Meanwhile, here are the nominees and winners of the World Fantasy Awards. Unlike the Hugos, these are judged rather than voted for. The head of the con committee, Ginny Smith, introduced the con guests, each of whom made a speech, then the winners were announced by famous editors Ellen Datlow, who edits anthologies, and Gordon Van Gelder, who has also edited books, but is best known for the many years he spent editing Fantasy And SF, a magazine I haven’t tried yet, as it’s huge.
Most of the winners knew they had won and had prepared speeches, but one of them, Dr Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, hadn’t been told, for some reason, maybe they forgot. Anyway, her reaction was a delighted, “What, I won?” and somehow she managed to make a decent speech anyway. Her book was an academic tome about the role of race in a number of fantasy classics(see below). I tried to buy it when I went into the city today, but one shop said they didn’t stock it at all, and the other had it on their web site, but said it was print on demand, which is what they do these days when a book is basically out of print, but people still want it. I can only assume that, like many academic style books, they only printed a small number of copies. I said I was happy to order it, but the gent said he really wanted to contact the publisher and would get in touch with me when he heard. So I left my number. You can, it seems, get it direct from the (US) publisher, but if I can get it from a bookshop I would rather do that.
You can check out any of the titles below(some were on the Hugo short list and I have them)via the links. The winners are in bold.
I was thrilled to see at least one Aussie winner, Kathleen Jennings, for art. She has an unfair amount of talent, dammit - she can illustrate and write! But it’s nice to see our land down under represented!
World Fantasy Awards 2020
2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Rowena Morrill
Karen Joy Fowler
Novel
- Queen of the Conquered, by Kacen Callender (Orbit)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook Books/Orbit UK)
- The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa (trans.Stephen Snyder) (Pantheon/Harvill Secker)
Novella
- “The Butcher’s Table”, by Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
- Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com)
- In an Absent Dream, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK)
- Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- “For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
- “Read After Burning”, by Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-Aug. 2019)
- “Blood is Another Word For Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
- “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, by Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar./Apr. 2019)
- “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?”, by Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)
Anthology
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
- The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
- The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)
Collection
- Homesick: Stories, by Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
- Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
- Unforeseen, by Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
- A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, by John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)
Artist
Special Award – Professional
- C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
- Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
- Ellen Oh, for We Need Diverse Books
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
- Sheree Renée Thomas, for contributions to the genre
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin and Esko Suoranta, for Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
- Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
- Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe, for the Coode Street Podcast
- Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
Judges: Gwenda Bond, Galen Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle, Adam Roberts
2 comments:
Oh, that award is so pretty. I'd want to win just so I could have the trophy on my shelf.
It is lovely, isn’t it? I wonder who deigned and made it?
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