E-mail Locus

Where & When: World Fantasy Convention, Washington DC, Sun 2 Nov 2003
Eligibility Year: 2002
Judges: Justin Ackroyd, Les Edwards, Laura Anne Gilman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jane Yolen

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Lloyd Alexander

Donald M. Grant (Night Shade Books)

NOVEL (tie)

The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)

Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

NOVELLA

"The Library", Zoran Zivkovic (Leviathan Three)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

"The Least Trumps", Elizabeth Hand (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)

Seven Wild Sisters, Charles de Lint (Subterranean Press)

A Year in the Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

"Creation", Jeffrey Ford (F&SF May 2002)

"The Essayist in the Wilderness", William Browning Spencer (F&SF May 2002)

"Little Dead Girl Singing", Stephen Gallagher (Weird Tales Spr 2002)

"October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)

"The Weight of Words", Jeffrey Ford (Leviathan Three)

ANTHOLOGY (tie)

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)

Leviathan 3, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, eds. (The Ministry of Whimsy Press)

The American Fantasy Tradition, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (Tor)

Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists, Peter Straub, ed. (Bard College)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

COLLECTION

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)

City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)

Figures in Rain, Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)

The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups, Richard Parks (Obscura Press)

Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)

Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)

ARTIST

Tom Kidd

Kinuko Y. Craft

Gary Lippincott

Dave McKean

John Jude Palencar

Charles Vess

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)

Paul Barnett (for Paper Tiger art books)

Ellen Datlow (for editing)

William K. Schafer (for Subterranean Press)

Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (for Golden Gryphon Press)

Terri Windling (for editing)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)

Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)

Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)

Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)

Michael Walsh (for Old Earth Books)