{"id":2454,"date":"2011-08-06T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:11:05","slug":"mystery-knight-vies-for-howie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/08\/06\/mystery-knight-vies-for-howie\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mystery Knight” Vies for Howie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dunk and Egg are contending in another tourney. The third of my Dunk & Egg novellas, “The Mystery Knight,” has been announced as a finalist for this year’s World Fantasy Award.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full list of this year’s nominees:<\/p>\n

BEST NOVEL
* Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
* The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
* The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
* Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK)
* Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)
* Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)<\/p>\n

BEST NOVELLA
* Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
* The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
* !\u0153The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon!\u009d, Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
* The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine Publications)
* !\u0153The Mystery Knight!\u009d, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
* !\u0153The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window!\u009d, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)<\/p>\n

BEST SHORT FICTION
* !\u0153Beautiful Men!\u009d , Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts)
* !\u0153Booth’s Ghost!\u009d, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
* !\u0153Ponies!\u009d, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11\/17\/10)
* !\u0153Fossil-Figures!\u009d, Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
* !\u0153Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us!\u009d, Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9\/10)<\/p>\n

BEST ANTHOLOGY
* The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
* My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
* Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
* Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
* Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
* Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)<\/p>\n

BEST COLLECTION
* What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
* The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitl\u00c3\u00adn R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
* Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
* Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
* The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)<\/p>\n

BEST ARTIST
* Vincent Chong
* Kinuko Y. Craft
* Richard A. Kirk
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan<\/p>\n

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
* John Joseph Adams, for editing and anthologies
* Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr
* Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
* St\u00c3\u00a9phane Marsan & Alain N\u00c3\u00a9vant, for Bragelonne
* Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications<\/p>\n

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
* Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010
* Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press
* Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press
* Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker
* Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog<\/p>\n

The winners will be announced Halloween weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. The award is a wonderfully gloomy bust of H.P. Lovecraft sculpted by Gahan Wilson.<\/p>\n

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I have one Howie on my awards shelf already, a best novella award for my werewolf story “The Skin Trade,” published lo these many years ago when the world was young… but he has a lonely look about him, and ‘twould be nice to have another. Hey, it’s always nice to get a little head. Not that I’m expecting to win. Unlike the Hugo and the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award is juried, so one never knows how it’s going to turn out.<\/p>\n

“The Mystery Knight” was published in WARRIORS, the big crossgenre anthology I edited with Gardner Dozois. If you’d like to check it out, paperback copies are available from Amazon and other on-line bookshops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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