The World Fantasy award is one of the major award for fantasy lit published in the anterior year , and the nominees for 2014 have just been announced . Here ’s the nominees :
Novel :
The Goblin Emperor , Katherine Addison ( Tor )
metropolis of Stairs , Robert Jackson Bennett ( Broadway ; Jo Fletcher )
The Bone Clocks , David Mitchell ( Random House ; scepter )
Area X : The Southern Reach Trilogy , Jeff VanderMeer ( Farrar , Straus & Giroux )
My Real Children , Jo Walton ( Tor ; Corsair )
Novella :
We Are All altogether 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 )
Short Fiction :
“ I Can See Right Through You ” , Kelly Link , ( McSweeney ’s 48 )
Do You Like to Look at Monsters ? , Scott Nicolay ( Fedogan & Bremer )
“ demise ’s Door Café ” , Kaaron Warren ( Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 )
“ The Devil in America ” , Kai Ashante Wilson ( Tor.com , 4/2/14 )
“ 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 )
collecting :
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 )
decease at the Blue Elephant , Janeen Webb ( Ticonderoga )
creative person :
Samuel Araya
Galen Dara
Jeffrey Alan Love
Erik Mohr
John Picacio
Special Award – Professional :
John Joseph Adams , for edit 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
The awards will be handed out at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs , New York in November .
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