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class="menutd">A-Am</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_An-Ar"><div class="menutd">An-Ar</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_As-Az"><div class="menutd">As-Az</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Ba"><div class="menutd">Ba</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Be"><div class="menutd">Be</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Bi-Bo"><div class="menutd">Bi-Bo</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Br"><div class="menutd">Br</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Bu-By"><div class="menutd">Bu-By</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Ca-Ce"><div class="menutd">Ca-Ce</div></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Ch-Cl"><div class="menutd">Ch-Cl</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Co"><div class="menutd">Co</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Cr-Cz"><div class="menutd">Cr-Cz</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Da"><div class="menutd">Da</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_De"><div class="menutd">De</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Di-Do"><div class="menutd">Di-Do</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Dr-Dz"><div class="menutd">Dr-Dz</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_E"><div class="menutd">E</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Fa-Fl"><div class="menutd">Fa-Fl</div></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Fo-Fu"><div class="menutd">Fo-Fu</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Ga-Gi"><div class="menutd">Ga-Gi</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Gl-Go"><div class="menutd">Gl-Go</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Gr-Gw"><div class="menutd">Gr-Gw</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Ha-Han"><div class="menutd">H-Han</div></a></td> <td><a 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href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Le-Ll"><div class="menutd">Le-Ll</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Lo-Ly"><div class="menutd">Lo-Ly</div></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_M-Map"><div class="menutd">M-Map</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Mar-May"><div class="menutd">Mar-May</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Mc"><div class="menutd">Mc</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Me-Mi"><div class="menutd">Me-Mi</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Mo"><div class="menutd">Mo</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Mu-My"><div class="menutd">Mu-My</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_N"><div class="menutd">N</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_O"><div class="menutd">O</div></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.sfadb.com/Names_Pa"><div class="menutd">Pa</div></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a 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<b>Anathem</b>, <a href="Neal_Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a> (Atlantic UK; Morrow)</li> <li value="2"> <b>Matter</b>, <a href="Iain_M_Banks">Iain M. Banks</a> (Orbit UK)</li> <li value="3"> <b>City at the End of Time</b>, <a href="Greg_Bear">Greg Bear</a> (Gollancz; Del Rey)</li> <li value="4"> <b>Saturn's Children</b>, <a href="Charles_Stross">Charles Stross</a> (Orbit; Ace)</li> <li value="5"> <b>Marsbound</b>, <a href="Joe_Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (Ace)</li> <li value="6"> <b>Half a Crown</b>, <a href="Jo_Walton">Jo Walton</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="7"> <b>Incandescence</b>, <a href="Greg_Egan">Greg Egan</a> (Gollancz; Night Shade)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Rolling Thunder</b>, <a href="John_Varley">John Varley</a> (Ace)</li> <li value="9"> <b>Implied Spaces</b>, <a href="Walter_Jon_Williams">Walter Jon Williams</a> (Night Shade)</li> <li value="10"> <b>House of Suns</b>, <a href="Alastair_Reynolds">Alastair Reynolds</a> (Gollancz; Ace 2009)</li> <li value="11"> <b>The Quiet War</b>, <a href="Paul_J_McAuley">Paul McAuley</a> (Gollancz; Pyr 2009)</li> <li value="12"> <b>The January Dancer</b>, <a href="Michael_F_Flynn">Michael Flynn</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="13"> <b>Escapement</b>, <a