British Fantasy Award Finalists Announced

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22nd June 2010 07:59 AM

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Nominees for the British Fantasy Awards have been announced, with winners to be announced at a banquet on Sunday, 19 September, during FantasyCon 2010, to be held 17 through 19 September at Nottingham, UK.

The finalists for Best Novel include Best Served Cold, (Gollancz), by Joe Abercrombie; Futile Flame (House of Murky Depths), by Sam Stone; One (Virgin), by Conrad Williams; The Naming of the Beasts (Orbit), by Mike Carey; and Under the Dome (Hodden & Stoughton), by Stephen King.

Nominees for Best Novella are Old Man Scratch (PS), by Rio Youers; “Roadkill” (which appears in both Roadkill/Siren Beat [Twelfth Planet] and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical [Big Finish]), by Rob Shearman; The Language of Dying (PS), by Sarah Pinborough; The Witnesses Are Gone (PS), by Joel Lane; and Vardoger (Gray Friar), by Stephen Volk.

Finalists in the Best Short Story category include “Careful What You Wish For” (in Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale [Wyvern]), by Justin Carroll; “George Clooney’s Moustache” (in The BFS Yearbook 2009, edited by Guy Adams [BFS]), by Rob Shearman; “My Brother’s Keeper” (Black Static #12), by Nina Allan; “The Confessors Tale” (in Hellbound Hearts, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane [Pocket], by Sarah Pinborough; and “What Happens When You Wake Up In the Night (Nightjar), by Michael Marshall Smith.

Other categories to be awarded include Best Anthology, Best Collection, PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press, Best Comic/Graphic Novel, Best Artist, Best Nonfiction, Best Magazine, Best Television and Best Film.

Voting for the awards is by members of the British Fantasy Society, which presents FantasyCon each year, as well as members of FantasyCon 2009 and 2010.
 

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