2012 British Fantasy Awards
The 2012 British Fantasy Awards were presented yesterday, September 30th, at FantasyCon in Brighton, England. This year the award has been split into two awards in the best Novel category: The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel and The August Derleth Award for best horror novel.
The Robert Holdstock Award:Â Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor, 2011)
The August Derleth Award:Â The Ritual by Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan, 2011)
See the complete list of winners in all categories on the BFS site. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. Among Others has now won 3 out of the 5 awards it’s been nominated for including the Hugo and Nebula awards.
2012 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist
The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards. This year there will be two awards in the best novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel. The shortlist is:
- The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
- 11/22/63 – Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Cyber Circus – Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
- A Dance with Dragons – George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)
- The Ritual – Adam Nevill (Pan)
- Among Others – Jo Walton (Tor Books)
See the official press release for the complete shortlist of all categories. Congratulations to all the nominees!
So what do you think of this lineup? How about the split between fantasy and horror? I think it’s pretty cool but only 6 novels made the list for 2 categories? Will it always be an even split between fantasy and horror in the shortlist? I can see this getting messey.
2011 British Fantasy Society Award
The results for the 2011 British Fantasy Society Awards have been announced at Fantasycon in Brighton, England. The award for best novel, also known as the August Derleth Award, goes to:
Demon Dance by Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths, 2010)
Demon Dance is book 3 of the Vampire Gene Trilogy. Book 2, Futile Flame, was nominated for the 2010 BFS. Congratulations to Sam Stone and all the nominees.
There is no official press release yet but you can see the complete list of winners for all categories on Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews website.
Update 10/06/11: Locus is reporting that BFS Best Novel winner, Sam Stone, is returning her prize over alleged improprieties in how the awards were managed this year.
2011 British Fantasy Society Award Shortlist
The 2011 British Fantasy Society Award Shortlist has been announced. Then nominees for Best Novel are:
- Apartment 16 – Adam Nevill – Pan McMillan
- Demon Dance – Sam Stone – The House Of Murky Depths
- The Leaping – Tom Fletcher – Quercus
- Pretty Little Dead Things – Gary McMahon – Angry Robot
- The Silent Land – Graham Joyce – Gollancz
See the complete list on the BFS site.
So there does not seem to be much fantasy in the list… unless you’re calling this "Dark Fantasy" instead of Horror.
2010 British Fantasy Awards Winners
The winners of the 2010 British Fantasy Awards have been announced at the British Fantasy Awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2010.
Best Novel
- One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
Best Novella
- The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
Best Short Story
- What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night, Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)
Best Anthology
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)
Best Collection
- Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press
- Telos Publishing (David Howe)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)
Best Artist
- Vincent Chong, for work including covers for The Witnesses are Gone (PS) and Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Constable and Robinson)
Best Non-Fiction
- Ansible Link, David Langford (http://news.ansible.co.uk)
Best Magazine
- Murky Depths, ed. Terry Martin (The House of Murky Depths)
Best Television
- Doctor Who (BBC1)
Best Film
- Let the Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds Award):
- Kari Sperring for Living With Ghosts (DAW)
The British Fantasy Society Special Award (Karl Edward Wagner Award):
- Robert Holdstock
Congrats to Conrad Williams and all the other winners and nominees.
2010 British Fantasy Society Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2010 British Fantasy Society Award have been announced.
