The World Fantasy Convention has announced the nominees for the 2010 World Fantasy Awards (for works published in 2009).
The winners of the other awards will be chosen by the panel of judges (as previously announced, this year’s panel is: Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, James Minz, Jürgen Snoeren, Gary K. Wolfe, and Peter Dennis Pautz), and announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention (WFC). The WFC will be held in Columbus, Ohio, from 28 to 31 October 2010.
The nominees are:
Novel:
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge (Pyr)
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
The City & The City by China Miéville (Macmillan UK/Del Rey)
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Underland Press)
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)
Novella:
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker (Subterranean Press)
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes (The Magzaine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
“The Lion’s Den” by Steve Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)
The Night Cache by Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)
“Sea-Hearts” by Margo Lanagan (X6)
“Everland” by Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)
Short Story:
“The Pelican Bar” by Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
“A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, as Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby” by Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons)
“Singing on a Star” by Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
“The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale” by Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein)
“In Hiding” by R.B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
“Light on the Water” by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy Magazine)
Anthology:
Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Subterranean/Voyager)
Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree)
Eclipse Three edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade)American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now edited by Peter Straub (Library of America)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology edited by Gordon Van Gelder (Tachyon)
Collection:
We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Fugue State by Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
Northwest Passages by Barbara Roden (Prime)
Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover (PS)
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (PS/Tor)
Artist:
John Jude Palencar
John Picacio
Charles Vess
Sam Weber
Jason Zerrillo
Special Award, Professional:
Peter & Nicky Crowther (for PS Publishing)
Ellen Datlow (for editing anthologies)
Hayao Miyazaki (for Ponyo)
Barbara & Christopher Roden (for Ash-Tree Press)
Jonathan Strahan (for editing anthologies)
Jacob & Rina Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)
Special Award, Non-Professional:
John Berlyne (for POWERS: Secret Histories)
Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace (for Clarkesworld Magazine)
Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw & Eric M. Van (for Readercon)
Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker (for Tartarus Press)