The nominees for this year’s World Fantasy Awards were announced this evening. The winners will be announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK, on October 31 – November 3. Adventures Fantastic would like to congratulate all the nominees.
They are as follows:
Life Achievement:
- Susan Cooper
- Tanith Lee
Novel:
- The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
Novella:
- “Hand of Glory”, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
- “Let Maps to Others”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
- The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
- “The Skull”, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
Short Story:
- “The Telling”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
- “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
- “The Castle That Jack Built”, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
- “Breaking the Frame”, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
Anthology:
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
Collection:
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
- Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)
Artist:
- Vincent Chong
- Didier Graffet & Dave Senior
- Kathleen Jennings
- J.K. Potter
- Chris Roberts
Special Award Professional:
- Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
- Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, & Jeff VanderMeer for Weird Fiction Review
- Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications
- William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press
Special Award Non-Professional:
- Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- L. Timmel Duchamp for Aqueduct Press
- S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
- Charles A. Tan for Bibliophile Stalker blog
- Jerad Walters for Centipede Press
- Joseph Wrzos for Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)
The only nominee here I’ve read is Bossert’s and I liked it. I should check out the other shorts.
Susan Cooper. Haven’t seen that name in a while. I liked her Dark is rising stuff. Haven’t read anything else.
I may have read the two nominees from Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I’ll have to go back and check. I’ve discovered as I get older that I don’t remember titles as well as I used to. I did read the Parker novella and liked it very much. I’ve got a copy of The Dark is Rising around here somewhere, but I’ve never read it.