Best Novel
- Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
- Futile Flame, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)
- One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
- The Naming of the Beasts, Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Under the Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Best Novella
- Old Man Scratch, Rio Youers (PS)
- Roadkill, Rob Shearman, from Roadkill/Siren Beat (Twelfth Planet) and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (Big Finish)
- The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
- The Witnesses Are Gone, Joel Lane (PS)
- Vardoger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)
Best Short Story
- Careful What You Wish For, Justin Carroll, in Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale, ed. Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
- George Clooney’S MoustachE, Rob Shearman, in The BFS Yearbook 2009, ed. Guy Adams (BFS)
- My Brother’S Keeper, Nina Allan, Black Static #12
- The Confessor’S Tale, Sarah Pinborough, in Hellbound Hearts, ed. Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Pocket)
- What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night, Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)
Best Anthology
- Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9, ed. D.F. Lewis (Megazanthus)
- Dragontales: Short Stories Of Flame, Tooth And Scale, ed. Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
- Hellbound Hearts, ed. Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Pocket)
- Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (HarperVoyager)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)
Best Collection
- Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- Just Behind You, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
- Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
- Once & Future Cities, Allen Ashley (Eibonvale)
- The Terrible Changes, Joel Lane (Ex Occidente)
PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press
- Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
- Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
- Subterranean Press (William Schafer)
- Telos Publishing (David Howe)
- TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
- Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
- Freakangels, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar & warrenellis.com)
- Locke and Key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
- The Girly Comic, ed. Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)
Best Artist
- Charles Vess, for work including Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl
- Les Edwards, for work including the cover of Cemetery Dance #62
- Shaun Tan
- Steve Upham, for work including the Estronomicon Sketchbook Special
- Vincent Chong, for work including covers for The Witnesses are Gone (PS) and Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Constable and Robinson)
Best Non-Fiction
- Ansible Link, David Langford (http://news.ansible.co.uk)
- Case Notes, Peter Tennant, Black Static
- It Lives Again! HORROR MOVIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Axelle Carolyn (Telos)
- John Scalzi, WHATEVER (http://scalzi.com/whatever)
- Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired By Stephen King, George Beahm and various artists (Centipede Press)
Best Magazine
- Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
- Cemetery Dance, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance)
- Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
- Midnight Street, ed. Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
- Murky Depths, ed. Terry Martin (The House of Murky Depths)
- Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, ed. Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age)
Best Television
- Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi/Sky 1)
- Being Human (BBC3)
- Doctor Who (BBC1)
- Lost (ABC/Sky 1)
- Torchwood: Children of Earth (BBC1)
Best Film
- Avatar, dir. James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
- Coraline, dir. Henry Selick (Focus)
- District 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp (Tristar)
- Let the Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
- Watchmen, dir. Zack Snyder (Warner)
See the official BFS press release for more information. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2010 in September.
So what other novels were in the running? Check out the BFS Long List released at the tail end of March.
2010 British Fantasy Award – The Long List
The British Fantasy Society released it’s long list of books recommended for the 2010 award. Ninety-five books made the list which is the basis for the short list voting that starts in June. The winner will be announced at FantasyCon 2010 which takes place September 17-19.
I’ve linked the books we’ve got in our database already (too few!) and I’ll be adding in the rest (too many!) over the course of the week, same as last time. There are a ton of new authors in this list that are new to WWEnd as well so it may be next week before I’m finished. Wish me luck.
So, what looks good to you? Have you read any of these that you would recommend?
