A fost anunțat rezultatul votului pentru premiile World Fantasy pentru cărți publicate în 2021. Premiile vor fi decernate în cadrul Convenției World Fantasy 2022, programată pentru perioada 3-6 noiembrie 2022, în SUA.
Premiile pentru întreaga carieră, acordate anual persoanelor care au adus servicii remarcabile în domeniul fantasticului, vor fi acordate în 2022 lui Samuel R. Delany și lui Terri Windling.
Finaliștii World Fantasy Awards la categoriile literare din 2022 sunt:
ROMAN
Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
The City Beautiful, Aden Polydoros (Inkyard)
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper UK)
NUVELĂ
“For Sale by Owner”, Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
Finches, A.M. Muffaz (Vernacular)
“A Canticle for Lost Girls”, Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)
POVESTIRE
“The Failing Name”, Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky (Fantasy 8/21)
“The Demon Sage’s Daughter”, Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons 2/8/218)
“If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
“#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3/3/21)
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
“(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF 7-8/21)
ANTOLOGIE
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), Charlatan Bardot & Eric J. Guignard, eds. (Dark Moon)
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
VOLUM DE POVESTIRI (COLECȚIE)
Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
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