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I found out after everyone else as I'm traveling in oz...but am very thrilled for me and my fellow nominees.
Ellen

2009 World Fantasy Awards Nominees

— posted Tuesday 24 August 2010 @ 6:00 am UTC

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works in 2009 has been announced. The awards will be presented in Columbus OH, October 28-31, 2010. Nominees are:

Novel

* Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
* The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
* The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
* In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)

Novella

* The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
* “I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 12/09)
* “The Lion’s Den”, Steve Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)
* The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)
* “Sea-Hearts”, Margo Lanagan (X6 )
* “Everland”, Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)

Short Story

* “The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
* “A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby”, Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons 6/09)
* “Singing on a Star”, Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
* “The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale”, Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein )
* “In Hiding”, R.B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
* “Light on the Water”, Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 10/09)

Anthology

* Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
* Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean/Voyager)
* Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
* Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
* American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)
* The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)

Collection

* We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
* Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
* There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
* Northwest Passages, Barbara Roden (Prime)
* Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)
* The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor)

Artist

* John Jude Palencar
* John Picacio
* Charles Vess
* Jason Zerrillo
* Sam Weber

Special Award – Professional

* Peter & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
* Ellen Datlow for editing anthologies
* Hayao Miyazaki for Ponyo
* Barbara & Christopher Roden for Ash-Tree Press
* Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies
* Jacob & Rina Weisman for Tachyon Publications

Special Award – Non-Professional

* John Berlyne for Powers: Secret Histories
* Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, & Sean Wallace for Clarkesworld
* Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons
* John Klima for Electric Velocipede
* Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw, and Eric M. Van for Readercon
* Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press

The Life Achievement Awards will be released in the coming weeks in a separate announcement.

I'm staying with friends for today and tomorrow and we've finally fixed the wireless problem (couldn't get online on my machine last night or this morning)-I've been hooked directly into their cable network downstairs. Yay!

So as you must all know, I lost the WFA to Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by my friend and colleage (KGB) Matt Kressel. I'm delighted for them. Of course, I'd have loved to have won the award for one of my two anthos but I'm honored for the last YBFH and The Del Rey Book of SF&F to have been in the running. (particularly because the latter was NOT only fantasy but sf). And there's always next year for my 2009 anthologies.

Which brings me to the exciting news that Lovecraft Unbound has been listed as one of the five best sf/f/h books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Congratulations to my contributors. The whole list is:

The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)-Bacigalupi's powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.

Lovecraft Unbound Edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)--Editor extraordinaire Datlow assembles a phenomenal anthology of homages to pulp horror great H.P. Lovecraft, penned by an impressive slate of big-name horror authors.

The Devil's Alphabet Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)--This subtle, eerie present-day horror novel mercilessly dissects and reassembles the classic narrative of a man returning to his smalltown birthplace, where the familiar folks have become strange creatures.

The City & the City China Miéville (Del Rey)--Putting a quasi-fantastical twist on a classic police procedural story, Miéville delves deep into the psyches of city dwellers and the ways people blind themselves to reality.

Boneshaker
Cherie Priest (Tor)--The dramatic first novel in Priest's Clockwork Century universe sends a determined 35-year-old single mom into a ruined city full of zombies and poison gas, where she must save her son from a mad inventor.

Tonight's the mass signing at Borderlands in SF 7pm for anyone in the neighborhood.

2 nominations for World Fantasy award

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