2010 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Seattle, Washington.

Comments: With nominated works by Roger Zelazny, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, and Jack Vance in the Best Collection category, 2010 exemplified the genre fiction fans' nostalgic yearning for short fiction written by authors who cut their teeth in the 1950s and 1960s. As forward-looking as most science fiction fans like to pretend they are, the market (and the voting for awards) demonstrates that a large proportion of them look to the past more than they look to the future, which to my mind explains to a certain extent why short fiction continues to prosper in the genre world, while it has nearly died out completely in mainstream fiction. The world of short fiction is changing, however, as indicated by the appearance of online outlets for short fiction such as Tor.com and Clarkesworld on the list of Best Magazine nominees.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Other Nominees:
2.   The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker
3.   Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
4.   Julian Comstock: A Story of 22^nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
5.   Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress
6.   Transition by Iain M. Banks
7.   Under the Dome by Stephen King
8.   Gardens of the Sun by Paul J. McAuley
9.   This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
10. Ark by Stephen Baxter
11. The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
12. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
13. The Sunless Countries by Karl Schroeder
14. The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
15. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
16. Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
17. Buyout by Alexander C. Irvine

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The City & the City by China Miéville

Other Nominees:
2.   Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
3.   Drood by Dan Simmons
4.   Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
5.   Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
6.   Green by Jay Lake
7.   The Revolution Business by Charles Stross
8.   Canticle by Ken Scholes
9.   Avilion by Robert Holdstock
10. Lifelode by Jo Walton
11. The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham
12. The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
13. Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales by Greer Gilman
14. Madness of Flowers by Jay Lake
15. The High City by Cecelia Holland
16. Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
17. Spell Games by T.A. Pratt
18. Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox
19. Gears of the City by Felix Gilman
20. Last Days by Brian Evenson
21. In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
22. The Painting and the City by Robert Wexler

Best Young Adult Book
Winner:
1.   Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Other Nominees:
2.   The Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker
3.   Liar by Justine Larbalestier
4.   Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5.   Going Bovine by Libba Bray
6.   Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
7.   The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
8.   Sacred Scars by Kathleen Duey
9.   Gullstruck Island (aka The Lost Conspiracy) by Frances Hardinge

Best First Novel
Winner:

1.    The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Other Nominees:
2.   Lamentation by Ken Scholes
3.   The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
4.   Soulless by Gail Carriger
5.   Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout
6.   Ash by Malinda Lo
7.   Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
8.   Harbinger by Jack Skillingstead
9.   Total Oblivion, More or Less by Alan DeNiro
10. Spellbent by Lucy A. Snyder
11. Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring
12. The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas
13. Lightbreaker by Mark Teppo
14. Blood of Ambrose by James Enge

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

Other Nominees:

2.   Palimpsest by Charles Stross

3.   Vishnu at the Cat Circus by Ian McDonald
4.   Ace One by Nancy Kress
5.   Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
6.   Cuckoo by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Leah Bobet
7.   Hot Rock by Greg Egan
8.   The Far End of History by John C. Wright
9.   A Special Place by Peter Straub

10. Paradiso Lost by Albert E. Cowdrey (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, Nos. 6 & 7 (June/July 2009)

11. Sea-Hearts by Margo Lanagan
12. Crimes and Glory by Paul J. McAuley
13. Sugar by Leah Bobet

14. Where the Winds Are All Asleep by Michael F. Flynn (reviewed in Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Volume CXXIX, No. 10 (October 2009))

15. Horn by Peter M. Ball
16. Wives by Paul Haines
17. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   By Moonlight by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:
2.   It Takes Two by Nicola Griffith
3.   The Island by Peter Watts
4.   First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal
5.   Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
6.   Sylgarmo's Proclamation by Lucius Shepard
7.   The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles by Kij Johnson
8.   Zeppelin City by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
9.   Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson
10. Secret Identity by Kelly Link
11. Mongoose by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
12. Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance by John Kessel
13. Truth and Bone by Pat Cadigan
14. Galapagos by Caitlín R. Kiernan
15. The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale by Robert Silverberg

16. 'A Wild and a Wicked Youth' by Ellen Kushner (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, Nos. 4 & 5 (April/May 2009))

17. Formidable Caress by Stephen Baxter (reviewed in Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Volume CXXIX, No. 12 (December 2009))

