The winners for the 2019 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Zipes. Congrats to the finalists and winners, especially our own publisher Irene Gallo, for editing Worlds Seen In Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, the winner of the Best Anthology award!
The awards ceremony for the 2019 World Fantasy Awards took place on November 3, 2019 at the World Fantasy Convention in Los Angeles, CA.
Members of this year’s convention as well as the last two years were able to vote two nominations onto the final ballot, which are then voted on by a select jury.
Complete shortlist below, with winners in bold:
NOVEL
- In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
- Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)
NOVELLA
- The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
- The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
- The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press)
- “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Aug. 2018)
- Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
SHORT FICTION
- “The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation” by Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare Magazine, July 2019)
- “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)
- “Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake” by Mel Kassel (Lightspeed, October 2018) – TIE
- “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018)
- “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2018) – TIE
ANTHOLOGY
- Sword and Sonnet, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K. Jones, and E. Catherine Tobler (Ate Bit Bear)
- The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/HarperVoyager UK)
- Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones (Drugstore Indian Press UK)
- Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
- Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, edited by Irene Gallo (Tor.com)
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World Seen In Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
COLLECTION
- The Tangled Lands, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (Saga Press/Head of Zeus UK)
- Still So Strange, by Amanda Downum (ChiZine Publications)
- An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, by Andy Duncan (Small Beer Press)
- How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Phantom Limbs, by Margo Lanagan (PS Publishing)
ARTIST
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL
- C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
- Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
- Huw Lewis-Jones for The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (University of Chicago Press)
- Catherine McIlwaine for Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition (The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford)
- Julian Yap, Molly Barton, Jeff Li, and James Stuart for Serial Box
SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL
- Mike Allen, for Mythic Delirium
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
- Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
- E. Catherine Tobler, for Shimmer Magazine
- Terri Windling, for Myth & Moor
Congrats to Paolo.
I did like Witchmark. Congrats to the author.
Hey Tor, now that I’m thinking about it, are you part of the McMillan decision to no longer allow libraries more than one ebook copy the first 8 weeks of their release? I hope not. I don’t want to have to give up your books.
Kate: In answer to your question, yes, Tor is part of that.
“More than a year after imposing a controversial four month “test” embargo on new release e-books in libraries from it’s Tor imprint, Macmillan announced today that it will now impose a two month embargo on library e-books across all of the company’s imprints. The terms take effect November 1.
“Under the publisher’s new digital terms of sale for libraries, “library systems” will be now be allowed to purchase a single—that is, one—perpetual access e-book during the first eight weeks of publication for each new Macmillan release, at half price ($30). Additional copies will then be available at full price (generally $60 for new releases) after the eight-week window has passed. All other terms remain the same: e-book licenses will continue to be metered for two years or 52 lends, whichever comes first, on a one copy/one user model. A Macmillan spokesperson confirmed to PW that the single perpetual access copy will be available only for new release titles in the first eight weeks after publication—the option to buy a single perpetual access copy expires after that eight week window, and the offer is not available for backlist titles.”
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/80758-after-tor-experiment-macmillan-expands-embargo-on-library-e-books.html
What this means for NC: Since our state has a consortium using Overdrive for eBook lending, we are allowed to buy 1 ebook copy FOR THE ENTIRE STATE, for the first four months, and afterwards we have to pay the exorbitant library rate to keep a title for two years max. As an example, when The Help was at its peak when the movie came out, our consortium had 300 people waiting for a handful of copies. Wait lists were over a year long. I can’t remember. It could have been two years. And that was when far fewer people were using the service.
The other service we use in my county, RB Digital will not provide ANY Macmillan titles during the 8 week embargo (which gives a perpetual license) due to some logistics about maintaining two kinds of license expirations.
I believe Overdrive will allow our state the ONE copy the embargo allows for the ENTIRE STATE POPULATION to fight over. Yay.
PARDON MY ERROR:
It is an 8 week or two month embargo. So the actual impact is for two months, not four as I stated in my previous comment.
Please Kate, don’t be cheap. 8 weeks is not such an issue for novels. It is not as if we were books starved. And if it is all it takes to make the shareholders happy… Or do you have compelling arguments?
It’s not about being “cheap.” Please check out the American Library Association’s eBooks for All campaign to learn more about this issue.
My library system and many others around the country will not purchase any McMillan ebooks while this policy is in place.