Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Awards: Crimespree Magazine; World Fantasy Finalists

Sean Chercover's Trigger City won the 2009 Crimespree magazine award for favorite book of 2008. Other winners were Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais (best in ongoing series), Brian Azzarello (favorite comics writer), Money Shot by Christa Faust (favorite original paperback, mass market or trade) You can see the runners-up in all categories at Crimespree's blog, Central Crime Zone.

Finalists have been named for this year's World Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in October. The shortlist includes:
Novel:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Anthology
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
Logorrhea edited by John Klima
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
edited by Ekaterina Sedia
Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Collection
Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Filter House by Nisi Shawl
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

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