href="Jay_Lake">Jay Lake</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="14"> <b>Pirate Sun</b>, <a href="Karl_Schroeder">Karl Schroeder</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="15"> <b>Flood</b>, <a href="Stephen_Baxter">Stephen Baxter</a> (Gollancz; Ace 2009)</li> <li value="16"> <b>Weaver</b>, <a href="Stephen_Baxter">Stephen Baxter</a> (Gollancz; Ace)</li> <li value="17"> <b>The Night Sessions</b>, <a href="Ken_MacLeod">Ken MacLeod</a> (Orbit; Tor 2009)</li> <li value="18"> <b>Song of Time</b>, <a href="Ian_R_MacLeod">Ian R. MacLeod</a> (PS Publishing)</li> <li value="19"> <b>The Company</b>, <a href="K_J_Parker">K. J. Parker</a> (Orbit)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Fantasy Novel</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>Lavinia</b>, <a href="Ursula_K_Le_Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (Harcourt)</li> <li value="2"> <b>The Dragons of Babel</b>, <a href="Michael_Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="3"> <b>An Evil Guest</b>, <a href="Gene_Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="4"> <b>The Shadow Year</b>, <a href="Jeffrey_Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (Morrow)</li> <li value="5"> <b>The Bell at Sealey Head</b>, <a href="Patricia_A_McKillip">Patricia A. McKillip</a> (Ace)</li> <li value="6"> <b>An Autumn War</b>, <a href="Daniel_Abraham">Daniel Abraham</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="7"> <b>The Knights of the Cornerstone</b>, <a href="James_P_Blaylock">James P. Blaylock</a> (Ace)</li> <li value="8"> <b>The Hidden World</b>, <a href="Paul_Park">Paul Park</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="9"> <b>Shadowbridge/Lord Tophet</b>, <a href="Gregory_Frost">Gregory Frost</a> (Del Rey)</li> <li value="10"> <b>The Alchemy of Stone</b>, <a href="Ekaterina_Sedia">Ekaterina Sedia</a> (Prime)</li> <li value="11"> <b>The Ghost in Love</b>, <a href="Jonathan_Carroll">Jonathan Carroll</a> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li value="12"> <b>The Enchantress of Florence</b>, <a href="Salman_Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (Jonathan Cape; Random House)</li> <li value="13"> <b>The Love We Share Without Knowing</b>, <a href="Christopher_Barzak">Christopher Barzak</a> (Bantam)</li> <li value="14"> <b>Memoirs of a Master Forger</b>, <a href="William_Heaney">William Heaney</a> (Gollancz) (as <b>How to Make Friends with Demons</b>, Graham Joyce, Night Shade Books 2009)</li> <li value="15"> <b>The Engine's Child</b>, <a href="Holly_Phillips">Holly Phillips</a> (Del Rey)</li> <li value="16"> <b>Varanger</b>, <a href="Cecelia_Holland">Cecelia Holland</a> (Forge)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Young Adult Novel</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>The Graveyard Book</b>, <a href="Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)</li> <li value="2"> <b>Little Brother</b>, <a href="Cory_Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="3"> <b>Zoe's Tale</b>, <a href="John_Scalzi">John Scalzi</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="4"> <b>Nation</b>, <a href="Terry_Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> (Doubleday UK; Bloomsbury)</li> <li value="5"> <b>Tender Morsels</b>, <a href="Margo_Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (Knopf)</li> <li value="6"> <b>How to Ditch Your Fairy</b>, <a href="Justine_Larbalestier">Justine Larbalestier</a> (Bloomsbury USA)</li> <li value="7"> <b>Chalice</b>, <a href="Robin_McKinley">Robin McKinley</a> (Putnam)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Flora's Dare</b>, <a href="Ysabeau_S_Wilce">Ysabeau S. Wilce</a> (Harcourt)</li> <li value="9"> <b>The Hunger Games</b>, <a href="Suzanne_Collins">Suzanne Collins</a> (Scholastic)</li> <li value="10"> <b>City of Ashes</b>, <a href="Cassandra_Clare">Cassandra Clare</a> (McElderry)</li> <li value="11"> <b>The Knife of Never Letting Go</b>, <a href="Patrick_Ness">Patrick Ness</a> (Walker UK; Candlewick)</li> <li value="12"> <b>Eon: Dragoneye Reborn</b> (Australian title: <b>The Two Pearls of Wisdom</b>), <a href="Alison_M_Goodman">Alison Goodman</a> (Viking; HarperCollins Australia)</li> <li value="13"> <b>Ink Exchange</b>, <a href="Melissa_Marr">Melissa Marr</a> (HarperTeen)</li> <li value="14"> <b>Monster Blood Tattoo, Book Two: Lamplighter</b>, <a href="D_M_Cornish">D. M. Cornish</a> (Putnam; Omnibus