NOMINEES: 2007 World Fantasy Awards

Locus Online has posted the finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Awards:

NOVEL

• Lisey’s Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
• The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

NOVELLA

• “Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
• “The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train”, Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain)
• Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)
• “Map of Dreams”, M. Rickert (Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon)
• “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire”, Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF Jul 2006)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Way He Does It”, Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede #10, Spr 2006)
• “Journey Into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert (F&SF May 2006)
• “A Siege of Cranes”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics, All-Star Stories)
• “Another Word for Map is Faith”, Christopher Rowe (F&SF Aug 2006)
• “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)

ANTHOLOGY

• Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, eds. (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
• Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder’s Mouth)
• Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed. (Subterranean)
• Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds. (All-Star Stories)
• Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)

COLLECTION

• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
• American Morons, Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
• Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia; Knopf)
• Map of Dreams, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)

ARTIST

• Jon Foster
• Edward Miller
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Jill Thompson

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Ellen Asher (For work at SFBC)
• Mark Finn (for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard, MonkeyBrain)
• Deanna Hoak for copyediting
• Greg Ketter for Dreamhaven
• Leonard S. Marcus, ed. (for The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Candlewick)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Leslie Howle (for her work at Clarion West)
• Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian)
• Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
• John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
• Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere)

Winners will be announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, to be held 1-4 November 2007 in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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