sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2009 (original) (raw)

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

• Winner: Shaun Tan
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Janet Chui
• Stephan Martiniere
• John Picacio

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