Books Australia)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">First Novel</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>Singularity's Ring</b>, <a href="Paul_Melko">Paul Melko</a> (Tor)</li> <li value="2"> <b>Pandemonium</b>, <a href="Daryl_Gregory">Daryl Gregory</a> (Ballantine Del Rey)</li> <li value="3"> <b>Thunderer</b>, <a href="Felix_Gilman">Felix Gilman</a> (Bantam Spectra)</li> <li value="4"> <b>Black Ships</b>, <a href="Jo_Graham">Jo Graham</a> (Orbit US)</li> <li value="5"> <b>The Gone-Away World</b>, <a href="Nick_Harkaway">Nick Harkaway</a> (William Heinemann; Knopf)</li> <li value="6"> <b>Graceling</b>, <a href="Kristin_Cashore">Kristin Cashore</a> (Harcourt)</li> <li value="7"> <b>The Painted Man</b> (US title: <b>The Warded Man</b>), <a href="Peter_V_Brett">Peter V. Brett</a> (HarperVoyager; Del Rey 2009)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Last Dragon</b>, <a href="J_M_McDermott">J. M. McDermott</a> (Wizards of the Coast)</li> <li value="9"> <b>The Cabinet of Wonders</b>, <a href="Marie_Rutkoski">Marie Rutkoski</a> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)</li> <li value="10"> <b>The Red Wolf Conspiracy</b>, <a href="Robert_V_S_Redick">Robert V. S. Redick</a> (Gollancz; Del Rey 2009)</li> <li value="11"> <b>Alive in Necropolis</b>, <a href="Doug_Dorst">Doug Dorst</a> (Riverhead)</li> <li value="12"> <b>The Long Look</b>, <a href="Richard_Parks">Richard Parks</a> (Five Star)</li> <li value="13"> <b>The Ninth Circle</b>, <a href="Alex_Bell">Alex Bell</a> (Gollancz)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Novella</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> “Pretty Monsters”, <a href="Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a> (<b>Pretty Monsters</b>)</li> <li value="2"> “The Erdmann Nexus”, <a href="Nancy_Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Oct/Nov 2008)</li> <li value="3"> “The Tear”, <a href="Ian_McDonald">Ian McDonald</a> (<b>Galactic Empires</b>)</li> <li value="4"> <b>Once Upon a Time in the North</b>, <a href="Philip_Pullman">Philip Pullman</a> (Knopf)</li> <li value="5"> “True Names”, <a href="Benjamin_Rosenbaum">Benjamin Rosenbaum</a> & <a href="Cory_Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> (<b>Fast Forward 2</b>)</li> <li value="6"> <b>The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten</b>, <a href="Thomas_M_Disch">Thomas M. Disch</a> (Tachyon)</li> <li value="7"> “The Philosopher's Stone”, <a href="Brian_Stableford">Brian Stableford</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Jul 2008)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key</b>, <a href="Kage_Baker">Kage Baker</a> (Subterranean)</li> <li value="9"> “Truth”, <a href="Robert_Reed">Robert Reed</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Oct/Nov 2008)</li> <li value="10"> “The Surfer”, <a href="Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a> (<b>The Starry Rift</b>)</li> <li value="11"> “The Hob Carpet”, <a href="Ian_R_MacLeod">Ian R. MacLeod</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Jun 2008)</li> <li value="12"> “The Man with the Golden Balloon”, <a href="Robert_Reed">Robert Reed</a> (<b>Galactic Empires</b>)</li> <li value="13"> “The Political Prisoner”, <a href="Charles_Coleman_Finlay">Charles Coleman Finlay</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Aug 2008)</li> <li value="14"> “Mystery Hill”, <a href="Alexander_C_Irvine">Alex Irvine</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Jan 2008)</li> <li value="15"> “Arkfall”, <a href="Carolyn_Ives_Gilman">Carolyn Ives Gilman</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Sep 2008)</li> <li value="16"> “Tenbrook of Mars”, <a href="Dean_McLaughlin">Dean McLaughlin</a> (<i>Analog</i> Jul/Aug 2008)</li> <li value="17"> “The Overseer”, <a href="Albert_E_Cowdrey">Albert E. Cowdrey</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Mar 2008)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Novelette</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> “Pump Six”, <a href="Paolo_Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> (<b>Pump Six and Other Stories</b>)</li> <li value="2"> “Shoggoths in Bloom”, <a href="Elizabeth_Bear">Elizabeth Bear</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Mar 2008)</li> <li value="3"> “The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away”, <a