18. This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson

19. (tie) The Dragaman's Bride by Andy Duncan
      (tie) Lion Walk by Mary Rosenblum
21. A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes

22. Dragon's Teeth by Alex Irvine (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 117, No. 5 (December 2009))

23. The Best Monkey by Daniel Abraham
24. Dragon's Deep by Cecelia Holland
25. Yes We Have No Bananas by Paul Di Filippo
26. Twilight of the Gods by John C. Wright
27. Lowland Sea by Suzy McKee Charnas

28. Economancer by Carolyn Ives Gilman (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, Nos. 6 & 7 (June/July 2009)

29. Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance by Daniel Abraham

30. Black Swan by Bruce Sterling

31. SinBad the Sand Sailor by R. Garcia y Robertson (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 7 (July 2009))

32. Vanishing by Peter S. Beagle
33. Cracklegrackle by Justina Robson
34. Technicolor by John Langan
35. White Charles by Sarah Monette
36. Clockatrice by Tanith Lee

37. Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   An Invocation of Incuriosity by Neil Gaiman

Other Nominees:

2.   Spar by Kij Johnson

3.   Useless Things by Maureen F. McHugh
4.   The Pelican Bar by Karen Joy Fowler

5.   Going Deep by James Patrick Kelly (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 (June 2009))

6.   Before My Last Breath by Robert Reed
7.   Donovan Sent Us by Gene Wolfe
8.   Narrative of a Beast's Life by Cat Rambo
9.   The Cinderella Game by Kelly Link
10. Blocked by Geoff Ryman
11. The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
12. A Delicate Architecture by Catherynne M. Valente
13. Three Twilight Tales by Jo Walton
14. Colliding Branes by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
15. Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction by Jo Walton

16. The Motorman's Coat by John Kessel (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, Nos. 6 & 7 (June/July 2009)

17. Child-Empress of Mars by Theodora Goss
18. (tie) As Women Fight by Sara Genge
      (tie) The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Holly Black
20. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
21. Ferryman by Margo Lanagan
22. Strappado by Laird Barron
23. A Story, With Beans by Steven Gould
24. Wizard's Apprentice by Delia Sherman
25. Dulce Domum by Ellen Kushner
26. Edison's Frankenstein by Chris Roberson
27. Singing on a Star by Ellen Klages

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe) by Gene Wolfe

Other Nominees:

2.   The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6 by Roger Zelazny

3.   Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
4.   Wireless by Charles Stross
5.   We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle
6.   The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson: Volumes 1 & 2 by Poul Anderson

7.   Slow Sculpture: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon: Volume XII by Theodore Sturgeon

8.   Oceanic by Greg Egan
9.   A Is for Alien by Caitlín R. Kiernan
10. Trips: The Collected Stories, Volume Four by Robert Silverberg
11. The Best of Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock
12. Wild Thyme, Green Magic by Jack Vance
13. Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt by Jack McDevitt
14. Tides from the New Worlds by Tobias S. Buckell
15. The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories by Vandana Singh
16. Viator Plus by Lucius Shepard
17. A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti
18. Northwest Passages by Barbara Roden
19. Grazing the Long Acre by Gwyneth Jones
20. Are You There and Other Stories by Jack Skillingstead
21. Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover
22. Fugue State by Brian Evenson

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

3.   Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

4.   Eclipse Three edited by Jonathan Strahan
5.   Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
6.   Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
7.   The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams

8.   The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel

9.   The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology edited by Gordon van Gelder

10. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three edited by Jonathan Strahan

11. Firebirds Soaring edited by Sharyn November
12. Best American Fantasy edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
13. Troll's Eye View edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
14. (tie) The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

      (tie) The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three edited by George Mann

16. Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer

17. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now edited by Peter Straub

18. Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake
19. Year's Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
20. Federations edited by John Joseph Adams
21. Postscripts #20/21: Edison's Frankenstein edited by Peter Crowther
22. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One edited by Ellen Datlow
23. X6 edited by Keith Stevenson
24. The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 Edition edited by Rich Horton

25. Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realism edited by Bradford Morrow and Brian Evenson

26. Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download edited by Rich Horton

Best Nonfiction, Art, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Cheek by Jowl: Essays by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:

2.   Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner

3.   Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess by Charles Vess
4.   Powers: Secret Histories by John Berlyne
5.   This Is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This Is "I") by Jack Vance
6.   Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons by Mike Beahr

7.   Hope-In-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees by Michael Swanwick

8.   Canary Fever: Reviews by John Clute

9.   From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul edited by Stephen D. Korshak

10. Starcombing by David Langford
11. The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King, illustrated by Michael Whelan
12. Knowing Darkess: Artists Inspired by Stephen King by George Beahm

13. The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn

14. The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint

15. Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology and Politics by Gwyneth Jones

16. Sci-Fi Art, A Graphic History by Steve Holland
17. Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
18. Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist by James Gurney
19. Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century by Jane Frank
20. Imaginaire II: Magic Realism 2010 edited by Claus Brusen
21. Alice in Wonderland by Rodney Matthews

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Ellen Datlow

Other Nominees:
2.   Gardner Dozois
3.   Jonathan Strahan
4.   Gordon van Gelder
5.   David G. Hartwell
6.   Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
7.   Lou Anders
8.   John Joseph Adams
9.   Peter Crowther
10. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
11. Sheila Williams
12. Gavin Grant and Kelly Link
13. Terri Windling
14. Sharyn November
15. Beth Meacham
16. William Schafer
17. Stanley Schmidt
18. Shawna McCarthy
19. Juliet Ulman
20. Ginjer Buchanan
21. Teresa Nielsen Hayden
22. Martin H. Greenberg
23. Betsy Wollheim
24. Betsy Mitchell
25. Andy Cox
26. Stephen Jones

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Fantasy & Science Fiction

Other Nominees:
2.   Asimov's
3.   Tor.com
4.   Clarkesworld Magazine
5.   Analog
6.   Strange Horizons
7.   Subterranean
8.   Realms of Fantasy
9.   Interzone
10. Weird Tales
11. The New York Review of Science Fiction
12. Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
13. SF Site
14. Fantasy Magazine
15. Ansible
16. Postscripts
17. Cemetery Dance
18. Jim Baen's Universe
19. Electric Velocipede
20. Black Gate
21. SFRevu

Best Book Publisher or Imprint
Winner:
1.   Tor

Other Nominees:
2.   Subterranean Press
3.   Night Shade Books
4.   Baen
5.   Pyr
6.   NESFA Press
7.   DAW
8.   PS Publishing
9.   Ace
10. Del Rey
11. Orbit
12. Small Beer Press
13. Gollancz
14. Tachyon
15. Golden Gryphon
16. Roc
17. St. Martin's
18. Eos
19. Spectra
20. Arkham House

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   John Picacio
3.   Shaun Tan
4.   Charles Vess
5.   Stephan Martiniere
6.   Bob Eggleton
7.   Donato Giancola
8.   John Jude Palencar
9.   Phil Foglio
10. Kinuko Y. Craft
11. Dave McKean
12. Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
13. Frank Frazetta
14. J.K. Potter
15. Jim Burns
16. Don Maitz
17. Michael Kaluta
18. Daniel Dos Santos
19. Vincent Di Fate
20. Thomas Canty
21. Yoshitaka Amano
22. Julie Bell
23. Frank Wu
24. Brom

Go to previous year's nominees: 2009
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2011

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2010 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Comments: In 2010 the Nebula Award for Best Script was replaced by the Ray Bradbury Award, which, like the Andre Norton Award, the SFWA is careful to explain, is not a Nebula Award. I'm not sure why the SFWA is so very adamant that these award are not Nebula Awards, but the fact remains that despite being selected using the exact same criteria as the Nebula Award, determined using the exact same jury system, and presented at the same award ceremony, the SFWA seems to think it is very important that winners of these awards don't have the cachet of calling themselves Nebula Winners. To be blunt, I find the SFWA's stance on this issue to be more than a little inane. An assessment of these awards makes it pretty clear that they are de facto Nebula Awards, so drawing a hard line de jure to deny that reality seems to serve no real purpose other than to make the SFWA look petty.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Other Nominees:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City & the City by China Miéville
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

Best Novella

Winner:

The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

Other Nominees:
Act One by Nancy Kress
Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Sublimation Angels by Jason Sanford

Best Novelette

Winner:

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

Other Nominees:
Divining Light by Ted Kosmatka
The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi

I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said by Richard Bowes (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 117, No. 5 (December 2009))

A Memory of Wind by Rachel Swirsky
Vinegar Peace, or, the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage by Michael Bishop

Best Short Story

Winner:
Spar by Kij Johnson

Other Nominees:
Bridesicle by Will McIntosh

Going Deep by James Patrick Kelly (reviewed in Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 (June 2009))

Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed
I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein
Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin

Ray Bradbury Award

Winner:

District 9 by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell

Other Nominees:
Avatar by James Cameron
Coraline by Henry Selick
Moon by Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
Star Trek by J.J. Abrams
Up by Bob Peterson

Andre Norton Award

Winner:

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Other Nominees:
Ash by Malinda Lo
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev
The Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

Go to previous year's nominees: 2009
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2011

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2010 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: Sci-Fi London at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom.

Comments: With his victory arriving right on schedule, China Miéville won his third overall Clarke Award in 2010, giving him more wins for this award than any other author. Given his established track record of winning the Clarke Award once every five years, I fully expect Miéville to win this award in 2015. In addition to Miéville's accomplishment in this year, Gwyneth Jones was also nominated, making her one of the most frequently nominated authors for the Clarke Award.

Winner
The City & the City by China Miéville

Shortlist
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

What Are the Arthur C. Clarke Awards?

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2009 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 2009, the Libertarian Futurist Society demonstrated why so few people take the Prometheus Awards seriously by nominating John C. Wright's novel The Golden Age for induction into its Hall of Fame. There's nothing wrong with the novel, but it was published in 2002, which is so close in time to 2009 as to make the idea that the Hall of Fame is to honor "classic" works of libertarian fiction into a farce. Furthermore, in 2003, when it would have been eligible for the honor of Best Novel, The Golden Age wasn't even nominated, which makes one wonder what happened in the intervening years to make it worthy of Hall of Fame consideration. And it isn't like The Golden Age was an unknown work published by a small press in 2003: The book was prominent enough to be nominated for a Locus Award and the Campbell Award. An observer might note that John C. Wright very publicly converted to Roman Catholicism after having visions of "ghosts and spirits". A cynical observer might then note that the Libertarian Futurist Society seems to have been at least partially captured by religious conservatives and consider the possibility that the important change from 2003 and 2009 didn't have anything to do with the book, but rather with the author's religious affiliation. But that's silly - religious conservatives would never promote a work they snubbed earlier merely because they wanted to reward the author for converting and accepting their superstitious nonsense. Also, I have a bridge to sell you.

Best Novel

Winner:

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Other Nominees:

Half a Crown by Jo Walton

The January Dancer by Michael F. Flynn
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Opening Atlantis by Harry Turtledove
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross

Hall of Fame

Winner:

The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Other Nominees:
As Easy as A.B.C. by Rudyard Kipling
Courtship Rite by Donald M. Kingsbury
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Golden Age by John C. Wright
The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Go to previous year's nominees: 2008
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2010

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2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, San Jose, California.

Comments: One thing that is notable about the 2009 World Fantasy Awards is that Neil Gaiman was nominated for two awards. That this is notable is in itself notable. During this same time frame, Gaiman routinely appeared on the ballots of the Hugo and Nebula Awards - so often that it is somewhat unusual when he doesn't appear on the slate of nominees for those awards. The World Fantasy Awards, on the other hand, seem to have avoided this trend, and Gaiman, although he has been nominated now and then, hasn't appeared nearly as frequently on the ballots for them.

The other event that seems notable is the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed upon Jane Yolen. The interesting thing here is this award was given to her despite her having so very few nominations for her work. This isn't to say that her work is not good - it is almost uniformly excellent. But it highlights the fact that the World Fantasy awards have made it a practice to ignore female authors and editors, and the authors of young adult works. Yolen is (obviously) a woman, and her best work has generally been in the young adult arena. This combination of a lack of nominations for her work and the Lifetime Achievement Award granted to Yolen almost seems like the World Fantasy Awards noting that while they have the (correct) feeling that she is important to the genre, they are not really sure why.

