Saturday 4 August 2001

World Fantasy Awards Nominations

The final ballot for the 2001 World Fantasy Awards, covering publications in 2000, has been released. Winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, November 1 - 4, 2001. Judges for this year's awards are Steven Erikson, Paula Guran, Diana Wynne Jones, Graham Joyce, and Jonathan Strahan.

NOVEL

Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow 2001)

Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace Books)

The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky (Bantam Spectra)

His Dark Materials 3: The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Scholastic UK)

Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism; Earthlight)

Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey 2001)

NOVELLA

"Blue Kansas Sky", Michael Bishop (Blue Kansas Sky)

"Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol", Elizabeth Hand (Sci Fiction, serialized 12.06.00 - 12.27.00)

The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (American Fantasy)

"Mr Dark's Carnival", Glen Hirshberg (Shadows and Silence)

"Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower", Susanna Clarke (Black Heart, Ivory Bones)

"Pelican Cay", David Case (Dark Terrors 5)

"Seventy-Two Letters", Ted Chiang (Vanishing Acts)

SHORT FICTION

"Down Here in the Garden", Tia V. Travis (Horror Garage #1, May 2000)

"Is There Anybody There?", Kim Newman (The New English Library Book of Internet Stories)

"Lincoln in Frogmore", Andy Duncan (Beluthahatchie and Other Stories)

"The Pottawatomie Giant", Andy Duncan (Sci Fiction, 11.01.00)

"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O", Michael Swanwick (Tales of Old Earth)

"The Saltimbanques", Terry Dowling (Blackwater Days, Eidolon 29/30)

"Shoe and Marriage", Kelly Link (4 Stories; Stranger Things Happen 2001)

ANTHOLOGY

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Sheree R. Thomas, ed. (Warner Aspect)

Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)

Shadows and Silence, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)

Vanishing Acts, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Nalo Hopkinson, ed. (Invisible Cities Press)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

COLLECTION

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (Golden Gryphon)

Blackwater Days, Terry Dowling (Eidolon Books)

Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub (Random House)

Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Golden Gryphon)

The Perseids and Other Stories, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Travel Arrangements: Short Stories, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)

ARTIST

Jim Burns

Kinuko Y. Craft

Les Edwards

Daniel Merriam

John Jude Palencar

Shaun Tan

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Ellen Datlow (for editing Sci Fiction and anthologies)

Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (for Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art)

William K. Schafer (for Subterranean Press)

Tom Shippey (for J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (HarperCollins UK; Houghton Mifflin 2001))

Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (for Golden Gryphon Press)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Benjamin Cossel, Jeremy Lassen & Jason Williams (for Night Shade Books)

Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)

Philip J. Rahman & Dennis E. Weiler (for Fedogan & Bremer)

Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden (for Ash-Tree Press)

Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker (for Tartarus Press)

Bill Sheehan (for At The Foot Of The Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub (Subterranean Press))