2018 World Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

2018 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, held during November 1-4 in Baltimore, MD.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go this year to Charles de Lint and Elizabeth Wollheim.

NOVEL

• The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir by John Crowley (Saga Press)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Bond Street Books CA/Knopf US/Riverrun UK)
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle (Spiegal & Grau)
• Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit)

LONG FICTION (10,000 to 40,000 words)

• The Teardrop Method by Simon Avery (TTA Press)
• In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION (under 10,000 words)

• “Old Souls” by Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Magazine, Aug. 2017)
• “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2017)
• “Carnival Nine” by Caroline Yoachim (Beneath Ceasless Skies, May 11, 2017)

ANTHOLOGY

• The New Voices of Fantasy, edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (Tachyon Publications)
• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
• The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/Harper Voyager UK)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Best of Subterranean edited by William Schafer (Subterranean Press)

COLLECTION

• Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers by Tim Powers (Baen Books)
• Tender by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
• The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications)

ARTIST

• Gregory Manchess
• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson for Writing Madness (Centipede Press)
• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
• Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali and Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim