World Fantasy Award: fuori i nomi!

Sono state annunciate le nomination per il World Fantasy Award che verranno consegnati a San Jose in California, durante la World Fantasy Convention dal 29 ottobre al primo novembre 2009.

I giudici saranno: Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson e Delia Sherman.

Novel

• The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

Novella

• Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• If Angels Fight, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
• The Overseer, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
• Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
• Good Boy, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

Short Story

• Caverns of Mystery, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
• 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss, Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)
• Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
• Our Man in the Sudan, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
• A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

Anthology

• The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
• Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

Collection

• Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)

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 The 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)

(fonte Worldfantasy.org)