The 2013 World Fantasy Awards

The 2013 World Fantasy Awards Final Ballot nominees have been announced:

NOVEL

• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
  

NOVELLA

• ‘‘Hand of Glory’’, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
• ‘‘Let Maps to Others’’, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer 2012)
• “The Emperor’s Soul”, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
• ‘‘The Skull’’, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
• ‘‘Sky’’, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

SHORT FICTION

• ‘‘The Telling’’, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
• ‘‘A Natural History of Autumn’’, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
• ‘‘The Castle That Jack Built’’, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
• ‘‘Breaking the Frame’’, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
• ‘‘Swift, Brutal Retaliation’’, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12) 

ANTHOLOGY

• Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
• Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
• Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
  
  COLLECTION
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)

ARTIST

• Vincent Chong
• Didier Graffet & Dave Senior
• Kathleen Jennings
• J.K. Potter
• Chris Roberts
  

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
• Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, & Jeff VanderMeer for Weird Fiction Review website
• Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications
• William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press

SPECIAL AWARD - NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• L. Timmel Duchamp for Aqueduct Press
• S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
• Charles A. Tan for Bibliophile Stalker blog
• Jerad Walters for Centipede Press
• Joseph Wrzos for Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)

 Award already announced: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Susan Cooper
• Tanith Lee

Nebula Awards

The 2011 Nebula Awards were presented on 19 May 19, 2012 at the Nebula Awards Weekend, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 

The Novel Award went to Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)

For further awards and runners’ up check out Locus online

The Arthur C Clarke Award

The shortlist for the 2012 Arthur C Clarke Award is: 

• Greg Bear - Hull Zero Three (Gollancz)
• Drew Magary - The End Specialist (Harper Voyager)
• China Miéville - Embassytown (Macmillan)
• Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
• Charles Stross - Rule 34 (Orbit)
• Sheri S. Tepper - The Waters Rising (Gollancz)

 The award will be presented on 2 May. The recipient receives a cheque for £2012.

The 2012 British Fantasy Awards

The British Fantasy Society has announced the jury for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards. The jury will deliberate on a shortlist of nominations, determined by the members of the BFS. The jury shall also have powers to add nominations where it identifies an egregious omission. The British Fantasy Awards will be presented during FantasyCon in September 2012.

The 2010 Hugo Awards

The 2010 Hugos were announced recently at Aussiecon 4. the 68th World SF Convention.

BEST NOVEL (Tie): The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

BEST NOVELLA: "Palimpsest" by Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace; Orbit)

BEST NOVELETTE: "The Island" by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)

BEST SHORT STORY: "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09)

BEST RELATED WORK: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I") by Jack Vance (Subterranean)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - LONG FORM: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - SHORT FORM: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Ellen Datlow

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Shaun Tan

BEST FAN ARTIST: Brad W. Foster

BEST SEMIPROZINE: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan

BEST FAN WRITER: Frederik Pohl

BEST FANZINE: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith

THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER: Seanan McGuire

The Mythopoeic Awards

The Mythopoeic Awards were announced on 11 July. The winners are:

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature. Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press)

Children’s Literature. Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies. Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan)

Myth & Fantasy Studies. Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card (McFarland)

Full details can be found here.

Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on 11 July 2010, at Readercon 21, The Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts.

NOVEL. Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)

NOVELLA. Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot Press)

NOVELETTE. “Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)

SHORT STORY. “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)

COLLECTION (tie). Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial) and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)

ANTHOLOGY. Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)

Full details on the winners and runners-up can be found on this website.

Congrats to the winners, commiserations to the no-so lucky ones. But hey, being in the top five or six is a fabulous achievement.

The Stokers

The Horror Writers' Association has announced the recipients of the 2009 Life Achievement Award. They are F Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. The HWA's Stokers are also awarded in other categories. The nominations for Best Novel are:

COFFIN COUNTY by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure Books)
THE REACH by Nate Kenyon (Leisure Books)
DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Scribner)
JOHNNY GRUESOME by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon Books/Medallion Press)

The Stokers will be announced in Burbank, California, over 12-14 June. Visit the Stokers website for full details.

I was in Glendale and Burbank last November -- wish I could return this summer (although it may be just a tad too warm for this Brit).