Wow! What an incredible week! I woke up to discover that Gifts for the One Who Comes After has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award! The list of finalists looks fantastic, and it is truly a privilege to be ranked among them. Bring on Saratoga Springs!
The World Fantasy Awards Ballot for works published in 2014 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Ramsey Campbell and Sheri S. Tepper, and were announced earlier this month.
A correction to the ballot was posted on July 11, 2015, moving the Wilson title to Novella, and adding “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon to Short Fiction.
The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:
Novel:
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
Novella:
- We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 11/19/14)
- “Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF 11-12/14)
- “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
- “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)
- “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, 4/2/14)
Short Fiction:
- “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link, (McSweeney’s 48)
- Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)
- “Jackalope Wives”, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/14)
- “Death’s Door Café”, Kaaron Warren (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
- “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)
Anthology:
- Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
- Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)
- Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)
Collection:
- Mercy and Other Stories, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)
- Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
- They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
- Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)
Artist:
- Samuel Araya
- Galen Dara
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Erik Mohr
- John Picacio
Special Award – Professional:
- John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Lightspeed magazines
- Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops
- Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
- Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
- Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press
Special Award – Nonprofessional:
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean)
- Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader (civilianreader.wordpress.com)
- Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
- Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press
