World Fantasy Awards 2009
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
San Jose, CA :
November 1, 2009
Eligibility Year: 2008
Judges: Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, Delia Sherman
Eligibility Year: 2008
Judges: Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, Delia Sherman
Life Achievement
- Winner: Ellen Asher
- Winner: Jane Yolen
Novel
- Winner (tie): The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
- Winner (tie): Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
- The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
- Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
Novella
- Winner: “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes (F&SF Feb 2008)
- “Good Boy”, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)
- Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins 2009)
- “The Overseer”, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF Mar 2008)
- “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
Short Story
- Winner: “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008)
- “A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008)
- “Caverns of Mystery”, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
- “Our Man in the Sudan”, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
- “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
Anthology
- Winner: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
- The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
- The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Steampunk, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
Collection
- Winner: The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
- Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
- Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
- Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
- Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic 2009)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House
- Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications
- Jerad Walters, for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
- Farah Mendlesohn, for Rhetorics of Fantasy
- Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer, for Weird Tales
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Michael Walsh, for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books
- Edith L. Crowe, for her work with The Mythopoeic Society
- Elise Matthesen, for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her "artist's challenges."
- Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke & Nick Mamatas, for Clarkesworld Magazine
- John Klima, for Electric Velocipede
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