Shirley Jackson Awards 2009
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Readercon,
Burlington MA :
July 12, 2009
Eligibility Year: 2008
Eligibility Year: 2008
Novel
- Winner: The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
- Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead)
- The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
- Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
- The Resurrectionist, Jack O'Connell (Algonquin Books)
- Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
Novella
- Winner: Disquit, Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
- “Dormitory”, Yogo Ogawa (The Diving Pool)
- Living with the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)
- The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus)
- “N”, Stephen King (Just After Sunset)
Novelette
- Winner: “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
- “Hunger Moon”, Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol)
- “The Lagerstatte”, Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
- “Penguins of the Apocalypse”, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
- The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer (PS Publishing)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Pile”, Michael Bishop (Subterranean Online Winter 2008)
- “68° 07' 15"N, 31° 36' 44"W”, Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails)
- “The Dinner Party”, Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker 11 Aug 2008)
- “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account”, M. Rickert (F&SF Oct/Nov 2008)
- “The Inner City”, Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58)
- “Intertropical Convergence Zone”, Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine #37)
Collection
- Winner: The Diving Pool, Yogo Ogawa (Picador)
- A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Dangerous Laughter, Steve Millhauser (Knopf)
- The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)
- Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
Anthology
- Winner: The New Uncanny, Sarah Eyre & Ra Page, eds. (Comma)
- Bound for Evil, Tom English, ed. (Dead Letter)
- Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
- Fast Ships, Black Sails, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Night Shade)
- Shades of Darkness, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree)
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