Best Novel

Winner:
(tie) The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
(tie) Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

Other Nominees:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory

Best Novella

Winner:
If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes

Other Nominees:
Good Boy by Nisi Shawl
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
The Overseer by Albert Cowdrey
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel by Peter S. Beagle

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson

Other Nominees:
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica by Catherynne M. Valente
Caverns of Mystery by Kage Baker
Our Man in the Sudan by Sarah Pinborough
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel

Best Anthology

Winner:

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia

Other Nominees:
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams
Steampunk edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant

Best Collection

Winner:

The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford

Other Nominees:
Filter House by Nisi Shawl
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Ellen Asher
Jane Yolen

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Shaun Tan

Other Nominees:
Janet Chui
Kinuko Y. Craft
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Other Nominees:
Farah Mendlesohn
Stephen H. Segal and Ann VanderMeer
Jerad Walters
Jacob Weisman

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Michael Walsh

Other Nominees:
Edith L. Crowe
John Klima
Elise Matthesen
Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, and Nick Mamatas

Go to previous year's nominees: 2008
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2010

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2009 WSFA Small Press Award Nominees

Location: CapClave in Rockville, Maryland.

Comments: Perhaps as a result of the anonymous voting process, the WSFA Small Press Award has an established track record of diversity among its nominees. It seems that once one strips away the identities of the authors and judges the works solely on their own merits, the very white and very male and very American state of the genre faces away, and the cast becomes far more colorful, far less masculine, and far less provincial.

In 2009, out of seven stories, three were written by women. One nominated story was by an Israeli-born author, another by a Nigerian-American, still another by an Australian writer. One story wasn't even originally printed in English. For those people who claim that they only look for good stories and don't care about the identities of the authors of those stories, and yet end up reading little other than works authored by white American men, the make-up of this blindly chosen list should be something of an eye-opener. Such individuals might want to consider that it could be something other than the quality of the story that is driving their selections.

WSFA Small Press Award

Winner:

The Absence of Stars: Part 1 by Greg Siewert

Other Nominees:
Drinking Problem by K.D. Wentworth
Hard Rain at the Fortean Café by Lavie Tidhar
His Last Arrow by Christopher Sequeira
Silent as Dust by James Maxey
Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

The Toy Car by Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco, (translated from Spanish by Ian Watson)

Go to previous year's nominees: 2008
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2010

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2009 Hugo Award Finalists

Location: Anticipation in Montreal, Quebec.

Comments: In 2009 Neil Gaiman continued his dominance of the Hugo Awards by winning the award for Best Novel for the second time, taking home the rocket statue for The Graveyard Book. At this point, it seems like anyone who is nominated for a Hugo against a work by Gaiman, a work related to something by Gaiman, or a work that Gaiman may have once approvingly thought about, should just start practicing their concession smile. The same could probably be said for Ted Chiang, but he tends to write more short fiction and not things like novels, novels that are adapted into movies, and episodes of the Doctor Who television series, so he isn't as widely known as Gaiman.

And while I'm mentioning the Doctor Who television series, I think I would be remiss if I pointed out that it didn't win the Hugo Award for Best Short Form Dramatic Presentation, which instead went to the brilliant Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. This is interesting, because it shows that an internet based project will be taken seriously by the Hugo voters. That the Doctor Who show not winning is notable is a testament to how dominant that show has become. I have to wonder, though, if the combined dominance of Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who is a passing thing, or an indication that the tastes of science fiction fans who vote for the Hugo Awards is narrowing?

Finally, this year saw the introduction of a new category - an award for Best Graphic Story, which was promptly won by Phil and Kaja Foglio's Girl Genius story Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones. Given the history of graphic novels, this award was long overdue. On the other hand, given the greatness of the Sandman series, if this award had been around for longer, it probably just would have given Neil Gaiman more Hugos to put on his trophy shelf.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Other Finalists:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

Best Novella

Winner:

The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress

Other Finalists:
The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Tear by Ian McDonald
True Names by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow
Truth by Robert Reed

Best Novelette

Winner:

Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear

Other Finalists:
Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders by Mike Resnick
The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner

Best Short Story

Winner:

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Other Finalists:
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson
Article of Faith by Mike Resnick
Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled by Michael Swanwick

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi

Other Finalists:
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn

Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner

The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold by Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers

What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid

Best Graphic Story

Winner:

Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones by Phil Foglio, and Kaja Foglio

Other Finalists:
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Butcher, illustrated by Ardian Syaf
Fables: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham, art by Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy
Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic by Howard Tayler
Serenity: Better Days by Brett Matthews and Joss Weedon, art by Will Conrad
Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan

Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

Winner:
WALL-E

Other Finalists:
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Iron Man
METAtropolis

Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form

Winner:
Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Other Finalists:
Battlestar Galactica: Revelations
Doctor Who: Turn Left
Doctor Who: Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
Lost: The Constant

Best Professional Editor: Short Form

Winner:
Ellen Datlow

Other Finalists:
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Sheila Williams

Best Professional Editor: Long Form

Winner;
David G. Hartwell

Other Finalists:
Lou Anders
Ginjer Buchanan
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Beth Meacham

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Donato Giancola

Other Finalists:
Daniel Dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Weird Tales edited by Stephen H. Segal and Ann VanderMeer

Other Finalists:
Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas, and Sean Wallace
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, and Liza Groen Trombi

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Kristine Dikeman, David G. Hartwell, and Kevin J. Maroney

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima

Other Finalists:
Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III
The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Cheryl Morgan

Other Finalists:
Chris Garcia
John Hertz
Dave Langford
Steven H Silver

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Frank Wu

Other Finalists:
Alan F. Beck
Brad W. Foster
Sue Mason
Taral Wayne

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
David Anthony Durham

Other Finalists:
Aliette de Bodard
Felix Gilman
Tony Pi
Gord Sellar

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2009 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Mythcon XL in Los Angeles, California.

Comments: The roster of authors with works nominated for the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards include two amazing female authors - Patricia A. McKillip and Ursula K. Le Guin. Both women have had prolific careers that have combined substantial longevity and consistently high quality writing, resulting in nominations for this award and others across multiple decades. In a way, it was the writing of these two women that shaped me as a fantasy fiction fan, as I read several of their works when I was growing up, and because of their continued production of excellent fantasy fiction, they continue to shape my as a fantasy fiction fan.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:

Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone by Carol Berg

Other Nominees:

The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip

An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Other Nominees:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Savvy by Ingrid Law

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

The History of the Hobbit (Part One, Mr Baggins and Part Two, Return to Bag-End) by John D. Rateliff

Other Nominees:

Charles Williams: Alchemy and Imagination by Gavin Ashenden

The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-Earth by Elizabeth A. Wittingham

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward

Tolkien on Fairy-Stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Jason Marc Harris

One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz

Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books by Richard Carl Tuerk
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn

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2009 Campbell Award Nominees

Location: Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Comments: As glad as I am that Cory Doctorow won a well-deserved Campbell Award for his novel Little Brother, the 2009 slate of nominees seems to me to have been a distinct step backwards. In the couple of years leading up to 2009 women and minority writers were distinctly underrepresented in the lists of nominees for this award, but at least they had some representation. In 2009, there was a distinct lack of books penned by female or minority authors on the ballot. In effect, the judges seem to be saying there were no books by female authors or non-white authors that were even worthy of consideration for the award, which seems to be both an amazing and completely unbelievable statement.

The other striking thing about the 2009 Campbell Award ballot is the extremely truncated list of finalists included on the ballot. Since the Campbell Awards began reporting the list of non-placing finalists, most years had a roster of nine or ten "also-rans", but for some reason the 2009 list only included three. There seems to be no reason for such a short list - just as many good science fiction novels seem to have been published in 2009 as in any other year. As with so many of the odd and inexplicable decisions made by the Campbell Award judges, this one seems to be a complete mystery.

Best Novel

Winner:

(tie) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

(tie) Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod

Third Place:

The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow

Finalists:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
Valley of Day-Glo by Nick Di Chario

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2009 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Seattle, Washington.

Comments: Once again the Best Art Book category was eliminated as an independent entity and folded into the Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book category. Once again this new supercategory seems to make little sense, throwing together wildly different works and expecting the voters to be able to meaningfully compare them one against another. Once again, this merger of categories makes little sense. Once again, I have no idea what the rationale for this merger was, or what it was intended to accomplish.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Other Nominees:
2.   Matter by Iain M. Banks
3.   City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
4.   Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
5.   Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
6.   Half a Crown by Jo Walton
7.   Incandescence by Greg Egan
8.   Rolling Thunder by John Varley
9.   Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
10. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
11. The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley
12. The January Dancer by Michael F. Flynn
13. Escapement by Jay Lake
14. Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder
15. Flood by Stephen Baxter
16. Weaver by Stephen Baxter
17. The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
18. Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
19. The Company by K.J. Parker

