World Fantasy Award Nominations

The nominations for the World Fantasy Awards, to be presented at this year’s World Fantasy Con in Columbus, Ohio, have been announced.

Novel

• Blood of Ambrose, by James Enge
• The Red Tree, by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The City & The City, by China Miéville
• Finch, by Jeff VanderMeer
• In Great Waters, by Kit Whitfield

Novella

• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, by Kage Baker
• “The Lion’s Den,” by Steven Duffy
• The Night Cache, by Andy Duncan
• “Sea-Hearts,” by Margo Lanagan
• “Everland,” by Paul Witcover

Short Story

• “I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said,” by Richard Bowes
• “The Pelican Bar,” by Karen Joy Fowler
• “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
• “Singing on a Star,” by Ellen Klages
• “The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale,” by Paul Park
• “In Waiting,” by R.B. Russell
• “Light on the Water,” by Genevieve Valentine

Anthology

• Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow
• Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
• Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson
• Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, edited by Peter Straub
• The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Gordon Van Gelder

Collection

• We Never Talk About My Brother, by Peter S. Beagle
• Fugue State, by Brian Evenson
• There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
• Northwest Passages, by Barbara Roden
• Everland and Other Stories, by Paul Witcover
• The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, by Gene Wolfe

Artist

• John Jude Palencar
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Jason Zerrillo
• Sam Weber

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
• Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons
• John Klima for Electric Velocipede
• Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw and Eric M. Van for Readercon
• Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press

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