World Fantasy Awards Winners

The 2009 World Fantasy Award winners were announced today at the World Fantasy Convention held October 29 – November 1, 2009, in San José, California.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS

• Ellen Asher
• Jane Yolen

NOVEL (tie)

• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
• The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)

NOVELLA

• “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
• “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• “The Overseer”, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
• “Odd and the Frost Giants”, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
• “Good Boy”, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

SHORT STORY

• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08)
• “Caverns of Mystery”, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
• “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
• “Our Man in the Sudan”, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
• “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

ANTHOLOGY

• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
• The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:
  Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
• Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

COLLECTION

• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic ’09)

ARTIST

• Shaun Tan
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Janet Chui
• Stephan Martinière
• John Picacio

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
• Farah Mendlesohn (for Rhetorics of Fantasy)
• Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)
• Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
• Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
• Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
• John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
• 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.”)
• Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarksworld)