World Fantasy Award nominations

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

See Locus Magazine for the full report.
Here are the nominees:

NOVEL
The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

NOVELLA
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
"The Least Trumps", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"The Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan 3)
Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)
A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY
"Creation", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)
"The Essayist in the Wilderness", William Browning Spencer (F&SF May 2002)
"Little Dead Girl Singing", Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spr 2002)
"October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
"The Weight of Words", Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan 3)

ANTHOLOGY
The American Fantasy Tradition, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (Tor)
Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
Leviathan 3, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (Ministry of Whimsy Press)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

COLLECTION
City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
Figures in Rain, Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)
The Ogre's Wife, Richard Parks (Obscura Press)
Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)

ARTIST
Kinuko Y. Craft
Tom Kidd
Gary Lippincott
Dave McKean
John Jude Palencar
Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
Paul Barnett (for Paper Tiger art books)
Ellen Datlow (for editing)
William K. Schafer (for Subterranean Press)
Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (for Golden Gryphon Press)
Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)
Terri Windling (for editing)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)
Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)
Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
Michael Walsh (for Old Earth Books)
Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)

 

[WayneLigon]

Ouch. I haven't read any of those :/ Though I do think I have 'The Scar' around somewhere but was putting it off until I finally read 'Perdito Station'. And I just got in 'Ombria in Shadow' but I haven't read it yet. It sounded very interesting.