Annunciati i finalisti dei World Fantasy Awards

Sono stati annunciati i finalisti dei World Fantasy Awards per le opere pubblicate nel 2020.
I vincitori saranno comunicati durante la World Fantasy Convention 2021 che si terrà dal 4 al 7 novembre a Montreal, Quebec.

Qui sotto, la lista completa dei finalisti.

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2020 has been announced. The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2021, to be held November 4-7, 2021 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec.

The World Fantasy Awards finalists are listed below.

Best Novel

• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga/Titan UK)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey/Jo Fletcher UK)
• The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon/Orbit UK)

Best Novella

• Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
• Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• ”Glass Bottle Dancer”, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed 4/20)
• “The Women Who Sing for Sklep”, Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
• “The Nine Scents of Sorrow”, Jordan Taylor (Uncanny 7-8/20)
• “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)

Best Anthology

• Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
• The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, eds. (Valancourt)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

Best Collection

• The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
• Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda (Soft Skull)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
• Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man)

Best Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Reiko Murakami
• Daniele Serra
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
• C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Jo Fletcher, for Jo Fletcher Books
• Maria Dahvana Headley, for Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals US/Scribe UK)
• Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, for The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine