Out of the Woodwork 141. August 2008
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Winners of this year's Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announcedon the 9th August 2008.

NOVEL
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins; Fourth Estate)
NOVELLA
"All Seated on the Ground", Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2007; Subterranean Press)
NOVELETTE
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007)
SHORT STORY
"Tideline", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Jun 2007)
RELATED BOOK
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: LONG FORM
Stardust (Written by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Paramount Pictures)
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: SHORT FORM
Doctor Who: "Blink" (Written by Stephen Moffat. Directed by Hettie Macdonald. BBC)
EDITOR, SHORT FORM
Gordon Van Gelder
EDITOR, LONG FORM
David G. Hartwell
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Stephan Martiniere
SEMIPROZINE
Locus, Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong & Liza Groen Trombi
FANZINE
File 770, Mike Glyer
FAN WRITER
John Scalzi
FAN ARTIST
Brad Foster
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Not a Hugo)
Mary Robinette Kowal

INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD NOMINATIONS for WORKS from 2007 (IHG)

PETER STRAUB has been named as this year's International Horror Guild Living Legend. Mr. Straub is the author of numerous short stories and novellas as well as seventeen novels (including two co-authored with Stephen King), which have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. The recipient of many awards and honors, he has achieved both critical acclaim and commercial success in a notable career in which he has continually reshaped and expanded the field of dark literature.

NOVEL
Grin of the Dark. Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Generation Loss. Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
The Missing. Sarah Langan (HarperCollns)
Season of the Witch. Natasha Mostert (Dutton)
The Terror. Dan Simmons (Little, Brown & Company)

FICTION COLLECTION
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories. Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
Plots and Misadventures. Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean Press)
Shadows Kith and Kin. Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
Masques of Satan. Reggie Oliver (Ash Tree Press)
Dagger Key and Other Stories. Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)

LONG FICTION
Procession of the Black Sloth. Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence: Night Shade Books)
The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story. Susan Hill (Profile)
Softspoken. Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)
The Scalding Rooms. Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

MID-LENGTH FICTION
"The Janus Tree". Glen Hirshberg (Inferno: Tor)
"Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed". Steven Duffy (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
"The Bone Man". Fredric S. Durbin (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007)
"Closet Dreams". Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts 10: PS Publishing)

SHORT FICTION
"Digging Deep". Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Comma Press)
"Honey in the Wound". Nancy Etchemendy (The Restless Dead: Candlewick Press)
"The Tank". Paul Finch (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
"Splitfoot". Paul Walther (New Genre 5, Spring 2007)
"The Great White Bed". Don Webb (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2007)

ANTHOLOGY
Inferno. Ellen Datlow, editor (Tor)
Summer Chills. Stephen Jones, editor (Carroll & Graf)
American Supernatural Tales. S.T. Joshi, editor (Penguin)
Strange Tales Volume II. Rosalie Parker, editor (Tartarus Press)
At Ease with the Dead. Barbara and Christopher Roden, editors (Ash Tree Press)

NON-FICTION
Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Susan Tyler Hitchcock (W.W. Norton & Company)
Mario Bava: All the Colors of Dark. Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog)
Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James. Rosemary Pardoe & S.T. Joshi, eds. (Hippocampus Press)
Sides. Peter Straub (Borderlands Press)
The Science of Stephen King. Bob Weinberg & Lois M. Gresh (John Wiley)

PERIODICAL
Black Static
Dead Reckonings
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Postscripts
Weird Tales

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE
Scalped: Indian Country. Jason Aaron (writer) R.M. Gu?ra (artist) (Vertigo/DC Comics)
The Nightmare Factory. Thomas Ligotti (creator/writer), Joe Harris & Stuart Moore (writers), Ben Templesmith, Michael Gaydos, Colleen Doran & Ted McKeever (illustrators) (Fox Atomic/Harper Paperbacks)
The Blot. Tom Neely (I Will Destroy You)
The Arrival. Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books)
Wormwood Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer. Ben Templesmith (IDW)

ART
Didier Cottier for Exhibit at Utopiales, Nantes, France, November 2007
David Ho for his body of work
Elizabeth McGrath for "The Incurable Disorder", Billy Shire Fine Arts, December 2007
Chris Mars for "New Salem", Jonathan Levine Gallery, October 2007
Mike Mignola for cover & illustrations: Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Bantam Spectra)

