Best Novel

• The Green Man’s Quarry, Juliet McKenna (Wizard Tower)
• Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Airside, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• HIM, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (Gollancz)

Best Shorter Fiction (for novelettes and novellas)

• Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna)
• I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• Europa, Allen Stroud (Flame Tree)
• “Knotted Thorn” Kari Sperring (The Book of Gaheris)
• And Put Away Childish Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Rebellion)

Best Short Fiction

• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Copper”, Jendia Gammon (Interzone 295)
• “The Spoil Heap”, Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld 3/23)
• “Lady Koi Koi: A Book Report”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex 6/20/23)
• “A Little Seasoning”, Neil Williamson (Interzone Digital)

Best Collection (for collections and anthologies)

• Strange Attractors, Jaine Fenn (Newcon)
• No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• The Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Donna Scott, ed. (Newcon)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
• Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Bloomsbury)

Best Fiction for Young Readers

• The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern, J. Dianne Dotson (Android)
• A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• Mindbreaker, Kate Dylan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Harpercollins)
• We Who Are Forged in Fire, Kate Murray (Hardie Grant)

Best Non-Fiction (Long)

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna)
• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Nina Allan, ed. (Luna)
• All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
• Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
• “The Female Man”, Farah Mendlesohn (Eastercon talk)

Best Non-Fiction (Short)

• “Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction”, Eugen Bacon (Aurealis 158)
• “Weaving the Rainbow: Worldbuilding and SF”, Gautam Bhatia (Bombay Literary Magazine 4/23)
• “Project Management Lessons from Rogue One”, Fiona Moore (adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com)
• “Exposition Tax: The hidden burden of writing from the margins”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Ex Marginalia)
• “Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real”, Charles Stross (Scientific American 12/20/23)
• “Prisoners in the Temple of the Muses”, Wole Talabi (Ancillary Review of Books 8/17/23)

Best Translated Short Fiction

Best Artwork

• Elena Betti for the cover of Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon (Apex)
• Christine Kim for the cover of Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)
• Julia Lloyd for the cover of Descendent Machine by Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• Leo Nickolls for the cover of The Surviving Sky by Krikita H. Rao (Titan)
• Juliana Pinho for the cover of “The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon” by Eugen Bacon (Interzone Digital)
• Vinayak Varma for illustrations for “Strung Along in Seaforth” by Jonathan Laidlow (Interzone 295)

Best Audio Fiction

• “When a Portal Comes Around”, Rick Danforth (Upbeat Tales 9/23)
• “Carlos Explained”, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Welcome to Night Vale 7/14/23)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast, Episode 67, Jenna Hanchey & Abigail Guerrero (Space Cowboy)
• The Dex Legacy, Emily Inkpen (www.thedexlagacy.com)
• “The Pigeon”, Michelle Knudsen (Drabblecast 7/21/23)