1998 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOMINEES

The nominees for the 1998 World Fantasy Awards, for work in the 1997 award year, have been announced. Two items in each category were placed on the final ballot by Reader's Ballot nomination and the other entries were compiled by vote of a panel of five judges:

Peter Crowther
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Peter Schneider
David Truesdale
Janeen Webb

NOVEL

UPDATE: The Club Dumas has been declared ineligible; a previously unknown 1996 UK edition has been discovered.

• Trader, by Charles de Lint (Tor)
• The Physiognomy, by Jeffrey Ford (Avon)
• American Goliath, by Harvey Jacobs (St. Martin's)
• The Gift, by Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
• Dry Water, by Eric S. Nylund (Avon)

NOVELLA

• "Streetcar Dreams", by Richard Bowes (F&SF, 4/97)
• "The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins", by Brian Hodge (Love In Vein II, Edited by Poppy Z. Brite, HarperPrism)
• "The Fall of the Kings", by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman (Bending The Landscape: Fantasy, White Wolf Borealis)
• "Coppola's Dracula", by Kim Newman (The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Robinson Raven, UK)
• "The Zombies of Madison County", by Douglas E. Winter (Dark of the Night, Pumpkin Books)

SHORT FICTION

• "Dust Motes", by P.D. Cacek (Gothic Ghosts, Tor)
• "Fortune and Misfortune", by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov's 5/97)
• "Get a Grip", by Paul Park (OMNI On Line, 3/97)
• "The Inner Inner City", by Robert Charles Wilson (Northern Frights 4, Mosaic Press)
• "Audience", by Jack Womack (The Horns of Elfland, Roc)

ANTHOLOGY

• Modern Classics Of Fantasy, Ed. Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's)
• Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel (White Wolf Borealis)
• Northern Frights 4, Ed. Don Hutchison (Mosaic Press)
• Dark Terrors 3, Ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton (Gollancz)
• Millennium, also as Revelations, Ed. Douglas E. Winter (Voyager; HarperPrism)

COLLECTION

• Giant Bones, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
• Driving Blind, Ray Bradbury (Avon)
• Fractal Paisleys, by Paul Di Filippo (Four Walls Eight Windows)
• The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright)
• A Geography of Unknown Lands, Michael Swanwick (Tigereyes Press)

ARTIST

• Rick Berry
• Jim Burns
• Alan Lee
• Don Maitz
• Dave McKean

PROFESSIONAL

• Ellen Datlow, for editing & anthologies
• Gardner Dozois, for editing & anthologies
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
, ed. John Clute and John Grant (Orbit, St. Martin's)
• Stephen Jones, for editing & anthologies
• Gordon Van Gelder, for editing books (St. Martin's) & for editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Richard Chizmar, for Cemetery Dance Magazine and CD Publications
• Fedogan & Bremer, for book publishing
• Chris Logan Edwards, for Tigereyes Press
• Barry Hoffman, for Gauntlet Magazine and Gauntlet book publishing
• Jeff VanderMeer and Tom Winstead, for The Ministry of Whimsy Press