The Aldiss Award for World-Building in SF and Fantasy

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, The Shining Girls, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss, and, most recently, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.

Dr. Allen Stroud is a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University. He is the Chair of the British Science Fiction Association. His award-winning research is in the development of macrotext documents for commercial media properties in science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is also an award-winning science fiction writer who has published internationally successful commercial novels, with his principle focus on fiction set in 2118 AD. Stroud has spoken at international conventions, giving a presentation in Helsinki in 2017 at the World Convention of Science Fiction on modern media mythologies. He is an experienced event organiser, panel moderator and contributor.

Stewart Hotston lives in Reading, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant living in the UK. His writing concerns those whose voices are more than capable but too frequently marginalised and how they build hope, connection and live in the worlds in which they find themselves. His loves big ideas, weird worlds and people who refuse to give up. His novels include the BFS and Subjective Chaos finalist, Entropy of Loss as well as the tech thriller, Tangle’s Game and the science fiction novels based in the Watch Dogs universe – Daybreak Legacy and Stars & Stripes.

Tim Aldiss is the son of Brian Aldiss and working in conjunction with The Aldiss Literary Estate.