2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees

2009 World Fantasy Award

The judges are Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, and Delia Sherman.

Novel

The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)

The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)

Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)

Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

Novella

"Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel", Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)

"If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)

"The Overseer", Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)

"Odd and the Frost Giants", Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)

"Good Boy", Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

Short Story

"Caverns of Mystery", Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)

"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)

"Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)

"Our Man in the Sudan", Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)

"A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica", Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

Anthology

The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

Collection

Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)

The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)

Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)

Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)

Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)

Artist

Kinuko Y. Craft

Janet Chui

Stephan Martinière

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

As with the Hugos and any other genre awards, it will come as no surprise that not everyone agrees with the nominees selected. That's the way love goes. . .:-)

In case you didn't know, the World Fantasy Convention will take place in San Jose, California, USA this year.