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The World Fantasy Convention is all set to honour Terry Brooks and Marina Warner with lifetime achievement awards at their annual ceremony in November.

The authors have been selected to receive the conventions most prestigious honour this year from what we know is great competition. Of course, we can’t know what the competition is as the committee themselves state:

Please note that the nominees in the Life Achievement category will not be released, though the winners will be announced well before the awards banquet.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to those people who have demonstrated outstanding service in the fantasy field. Few can argue that these authors deserve it!

(That’s Marina on the left and Terry on the right, in case you were wondering)

The Committee has also announced the nominees for the other categories to be awarded. The list of finalists is as follows:

 

Best Novel

• Borderline – Mishell Baker
• Roadsouls – Betsy James
• The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope – Claire North
• Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff

Best Long Fiction (Originally Best Novella)

• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe – Kij Johnson
• The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle
• Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
• “Bloodybones” – Paul F. Olson (Whispered Echoes)
• A Taste of Honey – Kai Ashante Wilson

Best Short Fiction

• “Das Steingeschöpf” – G.V. Anderson (Strange Horizons 12/12/16)
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” – Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron” – Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “Little Widow” – Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare 9/16)
• “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me”, Rachael K. Jones (Clockwork Phoenix 5)

Best Anthology

• Clockwork Phoenix 5 – Mike Allen, ed. (Mythic Delirium)
• Dreaming in the Dark – Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• Children of Lovecraft – Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 – Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Starlit Wood – Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

Best Collection

• Sharp Ends – Joe Abercrombie
• On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories – Tina Connolly
• A Natural History of Hell – Jeffrey Ford
• Vacui Magia – L.S. Johnson
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu

 

The other categories to be awarded are “Best Artist”, “Special Award, Professional” and “Special Award, Non-Professional”. You can see the full list of nominees on the World Fantasy Convention website here.