As has now become customary, we’re listing below the books we published last year that are eligible for various awards. Being British, however, we’re doing it furtively, and we’re looking up every now and then to make sure no-one’s watching us.

As ever, this list is provided purely as an aide-mémoire, not as a list of recommendations – if you’ve read the works below and consider them to be award-worthy, the authors would be thrilled if you would consider nominating/voting for them. If you haven’t read them, they’re all available from your favourite offline or online store.

Here are the books we published in 2013* (covers are gathered together by artist, not by publication date – see artist list at the end of this blog post):

Wow! Look at what we made, ma!

The following books are the debut novels we published in 2013 (eligible for various “Debut novel” as well as “Best novel” awards):

Debut novels

Nexus by Ramez Naam

The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

Three by Jay Posey



These were the other novels we published in 2013 (eligible for various “Best novel” awards)

Non-Debuts (excluding omnibuses)

The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle

The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke

She Returns from War by Lee Collins

Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name and All is Fair by Emma Newman

Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes

The Age Atomic by Adam Christopher

The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby

Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey

The Eighth Court by Mike Shevdon

The Blue Blazes and The Cormorant* by Chuck Wendig

A Discourse in Steel by Paul S Kemp

iD by Madeline Ashby

The Big Reap by Chris F Holm

Crux by Ramez Naam

Seven Forges by James A Moore

Prince Thief by David Tallerman

Heartwood by Freya Robertson

The Prince of Lies by Anne Lyle

The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu

The Iron Wolves* by Andy Remic

Authors eligible for the John W Campbell Award:

Ramez Naam

Wesley Chu

Jay Posey

Lee Collins

Lee Battersby

Emma Newman

Adam Christopher

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Artists for the year:

Argh! Oxford for

Nexus, Crux, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, Black Feathers, The Lives of Tao, The Deaths of Tao, The Empire of the Blood (omnibus)

Larry Rostant for

The Merchant of Dreams, The Prince of Lies

John Coulthart for

The Bookman Histories, The Eighth Court

Sarah J Coleman for

Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name, All is Fair

Chris McGrath for

She Returns from War

Tom Gauld for

Hell to Pay

Will Staehle for

The Age Atomic

Nick Castle for

The Marching Dead

Joey HiFi for

The Blue Blazes, The Cormorant

Lee Gibbons for

A Discourse in Steel, The Iron Wolves

Martin Bland for

iD

Amazing15 for

The Big Reap

Steven Meyer-Rassow for

Three

Alejandro Colucci for

Seven Forges, Heartwood

Angelo Rinaldi for

Prince Thief

(And Angry Robot editor: Lee Harris)

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*These have a 2014 copyright date, but were first available in the US on 31st December 2013.