BSFA Awards shortlist

Well here is something curious. I was reading new releases from the Science Fiction Awards Watch when I read this:

• We are not sure if this is a leak or just people being slow sending out the announcement, but Jason Sanford has a list of British Science Fiction Association Award nominees, which he got from Andy Cox.

So I went to Jason Sanford's site and here it was....


The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlist for its BSFA Awards. The shortlist for fiction is:

• Best Novel

• Flood by Stephen Baxter
• The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
• The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
  
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• Best Short Fiction
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• "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2)
• "Crystal Nights" by Greg Egan (Interzone 215)
• "Little Lost Robot" by Paul McAuley (Interzone 217)
• "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008)

Very interesting under any curcumstances would you not agree?