href="Cory_Doctorow">Cory Doctorow</a> (Tor.com Aug 2008)</li> <li value="4"> “The Ice War”, <a href="Stephen_Baxter">Stephen Baxter</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Sep 2008)</li> <li value="5"> “Pride and Prometheus”, <a href="John_Kessel">John Kessel</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Jan 2008)</li> <li value="6"> “The Rabbi's Hobby”, <a href="Peter_S_Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="7"> “Crystal Nights”, <a href="Greg_Egan">Greg Egan</a> (<i>Interzone</i> Apr 2008)</li> <li value="8"> “The Gambler”, <a href="Paolo_Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> (<b>Fast Forward 2</b>)</li> <li value="9"> “Turing's Apples”, <a href="Stephen_Baxter">Stephen Baxter</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="10"> “Five Thrillers”, <a href="Robert_Reed">Robert Reed</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Apr 2008)</li> <li value="11"> “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”, <a href="Peter_S_Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> (<b>Strange Roads</b>)</li> <li value="12"> “The Hour of Babel”, <a href="Tim_Powers">Tim Powers</a> (<b>Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy</b>)</li> <li value="13"> “The Star Surgeon's Apprentice”, <a href="Alastair_Reynolds">Alastair Reynolds</a> (<b>The Starry Rift</b>)</li> <li value="14"> “Lost Continent”, <a href="Greg_Egan">Greg Egan</a> (<b>The Starry Rift</b>)</li> <li value="15"> “If Angels Fight”, <a href="Richard_Bowes">Richard Bowes</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Feb 2008)</li> <li value="16"> “Days of Wonder”, <a href="Geoff_Ryman">Geoff Ryman</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Oct/Nov 2008)</li> <li value="17"> <b>Conversation Hearts</b>, <a href="John_Crowley">John Crowley</a> (Subterranean)</li> <li value="18"> “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”, <a href="James_Alan_Gardner">James Alan Gardner</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Feb 2008)</li> <li value="19"> “The Tale of Junko and Sayuri”, <a href="Peter_S_Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> (InterGalactic Medicine Show Jul 2008)</li> <li value="20"> “Fury”, <a href="Alastair_Reynolds">Alastair Reynolds</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="21"> “Memory Dog”, <a href="Kathleen_Ann_Goonan">Kathleen Ann Goonan</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Apr/May 2008)</li> <li value="22"> “Radio Station St. Jack”, <a href="Neal_Barrett_Jr">Neal Barrett, Jr.</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Aug 2008)</li> <li value="23"> “Machine Maid”, <a href="Margo_Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (<b>Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology</b>)</li> <li value="24"> “Special Economics”, <a href="Maureen_F_McHugh">Maureen F. McHugh</a> (<b>The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy</b>)</li> <li value="25"> “The Dust Assassin”, <a href="Ian_McDonald">Ian McDonald</a> (<b>The Starry Rift</b>)</li> <li value="26"> “An Eligible Boy”, <a href="Ian_McDonald">Ian McDonald</a> (<b>Fast Forward 2</b>)</li> <li value="27"> “An Alien Heresy”, <a href="S_P_Somtow">S. P. Somtow</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Apr/May 2008)</li> <li value="28"> “Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe”, <a href="Garth_Nix">Garth Nix</a> (<b>Fast Ships, Black Sails</b>)</li> <li value="29"> “Following the Pharmers”, <a href="Brian_Stableford">Brian Stableford</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Mar 2008)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Short Story</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> “Exhalation”, <a href="Ted_Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="2"> “After the Coup”, <a href="John_Scalzi">John Scalzi</a> (Tor.com Jul 2008)</li> <li value="3"> “Boojum”, <a href="Elizabeth_Bear">Elizabeth Bear</a> & <a href="Sarah_Monette">Sarah Monette</a> (<b>Fast Ships, Black Sails</b>)</li> <li value="4"> “The Kindness of Strangers”, <a href="Nancy_Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (<b>Fast Forward 2</b>)</li> <li value="5"> “King Pelles the Sure”, <a href="Peter_S_Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> (<b>Strange Roads</b>)</li> <li value="6"> “From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled”, <a href="Michael_Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Feb 