Nominacije za World Fantasy Award 2015.

 

Konkurencija za najznačajniju fantasy nagradu ove je godine prilično jaka, i to ne samo u kategoriji romana. Inače, World Fnatasy Award dodjeljuje se od 1975. godine u sklopu World Fantasy konvenicje. Dobitnik/dobitnica nagrade dobiva bistu H. P Lovecrafta, jednog od najznačajnijih žanrovskih pisaca. Neko vrijeme već traje prijepor oko toga da se bistu zamjeni zbog Lovecraftovog izraženog rasizma. Prošle je godine pokrenuta i peticija da se bista promjeni, a jedna je od ideja da bi zamjena mogla biti spisateljica Octavia Butler. Naravno, to uopće ne umanjuje važnost nagrade, a laurati za 2015. godinu bit će objavljeni na konveniciji u Saratogi koja se održava od 5. do 8. studenog. Nominacije su kako slijede:

Roman:

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
• Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)

Novela:

• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 11/19/14)
• “Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF 11-12/14)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
• “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

Kratka priča:

• “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link, (McSweeney’s 48)
• Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)
• “Death’s Door Café”, Kaaron Warren (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
• “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, 4/2/14)
• “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)

Antologija:

• Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)
• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)

Zbirka:

• Mercy and Other Stories, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
• Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)

Umjetnik:

• Samuel Araya
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Erik Mohr
• John Picacio

Posebna nagrada za profesionalni rad:

• John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Fantasy magazines
• Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops
• Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
• Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Posebna nagrada za neprofesionalni rad:

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean)
• Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader (civilianreader.wordpress.com)
• Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press