The winners for the 2017 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! This year’s award ceremony was held at the World Fantasy Convention, November 2-5, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, with a theme of “Secret Histories.” Terry Brooks and Marina Warner were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The full list of nominees follows, with winners in bold.
Novel
- Winner: The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Claire North (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
- Roadsouls, Betsy James (Aqueduct)
- The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
Long Fiction
- Winner: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
- Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- “Bloodybones,” Paul F. Olson (Whispered Echoes)
- A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Das Steingeschöpf,” G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons 12/12/16)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
- “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
- “Little Widow,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)
- “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me,” Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
Anthology
- Winner: Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
- Clockwork Phoenix 5, Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)
- Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
Collection
- Winner: A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories, Tina Connolly (Fairwood)
- Vacui Magia, L.S. Johnson (Traversing Z Press)
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
Artist
- Winner: Jeffrey Alan Love
- Greg Bridges
- Julie Dillon
- Paul Lewin
- Victo Ngai
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Michael Levy & Farah Mendelsohn, for Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press)L. Timmel Duchamp, for Aqueduct Press
- C.C. Finlay, for editing F&SF
- Kelly Link, for contributions to the genre
- Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre
Special Award, Non-Professional
- Winner: Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Malcom R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer, for their publication The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume Two: Gods and Goddesses (Michael Publishing)
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
- Brian White, for Fireside Fiction Company
The Paper Menagerie was one of the best collections I’ve read – not always as a collection, in the sense that it wasn’t as tightly curated as something like Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, but as stories in any case. I’m looking forward to reading Jeffrey Ford’s collection!
There are so many books on the fiction list that I read and loved. I was very happy to see Kij Johnson’s book The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe as the winner. It was such a great book! I also loved the books by Victor LaValle, Seanan McGuire, and Ashante Wilson. I am looking forward to checking out the others.
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