La liste des nominés pour chaque catégorie est tombée.
Aucun prétendant dans la catégorie reine, celle des romans, n’a remporté le sésame, excepté Jeffrey Ford en 1998 pour The Physiognomy.
Les vainqueurs seront dévoilés durant la World Fantasy Convention qui se tiendra à la Toussaint en Californie.

Roman :

• The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

Nouvelle :

• “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
• “The Overseer”, Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
• “Odd and the Frost Giants”, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
• “Good Boy”, Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

Roman court :

• “Caverns of Mystery”, Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08)
• “Pride and Prometheus”, John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
• “Our Man in the Sudan”, Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
• “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

Anthologie :

• The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
• Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

Collection :

• Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic ‘09)

Artiste :

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Janet Chui
• Stephan Martinière
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan

Prix spécial — Professionnel :

• Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
• Farah Mendlesohn (for The Rhetorics of Fantasy)
• Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)
• Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
• Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)

Prix spécial — Non-professionnel :

• Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
• John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
• Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her “artist’s challenges.”)
• Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarkesworld)
• Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

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