NOVEL

• The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan (Del Rey)
• Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
• By the Mountain Bound, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• Centuries Ago and Very Fast, Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct)
• The Enchantment Emporium, Tanya Huff (DAW)
• Naamah's Kiss, Jacqueline Carey (Grand Central)
• Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Seven for a Secret, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean Press)
• Strange Fortune, Josh Lanyon (Blind Eye)

SHORT FICTION (tie)

• "The Behold of the Eye", Hal Duncan (Lone Star Stories)
• "The Rocky Side of the Sky", Melissa Scott (Periphery Lethe)
• "Angels Alone", Carolyn Ives Gilman (Periphery Lethe)
• "Behind the Curtain", Joel Lane (Dark Horizons #52)
• "The Bloomsbury Nudes", Jameson Currier (Unspeakable Horror Dark Scribe)
• "City of the Dead", Kaite Walsh (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades Lethe)
• "Firooz and His Brother", Alex Jeffers (F&SF May 2008)
• "Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver", Amber Dawn (Fist of the Spider Woman)
• "I Am the Shadow That Walks There", Michelle Scalise (Unspeakable Horror Dark Scribe)
• "I'm Your Violence", Lee Thomas (Unspeakable Horror Dark Scribe)
• "In Circles", Aurelia T. Evans (Fist of the Spider Woman)
• "In the Night Street Baths", Chaz Brenchley (Lace and Blade Norilana Books)
• "One Horse Town", Melissa Scott (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades Lethe)
• "Parts", Kal Cobalt (Wired Hard 4 Circlet Press)
• "Remember", Astrid Amara (Tangle Blind eye)
• "The Succession of Knoorikios Khnum", Zachary Jernigan (Wired Hard 4 Circlet Press)
• "Waiting Tables and Time", Lyn McConchie (Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades Lethe)