The nominees for the 2008 World Fantasy Award have been announced.

The winners of the LIFE ACHIEVEMENT Award are:

• Leo & Diane Dillon
• Patricia McKillip

NOVEL

• Territory by Emma Bull [Tor]
• Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay [Viking Canada/Penguin Roc]
• Fangland by John Marks [Penguin Press]
• Gospel of the Knife by Will Shetterly [Tor]
• The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith [Earthling Publications]

NOVELLA

• The Mermaids by Robert Edric [PS Publishing]
• Illyria by Elizabeth Hand [PS Publishing]
• "The Master Miller's Tale" by Ian R. MacLeod [F&SF May 2007]
• "Cold Snap" by Kim Newman [The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain Books]
• "Stars Seen through Stone" by Lucius Shepard [F&SF July 2007] [See SF Signal review]

SHORT STORY

• "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" by Daniel Abraham [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra] [See SF Signal review]
• "Singing of Mount Abora" by Theodora Goss [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra] [See SF Signal review]
• "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" by Kij Johnson [The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking] [See SF Signal review]
• "Damned if you Don't" Robert Shearman" [Tiny Deaths, Comma Press]
• "The Church on the Island" Simon Kurt Unsworth [At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press]

ANTHOLOGY

• Five Strokes to Midnight by Gary A. Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, Eds. [Haunted Pelican Press]
• Wizards: Magical Tales From The Masters of Modern Fantasy by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Eds. [Berkley]
• Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Ellen Datlow, Editor [Tor]
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Eds.[Viking]
• Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories by John Klima, Editor [Bantam Spectra]

COLLECTION

• Plots and Misadventures by Stephen Gallagher [Subterranean Press]
• Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages [Tachyon Publications]
• The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman [MonkeyBrain Books]
• Hart & Boot & Other Stories by Tim Pratt [Night Shade Books]
• Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman [Comma Press]
• Dagger Key and Other Stories by Lucius Shepard [PS Publishing]

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
• Gordon Van Gelder for F&SF
• Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams for Night Shade Books
• Shawna McCarthy for Realms of Fantasy

SPECIAL AWARD--NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for Endicott Studios Website
• G. S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg for Cafe Irreal
• Stephen Jones, Editor for Travellers in Darkness: The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention 2007
• John Klima for Electric Velocipede
• Rosalie Parker and Raymond Russell for Tartarus Press

Congratulations to all the nominees!

See also: Past winners.

[via Adventures in Reading]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday August 07, 2008 at 12:15 AM
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