spécial

• WINNER: Demain commence hier, George W. Barlow (Flatland)

• Derrière le grillage 1, Guillaume Chamanadjian, Sébastien Juillard & luvan (Scylla)

• 1st Place: “Terracotta Warrior”, Y.M. Pang
• 2nd Place: “Starlight Bathing”, Vivian McInerny
• 3rd Place: “The Planet that Learned our Fear”, Ayesha Mansoor
• Youth Award: “Faster Than Light”, Madame Reeds-A-Lot
• Honorable Mention: “The Witch of Dark Matter”, Kristin5689
• Honorable Mention: “The River Remembers”, Hashim Quraishi

Best German SF Novel

• WINNER: Lyneham, Nils Westerboer (Klett-Cotta)

• We Burn the Sun, Anika Beer (Piper)
• The Deniables: Gestohlene Vergangeheit, Stefan Cernohuby (Leseratten)
• Skyrmionen oder: A Fucking Army, Dietmar Dath (Matthes & Seitz)
• Der Himmel wird zur See, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
• Ein Übermaß von Welt, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
• Thanatopia, Tom Hillenbrand (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
• Im Kosmischen Bermuda-Dreieck / Wenn Topsid fällt, Kai Hirdt (VPM)
• Denial of Service, Aiki Mira (Fischer Tor)
• Mars Genesis: Die Ietzte Reise, Brandon Q. Morris (Fischer Tor)

Best German SF Story 

• WINNER: “Nano Godt”, Yvonne Tunnat (Weltenportal 6)

• “Hope”, Moritz Boltz (Exodus 49)
• “Hochzeitsglocken”, Antares Bottlinger (Leben in Scherben)
• “Sabotage”, Patricia Eckermann (Andymonaden)
• “Smarte Tränen”, Christian Endres (c’t 18/2025)
• “Die Flucht der Saugroboter”, Erik Hauser (Zwielicht 22)
• “Ausreißende Sterne”, Aiki Mira (Andymonaden)
• “Es gibt keinen besseren Ort als die Pein”, Maria Orlovskaya (Weltenportal 6)
• “Blumen für Lisa-9”, Uwe Post (Exodus 49)
• “Kinderladen”, Jol Rosenberg (Queer*Welten 15)
• “Briefe an die DNA”, Annika Rothenicher & Maximilian Wust (Tales of Science II)
• “Hypostasis”, Michaela Schrimpf & Maximilian Wust (Weltenportal 6)
• “Geschichten im Sand”, Nele Sickel (Trümmer am Milchstraßenrand)

Best Non-German SF Work translated, first time

• WINNER: Und Hoffentlich zu lernen [To Be Taught If Fortunate], Becky Chambers (Carcosa)

• Das Ministerium der Zeit [The Ministry of Time], Kaliane Bradley (Penguin)
• Arborealität [Arboreality], Rebecca Campbell (Carcosa)
• Dr. No, Percival Everett (Hanser)
• Wie die Karnickel [The Constant Rabbit], Jasper Fforde (Satyr)
• Wir haben keine Antimemetik-Abteilung [There is No Antimemetics Division], Sam Hughes (Heyne)
• Toward Eternity [Toward Eternity], Anton Hur (S. Fischer)
• “Das Jahr ohne Sonnenschein [The Year Without Sunshine]”, Naomi Kritzer (Ihr Körper, das Schiff)
• Was wir wissen können [What We Can Know], Ian McEwan (Diogenes)
• Das Schiff der flüsternden Träume [Eversion], Alastair Reynolds (Heyne)
• All Better Now, Neal Shusterman (Sauerländer)

Best Translation of SF into German

• WINNER: Der Tag vor der Revolution [The Day Before the Revolution], Ursula K. Le Guin, tr. Karen Nölle (Fischer Tor)

• Das Ministerium der Zeit [The Ministry of Time], Kaliane Bradley, tr. Sophie Zeitz (Penguin)
• Arborealität [Arboreality], Rebecca Campbell, tr. Barbara Slawig (Carcosa)
• Und Hoffentlich zu lernen [To Be Taught If Fortunate], Becky Chambers, tr. Karin Will (Carcosa)
• Dr. No, Percival Everett, tr. Nikolaus Stingl (Hanser)
• Ihr Körper, das Schiff [Her Body, the Ship], Yvonne Tunnat & Chriss Witt, eds., tr. Sharyn Wegmann (A7L Books)

Best SF Cover Art or Illustration related to a German edition

• WINNER: Jan Hoffman for the cover of phantastisch! 98, Klaus Bollhöfener, ed. (Atlantis)

