• WINNER: La fille qui sauva Hiroshima, Stéphane Desienne (Gephyre)

• Entre Autres Univers [In Universes], Emet North, tr. Gilles Goullet (Bigbang)
• La Police du temps [Doing Time], Jodi Taylor, tr. Cindy Colin-Kapen (Hervé Chopin)
• Une espèce en voie de disparition [The Vanishing Kind], Lavie Tidhar, tr. Julien Bétan (Une Heure-Lumière)
• A Language of Dragons, S.F. Williamson (Bigbang)

Prix Spécial

• WINNER: Célestopol 1922: Le jeu de rôle

• The Ars Obscura series, François Baranger
• The Vampyria universe, Victor Dixen
• Fallout season 2

The Prix d’honneur went to Victor Dixen for works in the Vampyria universe. The Prix Graphique for art went to the Urban Comics editions of Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 1893.

Winners were chosen by a jury and will be celebrated at the 2026 Hypermondes Festival, to be held September 26-27 in Mérignac, France. For more information, see the official announcement.

Mejor Novela Original (Best Original Novel)

• Impía, J.V. Gachs (Dolmen)
• U.N.I., Antonio Garber (Menoscuarto)
• Animales difíciles, Rosa Montero (Seix Barral)
• Salitre y cenizas, Carlos Di Urarte (El transbordador)

Mejor Novela Traducida (Best Translated Novel)

• Los diablos [The Devils], Joe Abercrombie, tr. Manu Viciano (Runas)
• El reformatorio [The Reformatory], Tananarive Due, tr. María Pérez de San Román (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El diablo te lleva a casa [The Devil Takes You Home], Gabino Iglesias, tr. Miguel Sanz Jiménez (La biblioteca de Carfax)
• El vado de los zorros [Fox Fords], Anna Starobinets, tr. Viktoria Leftérova & Enrique Maldonado (Impedimenta)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Original (Best Original YA Novel)

Mejor Novela Juvenil Traducida (Best Translated YA Novel)

The finalists for Mejor Portada Edición Española (Best Spanish Edition Cover) were also announced.

Winners will be honored during the Celsius 232 festival, to be held July 14-18, 2026 in Avilés, Spain. For more information, see the Kelvin 505 website.

• “A Song of Shir’ja”, Harps Aujla
• “Zonbi”, Zarah Elouis-Ro
• “Crooked Straits”, Olivia Ho
• “One Thousand and One Wishes”, Rakan Khashman
• “The Sun Wells”, Aiden Ng
• “A Blade Drawn from Envy”, Ty Ogunade
• “A Corruption of Death”, Hadiyah Sama
• “There Will Come Soft Rains”, Jessica Tsang

The judges announced include Carolynne Bain, Ese Erheriene, Eric Huang, Nahrein Kemp, and Chris Pak. The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and the remaining six receive £850. All those shortlisted will receive mentoring from the prize’s publishing partners. The award is funded by author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Adjoa Andoh.

For more information, see the prize’s website.

• Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Dandy House US; Michael Joseph UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (Pantheon US; Bloomsbury Circus UK) amazon / bookshop
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster US; Magpie UK) amazon / bookshop
• There Is No Antimemetics Division, QNTM (Ballantine US; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
• When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (Arcadia) amazon / bookshop
• The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)

The winner will be announced on August 12, 2026 and receives an engraved bookend and £2,026 in prize money. The 2026 judges are Eliza Claudia Filimon and Antony Jones for the British Science Fiction Association, Tiffani Angus and John Coxon for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Esther MacCallum-Stewart for the Sci-Fi-London film festival. Andrew M. Butler represented the Clarke Award directors as non-voting Chair of the Judges.

Butler says,

For four decades, our Clarke judges have whittled hundreds of books down to shortlists and then to the books they feel is the best sf novel published in Britain. This is never easy. The current judges debated over 130 volumes and picked the six they liked best. There’s a strong thread of memory running through the shortlist – and I think this might be a memorable year.

Award Director Tom Hunter said,

Sir Arthur was always passionate that the award’s definition of science fiction be as diverse and open as possible, and I believe he would have both applauded the record levels of new SF being published today and the formidable challenge this created for our judging panel.

Following Sir Arthur’s passing, the award faced the real possibility of being forced to close after its 25th year. I am delighted that we have been able to steward the award successfully all the way to its 40th anniversary, and am happy to report the directors are already making plans for celebrating in 2036.

For more information, see the Clarke Award website.

• The Drowned Man’s Daughter, C.J. Lavigne (NeWest) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Works of Vermin, Hiron Ennes (Tor) [amazon / bookshop]
• Horsefly, Mireille Gagné, tr. Pablo Strauss (Coach House) [amazon / bookshop]
• Wild Life, Amanda Leduc (Random House Canada)
• The Hunger We Pass Down, Jen Sookfong Lee (McClelland & Stewart) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan) [amazon / bookshop]
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) [amazon / bookshop]
• Veal, Mackenzie Nolan (ECW) [amazon / bookshop]
• Death on the Caldera, Emily Paxman (Titan) [amazon / bookshop]
• Ley Lines, Tim Welsh (Guernica) [amazon / bookshop]

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.

We’d like to thank Nuremberg in 2028 for running alongside us in the race to win the 2028 Worldcon. And while they’ve now stepped away from the race, we’re a better bid for having had the competition.

• 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)

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)

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.