World Fantasy Awards 1996
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Schaumburg IL :
Eligibility Year: 1995
Judges: Bryan Cholfin, Kathryn Cramer, Moshe Feder, Roz Kaveney, Christopher Schelling
Eligibility Year: 1995
Judges: Bryan Cholfin, Kathryn Cramer, Moshe Feder, Roz Kaveney, Christopher Schelling
Life Achievement
- Winner: Gene Wolfe
Novel
- Winner: The Prestige, Christopher Priest (Simon & Schuster UK/Touchstone)
- All the Bells on Earth, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
- Expiration Date, Tim Powers (HarperCollins UK; Tor)
- Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra (Little, Brown)
- Requiem, Graham Joyce (Michael Joseph; Signet Creed; Tor)
- The Silent Strength of Stones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (AvoNova)
Novella
- Winner: “Radio Waves”, Michael Swanwick (Omni Winter 1995)
- “Ether OR”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's Nov 1995)
- “Home for Christmas”, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (F&SF Jan 1995)
- “The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom”, Jonathan Lethem (Full Spectrum 5)
- “More Tomorrow”, Michael Marshall Smith (Dark Terrors)
- Where They Are Hid, Tim Powers (Charnel House)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Grass Princess”, Gwyneth Jones (Seven Tales and a Fable)
- “Angel Thing”, Petrina Smith (She's Fantastical)
- “Dragon's Fin Soup”, S. P. Somtow (The Ultimate Dragon)
- “Loop”, Douglas E. Winter (Dark Love)
- “The Perseids”, Robert Charles Wilson (Northern Frights 3)
- “The Singing Marine”, Kit Reed (F&SF Oct/Nov 1995)
Anthology
- Winner: The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, A. Susan Williams & Richard Glyn Jones, eds. (Viking UK; Viking)
- Dark Love, Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Roc)
- Dark Terrors, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
- High Fantastic, Steve Rasnic Tem, ed. (Ocean View Books)
- She's Fantastical, Lucy Sussex & Judith Raphael Buckrich, eds. (Sybylla Feminist Press)
Collection
- Winner: Seven Tales and a Fable, Gwyneth Jones (Edgewood Press)
- Death Stalks the Night, Hugh B. Cave (Fedogan & Bremer)
- The Ivory and the Horn, Charles de Lint (Tor)
- The Panic Hand, Jonathan Carroll (HarperCollins UK)
- The Secret of This Book (US title: Common Clay), Brian W. Aldiss (HarperCollins UK; St. Martin's)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Richard Evans, for contributions to the genre
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, for editing F&SF
- Gordon Van Gelder, for editing
- Stephen Jones, for editing and anthologies
- Paul Williams, ed., for editing Microcosmic God: Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon and for his work with the Literary Estate of Theodore Sturgeon
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Marc Michaud, for Necronomicon Press
- Fedogan & Bremer, for book publishing
- Robert K. J. Killheffer, Meg Hamel & Jenna A. Felice, for Century
- Steve Pasechnick, for Edgewood Press
- Robert Weinberg, for contributions to the genre
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