• Lothar Bauer for the cover art of Delter, Frank Lauenroth (p. machinery)
• Cuculum AKA Axel Kuckuk for the cover art of Exodus 49, Hans Jürgen Kugler, René Moreau & Heinz Wipperfürth, eds. (Selbstverlag)
• Mario Franke for the interior art of “Innovation mit Nebenwirkungen”, Hubert Hug & Michael Schmidt (Tales of Science II)
• Detlef Klewer for the cover art of Weltenportal 6, Christoph Grimm & Sarah Lutter, eds. (Selbstverlag)
• Günter Puschmann for the cover art of SOL 117, Christina Hacker, ed. (PRFZ)

Best German Non-fiction Texts related to SF

• WINNER: Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction 1933–1945, Wolfgang Both, Klaus Geus, Horst Illmer & Klaus Scheffler (Memoranda)

• “Wer sind Sie? Und wenn ja, wie viele? Über welche Figuren schreiben wir in der deutschen Science Fiction?”, Jamie-Lee Campbell (!Time Machine 9)
• Picknick auf der Autobahn: Wie wir in Zukunft unterwegs sein werden, Katja Diehl & Mario Sixtus (S. Fischer)
• Nerd Girl Magic: Fandom aus marginalisierter Perspektive, Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner (Verbrecher)
• Science Fiction Futurologien: Die spannungsreiche Beziehung zwischen Zukunftsforschung und Spekulativer Literatur, Julia Grillmayr (Transcript)
• Zukunft ohne Angst: Wie Anti-Dystopien neue Perspektiven eröffnen oekom, Isabella Hermann (Oekom)
• “Utopische Körper: Africanfuturism und Queer*SF als utopische Praxis”, Aiki Mira (Das Science Fiction Jahr 2025)
• “Kann Phantastik progressiv sein, wenn sie keine Infragestellung des Status Quo beinhaltet?”, Jol Rosenberg (Weltenportal 6)
• Rückblick auf das lichte Morgen: Essays zu SF und Phantastik in der DDR, Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller (Memoranda)
• Jules Verne und die Entdeckung der Meeresforschung, Bettina Wurche (Hirnkost)

Special Achievement Award for SF activities

• WINNER: Olaf Brill & Michael Vogt

• Galax Acheronian, Stefan Junghanns & Achim Stößer
• Dirk Berger
• Katja Diehl & Mario Sixtus
• Brandon Q. Morris, Yvonne Tunnat & Chris Witt
• Michael Wehren

Special Achievement Award for Long-Term Activities

• WINNER: Klaus Bollhöfener and the team of phantastisch!

• benSwerk / S. Beneš
• Christoph Grimm & Sarah Lutter
• Birgit Fischer
• Michael Marrak
• Ingrid Pointecker
• Thomas Recktenwald
• Peter Schmitz
• Friedhelm Schneidewind
• Rainer Schorm
• Jörg Weigand

Special Achievement Award: Critical, Committed, Intersectional

• WINNER: Jamie-Lee Campbell

• Aşkın-Hayat Doğan
• Patricia Eckermann
• Florence Gaub
• Ingrid Pointecker
• Michael Wehren
• The Phantastik-Bestenliste team and jury

Winners were selected by a jury and honored in a ceremony on July 4, 2026 at Metropol Con Berlin in Germany. For more information, see the official website.

• WINNER: Boleyn Traitor, Philippa Gregory (HarperFiction)

• Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th Estate)
• The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Crime & Thriller

• WINNER: A Case of Mice and Murder, Sally Smith (Raven)

• The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown (Bantam)
• Death at the White Hart, Chris Chibnall (Pamela Dorman)
• The God of the Woods, Liz Moore (The Borough)

Children’s Fiction

• WINNER: Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

• Fearless, Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• Skandar and the Spirit War, A.F. Steadman (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• A Language of Dragons, S.F. Williamson (HarperCollins Children’s)

Audiobook Fiction

• WINNER: Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Weruche Opia, Nnei Opia Clark & Diana Yekinni (WF Howes)

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, adapted by Lulu Raczka, narrated by Marisa Abela, Glenn Close, Harris Dickinson, Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Bill Nighy (Audible Original)
• The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman, narrated by Michael Sheen (Penguin Audio)

There were also categories for Romantic Fiction, Debut Fiction, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction: Narrative, and more.

The British Book Awards, also called the Nibbies, “celebrates the intimate connection between the books, their makers and their audience” with nominees in a variety of categories. Winners were honored on May 11, 2026 through a livestream and at Grosvenor House in London. For the complete winners list, see the official website.