2010 BSFA Award for Best Art
Just realised that I needed to catch the voting deadline for the BSFA awards, and I have hastily ranked the nominees for Best Art as follows, before scanning and emailing my ballot:
1) Ben Greene - ‘A Deafened Plea for Peace’, cover for Crossed Genres 21
2) Andy Bigwood - cover for Conflicts (Newcon Press)
3) Charlie Harbour - cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
4) Adam Tredowski - cover for Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus)
5) Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
6) Dominic Harman - cover for The [sic] Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
I don't claim to have much aesthetic sensitivity in this area, and am impressed by Maureen Kincaid Speller's analysis of the nominees in the course of which she comes to a completely different and probably more robust set of preferences.
(My votes in the other categories: Best Novel, Best Short Fiction, Best Non-Fiction. I never got round to listening to the podcasts, and have excluded one of the others, so my Non-Fiction ballot has votes for only three of the five.)
1) Ben Greene - ‘A Deafened Plea for Peace’, cover for Crossed Genres 21
2) Andy Bigwood - cover for Conflicts (Newcon Press)
3) Charlie Harbour - cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press)
4) Adam Tredowski - cover for Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus)
5) Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
6) Dominic Harman - cover for The [sic] Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Gollancz)
I don't claim to have much aesthetic sensitivity in this area, and am impressed by Maureen Kincaid Speller's analysis of the nominees in the course of which she comes to a completely different and probably more robust set of preferences.
(My votes in the other categories: Best Novel, Best Short Fiction, Best Non-Fiction. I never got round to listening to the podcasts, and have excluded one of the others, so my Non-Fiction ballot has votes for only three of the five.)