{"id":1856,"date":"2009-09-21T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2009-09-21T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:01:09","slug":"an-aside-2009-british-fantasy-award-winners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/news\/an-aside-2009-british-fantasy-award-winners-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | 2009 British Fantasy Award Winners Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angry Robot Books<\/a> (along with a slew of other sites) shows off the list of winners<\/a> for this year’s British Fantasy Awards<\/strong>. The big winner? Graham Joyce<\/a>, writing under the pseudonym of William Heaney<\/em>.<\/p>\n\"Memoirs\n

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Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)<\/strong>
\nMemoirs of a Master Forger<\/em>, by Graham Joyce, writing as William Heaney (Gollancz)<\/p>\n

Best Novella
\n<\/strong>The Reach of Children<\/em>, by Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)<\/p>\n

Best Short Fiction
\n<\/strong>Do You See<\/em>, by Sarah Pinborough, from Myth-Understandings, ed. by Ian Whates (Newcon Press)<\/p>\n

Best Collection
\n<\/strong>Bull Running for Girls<\/em>, by Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)<\/p>\n

Best Anthology
\n<\/strong>The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson)<\/p>\n

The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award
\n<\/strong>Elastic Press, run by Andrew Hook<\/p>\n

Best Non-Fiction
\n<\/strong>Basil Copper: A Life in Books<\/em>, by Basil Copper, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing)<\/p>\n

Best Magazine\/Periodical
\n<\/strong>Postscripts<\/em>, ed. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (PS Publishing)<\/p>\n

Best Artist
\n<\/strong>Vincent Chong<\/p>\n

Best Comic\/Graphic Novel
\n<\/strong>Locke and Key<\/em>, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)<\/p>\n

Best Televison
\n<\/strong>Doctor Who<\/em>, head writer Russell T. Davies (BBC Wales)<\/p>\n

Best Film
\n<\/strong>The Dark Knight<\/em>, directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner Brothers)<\/p>\n

The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
\n<\/strong>Joseph D’Lacey, for Meat (Bloody Books)<\/p>\n

The Karl Edward Wagner Award (the Special Award)
\n<\/strong>Hayao Miyazaki<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Joyce on winning the award<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“I’m having a good week,” said Joyce<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“It’s extraordinary really: everything’s quiet for a couple of years and then this,” said Joyce. “I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs … This is a crescent.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“Fantasy gets a mixed reception \u2013 a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle,”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Joyce is one of those author who, despite owning a few of his novels, I’ve yet to read. From the sounds of it, that’s something I should soon rectify, if I know what’s good for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angry Robot Books (along with a slew of other sites) shows off the list of winners for this year’s British Fantasy Awards. The big winner? Graham Joyce, writing under the pseudonym of William Heaney. Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award) Memoirs of a Master Forger, by Graham Joyce, writing as William Heaney (Gollancz) Best… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n