Les membres de la British Fantasy Society ont fait connaître leurs favoris.
Au total, cinq élus dans chacune des douze catégories qui composent le prix le plus connu de Grande-Bretagne.
Les votes définitifs seront clos le 31 août 2010, les vainqueurs seront annoncés en septembre lors de la FantasyCon.

Meilleur roman :

• BEST SERVED COLD, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• FUTILE FLAME, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)
• ONE, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
• THE NAMING OF THE BEASTS, Mike Carey (Orbit)
• UNDER THE DOME, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

Meilleure novela :

• OLD MAN SCRATCH, Rio Youers (PS)
• ROADKILL, Rob Shearman, from Roadkill/Siren Beat (Twelfth Planet) and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (Big Finish)
• THE LANGUAGE OF DYING, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
• THE WITNESSES ARE GONE, Joel Lane (PS)
• VARDOGER, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)

Meilleure histoire courte :

• CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, Justin Carroll, in Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale, ed. Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
• GEORGE CLOONEY’S MOUSTACHE, Rob Shearman, in The BFS Yearbook 2009, ed. : Guy Adams (BFS)
• MY BROTHER’S KEEPER, Nina Allan, Black Static #12
• THE CONFESSOR’S TALE, Sarah Pinborough, in Hellbound Hearts, ed. Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Pocket)
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE NIGHT, Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)

Meilleure anthologie :

• CERN ZOO: NEMONYMOUS 9, ed. D.F. Lewis (Megazanthus)
• DRAGONTALES: SHORT STORIES OF FLAME, TOOTH AND SCALE, ed. Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
• HELLBOUND HEARTS, ed. Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Pocket)
• SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH: STORIES IN HONOUR OF JACK VANCE, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (HarperVoyager)
• THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 20, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)

Meilleur recueil :

• CYBERABAD DAYS, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
• JUST BEHIND YOU, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
• LOVE SONGS FOR THE SHY AND CYNICAL, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
• ONCE & FUTURE CITIES, Allen Ashley (Eibonvale)
• THE TERRIBLE CHANGES, Joel Lane (Ex Occidente)

Prix PS Publishing Award pour le meilleur petit éditeur :

• NEWCON PRESS (Ian Whates)
• SCREAMING DREAMS (Steve Upham)
• SUBTERRANEAN PRESS (William Schafer)
• TELOS PUBLISHING (David Howe)
• TTA PRESS (Andy Cox)

Meilleur comic/roman graphique :

• FABLES, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
• FREAKANGELS, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar & warrenellis.com)
• LOCKE AND KEY, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• THE GIRLY COMIC, ed. Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
• WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER? Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)

Meilleur artiste :

• CHARLES VESS, for work including Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl
• LES EDWARDS, for work including the cover of Cemetery Dance #62
• SHAUN TAN
• STEVE UPHAM, for work including the Estronomicon Sketchbook Special
• VINCENT CHONG, for work including covers for The Witnesses are Gone (PS) and Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Constable and Robinson)

Meilleur non-fiction :

• ANSIBLE LINK, David Langford (http://news.ansible.co.uk)
• CASE NOTES, Peter Tennant, Black Static
• IT LIVES AGAIN! HORROR MOVIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Axelle Carolyn (Telos)
• JOHN SCALZI, WHATEVER (http://scalzi.com/whatever)
• KNOWING DARKNESS: ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING, George Beahm and various artists (Centipede Press)

Meilleur magazine :

• BLACK STATIC, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
• CEMETERY DANCE, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance)
• INTERZONE, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
• MIDNIGHT STREET, ed. Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
• MURKY DEPTHS, ed. Terry Martin (The House of Murky Depths)
• THEAKER’S QUARTERLY FICTION, ed. Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age)

Meilleur téléfilm :

• BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Sci Fi/Sky 1)
• BEING HUMAN (BBC3)
• DOCTOR WHO (BBC1)
• LOST (ABC/Sky 1)
• TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH (BBC1)

Meilleur film :

• AVATAR, dir. James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
• CORALINE, dir. Henry Selick (Focus)
• DISTRICT 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp (Tristar)
• LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, dir. Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
• WATCHMEN, dir. Zack Snyder (Warner)

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