Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)

Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)

Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (Saga)

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Irontown Blues, John Varley (Ace)

The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)

The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)

The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)