Ariel over on the Alien Online draws my attention to the fact that the British Fantasy Awards nominees have been posted, with the shortlist nominations as follows:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
Mark Chadbourn, The Queen of Sinister
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Christopher Fowler, The Water Room
Stephen King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Best Novella
Christopher Fowler, Breathe
Tim Lebbon, Dead Man’s Hand
Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, The Ice Maiden
Lisa Tuttle, My Death
Sean Wright, The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor
Best Short Fiction
Neil Gaiman, ‘The Problem of Susan’ (Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Roc)
Joe Hill, ‘The Black Phone’ (The Third Alternative #39)
Joe Hill, ‘You Will Hear the Locust Sing’ (The Third Alternative #37)
Paul Meloy, ‘Black Static’ (The Third Alternative #40)
Adam Roberts, ‘Roads Were Burning’ (Postscripts #1)
Best Anthology
Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds., The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Andrew Hook, ed., The Alsiso Project
Stephen Jones, ed., The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 15
Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds., Acquainted with the Night
Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases
Best Collection
Allen Ashley, Somnambulists
Paul Finch, Darker Ages
Stephen Gallagher, Out of His Mind
M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen
Lucius Shepard, Trujillo and Other Stories
Best Artist
John Coulthart
Allen Koszowski
Les Edwards/Edward Miller
Richard Marchand
David Magitis
Ian Simmons
Best Small Press
The Alien Online (ed. Ariel)
Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)
Pendragon Press (Christopher Teague)
Postscripts (ed. Peter Crowther)
PS Publishing (Peter Crowther)
Scheherazade (ed. Elizabeth Counihan)
The Third Alternative (ed. Andy Cox)
Telos Publications (David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker)
Well done to all on the shortlist and the best of luck to all of them. And on a personal note I’m utterly chuffed to see my chums on the Alien Online being nominated once more. Although I am puzzled to see Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts’ The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases listed with the best fantasy anthologies as I was under the impression it was an actual medical textbook… The winners will be announced in October at the British Fantasy Convention – full details here on their site.
Mon, Aug 15, 2005
Awards, Books, News