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2015 World Fantasy Award winners
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2015 World Fantasy Award winners are:
Life Achievement Winners
- Ramsey Campbell
- Sheri S. Tepper
Novel
- David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (Random House/Sceptre UK)
Novella
- Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine (Tachyon Publications)
Short Story
- Scott Nicolay, Do You Like to Look at Monsters? (Fedogan & Bremer, chapbook)
Anthology
- Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds., Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (Candlewick Press)
Collection
- Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
- Angela Slatter, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press)
Artist
- Samuel Araya
Special Award — Professional
- Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
Special Award — Non-professional
- Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
GIVEAWAY: J. L. Doty's A Choice of Treasons
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You have a chance to win a new edition of J. L. Doty's A Choice of Treasons (e-book, published by Open Road Media, October 2015).
This e-book will be given to 5 lucky winners.
This giveaway is open to everybody, worldwide.
To participate in this giveaway, please send an e-mail message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The subject of the e-mail message must be "CHOICE".
The e-mail message must contain your name and your e-mail address.
This giveaway ends on October 31st, 2015.
Good luck to all participants!
About the novel
A new edition of J. L. Doty's A Choice of Treasons will be released on October 27, 2015 with a brand new cover. A Choice of Treasons follows York Ballin, a lifer in the Imperial Navy fighting in a war that has lasted for generations. York and his crew are ordered to deliver the princess Aeya to the empress on the planet Dumark. As they do so, the planet is hit with a massive Directorate assault and York saves them just in time... but soon he finds out the empress and Princess Aeya are harboring a secret so great that it threatens both the Empire and the Directorate. Now York must decide between saving them or saving himself - and his only options are a choice of treasons.
On Sale October 27, 2015.
Published by Open Road Media.
Terry Pratchett 1948-2015
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Sir Terry Pratchett, fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series, has died aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen's Where the Trains Turn nominated for a World Fantasy Award nominee
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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen's novella Where the Trains Turn (Tor.com, November 2014) has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
This year's nominees include:
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
More information about the World Fantasy Award nominees can be found here:
http://www.tor.com/2015/07/08/the-2015-world-fantasy-award-nominees-have-been-announced/
The winners of the 2015 World Fantasy Awards will be announced during the the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY.
GIVEAWAY: Rudy Ch. Garcia's The Closet of Discarded Dreams
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GIVEAWAY: Rudy Ch. Garcia's The Closet of Discarded Dreams
You have a chance to win a copy of Rudy Ch. Garcia's fantasy novel The Closet of Discarded Dreams.
This giveaway contest is open to everybody.
To participate in the The Closet of Discarded Dreams giveaway, please send an e-mail message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The subject of the e-mail message must be "CLOSET".
The e-mail message must contain your name and your postal address.
This giveaway ends on February 28th, 2015.
To improve your chances of winning this novel, please submit a short description of an abandoned dream that might appear in The Closet of Discarded Dreams. The dream will be published online when the giveaway contest ends. (Please note that this is optional.)
Good luck to all participants!
About the novel:
A young Chicano battles insanity in a surreal world where everyone endlessly relives humankind's abandoned dreams. Except for him. Will VN vet fraggers, Lenny Bruce, a Midget Godzilla, vampires, Neanderthals, a Black leper, Marilyn Monroe, Che, and Chrisie the Bruiser prove foes or allies? When the rebellious captive discovers special powers, his desire to escape contends with empathy for the Dreampeople. But can he create his own identity and rally them to overcome the Closet's mysterious secret?