The nominees for the 2015 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! The nominees join the previously announced 2015 WF Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Ramsey Campbell and Sheri S. Tepper in this honor.
The winners of the 2015 World Fantasy Awards will be announced during the the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY.
The full list of nominees follows.
Novel:
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
Novella:
- We Are All Completely 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)
- “Death’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)
Collection:
- 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)
- Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)
Artist:
- Samuel Araya
- Galen Dara
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Erik Mohr
- John Picacio
Special Award – Professional:
- John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Fantasy 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
Congratulations to all nominees and a few more fiction links:
http://fu-gen.org/crash/fisherqueen-wong.htm
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/i-can-see-right-through-you
https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/summer_2014/grand_jet_the_great_leap_by_rachel_swirsky
At the moment, I’d have to go with City of Stairs as my novel of choice, but I do intend to read The Goblin Emperor at some point, and I’m already planning to read My Real Children for the Aurora awards.
Only glaring omissions for me are Brian Staveley and Kameron Hurley but otherwise it’s a solid slate of nominees.
Good solid nominations. Congrats to all!