The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2010 British Fantasy Awards. Voting is open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2009 and FantasyCon 2010 (the deadline is 31 July). The winners will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2010, which will be held 17-19 September at the Britannia Hotel in Nottingham, UK.
The nominees are:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie (published by Gollancz)
The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey (Orbit)
Under the Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Futile Flame by Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)
One by Conrad Williams (Virgin)
Best Novella:
The Witnesses are Gone by Joel Lane (PS)
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough (PS)
“Roadkill” by Rob Shearman (published in Roadkill/Siren Beat and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical)
Vardoger by Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)
Old Man Scratch by Rio Youers (PS)
Best Short Story:
“My Brother’s Keeper” by Nina Allan (Black Static #12)
“Careful What You Wish for” by Justin Carroll (Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale)
“The Confessor’s Tale” by Sarah Pinborough (Hellbound Hearts)
“George Clooney’s Moustache” by Rob Shearman (The BFS Yearbook 2009)
“What Happens when You Wake up in the Night” by Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)
Best Anthology:
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 edited by Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)
Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9 edited by D.F. Lewis (Megazanthus)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (HarperVoyager)
Hellbound Hearts edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Pocket)
Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale edited by Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
Best Collection:
Once & Future Cities by Allen Ashley (Eibonvale)
Just Behind You by Ramsey Campbell (PS)
The Terrible Changes by Joel Lane (Ex Occidente)
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical by Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press:
Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
Screaming
Dreams (Steve Upham)
Subterranean Press (William Schafer)
Telos Publishing (David Howe)
TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel:
Freakangels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar & warrenellis.com)
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)
Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
The Girly Comic edited by Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
Fables by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
Best Artist:
Vincent Chong (for work including covers for The Witnesses are Gone and Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20)
Les Edwards (for work including the cover of Cemetery Dance #62)
Shaun Tan
Steve Upham (for work including the Estronomicon Sketchbook Special)
Charles Vess (for work including Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl)
Best Non-Fiction:
Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King by George Beahm and various artists (Centipede Press)
It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium by Axelle Carolyn (Telos)
Ansible Link by David Langford (http://news.ansible.co.uk)
Whatever by John Scalzi (http://scalzi.com/whatever)
“Case Notes” by Peter Tennant (Black Static)
Best Magazine:
Black Static edited by Andy Cox (TTA)
Cemetery Dance edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance)
Interzone edited by Andy Cox (TTA)
Midnight Street edited by Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
Murky Depths edited by Terry Martin (The House of Murky Depths)
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction edited by Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age)
Best Television:
Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi/Sky 1)
Being Human (BBC3)
Doctor Who (BBC1)
Lost (ABC/Sky 1)
Torchwood: Children of Earth (BBC1)
Best Film:
Avatar directed by James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
Coraline directed by Henry Selick (Focus)
District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp (Tristar)
Let the Right One in directed by Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
Watchmen directed by Zack Snyder (Warner)
In addition to the awards above, which will be voted on by members of the BFS and of Fantasycon, there will be the announcement of the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award (selected by the BFS committee), presented to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award, selected by a panel of judges.