2008)</li> <li value="7"> “Private Eye”, <a href="Terry_Bisson">Terry Bisson</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Oct/Nov 2008)</li> <li value="8"> “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss”, <a href="Kij_Johnson">Kij Johnson</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Jul 2008)</li> <li value="9"> “The Scarecrow's Boy”, <a href="Michael_Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Oct/Nov 2008)</li> <li value="10"> “Evil Robot Monkey”, <a href="Mary_Robinette_Kowal">Mary Robinette Kowal</a> (<b>The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two</b>)</li> <li value="11"> “A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica”, <a href="Catherynne_M_Valente">Catherynne M. Valente</a> (Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008)</li> <li value="12"> “The Thought War”, <a href="Paul_J_McAuley">Paul McAuley</a> (<i>Postscripts</i> Sum 2008)</li> <li value="13"> “The Goosle”, <a href="Margo_Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (<b>The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy</b>)</li> <li value="14"> “Fixing Hanover”, <a href="Jeff_VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a> (<b>Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology</b>)</li> <li value="15"> “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black”, <a href="Jay_Lake">Jay Lake</a> (Clarkesworld Magazine Mar 2008)</li> <li value="16"> “Ass-Hat Magic Spider”, <a href="Scott_Westerfeld">Scott Westerfeld</a> (<b>The Starry Rift</b>)</li> <li value="17"> “The Dream of Reason”, <a href="Jeffrey_Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (<b>Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology</b>)</li> <li value="18"> “Invisible Empire of Ascending Light”, <a href="Ken_Scholes">Ken Scholes</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="19"> “The Film-makers of Mars”, <a href="Geoff_Ryman">Geoff Ryman</a> (Tor.com Dec 2008)</li> <li value="20"> “The House Left Empty”, <a href="Robert_Reed">Robert Reed</a> (<i>Asimov's</i> Apr/May 2008)</li> <li value="21"> “Reader's Guide”, <a href="Lisa_Goldstein">Lisa Goldstein</a> (<i>F&SF</i> Jul 2008)</li> <li value="22"> “Fifty Dinosaurs”, <a href="Robert_Reed">Robert Reed</a> (<b>The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two</b>)</li> <li value="23"> “Goblin Music”, <a href="Joan_Aiken">Joan Aiken</a> (<b>The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories</b>)</li> <li value="24"> “The Seventh Expression of the Robot General”, <a href="Jeffrey_Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (<b>Eclipse Two</b>)</li> <li value="25"> “Snatch Me Another”, <a href="Mercurio_D_Rivera">Mercurio D. Rivera</a> (Abyss & Apex 1Q 2008)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Collection</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>Pump Six and Other Stories</b>, <a href="Paolo_Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> (Night Shade Books)</li> <li value="2"> <b>The Best of Michael Swanwick</b>, <a href="Michael_Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a> (Subterranean Press)</li> <li value="3"> <b>Pretty Monsters</b>, <a href="Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a> (Viking)</li> <li value="4"> <b>The Drowned Life</b>, <a href="Jeffrey_Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (HarperPerennial)</li> <li value="5"> <b>The Best of Lucius Shepard</b>, <a href="Lucius_Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (Subterranean Press)</li> <li value="6"> <b>Dark Integers and Other Stories</b>, <a href="Greg_Egan">Greg Egan</a> (Subterranean)</li> <li value="7"> <b>H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction</b>, <a href="H_P_Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a> (Barnes & Noble)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories</b>, <a href="Nancy_Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (Golden Gryphon)</li> <li value="9"> <b>Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader</b>, <a href="Howard_Waldrop">Howard Waldrop</a> (Old Earth)</li> <li value="10"> <b>The Wall of America</b>, <a href="Thomas_M_Disch">Thomas M. Disch</a> (Tachyon)</li> <li value="11"> <b>The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories</b>, <a href="John_Kessel">John Kessel</a> (Small Beer)</li> <li value="12"> <b>The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives</b>, <a