FantLab's Book of the Year Award

The FantLab's book of the year award are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works published in Russia during previous year. The awards are named after FantLab, the founding fanzine called "Laboratory of SF & Fantasy" hosted at FantLab.ru web site.
It is organized and overseen by society of reader's registered at FantLab site, the awards are given each year. They were first given in 2007, and have been awarded every year since. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently FantLab Awards are given in 9 categories, and include works published on websites.
For lists of winners and nominees for each category, see the [|list of award categories] below.

Award

In 2007 as popularity of the site grew and when number of daily visitors reached 4 thousand a day, site decided to implement a voting system that allowed nomination of popular and best reviewed books.
FantLab's Book of the Year Award is given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in Russian in the prior calendar year. There are no written rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy, and the decision of eligibility in that regard is left up to the voters. Award winners are chosen based on vote count. The awards are split into 9 categories.

Award winners 2007-2015

;2015 nominees

Best Translated Novel / Best Collection by foreign writer:
* Peter F. Hamilton, "Pandora's Star"
* William Gibson, "The Peripheral"
* China Miéville, "Railsea"
* Brandon Sanderson, "The Hero of Ages" Win
* Michael Swanwick, "The Best of Michael Swanwick"
Best Russian Novel / Best Collection by Russian writer:
* H. L. Oldie, "Escape to Charge" Win
* Maria Galina, "Autoxons"
* Dmitry Glukhovsky, "Metro 2035"
* Victor Pelevin, "Care-taker"
Best Translated Novella or Short Story:
* Joe Abercrombie, "Tough Times all Over" Win
* Scott Lynch, "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane"
* George R. R. Martin, "The Rogue Prince, or, the King's Brother"
* Brandon Sanderson, "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell"
* Connie Willis, "Now Showing"
Best Russian Novella or Short Story:
* Aleksandra Davydova, Maksim Tihomirov "In Question of Pile"
* Vladislav Zhenevski, "Never"" Win
* Igor Krom, "Stay in Touch"
* Alexandr Matuxin, "Forever"
* K.A. Terina, "Black Hole in Place of a Heart"
Best Anthology
* Vyacheslav Bakulin, Ludmila Demina, "Bombs and Bumerangs"
* George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, "Rogues" Win
* M.C. Parfenov, "Scariest Book of 2015"
* Maria Artemieva "Dark Side of the Net"
* Vyacheslav Bakulin, Ludmila Demina, "Rapiers and Pinions"
Best On-line publication in Large Form
* Shimun Vrochek “Rome. Legions requesting fire”, Win
Best On-line publication in Small Form
* Sergei Ignatiev "Chain" Win
Best Literary SF Criticism Long Form
* Alexey Karavaev "4 Stories" Win
Best Literary SF Criticism Review/Article
* Vladislav Zhenevski, "Puzzle of stars: what we readi in 2014" Win

;2014

Best Translated Novel / Best Collection by foreign writer:
* Andy Weir, "The Martian"
* Joe Abercrombie, "Red Country"
* Neil Gaiman, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"
* Anthony Ryan, "Blood Song"

* Jacek Dukaj, "Inne piesni" Win
Best Russian Novel / Best Collection by Russian writer:
* Mike Gelprin, "Peacemaker of 45 caliber"
* Ksenia Medvedev, "Keeper for Own Brother"
* Victor Pelevin, "Love for Three Tsukerbrinas"
* Alexey Pehov, "Cursed Bugle" Win
Best Translated Novella or Short Story:
* Paolo Bacigalupi, "The Gambler"
* Neil Gaiman, "Fortunately, the Milk..."
* Ian McDonald, "The Tear"
* George R. R. Martin, "A Night at the Tarn House" Win
* Ted Chiang, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"
Best Russian Novella or Short Story:
* Maria Galina, "Lute and others"
* Aleksandra Davydova, "Permafrost" Win
* Mike Gelprin, "Peacemaker of 45 caliber"
* Vladimir Kuznetsov, "Vanished forever in abyss under Messina…"
Best Anthology
* Gardner Dozois, "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection" Win
* Bruce Sterling, "Mirrorshades"
* George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, "Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance"
* M.C. Parfenov, "Scariest Book of 2014"
* George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, "Old Mars"
Best On-line publication in Large Form
* Andrej Vasiliev, "Fayroll. Different sides"
* Oksana Demchenko, "CE- Character of Earthman",
* Dem Michailov “Exile: Bloody Spring”,
* Andrej Lazarchuk, Michael Uspensky “All that Djakch”, Win
* Karina Vran, "Ascendance. Inferno"
Best On-line publication in Small Form
* Thomas Ligotti, "The Clown Puppet"
* Thomas Ligotti, "Dream of a Mannikin"
* Robert R. McCammon "The Deep End" Win
* Elizabeth Massie, "Abed"
* Glen Hirshberg, "Safety Clowns"

;2013