E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 2004

ADULT LITERATURE

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Alphabet of Thorn, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)

The Anvil of the World, Kage Baker (Tor 2003)

Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand (HarperCollins/Morrow)

The Wizard Knight: The Knight; The Wizard (consisting of The Knight and The Wizard), Gene Wolfe (Tor)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)

The Abhorsen Trilogy: Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen, Garth Nix (HarperCollins)

Arthur Trilogy: The Seeing Stone; At the Crossing Places; King of the Middle March, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Scholastic 2003)

The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)

Trilogy: Wise Child; Juniper; Colman, Monica Furlong (Knopf; Random House)

INKLINGS STUDIES

War and the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Janet Brennan Croft (Greenwood Press)

Bareface: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s Last Novel, Doris T. Myers (University of Missouri Press)

Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings, Matthew Dickerson, ed. (Brazos Press 2003)

Tolkien in the Land of Heroes, Anne C. Petty (Cold Spring Press 2003)

Tolkien the Medievalist, Jane Chance, ed. (Routledge 2002)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight (Cornell University Press 2003)

Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, Teya Rosenberg, ed. (Peter Lang Publishing 2002)

The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook, Jerry Griswold (Broadview Press)

Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most, William Patrick Day (University Press of Kentucky 2002)