SF Award Season

In the past weekend I've been swamped by announcements of awards both already presented and the shortlists. Here are the most interesting ones (at least to me).

The winners of British Science Fiction Awards are:

Novel: The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Short Fiction: The Shipmaker, Aliette de Bodard (Interzone 231, TTA Press)
Art: The cover of Zoo City, Joey Hi-Fi (Angry Robot)
Non Fiction: Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Paul Kincaid (Big Other)

This might be a start of award collection for The Devrish House as it's one of novels on the Hugo Nominations list:

Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) 

( Rest of the nominees )

I bet on Ted Chiang getting another one. Shaun Tan too can add another Hugo to his already impresive collection (and the Oscar, and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and Peter Pan Award). I hope for Peter Watts to get one too. He has been collecting awards for The Things. It's an awesome short story and he deserves something nice after being almost eaten alive. Doctor Who dominated Short Dramatic Presentation. One could start to think there is no other SFF on TV.

Jerzy Żuławski was one of the fathers of science fiction in early 20th century. His most famous work is The Lunar Trilogy which unfortunately has never been translated to English. The nominees for Jerzy Żuławski Award are:

Chochoły, Wit Szostak
Wieczny Grunwald, Szczepan Twardoch
Vatran Auraio,y Marek S. Huberath
Linia oporu, Jacek Dukaj
Czarny Horyzont, Tomasz Kołodziejczak
Mosty wszechzieleni, Wawrzyniec Podrzucki