World Fantasy Award Winners 2006
(2007-11-05)
World Fantasy Awards 2006:
The World Fantasy Awards winners were announced on Nov. 4th at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York:
Life Achievement:
Betty Ballantine
Diana Wynne Jones
Novel:
Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe
(Nominees: Lisey’s Story, Stephen King; The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner; The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch; The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente)
Novella:
“Botch Town,” Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream)
(Nominees: “The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train,” Kim Newman, The Man from the Diogenes Club; Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge, Cemetery Dance; “Map of Dreams,” M. Rickert, Map of Dreams; “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire,” Ysabeau S. Wilce, Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Short Fiction:
“Journey Into the Kingdom,” M. Rickert, Fantasy & Science Fiction
(Nominees: “The Way He Does It,” Jeffrey Ford, Electric Velocipede; “A Siege of Cranes,” Benjamin Rosenbaum, Twenty Epics; “Another Word for Map is Faith,” Christopher Rowe, Fantasy & Science Fiction; “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter,” Geoff Ryman, Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Anthology:
Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
(Nominees: Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, eds.; Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed.; Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds.; Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed.)
Collection:
Map of Dreams, M. Rickert
(Nominees: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, Susanna Clarke; The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford; American Morons, Glen Hirshberg; Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan)
Artist:
Shaun Tan
(Nominees: Jon Foster, Edward Miller, John Picacio, Jill Thompson)
Special Award: Professional:
Ellen Asher (SFBC)
(Nominees: Mark Finn for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard; Deanna Hoak, copyeditor; Greg Ketter for DreamHaven; Leonard S. Marcus, ed. for The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy)
Special Award: Non-Professional:
Gary K. Wolfe (Locus)
(Nominees: Leslie Howle for work with Clarion West; Leo Grin for The Cimmerian; Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons; John Klima for Electric Velocipede)
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