Comments: Despite the fact that his Song of Ice and Fire series, buoyed by the accompanying HBO television series, was well on its way to dominating the popular media, George R.R. Martin didn't win the World Fantasy Best Novel award for A Dance with Dragons. Instead, the award went to the quirky alternate history Osama that imagined a variant Earth on which Osama bin Laden was not a vicious terrorist, but was rather a character in dime store thrillers. This seems to be something of a pattern for the World Fantasy Awards - note that Stephen King, despite being the most popular author in the United States, was also left standing on the outside looking in this year - and despite King's obvious commercial success he has won precious few World Fantasy Awards over the course of his career. For the most part, it seems that popular authors don't win this award. At least not until very late in their careers, when they win the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Best Novel
Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Other Nominees:
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Among Others by Jo Walton
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
Best Novella
A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong by K.J. Parker
Other Nominees:
Alice Through the Plastic Sheet by Robert Shearman
Near Zennor by Elizabeth Hand (reviewed in Errantry: Strange Stories)
Rose Street Attractors by Lucius ShepardSilently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente
Best Short Fiction
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
Other Nominees:
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
A Journey of Only Two Paces by Tim Powers
X for Demetrious by Steve Duffy
Younger Women by Karen Joy Fowler
Best Anthology
The Weird edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Other Nominees:
Blood and Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow
A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones
Gutshot edited by Conrad Williams
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Best Collection
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers
Other Nominees:
After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa L. Hannett
Mrs. Midnight and Other Stories by Reggie Oliver
Two Worlds and In Between by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Lifetime Achievement
George R.R. Martin
Alan Garner
Other Nominees:
None
Best Artist
John Coulthart
Other Nominees:
Julie Dillon
Jon Foster
Kathleen Jennings
John Picacio
Special Award, Professional
Eric Lane
Other Nominees:
John Joseph Adams
Jo Fletcher
Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi
Jeff VanderMeer and S.J. Chambers
Special Award, Non-Professional
Raymond Russell and Rosalie Parker
Other Nominees:
Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, and Sean Wallace
Cat Rambo
Charles Tan
Mark Valentine
Go to previous year's nominees: 2011
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2013
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