- A Madness of Angels, Kate Griffin (Orbit)
- And God Created Zombies, Andrew Hook (Newcon)
- Audrey’s Door, Sarah Langan (Harpercollins)
- Avilion, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz)
- Bad Things, Michael Marshall (Harpercollins)
- Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
- Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs (Orbit)
- Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- Bryant and May On the Loose, Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
- Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem (Faber & Faber)
- Consorts of Heaven, J.N. Fenn (Gollancz)
- Crack’d Pot Trail, Steven Erikson (Ps)
- Creatures of the Pool, Ramsey Campbell (Ps)
- Deathwish, Rob Thurman (Roc)
- Death’s Daughter, Amber Benson (Ace)
- Destroyer of Worlds, Mark Chadbourn (Gollancz)
- Dragon In Chains, Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
- Drood, Dan Simmons (Quercus)
- Elfland, Freda Warrington (Tor)
- Finch, Jeff Vandermeer (Underland)
- Fire, Kristin Cashore (Gollancz)
- Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman (Pocket)
- Forever Richard, Sue Dent (Writer’s Cafe)
- Frostbitten, Kelley Armstrong (Orbit)
- Futile Flame, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)
- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (Harpervoyager)
- Ghost Monster, Simon Clark (Leisure/Robert Hale)
- Gullstruck Island (Us Title: The Lost Conspiracy), Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s)
- Half World, Hiromi Goto (Puffin)
- Hand of Isis, Jo Graham (Orbit)
- Heart’s Blood, Juliet Marillier (Tor)
- Hellboy: The Ice Wolves, Mark Chadbourn (Dark Horse)
- Ilfayne’s Bane, Julia Knight (Samhain Publishing)
- In Ashes Lie, Marie Brennan (Orbit)
- Irons in the Fire, Juliet Mckenna (Solaris)
- Jasmyn, Alex Bell (Gollancz)
- Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring (Daw)
- Lord of Silence, Mark Chadbourn (Solaris)
- Makers, Cory Doctorow (Harpervoyager)
- Marcher, Chris Beckett (Dorchester)
- Mister Gum, Rhys Hughes (Dog Horn)
- One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
- Orcs: Army of Shadows, Stan Nicholls (Gollancz)
- Palimpsest, Catherynne Valente (Spectra)
- Red-Headed Stepchild, Jaye Wells (Orbit)
- Retribution Falls: Tales of the Ketty Jay, Chris Wooding (Gollancz)
- Paradox, Alex Archer (Gold Eagle)
- Seeker’s Curse, Alex Archer (Gold Eagle)
- Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
- Sixty-One Nails, Mike Shevdon (Angry Robot)
- Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton (Headline)
- Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
- Snakeskin Road, James Braziel (Bantam)
- Sphinx’s Princess, Esther Friesner (Random House)
- Storm Glass, Maria V. Snyder (Mira)
- The Accord, Keith Brooke (Solaris)
- Broken Arrow, Paul Kane (Abaddon)
- Operation Motherland, Scott Andrews (Abaddon)
- The Ask and The Answer, Patrick Ness (Walker)
- The Awakening, Kelley Armstrong (Harpercollins)
- The City & the City, China Miéville (Macmillan)
- The Cold Kiss of Death, Suzanne Mcleod (Gollancz)
- The Demon’s Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
- The Devil’s Alphabet, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan (Gollancz)
- The Girl With Glass Feet, Ali Shaw (Atlantic)
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Virago)
- The Map of Moments, Tim Lebbon & Christopher Golden (Bantam)
- The Mermaid’s Madness, Jim C. Hines (Daw)
- The Mystery of Grace, Charles De Lint (Tor)
- The Naming of the Beasts, Mike Carey (Orbit)
- The Pain Merchants, Janice Hardy (Harpercollins)
- The Painting and the City, Robert Freeman Wexler (Ps)
- The Prodigal Mage, Karen Miller (Orbit)
- The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
- The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
- The Shadow Pavilion, Liz Williams (Night Shade)
- The Silver Skull, Mark Chadbourn (Pyr)
- The Spy Who Haunted Me, Simon R. Green (Gollancz)
- The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
- Thicker than Water, Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Tide of Souls, Simon Bestwick (Abaddon)
- Topavzian, P.L. Lambrou (Raider)
- Total Oblivion, More Or Less, Alan Deniro (Spectra)
- Transition, Iain Banks (Little Brown)
- The Ghost King, R.A. Salvatore (Wizards of the Coast)
- Triumff – Her Majesty’s Hero, Dan Abnett (Angry Robot)
- Turn Coat, Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Ultrameta, Douglas Thompson (Eibonvale)
- Under the Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Vanilla Ride, Joe R. Lansdale (Knopf)
- White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Picador)
- Witches Incorporated, K.E. Mills (Orbit)
- Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Update – April 12: Done!
2009 British Fantasy Award Short List
The finalists for the 2009 British Fantasy Award have been announced. The nominees for best novel are:
Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney (Gollancz)
The Midnight Man by Simon Clark (Severn House)
Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler (Little Brown)
Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Get the complete list of nominees for all categories here.