The nominations for the World Fantasy Awards were announced earlier this week. Winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Alberta. The convention will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2.
Life Achievement: Leo and Diane Dillon, Patricia McKillip
Novel: Fangland by John Marks, The Gospel of the Knife by Will Shetterly, The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith, Territory by Emma Bull, Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Novella: “Cold Snap” by Kim Newman, Illyria by Elizabeth Hand, “The Master Miller’s Tale” by Ian R. MacLeod, The Mermaids by Robert Edric, “Stars Seen Through Stone” by Lucius Shepard
Short Story: “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham, “The Church on the Island” by Simon Kurt Unsworth, “Damned If You Don’t” by Robert Shearman, “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change” by Kij Johnson, “Singing of Mount Abora” by Theodora Goss
Anthology: The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.; Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary A. Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble, eds.; Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed.; Logorrhea, John Klima, ed.; Wizards, Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds.
Collection: Dagger Key and Other Stories by Lucius Shepard, Hart & Boot & Other Stories by Tim Pratt, Plots and Misadventures by Stephen Gallagher, Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman, Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman
Artist: Ruan Jia, Mikko Kinnunen, Stephan Martiniere, Edward Miller, John Picacio
Special Award, Professional: Allison Baker and Chris Roberson (for MonkeyBrain Books), Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman (for Borderlands Books), Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing), Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams (for Night Shade Books), Shawna McCarthy (for Realms of Fantasy), Gordon Van Gelder (for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Special Award, Non-Professional: G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg (for Cafe Irreal), John Klima (for Electric Velocipede), Rosalie Parker and Raymond Russell (for Tartarus Press), Midori Snyder and Terri Windling (for Endicott Studios’ Web site), Stephen Jones (for Travelers in Darkness: The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention 2007)
