World Fantasy Awards Administrator John Douglas has announced the nominees for the 2009 World Fantasy Awards (for works published in 2008).
The winners of the other awards will be chosen by the panel of judges (as previously announced, this year’s panel is: Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, and Delia Sherman), and announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention (WFC). The WFC will be held in San Jose, California, from 29 October to 1 November 2009.
The nominees are:
Novel:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker (Tor)
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
Novella:
“Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel” by Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
“The Overseer” by Albert Cowdrey (F&SF)
“Odd and the Frost Giants” by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
“Good Boy” by Nisi Shawl (Filter House)
Short Story:
“Caverns of Mystery” by Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel (F&SF)
“Our Man in the Sudan” by Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
“A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld)
Anthology:
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books)
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow (Del Rey)
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s)
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia (Senses Five Press)
Steampunk edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon Publications)
Collection:
Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link (Viking)
Filter House by Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic)
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 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 Clarkesworld)
Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)