href="James_P_Blaylock">James P. Blaylock</a> (Subterranean)</li> <li value="13"> <b>The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories</b>, <a href="Joan_Aiken">Joan Aiken</a> (Big Mouth)</li> <li value="14"> <b>Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys</b>, <a href="Ken_Scholes">Ken Scholes</a> (Fairwood)</li> <li value="15"> <b>Works of Art</b>, <a href="James_Blish">James Blish</a> (NESFA)</li> <li value="16"> <b>Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters</b>, <a href="John_Langan">John Langan</a> (Prime)</li> <li value="17"> <b>The Wreck of the <i>Godspeed</i> and Other Stories</b>, <a href="James_Patrick_Kelly">James Patrick Kelly</a> (Golden Gryphon)</li> <li value="18"> <b>The Ant King and Other Stories</b>, <a href="Benjamin_Rosenbaum">Benjamin Rosenbaum</a> (Small Beer)</li> <li value="19"> <b>Gateway to Paradise: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six</b>, <a href="Jack_Williamson">Jack Williamson</a> (Haffner)</li> <li value="20"> <b>The Autopsy and Other Tales</b>, <a href="Michael_Shea">Michael Shea</a> (Centipede)</li> <li value="21"> <b>Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods</b>, <a href="Paul_Melko">Paul Melko</a> (Fairwood)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Anthology</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection</b>, <a href="Gardner_Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a>, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)</li> <li value="2"> <b>The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection</b>, <a href="Ellen_Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a>, <a href="Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a> & <a href="Gavin_J_Grant">Gavin J. Grant</a>, eds. (St. Martin's Griffin)</li> <li value="3"> <b>Galactic Empires</b>, <a href="Gardner_Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a>, ed. (SFBC)</li> <li value="4"> <b>Eclipse Two</b>, <a href="Jonathan_Strahan">Jonathan Strahan</a>, ed. (Night Shade Books)</li> <li value="5"> <b>The Starry Rift</b>, <a href="Jonathan_Strahan">Jonathan Strahan</a>, ed. (Viking)</li> <li value="6"> <b>Fast Forward 2</b>, <a href="Lou_Anders">Lou Anders</a>, ed. (Pyr)</li> <li value="7"> <b>Fast Ships, Black Sails</b>, <a href="Ann_VanderMeer">Ann VanderMeer</a> & <a href="Jeff_VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a>, eds. (Night Shade)</li> <li value="8"> <b>Steampunk</b>, <a href="Ann_VanderMeer">Ann VanderMeer</a> & <a href="Jeff_VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a>, eds. (Tachyon)</li> <li value="9"> <b>Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse</b>, <a href="John_Joseph_Adams">John Joseph Adams</a>, ed. (Night Shade)</li> <li value="10"> <b>The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy</b>, <a href="Ellen_Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a>, ed. (Del Rey)</li> <li value="11"> <b>The New Weird</b>, <a href="Ann_VanderMeer">Ann VanderMeer</a> & <a href="Jeff_VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a>, eds. (Tachyon)</li> <li value="12"> <b>Year's Best SF 13</b>, <a href="David_G_Hartwell">David G. Hartwell</a> & <a href="Kathryn_Cramer">Kathryn Cramer</a>, eds. (Eos)</li> <li value="13"> <b>Sideways in Crime</b>, <a href="Lou_Anders">Lou Anders</a>, ed. (Solaris)</li> <li value="14"> <b>The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two</b>, <a href="George_Mann">George Mann</a>, ed. (Solaris)</li> <li value="15"> <b>Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology</b>, <a href="Nick_Gevers">Nick Gevers</a>, ed. (Solaris)</li> <li value="16"> <b>The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two</b>, <a href="Jonathan_Strahan">Jonathan Strahan</a>, ed. (Night Shade Books)</li> <li value="17"> <b>Poe's Children: The New Horror</b>, <a href="Peter_Straub">Peter Straub</a>, ed. (Doubleday)</li> <li value="18"> <b>Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy</b>, <a href="William_K_Schafer">William Schafer</a>, ed. (Subterranean)</li> <li value="19"> <b>A Science Fiction Omnibus</b>, <a href="Brian_W_Aldiss">Brian W. Aldiss</a>, ed. (Penguin UK)</li> <li value="20"> <b>Clockwork Phoenix</b>, <a href="Mike_Allen">Mike Allen</a>, ed. (Norilana)</li> <li value="21"> <b>A Book of Wizards</b>, <a href="Marvin_Kaye">Marvin Kaye</a>, ed. (SFBC)</li> <li