World Fantasy Awards 2013
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A few years ago I was on the jury for the World Fantasy Awards and ever since then I’ve been even more of the opinion that to be nominated is the big win. Sure, it is lovely to get a statue, but the jury get hundreds of submissions (and thousands of stories) and the convention members nominate even more so it is a real kick to see what reaches the final ballot.
This year the ballot is very broad and it is exciting to see two stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on there—interesting as ever to see how many online stories there are in the short story section. Not so much in the novellas, where I think it was just one, K.J. Parker’s “Let Maps to Others” from Subterranean. And Kelly just read and loved Rob Shearman’s collection Remember Why You Fear Me so she was happy to see it there. At Small Beer, we’re thrilled of course to see some of our books. No hubris or false modesty here, it is an honor to see the books nominated!
Anyway, here are the nominees we have on Weightless—the full list is up at Locus. It’s worth noting that Lightspeed #27, with Kat Howard’s “Breaking the Frame“, can be downloaded for free here. Ok, so we don’t have anything from Susan Cooper, but we hae to celebrate that! As ever, big congratulations to all the finalists!
Life Achievement:
- Susan Cooper
- Tanith Lee
Novella
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren
Short Story:
- “The Telling“, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
- “The Castle That Jack Built“, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
- “Breaking the Frame“, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation“, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
Anthology:
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer Press)
Collection:
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer Press)
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer Press)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)
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