World Fantasy Awards 2009 vergeben

Am letz­ten Wochen­en­de fand in San Jose (Kali­for­ni­en) die World Fan­ta­sy Con­ven­ti­on statt, dort wur­den die World Fan­ta­sy Awards 2009 verliehen.

Für ihr Lebens­werk wur­den Ellen Asher und Jane Yolen aus­ge­zeich­net, der Preis für den bes­ten Roman wur­de zwei­mal ver­ge­ben und ging an Jef­frey Ford für THE SHADOW YEAR (Mor­row) und Mar­go Lana­gan für TENDER MORSELS (Allen & Unwin; Knopf). Bei den Antho­lo­gien gewann PAPER CITIES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF URBAN FANTASY, her­aus­ge­ge­ben von Eka­te­ri­na Sedia (Sen­ses Five Press).

Die voll­stän­di­ge Lis­te der Nomi­nier­ten und Gewin­ner fin­det man nach einem Klick auf 

Preis­trä­ger wur­den kur­siv markiert.

Life Achie­ve­ment

Ellen Asher
Jane Yolen

Novel

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

Novel­la

»If Angels Fight«, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
»Uncle Cha­im and Aunt Rif­ke and the Angel«, Peter S. Bea­gle (Stran­ge Roads)
»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

»26 Mon­keys, Also the Abyss«, Kij John­son (Asimov’s 7/08)
»Caverns of Mys­tery«, Kage Bak­er (Sub­ter­ra­ne­an: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
»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

Paper Cities: An Antho­lo­gy of Urban Fan­ta­sy, Eka­te­ri­na Sedia, ed. (Sen­ses Five Press)
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)
Steam­punk, Ann & Jeff Van­der­Meer, eds. (Tach­yon Publications)

Coll­ec­tion

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

Artist

Shaun Tan
Kinu­ko Y. Craft
Janet Chui
Ste­phan Martinière
John Picacio

Spe­cial Award—Professional

Kel­ly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
Farah Mend­le­sohn (for 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

Micha­el J. Walsh (for Howard Wald­rop coll­ec­tions from Old Earth Books)
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)

Bild: Cover THE SHADOW YEAR, Copy­right 2008 Har­per Collins

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