Comments: Although the Mythopoeic Society's primary mission is to promote the works of and scholarship about the members of the Inklings, in most years the Myth and Fantasy Studies category is comprised of a set works that appear to be far more interesting than the set of works nominated for the Inklings Studies category. The cause is, I think, the narrowness of the Inklings Studies category which in 2007 consisted of four works about Tolkien, which seems quite limited when compared with the breadth of topics addressed by the nominees in the Myth and Fantasy category - Arthurian mythology, Vampires, Beauty and the Beast, Owen Barfield, and a foursome of English fantasy authors.
Best Adult Fantasy Literature
Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
Other Nominees:
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
The Line Between by Peter S. BeagleThe Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers
Best Children's Fantasy Literature
Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
Other Nominees:
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne JonesSpirits that Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Christina Schull and Wayne G. Hammond
Other Nominees:
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology by Verlyn Flieger
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-Earth by Marjorie Burns
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner
Myth and Fantasy Studies
Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy
Other Nominees:
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction, and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy by Milly Williamson
The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook by Jerry GriswoldOwen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
Go to previous year's nominees: 2006
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2008
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