2008 World Fantasy Award finalists

As taken from Locus Online:

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Leo & Diane Dillon

Patricia McKillip

NOVEL

Fangland, John Marks (Penguin)

The Gospel of the Knife, Will Shetterly (Tor)

The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)

Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)

Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)

NOVELLA

"Cold Snap", Kim Newman (The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club)

Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)

"The Master Miller's Tale", Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF May 2007)

The Mermaids, Robert Edric (PS Publishing)

"Stars Seen through Stone", Lucius Shepard (F&SF Jul 2007)

SHORT STORY

"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics", Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea)

"The Church on the Island", Simon Kurt Unsworth (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press)

"Damned If You Don't", Robert Shearman (Tiny Deaths)

"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change", Kij Johnson (The Coyote Road)

"Singing of Mount Abora", Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)

ANTHOLOGY

The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)

Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary A. Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds. (Haunted Pelican Press)

Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)

Logorrhea, John Klima, ed. (Bantam Spectra)

Wizards, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Berkley)

COLLECTION

Dagger Key and Other Stories, Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)

Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Tim Pratt (Night Shade Books)

Plots and Misadventures, Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean Press)

Portable Childhoods, Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, Kim Newman (MonkeyBrain Books)

Tiny Deaths, Robert Shearman (Comma Press)

ARTIST

Ruan Jia

Mikko Kinnunen

Stephan Martiniere

Edward Miller

John Picacio

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Allison Baker & Chris Roberson (for MonkeyBrain Books)

Alan Beatts & Jude Feldman (for Borderlands Books)

Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)

Jeremy Lassen & Jason Williams (for Night Shade Books)

Shawna McCarthy (for Realms of Fantasy)

Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

G. S. Evans & Alice Whittenburg (for Cafe Irreal, http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/)

John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)

Rosalie Parker & Raymond Russell (for Tartarus Press)

Midori Snyder & Terri Windling (for Endicott Studios Website)

Stephen Jones (for Travellers in Darkness: The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention 2007)

Quick thoughts (still exhausted from beginning the school year - having the most fun during the in-service sessions that I've ever had, in case you're curious - so this will be brief, as I have one other post to make tonight before I crash): Interesting to see Emma Bull and her husband, Will Shetterly, each garner nominations for Best Novel. Don't know if this has ever happened before in a single year. Only have read Territory out of that group (have heard of the others, though) and I thought it was well-deserving of a nomination. Also read the Logorrhea and Wizards anthologies and Tim Pratt's Hart & Boot collection; thought the Pratt was strong, a bit more ambivalent about some of the stories in the two anthologies. More thoughts later, once I read the other finalists.