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
2.   The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
3.   An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
4.   The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
5.   The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
6.   An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
7.   The Knights of the Cornerstone by James P. Blaylock
8.   The Hidden World by Paul Park
9.   Shadowbridge/Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost
10. The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
11. The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
12. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
13. The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

14. Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney (aka How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce)

15. The Engine's Child by Holly Phillips
16. Varanger by Cecelia Holland

Best Young Adult Book
Winner:
1.   The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Other Nominees:
2.   Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
3.   Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
4.   Nation by Terry Pratchett
5.   Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
6.   How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier
7.   Chalice by Robin McKinley
8.   Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce
9.   The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
11. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
12. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (aka The Two Pearls of Wisdom) by Alison Goodman
13. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
14. Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Two: Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish

Best First Novel
Winner:

1.    Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko

Other Nominees:
2.   Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
3.   Thunderer by Felix Gilman
4.   Black Ships by Jo Graham
5.   The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
6.   Graceling by Kristin Cashore
7.   The Painted Man (aka The Warded Man) by Peter V. Brett
8.   Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott
9.   The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski
10. The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick
11. Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst
12. The Long Look by Richard Parks
13. The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

Other Nominees:

2.   The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress

3.   The Tear by Ian McDonald
4.   Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
5.   True Names by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow
6.   The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Thomas M. Disch
7.   The Philosopher's Stone by Brian Stableford
8.   Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage Baker
9.   Truth by Robert Reed
10. The Surfer by Kelly Link
11. The Hob Carpet by Ian R. MacLeod
12. The Man with the Golden Balloon by Robert Reed
13. The Political Prisoner by Charles Coleman Finlay
14. Mystery Hill by Alex Irvine
15. Arkfall by Carolyn Ives Gilman
16. Tenbrook of Mars by Dean McLaughlin
17. The Overseer by Albert E. Cowdrey

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi

Other Nominees:
2.   Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear

3.   The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away by Cory Doctorow

4.   The Ice War by Stephen Baxter
5.   Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
6.   The Rabbi's Hobby by Peter S. Beagle
7.   Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
8.   The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi
9.   Turing's Apples by Stephen Baxter
10. Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
11. Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel by Peter S. Beagle
12. The Hour of Babel by Tim Powers
13. The Star Surgeon's Apprentice by Alastair Reynolds
14. Lost Continent by Greg Egan
15. If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes
16. Days of Wonder by Geoff Ryman
17. Conversation Hearts by John Crowley
18. The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
19. The Tale of Junko and Sayuri by Peter S. Beagle
20. Fury by Alastair Reynolds
21. Memory Dog by Kathleen Ann Goonan
22. Radio Station St. Jack by Neal Barrett, Jr.
23. Machine Maid by Margo Lanagan
24. Special Economics by Maureen F. McHugh
25. The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald
26. An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald
27. An Alien Heresy by S.P. Somtow
28. Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe by Garth Nix
29. Following the Pharmers by Brian Stableford

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Other Nominees:

2.   After the Coup by John Scalzi

3.   Boojim by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
4.   The Kindness of Strangers by Nancy Kress
5.   King Pelles the Sure by Peter S. Beagle
6.   From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled by Michael Swanwick
7.   Private Eye by Terry Bisson
8.   26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson
9.   The Scarecrow's Boy by Michael Swanwick
10. Evil Robot Monkey by Mary Robinette Kowal
11. A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica by Catherynne M. Valente
12. The Thought War by Paul J. McAuley
13. The Goosle by Margo Lanagan
14. Fixing Hanover by Jeff VanderMeer

15. The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black by Jay Lake

16. Ass-Hat Magic Spider by Scott Westerfeld
17. The Dream of Reason by Jeffrey Ford
18. Invisible Empire of Ascending Light by Ken Scholes
19. The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman
20. The House Left Empty by Robert Reed
21. Reader's Guide by Lisa Goldstein
22. Fifty Dinosaurs by Robert Reed
23. Goblin Music by Joan Aiken
24. The Seventh Expression of the Robot General by Jeffrey Ford
25. Snatch Me Another by Mercurio D. Rivera

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Other Nominees:

