World Fantasy Awards: Os finalistas

Foram hoje divulgadas os finalistas para as várias categorias dos World Fantasy Awards, os prémios anuais atribuídos na World Fantasy Convention - que este ano terá lugar em Brighton, no Reino Unido, de 31 de Outubro a 3 de Novembro. A cerimónia de entrega dos prémios decorrerá no último dia da convenção. Segue-se a lista dos finalistas por categoria:

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

• Susan Cooper;
• Tanith Lee

Novel:

• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) 
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday) 
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc) 
• Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu) 
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)

Novella:

• Hand of Glory, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
• Let Maps to Others, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer 2012)
• The Emperor's Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
• The Skull, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
• Sky, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

Short Fiction:

• The Telling, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
• A Natural History of Autumn, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
• The Castle That Jack Built, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
• Breaking the Frame, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
• Swift, Brutal Retaliation, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)

Anthology:

• Epic: Legends of Fantasy, ed. John Joseph Adams (Tachyon)
• Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, eds. Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown (Small Beer)
• Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, ed. Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
• Postscripts #28/29: Exotic Gothic 4, ed. Danel Olson (PS Publishing)
• Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Random House)

Collection:

• At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth e Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)

Artist: 

• Vincent Chong
• Didier Graffet and Dave Senior
• Kathleen Jennings
• J.K. Potter
• Chris Roberts

Special Award - Professional:

• Peter Crowther e Nicky Crowther, pela PS Publishing
• Lucia Graves, pela tradução de The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) de Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer e Jeff VanderMeer, pelo portal Weird Fiction Review
• Brett Alexander Savory e Sandra Kasturi, pela ChiZine Publications
• William K. Schafer, pela Subterranean Press

Special Award - Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews, por Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• L. Timmel Duchamp, pela Aqueduct Press
• S.T. Joshi, por Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
• Charles A. Tan, pelo blogue Bibliophile Stalker
• Jerad Walters, pela Centipede Press
• Joseph Wrzos, por Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)

Fonte: SF Signal / World Fantasy Convention