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20th October 2011 05:21 PM
Elaine Frei
The World Fantasy Awards for 2011, including two Lifetime Achievement winners, will be awarded at the World Fantasy Convention, to be held in San Diego, California on 27 – 30 October, with the awards banquet scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon, 30 October.
The nominees for Best Novel are Zoo City (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot), by Lauren Beukes; The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit), by N. K. Jemisin; The Silent Land (Gollancz; Doubleday), by Graham Joyce; Under Heaven (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK), by Guy Gavriel Kay; Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer), by Karen Lord; and Who Fears Death (DAW), by Nnedi Okorafor.
Nominess for Best Novella include Bone and the Jewel Creatures (Subterranean), by Elizabeth Bear; The Broken Man (PS), by Michael Byers; “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon (Stories: All-New Tales), by Elizabeth Hand; The Thief of Broken Toys (ChiZine Publications), by Tim Lebbon; “The Mystery Knight” (Warriors), by George R. R. Martin; and “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window” (Subterranean Summer 2010), by Rachel Swirsky.
Among the nominees for Best Short Fiction are “Beautiful Men” (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts), by Christopher Fowler; “Booth’s Ghost” (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories), by Karen Joy Fowler; “Ponies”, (Tor.com 11/17/10), by Kij Johnson; “Fossil-Figures” (Stories: All-New Tales), by Joyce Carol Oates; and “Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protct Us” (Black Static 8-9/10).
The Way of the Wizard (Prime), edited by John Joseph Adams, is nominated as Best Anthology, along with My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Penguin), edited by Kate Bernheimer; Haunted Legends (Tor), edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas; Stories: All-New Tales (Morrow; Headline Review), edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio; Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (PS), edited by S. T. Joshi; and Swords & Dark Magic (Eos), edited by Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders.
The nominees for Best Collection include What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (Small Beer), by Karen Joy Fowler; The Ammonite Violin & Others (Subterranean), by Caitlin R. Kiernan; Holiday (Golden Gryphon), by M. Rickert; Sourdough and Other Stories (Tartarus), by Angela Slatter; and The Third Bear (Tachyon), by Jeff VanderMeer.
Best Artist nominees include Vincent Chong, Kinuko Y. Craft, Richard A. Kirk, John Picacio and Shaun Tan.
Nomines for Special Award-Professional include John Jospeh Adams, for editing and anthologies; Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr; Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot; Stephane Marsan and Alain Nevant, for Bragelonne; and Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications.
In the category of Special Award, Non-Professional, the nominees include Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010; Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press; Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press; Charles Tan, for Bibliiophile Stalker; and Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog.
In addition to the award winners to be announced in eight categories, Peter S. Beagle and Angelica Gorodischer will be named World Fantasy Awards Lifetime Achievement Winners for their outstanding service to the fantasy field.
Ms. Gorodischer is an Argentine writer who works in the science fiction and crime genres as well as in the fantasy genre, often writing from a feminist perspective. One of her short story collections, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire that Never Was, (Small Beer Press, 2003), was translated by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Mr. Beagle, a Hugo and Nebula award winner, is probably best known for his novels The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place. The latter, his first novel, was written when he was just nineteen years old.
The World Fantasy Awards have been presented at the World Fantasy Convention since their inception in 1975.
Elaine Frei
The World Fantasy Awards for 2011, including two Lifetime Achievement winners, will be awarded at the World Fantasy Convention, to be held in San Diego, California on 27 – 30 October, with the awards banquet scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon, 30 October.
The nominees for Best Novel are Zoo City (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot), by Lauren Beukes; The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit), by N. K. Jemisin; The Silent Land (Gollancz; Doubleday), by Graham Joyce; Under Heaven (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK), by Guy Gavriel Kay; Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer), by Karen Lord; and Who Fears Death (DAW), by Nnedi Okorafor.
Nominess for Best Novella include Bone and the Jewel Creatures (Subterranean), by Elizabeth Bear; The Broken Man (PS), by Michael Byers; “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon (Stories: All-New Tales), by Elizabeth Hand; The Thief of Broken Toys (ChiZine Publications), by Tim Lebbon; “The Mystery Knight” (Warriors), by George R. R. Martin; and “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window” (Subterranean Summer 2010), by Rachel Swirsky.
Among the nominees for Best Short Fiction are “Beautiful Men” (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts), by Christopher Fowler; “Booth’s Ghost” (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories), by Karen Joy Fowler; “Ponies”, (Tor.com 11/17/10), by Kij Johnson; “Fossil-Figures” (Stories: All-New Tales), by Joyce Carol Oates; and “Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protct Us” (Black Static 8-9/10).
The Way of the Wizard (Prime), edited by John Joseph Adams, is nominated as Best Anthology, along with My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Penguin), edited by Kate Bernheimer; Haunted Legends (Tor), edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas; Stories: All-New Tales (Morrow; Headline Review), edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio; Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (PS), edited by S. T. Joshi; and Swords & Dark Magic (Eos), edited by Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders.
The nominees for Best Collection include What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (Small Beer), by Karen Joy Fowler; The Ammonite Violin & Others (Subterranean), by Caitlin R. Kiernan; Holiday (Golden Gryphon), by M. Rickert; Sourdough and Other Stories (Tartarus), by Angela Slatter; and The Third Bear (Tachyon), by Jeff VanderMeer.
Best Artist nominees include Vincent Chong, Kinuko Y. Craft, Richard A. Kirk, John Picacio and Shaun Tan.
Nomines for Special Award-Professional include John Jospeh Adams, for editing and anthologies; Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr; Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot; Stephane Marsan and Alain Nevant, for Bragelonne; and Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications.
In the category of Special Award, Non-Professional, the nominees include Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010; Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press; Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press; Charles Tan, for Bibliiophile Stalker; and Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog.
In addition to the award winners to be announced in eight categories, Peter S. Beagle and Angelica Gorodischer will be named World Fantasy Awards Lifetime Achievement Winners for their outstanding service to the fantasy field.
Ms. Gorodischer is an Argentine writer who works in the science fiction and crime genres as well as in the fantasy genre, often writing from a feminist perspective. One of her short story collections, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire that Never Was, (Small Beer Press, 2003), was translated by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Mr. Beagle, a Hugo and Nebula award winner, is probably best known for his novels The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place. The latter, his first novel, was written when he was just nineteen years old.
The World Fantasy Awards have been presented at the World Fantasy Convention since their inception in 1975.
