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British Fantasy Society Awards 2008 long-list
Posted by Paul Raven on June 10th, 2008 at 8:47
The long-lists of nominees for this year’s British Fantasy Society Awards have been published in full at the BFS website – and we’re very pleased to see PS Publishing titles, writers, artists and editors all making a good showing in the lists!
Here are the relevant nominations; as usual, PS Publishing titles have a dominating presence in the novella category, but we’re spread around the board quite nicely:
Novel
- The Grin Of The Dark – Ramsey Campbell
Novella
- Starship Summer – Eric Brown
- The Mermaids – Robert Edric
- The Lees of Laughter’s End – Steven Erickson
- The City Beyond Play – Philip Jose Farmer and Danny Adams
- Dead Earth: The Green Dawn – Mark Justice and David T Wilbanks
- Hereafter and After – Richard Parks
- The Scalding Rooms – Conrad Williams
- Twelve Collections and the Teashop – Zoran Zivkovic
Short Fiction
- “The Familial” by Gary Fry in Sanity and Other Delusions
- “Thumbprint” by Joe Hill in Postscripts # 10
- “Discovering Ghosts” by Tim Lebbon in Postscripts # 10
- “Loki” by Matthew Rossi in Postscripts # 11
Best Artist
- Vincent Chong and Les Edwards (for multiple covers, including some PS titles)
- John Picacio for cover art, Postscripts # 10
- J.K Potter for cover art, PS Showcase # 1 – Sanity and Other Delusions
- Tomislav Tikulin for cover art, Starship Summer by Eric Brown
Best Small Press
- Postscripts, [Eds] Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers
- PS Publishing, [Ed] Peter Crowther
We’re naturally pleased and flattered to be nominated so many times, but it’s the hard work of the writers and artists that really makes it possible – so congratulations to all of them from PS Publishing, and to all the other nominees as well.
Click through on the links above to buy yourself a nominated title and discover what all the fuss is about – and feel free to vote for us if you’re a BFS member!
Additional edit: To my shame, I didn’t notice it on my initial pass through the list, but Darren Turpin (my esteemed predecessor in this very job) polled a much-deserved nomination for the currently-on-hiatus UKSF Book News website in the Best Non-fiction category. Way to go, Darren!