British Fantasy Awards

Ariel over on the Alien Online draws my attention to the fact that the British Fantasy Awards nominees have been posted, with the shortlist nominations as follows:

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)

Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Mark Chadbourn, The Queen of Sinister

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Christopher Fowler, The Water Room

Stephen King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Best Novella

Christopher Fowler, Breathe

Tim Lebbon, Dead Man's Hand

Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, The Ice Maiden

Lisa Tuttle, My Death

Sean Wright, The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor

Best Short Fiction

Neil Gaiman, 'The Problem of Susan' (Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Roc)

Joe Hill, 'The Black Phone' (The Third Alternative #39)

Joe Hill, 'You Will Hear the Locust Sing' (The Third Alternative #37)

Paul Meloy, 'Black Static' (The Third Alternative #40)

Adam Roberts, 'Roads Were Burning' (Postscripts #1)

Best Anthology

Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds., The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Andrew Hook, ed., The Alsiso Project

Stephen Jones, ed., The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 15

Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds., Acquainted with the Night

Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases

Best Collection

Allen Ashley, Somnambulists

Paul Finch, Darker Ages

Stephen Gallagher, Out of His Mind

M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen

Lucius Shepard, Trujillo and Other Stories

Best Artist

John Coulthart

Allen Koszowski

Les Edwards/Edward Miller

Richard Marchand

David Magitis

Ian Simmons

Best Small Press

The Alien Online (ed. Ariel)

Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)

Pendragon Press (Christopher Teague)

Postscripts (ed. Peter Crowther)

PS Publishing (Peter Crowther)

Scheherazade (ed. Elizabeth Counihan)

The Third Alternative (ed. Andy Cox)

Telos Publications (David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker)

Well done to all on the shortlist and the best of luck to all of them. And on a personal note I’m utterly chuffed to see my chums on the Alien Online being nominated once more. Although I am puzzled to see Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts’ The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases listed with the best fantasy anthologies as I was under the impression it was an actual medical textbook… The winners will be announced in October at the British Fantasy Convention - full details here on their site.