value="22"> <b>The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Nineteen</b>, <a href="Stephen_Jones">Stephen Jones</a>, ed. (Robinson UK; Running Press)</li> <li value="23"> <b>Year's Best Fantasy 8</b>, <a href="David_G_Hartwell">David G. Hartwell</a> & <a href="Kathryn_Cramer">Kathryn Cramer</a>, eds. (Tachyon)</li> <li value="24"> <b>Dreaming Again</b>, <a href="Jack_Dann">Jack Dann</a>, ed. (Eos)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Nonfiction/art Book</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <b>Coraline: The Graphic Novel</b>, <a href="Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, adapted and illustrated by <a href="P_Craig_Russell">P. Craig Russell</a> (HarperCollins)</li> <li value="2"> <b>Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art</b>, <a href="Cathy_Fenner">Cathy Fenner</a> & <a href="Arnie_Fenner">Arnie Fenner</a> (Underwood Books)</li> <li value="3"> <b>Rhetorics of Fantasy</b>, <a href="Farah_Mendlesohn">Farah Mendlesohn</a> (Wesleyan University Press)</li> <li value="4"> <b>What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction</b>, <a href="Paul_Kincaid">Paul Kincaid</a> (Beccon)</li> <li value="5"> <b>Tales from Outer Suburbia</b>, <a href="Shaun_Tan">Shaun Tan</a> (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic 2009)</li> <li value="6"> <b>Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman</b>, <a href="Hank_Wagner">Hank Wagner</a>, <a href="Christopher_Golden">Christopher Golden</a> & <a href="Stephen_R_Bissette">Stephen R. Bissette</a> (St. Martin's)</li> <li value="7"> <b>The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold</b>, <a href="Lillian_Stewart_Carl">Lillian Stewart Carl</a> & <a href="John_Helfers">John Helfers</a>, eds. (Baen)</li> <li value="8"> <b>H. Beam Piper: A Biography</b>, <a href="John_F_Carr">John F. Carr</a> (McFarland)</li> <li value="9"> <b>A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft</b>, <a href="Jerad_Walters">Jerad Walters</a>, ed. (Centipede Press)</li> <li value="10"> <b>The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute 1908-2008</b>, <a href="Stephen_Haffner">Stephen Haffner</a>, ed. (Haffner)</li> <li value="11"> <b>An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett</b>, <a href="Andrew_M_Butler">Andrew M. Butler</a>, ed. (Greenwood)</li> <li value="12"> <b>Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton</b>, <a href="J_G_Ballard">J. G. Ballard</a> (Fourth Estate)</li> <li value="13"> <b>Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, Second Edition</b>, <a href="Michael_Andre-Driussi">Michael Andre-Driussi</a> (Sirius)</li> <li value="14"> <b>The Paintings of J. Allen St. John: Grand Master of Fantasy</b>, <a href="Stephen_D_Korshak">Stephen D. Korshak</a> (Vanguard)</li> <li value="15"> <b>The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia</b>, <a href="Laura_Miller">Laura Miller</a> (Little, Brown)</li> <li value="16"> <b>Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography</b>, <a href="Jeffrey_Marks">Jeffrey Marks</a> (McFarland)</li> <li value="17"> <b>Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art</b>, <a href="Jane_Frank">Jane Frank</a>, ed. (Nonstop Press)</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Editor</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <a href="Ellen_Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a></li> <li value="2"> <a href="Gardner_Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a></li> <li value="3"> <a href="Gordon_Van_Gelder">Gordon Van Gelder</a></li> <li value="4"> <a href="David_G_Hartwell">David G. Hartwell</a></li> <li value="5"> <a href="Jonathan_Strahan">Jonathan Strahan</a></li> <li value="6"> <a href="Patrick_Nielsen_Hayden">Patrick Nielsen Hayden</a></li> <li value="7"> <a href="Lou_Anders">Lou Anders</a></li> <li value="8"> <a href="Ann_VanderMeer">Ann VanderMeer</a> & <a href="Jeff_VanderMeer">Jeff VanderMeer</a></li> <li value="9"> <a href="Sheila_Williams">Sheila Williams</a></li> <li value="10"> <a href="Peter_Crowther">Peter Crowther</a></li> <li value="11"> <a href="James_Baen">Jim Baen</a></li> <li value="12"> <a href="Gavin_J_Grant">Gavin Grant</a> & <a href="Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a></li> <li value="13"> <a href="Stanley_Schmidt">Stanley Schmidt</a></li> <li value="14"> <a href="Terri_Windling">Terri Windling</a></li> <li value="15"> <a href="William_K_Schafer">William