2013 British Fantasy Award Nominees
The British Fantasy Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award)
- Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling)
- Railsea, China Miéville (Macmillan)
- Blood and Feathers, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
- The Kind Folk, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Silent Voices, Gary McMahon (Solaris)
- Last Days, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)
Best Novella
- The Respectable Face of Tyranny, Gary Fry (Spectral)
- “Curaré”, Michael Moorcock (Zenith Lives!)
- Eyepennies, Mike O’Driscoll (TTA)
- The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine, John Llewellyn Probert (Spectral)
Best Short Story
- “Sunshine”, Nina Allan (Black Static #29)
- “Shark! Shark!” Ray Cluley (Black Static #29)
- “Our Island”, Ralph Robert Moore (Where Are We Going?)
- “Wish for a Gun”, Sam Sykes (A Town Called Pandemonium)
Best Collection
- The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterannean)
- Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS)
- From Hell to Eternity, Thana Niveau (Gray Friar)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
Best Anthology:
- Terror Tales of the Cotswolds, Paul Finch, ed. (Gray Friar)
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Marie O’Regan, ed. (Robinson)
- A Town Called Pandemonium, Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, eds. (Jurassic London)
Best Small Press (the PS Publishing Independent Press Award)
- ChiZine Publications (Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi)
- Gray Friar Press (Gary Fry)
- Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)
- TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Best Non-Fiction
- Ansible, David Langford
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
- Coffinmaker’s Blues (column), Stephen Volk (Black Static)
- Fantasy Faction, Marc Aplin, ed.
- Pornokitsch, Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, eds.
- Reflections: On the Magic of Writing, Diana Wynne Jones (David Fickling)
Best Magazine/Periodical
- Black Static, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
- Interzone, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
- SFX, David Bradley, ed. (Future)
- Shadows and Tall Trees, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
Best Artist
- Ben Baldwin
- Vincent Chong
- Les Edwards
- Sean Phillips
- David Rix
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
- The Unwritten, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Gary Erskine, Gabriel Hernández Walta, M.K. Perker, Vince Locke, and Rufus Dayglo (Vertigo)
- The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Skybound/Image)
- Dial H, China Miéville, Mateus Santolouco, David Lapham, and Riccardo Burchielli (DC)
- Saga, Brian K. Vaughan, and Fiona Staples (Image)
Best Screenplay
- Sightseers, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, and Amy Jump
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro
- Avengers Assemble, Joss Whedon
- The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon, and Drew Goddard
Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)
- Saladin Ahmed, for Throne of the Crescent Moon (Gollancz)
- Stephen Bacon, for Peel Back the Sky (Gray Friar)
- Stephen Blackmoore, for City of the Lost (DAW)
- Kim Curran, for Shift (Strange Chemistry)
- Anne Lyle, for The Alchemist of Souls (Angry Robot)
- Helen Marshall, for Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine)
- Alison Moore, for The Lighthouse (Salt Publishing)
- Lou Morgan, for Blood and Feathers (Solaris)
- E.C. Myers, for Fair Coin (Pyr)
- Molly Tanzer, for A Pretty Mouth (Lazy Fascist)
Winners will be chosen by juries, and announced November 3, 2013 at the Fantasy Awards banquet during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England.
