I guess that every award, more or less, can stir
debate and controversy, but since those tend most of the times to be subjective
I try to stay away from them as much as possible. It doesn’t mean that I claim
full objectivity, far from me this thought, but I aim to channel my time and
energy toward the awards that broaden and influence my reading habit and did
that over time in a satisfactory manner. The Shirley Jackson Awards are one of
such prizes I respect the most. In its 7 years of existence I discovered a
series of wonderful books with the help of the Shirley Jackson Awards while at
the same time I was delighted to see some of the books I enjoyed winning in a
certain edition. It is no different this year, I found a couple of titles in
this year’s list of nominees that escaped my attention so far and a few others
that I would love to see lifting this trophy. If they do remains to be seen on
July, 13th when the winners of the 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards are
announced in a ceremony held during Readercon 25 in Burlington, Massachusetts.
NOVEL:
“The Accursed” by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
“American Elsewhere” by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
“The Demonologist” by Andrew Pyper (Orion-UK/ Simon & Schuster-US)
“The Ghost Bride” by Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
“Night Film” by Marisha Pessl (Random House)
“Wild Fell” by
Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)
NOVELLA:
“Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
“Children of No One” by Nicole Cushing (DarkFuse)
“Helen’s Story” by Rosanne Rabinowitz (PS Publishing)
“It Sustains” by Mark Morris (Earthling Publications)
“The Gateway” by Nina Allan (Stardust, PS Publishing)
“The Last Revelation of
Gla’aki” by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
“Whom the Gods Would Destroy” by Brian Hodge (DarkFuse)
NOVELETTE:
“Cry Murder! In a Small
Voice” by Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
“A Little of the Night” by Tanith Lee (Clockwork
Phoenix 4, Mythic Delirium Books)
“My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott (Dangerous
Women, Tor Books)
“Phosphorus” by Veronica Schanoes (Queen
Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
“Raptors” by Conrad Williams (Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter
2013)
SHORT FICTION:
“57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides” by Sam
J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)
“Furnace” by Livia Llewellyn (Grimscribe’s
Puppets, Miskatonic River Press)
“The Memory Book” by Maureen McHugh (Queen
Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
“The Statue in the Garden” by Paul Park (Exotic
Gothic 5, PS Publishing)
“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart” by Robert Shearman
(Psycho-Mania!, Constable & Robinson)
“The Traditional” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed, May 2013)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION:
“Before and Afterlives”
by Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press)
“Everything You Need” by Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
“In Search of and Others”
by Will Ludwigsen (Lethe Press)
“North American Lake
Monsters” by Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)
“The Story Until Now” by Kit Reed (Wesleyan)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY:
“The Book of the Dead” edited by Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
“End of the Road” edited
by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
“Grimscribe’s Puppets” edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)
“Queen Victoria’s Book
of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy” edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
“Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar
Allan Poe” edited by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!
2 comments:
So which ones impressed you the most?
My favorite at the moment has to be the Shirley Jackson Awards. It is the one that surprised the most over the time and offered me some very interesting readings. :)
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