Schafer</a></li> <li value="16"> <a href="Shawna_McCarthy">Shawna McCarthy</a></li> <li value="17"> (tie): <a href="Martin_H_Greenberg">Martin H. Greenberg</a></li> <li value="17"> (tie): <a href="Teresa_Nielsen_Hayden">Teresa Nielsen Hayden</a></li> <li value="19"> <a href="Toni_Weisskopf">Toni Weisskopf</a></li> <li value="20"> <a href="Ginjer_Buchanan">Ginjer Buchanan</a></li> <li value="21"> <a href="Beth_Meacham">Beth Meacham</a></li> <li value="22"> <a href="Andy_Cox">Andy Cox</a></li> <li value="23"> <a href="Sharyn_November">Sharyn November</a></li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Magazine</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <i>F&SF</i></li> <li value="2"> <i>Asimov's</i></li> <li value="3"> <i>Analog</i></li> <li value="4"> <i>Subterranean</i></li> <li value="5"> <i>Realms of Fantasy</i></li> <li value="6"> <i>Interzone</i></li> <li value="7"> <i>Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet</i></li> <li value="8"> <i>The New York Review of Science Fiction</i></li> <li value="9"> <i>Clarkesworld Magazine</i></li> <li value="10"> <i>Strange Horizons</i></li> <li value="11"> <i>Weird Tales</i></li> <li value="12"> <i>SF Site</i></li> <li value="13"> <i>Jim Baen's Universe</i></li> <li value="14"> <i>Ansible</i></li> <li value="15"> <i>Postscripts</i></li> <li value="16"> <i>SF Weekly</i></li> <li value="17"> <i>Electric Velocipede</i></li> <li value="18"> <i>Cemetery Dance</i></li> <li value="19"> <i>Fantasy Magazine</i></li> <li value="20"> <i>Black Gate</i></li> <li value="21"> <i>The Internet Review of Science Fiction</i></li> <li value="22"> <i>SFRevu</i></li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Publisher/imprint</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> Tor</li> <li value="2"> Subterranean Press</li> <li value="3"> Night Shade Books</li> <li value="4"> Baen</li> <li value="5"> Ace</li> <li value="6"> Del Rey</li> <li value="7"> Gollancz</li> <li value="8"> Bantam Spectra</li> <li value="9"> Pyr</li> <li value="10"> PS Publishing</li> <li value="11"> DAW</li> <li value="12"> Orbit</li> <li value="13"> NESFA Press</li> <li value="14"> Small Beer Press</li> <li value="15"> Tachyon</li> <li value="16"> Eos</li> <li value="17"> Golden Gryphon</li> <li value="18"> Roc</li> <li value="19"> St. Martin's</li> <li value="20"> Firebird</li> <li value="21"> Solaris</li> <li value="22"> SF Book Club</li> <li value="23"> Arkham House</li> </ol> </div>  <div class="categoryblock"> <div class="category">Artist</div> <ol> <li value="1"> <span class="winner">Winner:</span> <a href="Michael_Whelan">Michael Whelan</a></li> <li value="2"> <a href="Bob_Eggleton">Bob Eggleton</a></li> <li value="3"> <a href="John_Picacio">John Picacio</a></li> <li value="4"> <a href="Shaun_Tan">Shaun Tan</a></li> <li value="5"> <a href="Charles_Vess">Charles Vess</a></li> <li value="6"> <a href="Stephan_Martiniere">Stephan Martiniere</a></li> <li value="7"> <a href="Dave_McKean">Dave McKean</a></li> <li value="8"> <a href="Donato_Giancola">Donato Giancola</a></li> <li value="9"> <a href="Kinuko_Y_Craft">Kinuko Y. Craft</a></li> <li value="10"> <a href="Thomas_Canty">Thomas Canty</a></li> <li value="11"> <a href="Frank_Frazetta">Frank Frazetta</a></li> <li value="12"> <a href="John_Jude_Palencar">John Jude Palencar</a></li> <li value="13"> <a href="Jim_Burns">Jim Burns</a></li> <li value="14"> <a href="Leo_&_Diane_Dillon">Leo & Diane Dillon</a></li> <li value="15"> <a href="J_K_Potter">J. K. Potter</a></li> <li value="16"> <a href="Vincent_Di_Fate">Vincent Di Fate</a></li> <li value="17"> <a href="Don_Maitz">Don Maitz</a></li> <li value="18"> <a href="Boris_Vallejo">Boris Vallejo</a></li> <li value="19"> <a href="Michael_Wm_Kaluta">Michael Kaluta</a></li> <li value="20"> <a href="Frank_Wu">Frank Wu</a></li> <li value="21"> <a href="Tom_Kidd">Tom Kidd</a></li> <li value="22"> <a href="Yoshitaka_Amano">Yoshitaka Amano</a></li> <li value="23"> <a href="Julie_Bell">Julie Bell</a></li> </ol> </div>  <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </div>  </div>  </div>  <br clear="all"> <div class="copyrightblock"> Copyright 2012 - 2025 by Mark R. Kelly and the <a class="white" href="http://www.lsff.net/">Locus Science Fiction Foundation</a>. All rights reserved. </div>  <div class="timestampblock"> This page last updated Friday 12 Jun 2020 at 10:54 PT </div>  <br clear="all"> </div>  </body></html>