World Fantasy Awards Nominations
Nominations for this year’s World Fantasy Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention to be held October 29 – November 1, 2009, in San José, California.
- NOVEL
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- The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
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- The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
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- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
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- Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
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- Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
- NOVELLA
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- “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
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- “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
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- “The Overseer”, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
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- “Odd and the Frost Giants”, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
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- “Good Boy”, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)
- SHORT STORY
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- “Caverns of Mystery”, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
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- “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08)
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- “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
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- “Our Man in the Sudan”, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
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- “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)
- ANTHOLOGY
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- The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
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- The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
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- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:
Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s) - The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:
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- Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
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- Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
- COLLECTION
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- Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
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- The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
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- Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
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- Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
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- Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic ’09)
- ARTIST
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- Kinuko Y. Craft
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- Janet Chui
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- Stephan Martinière
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- John Picacio
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- Shaun Tan
- SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
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- Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
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- Farah Mendlesohn (for Rhetorics of Fantasy)
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- Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)
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- Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
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- Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)
- SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
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- Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
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- John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
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- Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her “artist’s challenges.”)
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- Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarksworld)
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- Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
