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     Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
I've only just realised that the winners of the latest World Fantasy Awards were announced back in October! I'm behind the times as always: but I haven't seen any discussion about the final list, unless I blinked and missed it. Anyway the winners are: * NOVEL: The City & The City by China Miéville. * NOVELLA: “Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X 6, coeur de lion publishing) * SHORT STORY: “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three, Night Shade Books) * ANTHOLOGY: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, ed. by Peter Straub (Library of America) * COLLECTION: a tie between: -There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin), & -The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (PS Publishing/Tor Books) * ARTIST: Charles Vess * SPECIAL AWARD—PROFESSIONAL: Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies * SPECIAL AWARD—NON-PROFESSIONAL: Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons * WORLD FANTASY LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett, and Peter Straub. These awards didn't interest me much, until Joel Lane said somewhere that they were probably the least corrupt in the business. Anyway, if I'm duplicating information here that has alerady been posted, my apologies! | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
Um... I just noticed that I wrote "Winnees" instead of "Winners" in the thread title. That was just a spelling mistake, not an ironic reference to anything! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Great to see Peter Straub get an award. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.180.184 |
Peter got two awards, and his acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement award was hilarious; absolutely nothing to do with his work or the award, and all about Christ's younger brother Jesus (pronounced in the Spanish fashion), who actually handed out the first World Fantasy Awards back in the first century (that group of judges took a chance and gave an award in advance to Jules Verne). | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.141.253 |
"Joel Lane said somewhere that they were probably the least corrupt in the business" Sorry Rhys, I don't remember saying that exactly, at least not in those words in those words. I don't get involved in allegations of corruption of awards, because I have no relevant information. Awards based on a popular vote are affected by issues such as price, availability and personal following, while awards based on panels are affected by individual biases and the ability of a strong personality to influence others. That's obvious and doesn't amount to 'corruption' in either case. Why I should have said the World Fantasy Awards were a special case one way or the other, I can't imagine. What I may have said, perhaps in response to an allegation that the WFA were corrupt, was that the process of nomination and selection was well designed to guard against corruption. But that would not have meant I thought all other genre awards were corrupt. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.141.253 |
Sorry, I'm typing late at night and duplicating words. Need some sleep... | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 194.83.245.102 |
Joel, you're right, I apologise. What you actually said (regarding the nominations) was: "They are a true shortlist, put together by judges who have read a mountain of stuff and chosen what really stood out." But the way I remembered those words was as follows: "They are a true shortlist, put together by incorruptible judges who have read a mountain of stuff and chosen, after taking a personal pledge to kill themselves if they ever deceive themselves or other people, what really stood out." I admit there's a discrepancy in those two versions! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.193.169 |
Rhys, we've all returned to books or films of which we had a clear memory and realised the memory was coloured retrospectively in some way. I've seen three different versions of Polanski's The Tenant and strongly suspect they were objectively identical: they were just watched by different versions of me (in three different decades). It's well known that eyewitness testimony is generally very unreliable on specifics, however honest the witness's intention may be. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.126.12 |
Why else would I have so much ineradicable affection for the movies of Burt Reynolds and the career of Mollie Sugden? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
And the fact that you have mentioned the right honourable Messers Reynolds & Sugden, tells me you're not joking anymore.  |