The final ballot for the 2007 World Fantasy Awards has been announced. The winners will be chosen by the panel of judges (this year’s panel is: Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, and Carsten Polzin), and announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention (WFC). The WFC will be in Saratoga Springs (near Albany), New York, 1-4 November.
The nominees are:
Novel:
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King (published by Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Novella:
“Botch Town” by Jeffrey Ford (published in The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
“The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train” by Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain)
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)
“Map of Dreams” by M. Rickert (Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon)
“The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” by Ysabeau S. Wilce (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2006)
Short Fiction:
“Journey Into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert (F&SF, May 2006)
“A Siege of Cranes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics, All-Star Stories)
“Another Word for Map Is Faith” by Christopher Rowe (F&SF, August 2006)
“Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)” by Geoff Ryman (F&SF, October-November 2006)
Anthology:
Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard edited by Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
Salon Fantastique edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Thunder’s Mouth)
Retro Pulp Tales edited by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean)
Twenty Epics edited by David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi (All-Star Stories)
Firebirds Rising edited by Sharyn November (Firebird)
Collection:
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
American Morons by Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia; Knopf)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Artist:
Jon Foster
Edward Miller
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Jill Thompson
Special Award: Professional:
Ellen Asher (for work at the Science Fiction Book Club)
Mark Finn (for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard, MonkeyBrain)
Deanna Hoak (for copyediting)
Greg Ketter (for Dreamhaven)
Leonard S. Marcus (for editing The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Candlewick)
Special Award: Non-Professional:
Leslie Howle (for her work at Clarion West)
Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian)
Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews and criticism)
[Edited 20 August 2007 to add a link to this article, in which this year’s Life Achievement award winners are announced.]