World Fantasy Award Nominations

The nominees for the 2009 World Fantasy Awards -- winners to be revealed at the traditional banquet at the World Fantasy Convention the weekend of October 29th -- have just been released into the world. And it looks like a great list, proving only that my taste (as a former judge) continues to parallel the tastes selected for in World Fantasy judges:

NOVEL

The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)

The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)

Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)

Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

NOVELLA

"Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel", Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)

"If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)

"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

"Caverns of Mystery", Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)

"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)

"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

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: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)

Logorrhea, John Klima, ed. (Bantam Spectra)

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)

Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

COLLECTION

Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)

The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)

Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)

Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)

Tales From Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Janet Chui

Stephan Martinière

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)

Farah Mendlesohn (for The 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

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)

Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

Good luck to all the nominees...though, if this year is like most years, the winner has already been selected.

[via Locus Online]

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