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World Fantasy Awards 2008 nominees
The 2008 World Fantasy Awards will be held in Calgary as part of the World Fantasy Convention between the 30th October and the 2nd of November. The Lifetime Achievement Award winners have already been announced, Patricia McKillip plus Leo and Diane Dillon will be honoured with this prestigious award. Below are the short-lists for the individual categories.
Novel
- Emma Bull, Territory [Tor]
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel [Penguin Roc]
- John Marks, Fangland [Penguin]
- Will Shetterly, Gospel of the Knife [Tor]
- Michael Marshall Smith, The Servants [Earthling Publications]
Novella
- Robert Edric, The Mermaids [PS Publishing]
- Elizabeth Hand, Illyria [PS Publishing]
- Ian R. MacLeod, Master Miller’s Tale [F&SF]
- Kim Newman, Cold Snap [The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, Monkey Brain Books]
- Lucius Shepard, Stars Seen through Stone [F&SF]
Short Story
- Daniel Abraham, The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra]
- Theodora Goss, Singing of Mount Abora [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra]
- Kij Johnson, The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change [The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking]
- Robert Shearman, Damned if you Don’t [Tiny Deaths, Comma Press]
- Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Church on the Island [At Ease With the Dead, Ash-Tree Press]
Anthology
- Gary A. Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble, Five Strokes to Midnight [Haunted Pelican Press]
- Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, Wizards: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy [Berkeley]
- Ellen Datlow, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [Tor]
- Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales [Viking]
- John Klima, Logorrhea [Bantam Spectra]
Collection
- Stephen Gallagher, Plots and Misadventures [Subterranean]
- Ellen Klages, Portable Childhoods [Tachyon]
- Kim Newman, Secret Files of the Diogenes Club [Monkey Brain Books]
- Tim Pratt, Hart & Boot & Other Stories [Night Shade Books]
- Robert Shearman, Tiny Deaths [Comma Press]
- Lucius Shepard, Dagger Key and Other Stories [PS Publishing]
Artist
- Ruan Jia
- Mikko Kinnunen
- Stephan Martiniere
- Edward Miller
- John Picacio
Special Award – Pro
- Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman for Borderlands Books
- Allison Baker and Chris Roberson for Monkey Brain Books
- Peter Crowther for PS Publishing
- Gordon Van Gelder for F&SF
- Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams for Nightshade Books
- Shawna McCarthy for Realms of Fantasy
Special Award – Non-pro
- G. S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg for Cafe Irreal
- Stephen Jones for Travellers in Darkness (The World Horror Convention Anthology)
- John Klima for Electric Velocipede
- Rosalie Parker and Raymond Russell for Tartarus-Press
- Midori Snyder, Terri Windling for Endicott Studios Website
Posted: August 17th, 2008
Author: Lee
Categories: Awards, General Interest
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