BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
The BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Non-Fiction award is open to any written work about science fiction or fantasy which appeared in its current form in the previous year. Whole collections of work that has been published elsewhere previously are ineligible as is work published by the BSFA.
Winners and Shortlists
The ceremonies are named after the year that the eligible works were published, despite the awards being given out in the next year.* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
| 2001 | * | BSFA | ||
| 2001 | Interzone | |||
| 2001 | The Pocket Essentials | |||
| 2001 | The Alien Online | |||
| 2001 | & Colin Odell | The Pocket Essentials | ||
| 2002 | * | Big Engine | ||
| 2002 | & Chistopher Priest | Interzone | ||
| 2002 | Fourth Estate | |||
| 2002 | Beacon | |||
| 2002 | Electric Story 2 | |||
| 2003 | * | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction | ||
| 2003 | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| 2003 | & Andy Wood | The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod | ||
| 2003 | Foundation | |||
| 2003 | Emerald City | |||
| 2005 | * | Beccon | ||
| 2006 | & Andrew M. Butler | Serendip Foundation | ||
| 2006 | Wesleyan | |||
| 2006 | Aurum | |||
| 2006 | St. Martin's | |||
| 2006 | Old Earth | |||
| 2008 | * | Wesleyan | ||
| 2008 | Gresham College | |||
| 2008 | I.B. Tauris | |||
| 2008 | Beccon | |||
| 2009 | * | Interzone | ||
| 2009 | Beccon | |||
| 2009 | Deepa D. Blog | |||
| 2009 | & Edward James | Middlesex | ||
| 2010 | * | Big Other | ||
| 2010 | & Gary K. Wolfe | Notes from Coode Street | ||
| 2010 | Faber & Faber | |||
| 2010 | Punkadiddle | |||
| 2010 | Asking the Wrong Questions | |||
| 2011 | *, Peter Nicholls* & David Langford* | SF Gateway | ||
| 2011 | British Library | |||
| 2011 | & Anne C. Perry | Pornokitsch | ||
| 2011 | Asking the Wrong Questions | |||
| 2011 | SF Mistressworks | |||
| 2011 | , Tony Keen & Simon Bradshaw | Science Fiction Foundation | ||
| 2012 | * | The World SF Blog | ||
| 2012 | & Edward James | Cambridge | ||
| 2012 | Mutation | |||
| 2012 | Paper Knife | |||
| 2012 | Los Angeles Review of Books | |||
| 2013 | * | Abrams Image | ||
| 2013 | Jurassic | |||
| 2013 | tor.com | |||
| 2014 | * | fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com | ||
| 2014 | Beccon | |||
| 2014 | Ruthless Culture | |||
| 2014 | Illinois | |||
| 2014 | Strange Horizons | |||
| 2015 | * | Steel Quill | ||
| 2015 | The Atlantic | |||
| 2015 | & Alexandra Pierce | Twelfth Planet | ||
| 2015 | Interzone | |||
| 2015 | Ruthless Culture | |||
| 2016 | * | tor.com | ||
| 2016 | Strange Horizons | |||
| 2016 | Adam Roberts: Critical Essays | |||
| 2016 | & Jeff VanderMeer | The Big Book of Science Fiction | ||
| 2016 | Adam Roberts: Critical Essays | |||
| 2016 | Ansible | |||
| 2017 | * | Illinois | ||
| 2017 | , Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AM | Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy | ||
| 2017 | Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction | |||
| 2017 | Strange Horizons | |||
| 2017 | Wells at the World's End | |||
| 2018 | * | Intellectus Speculativus | ||
| 2018 | Shoreline of Infinity | |||
| 2018 | Cambridge | |||
| 2018 | tor.com | |||
| 2018 | Interzone | |||
| 2019 | * | Unbound | ||
| 2019 | , C. Palmer-Patel | Liverpool University Press | ||
| 2019 | Luna Press | |||
| 2019 | Palgrave Macmillan | |||
| 2019 | Big Echo |