The British Fantasy Society is pleased to announce the nominees for the British Fantasy Award 2008

British Fantasy Award Alphabetical List of top five nominees in all categories:

(Note: Where the list has more than 5 nominations, this is due to voting ties for one or more runner-up places)

Novel: The August Derleth Award

Ramsey Campbell, THE GRIN OF THE DARK, PS Publishing

Joe Hill, HEART SHAPED BOX, Gollancz

Michael Marshall, THE INTRUDERS, HarperCollins Publishers

Sarah Pinborough, THE TAKEN, Dorchester Publishing Co

Dan Simmons, THE TERROR, Little Brown & Co

Michael Marshall Smith, THE SERVANTS, Earthling Publications

Novella
Eric Brown, STARSHIP SUMMER, PS Publishing

Tim Lebbon, AFTER THE WAR (DOUBLE NOVELLA), Subterranean Press

Gary McMahon, ALL YOUR GODS ARE DEAD, Humdrumming

Del Stone jr., BLACK TIDE, Telos Publishing

Conrad Williams, RAIN, Gray Friar Press

Conrad Williams, THE SCALDING ROOMS, PS Publishing

Short Fiction

Ramsey Campbell, DIGGING DEEP, Phobic: Modern Horror Stories, Comma Press

Christopher Fowler, THE SPIDER KISS, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Robinson

Joe Hill, THUMBPRINT, Post Scripts # 10, PS Publishing

Joel Lane, MY STONE DESIRE, Black Static # 1, TTA Press

Tim Lebbon, DISCOVERING GHOSTS, Post Scripts # 10 Spring 2007, PS Publishing

Collection
Simon Clark, MIDNIGHT BAZAAR: A SECRET ARCADE OF STRANGE AND EERIE TALES, Robert Hale

Paul Finch, STAINS, Gray Friar Press

Christopher Fowler, OLD DEVIL MOON, Serpent's Tail

Stephen Gallagher, PLOTS AND MISADVENTURES, Subterranean Press

Gary McMahon, DIRTY PRAYERS, Gray Friar Press

Tony Richards, GOING BACK, Elastic Press

Anthology

Charles Black, THE BLACK BOOK OF HORROR, Mortbury Press

John Grant, NEW WRITINGS IN THE FANTASTIC, Pendragon

Stephen Jones, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 18, Robinson

D. F. Lewis, ZENCORE!, Meganthus

Ian Alexander Martin, THE FIRST HUMDRUMMING BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, Humdrumming

Small Press

Andy Cox, Black Static

Peter Crowther, PS Publishing

Peter Crowther, Postscripts

Andrew Hook, Elastic Press

Steve Upham, Screaming Dreams

Artist

Vincent Chong

Les Edwards (Edward Miller)

Dave McKean

Bryan Talbot

Steve Upham

Non-Fiction

Allen Ashley, PLANET DODO COLUMN, Midnight Street

Peter Tennant, WHISPERS OF WICKEDNESS WEBSITE REVIEWS

Stephen Thrower, NIGHTMARE USA: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE EXPLOITATION INDEPENDENTS, FAB Press

Darren Turpin, UKSF BOOKNEWS

Mark Valentine, WORMWOOD, Tartarus Press

Nominations for this year's World Fantasy Awards have been announced, along with recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards. Winners in the other categories will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, held October 30 - November 2, 2008. Nominees are listed here alphabetically first by title, then nominee.

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)

The haunting: Ten tales of terror from our spectred isles

Our nation's folklore echoes with tales of unquiet spirits and hauntings,of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, of indelible bloodstains and premonitions of death. In a new book, Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson uncover the spookiest stories for your fright (and delight). Here, they present 10 of their favourites. Independent story

Top 10 movie Robots - Independent on Sunday. Full story

K9. 'Doctor Who' (1977)

R2D2. 'Star Wars' (1977)

The Terminator. 'The Terminator' (1984)

Wall.E. 'Wall.E' (2008)

Optimus Prime. 'Transformers' (TV 1984, film 2007)

Sonny. 'I, Robot' (2004)

Gort. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' (1951)

Maria. 'Metropolis' (1927)

Robby. 'Forbidden Planet' (1956)

Marvin the Paranoid Android - 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (TV 1981, film 2005)

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