2.   The Best of Michael Swanwick by Michael Swanwick

3.   Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
4.   The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
5.   The Best of Lucius Shepard by Lucius Shepard
6.   Dark Integers and Other Stories by Greg Egan
7.   H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction by H.P. Lovecraft
8.   Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories by Nancy Kress
9.   Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader by Howard Waldrop
10. The Wall of America by Thomas M. Disch
11. The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel
12. The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives by James P. Blaylock
13. The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken
14. Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys by Ken Scholes
15. Works of Art by James Blish
16. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
17. The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly
18. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum

19. Gateway to Paradise: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six by Jack Williamson

20. The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea
21. Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods by Paul Melko

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant

3.   Galactic Empires edited by Gardner Dozois
4.   Eclipse Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
5.   The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
6.   Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders
7.   Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
8.   Steampunk edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
9.   Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams
10. The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
11. The New Weird edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
12. Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
13. Sideways in Crime edited by Lou Anders
14. The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two edited by George Mann

15. Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology edited by Nick Gevers

16. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan

17. Poe's Children: The New Horror edited by Peter Straub
18. Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy edited by William Schafer
19. A Science Fiction Omnibus edited by Brian W. Aldiss
20. Clockwork Phoenix edited by Mike Allen
21. A Book of Wizards edited by Marvin Kaye

22. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Nineteen edited by Stephen Jones

23. Year's Best Fantasy 8 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
24. Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann

Best Nonfiction, Art, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell

Other Nominees:

2.   Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner

3.   Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn
4.   What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid
5.   Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

6.   Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, and Stephen R. Bissette

7.   The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold edited by Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers

8.   H. Beam Piper: A Biography by John F. Carr

9.   A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft edited by Jerad Walters

10. The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute 1908-2008 edited by Stephen Haffner

11. An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett edited by Andrew M. Butler

12. Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton by J.G. Ballard

13. Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, Second Edition by Michael Andre-Driussi

14. The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy by Stephen D. Korshak

15. The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
16. Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks
17. Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art edited by Jane Frank

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Ellen Datlow

Other Nominees:
2.   Gardner Dozois
3.   Gordon van Gelder
4.   David G. Hartwell
5.   Jonathan Strahan
6.   Patrick Nielsen Hayden
7.   Lou Anders
8.   Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
9.   Sheila Williams
10. Peter Crowther
11. Jim Baen
12. Gavin Grant and Kelly Link
13. Stanley Schmidt
14. Terri Windling
15. William Schafer
16. Shawna McCarthy
17. (tie) Teresa Nielsen Hayden
      (tie) Martin H. Greenberg
19. Toni Weisskopf
20. Ginjer Buchanan
21. Beth Meacham
22. Andy Cox
23. Sharyn November

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Fantasy & Science Fiction

Other Nominees:
2.   Asimov's
3.   Analog
4.   Subterranean
5.   Realms of Fantasy
6.   Interzone
7.   Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
8.   The New York Review of Science Fiction
9.   Clarkesworld Magazine
10. Strange Horizons
11. Weird Tales
12. SF Site
13. Jim Baen's Universe
14. Ansible
15. Postscripts
16. SF Weekly
17. Electric Velocipede
18. Cemetery Dance
19. Fantasy Magazine
20. Black Gate
21. The Internet Review of Science Fiction
22. SFRevu

Best Book Publisher or Imprint
Winner:
1.   Tor

Other Nominees:
2.   Subterranean Press
3.   Night Shade Books
4.   Baen
5.   Ace
6.   Del Rey
7.   Gollancz
8.   Bantam Spectra
9.   Pyr
10. PS Publishing
11. DAW
12. Orbit
13. NESFA Press
14. Small Beer Press
15. Tachyon
16. Eos
17. Golden Gryphon
18. Roc
19. St. Martin's
20. Firebird
21. Solaris
22. SF Book Club
23. Arkham House

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Bob Eggleton
3.   John Picacio
4.   Shaun Tan
5.   Charles Vess
6.   Stephan Martiniere
7.   Dave McKean
8.   Donato Giancola
9.   Kinuko Y. Craft
10. Thomas Canty
11. Frank Frazetta
12. John Jude Palencar
13. Jim Burns
14. Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
15. J.K. Potter
16. Vincent Di Fate
17. Don Maitz
18. Boris Vallejo
19. Michael Kaluta
20. Frank Wu
21. Tom Kidd
22. Yoshitaka Amano
23. Julie Bell

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