Tijekom proteklog vikenda proglašeni su ovogodišnji dobitnici World Fantasy Award, nagrade koja se svake godine dodjeljuju najboljem djelu fantastike objavljenom u prethodnoj godini. Ovogodišnje nagrade su podijeljene u sklopu virtualne World Fantasy konvencije. Nagrade za životno djelo su dobili Karen Joy Fowler i Rowena Morrill. Suci su bili Gwenda Bond, Galen Dara, Michael Kelly, Victor LaValle i Adam Roberts.
Roman:
- Queen of the Conquered, Kacen Callender (Orbit)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook Books/Orbit UK)
- The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa (trans.Stephen Snyder) (Pantheon/Harvill Secker)
Novela:
- “The Butcher’s Table,” Nathan Ballingrud (Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell)
- Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com)
- In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon i Daveed Diggs, William Hutson i Jonathan Snipes (Saga
Press/Hodder & Stoughton UK) - Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com)
Kratka priča:
- “For He Can Creep,” Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, July 10, 2019)
- “Read After Burning,” Maria Dahvana Headley, (A People’s Future of the United States)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-Aug. 2019)
- “Blood is Another Word For Hunger,” Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, July 24, 2019)
- “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Jerome Stueart (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
Mar./Apr. 2019) - “Everyone Knows That They‘re Dead. Do You?,” Genevieve Valentine (The Outcast Hours)
Antologija:
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, urednica Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
- The Outcast Hours, urednici Mahvesh Murad i Jared Shurin (Solaris)
- The Mythic Dream, urednici Dominik Parisien i Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, urednica Nisi Shawl (Solaris)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, urednici Ann i Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)
Zbirka:
- Homesick: Stories, Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)
- Song For the Unraveling of the World: Stories, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
- Unforeseen, Molly Gloss (Saga Press)
- A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, John Hornor Jacobs (Harper Voyager)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)
Umjetnik:
- Tommy Arnold
- Galen Dara
- Julie Dillon
- Wendy Froud
- Kathleen Jennings
Posebna nagrada za profesionalni rad:
- C. C. Finlay, za urednički posao
- Leslie Klinger, za The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright)
- Ellen Oh, za We Need Diverse Books
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, za The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press)
- Sheree Renée Thomas, za doprinos žanru
Posebna nagrada za neprofesionalni rad:
- Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Laura E. Goodin i Esko Suoranta, za Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science
Fiction and Fantasy Research - Michael Kelly, za Undertow Publications i The Year’s Best Weird Fiction
- Jonathan Strahan i Gary K. Wolfe, za the Coode Street Podcast
- Lynne M. Thomas i Michael Damian Thomas, za Uncanny Magazine
- Terri Windling, za Myth & Moor