The British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer, also known as the Sydney J. Bounds Award, is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards. The award is named after British author Sydney J. Bounds, whose estate has sponsored the award since 2007.
History
The award was initially presented by the Icarus Society and was known as the Icarus Award. After the Icarus Society dissolved, the award for renamed Best Newcomer. Beginning in 1995, the award was merged into the British Fantasy Special Award. Since 2007, the award has existed as a separate category once again. It is sponsored by the estate of author Sydney J. Bounds and is known as the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer.
Winners and shortlists
* Winners
+ Original award (1991-1995) Year Author 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1994 * 1995 *
+ Sydney J. Bounds Award (2007-present) Year Author Work Publisher 2007 * — — 2008 * — — 2009 * Meat Bloody Books 2010 * Living with Ghosts DAW Books 2011 * Mr. Shivers Orbit Books 2012 * God's War Night Shade 2013 * Hair Side, Flesh Side ChiZine Throne of the Crescent Moon Gollancz Peel Back the Sky Gray Friar City of the Lost DAW Books Shift Strange Chemistry Angry Robot Salt Publishing Blood and Feathers Solaris Books Fair Coin Pyr Lazy Fascist 2014 * Ancillary Justice Orbit Books Fade to Black Orbit Books Pantomime Strange Chemistry Solaris Books Between Two Thorns Angry Robot Bloomsbury Publishing 2015 * Hodder & Stoughton Gollancz Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease Gollancz Headline Publishing Group 2016 * Sorcerer to the Crown Macmillan Publishers Hodder & Stoughton HarperVoyager Kristell Ink When the Heavens Fall Titan Publishing Group 2017 * Stay Crazy Apex Book Company Chasing Embers Orbit Books New Pompeii Titan Publishing Group Becoming David Hersham Horror Exile Tickety Boo Press 2018 * Under the Pendulum Sun Angry Robot Age of Assassins Orbit Books HarperVoyager Blackwing Orion Publishing Group HarperVoyager 2019 * Empire of Sand Orbit Books Children of Blood and Bone Macmillan Children's Books Angry Robot HarperVoyager Lost Objects Luna Press Publishing Lost Gods Angry Robot 2020 * Penguin Books Orbit Books Suffer Little Children Black Shuck Books Gideon the Ninth Tordotcom Luna Press Publishing 2021 * Flyaway Tordotcom Threading the Labyrinth Unsung Stories Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain Black Shuck Books Only the Broken Remain Black Shuck Books Three Mothers, One Father Black Shuck Books Titan Publishing Group Dark River Unsung Stories 2022 * She Who Became the Sun Tor Books Gollancz Head of Zeus This is Our Undoing Luna Press Publishing We All Have Teeth Fox Spirit Iron Widow Penguin Teen 2023 * Leech Tor Books Tor Books — — — — Head of Zeus Kalyna the Soothsayer Erewhon Books Starless Midnight Street Press Bible Black Midnight Street Press 2024 * Umbilical Newcon Press Waterlore Black Shuck Books To Shape a Dragon's Breath Del Rey Books Tordotcom Godkiller HarperVoyager Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury Clarendon House Publications Solaris Books 2025 * Voyage of the Damned Penguin Michael Joseph Fathomfolk Orbit Books Limelight and Other Stories Shortwave Publishing Wingspan of Treason Bregma Publishing By Blood, By Salt Azimuth Mushroom Blues — 2026 Orbit Books Orbit Books Futures to Live By NewCon Press Solaris Books
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