Nominate Night Shade Titles for Prestigious Awards

John Joseph Adams | February 12th 2008 at 6:39 pm

The 2008 Hugo Awards nomination ballot is now online. You must be an attending or supporting member of this year’s Worldcon, or have been an attending or supporting member of last year’s, to nominate. Deadline for voting is March 1.

The 38th annual Locus Awards ballot is also online. Voting is open to all. Deadline for is April 15.

Go and vote for your favorite Night Shade titles!

Here’s a list of our titles that are eligible. The list is divided by type of book (novel, collection, or anthology), and following each title are the categories it’s eligible for. We’ve also included a list of original short fiction that appeared first in Night Shade books, as well as a list of our cover artists.

Novels

Grey by Jon Armstrong (novel, SF novel, first novel)

Softspoken by Lucius Shepard (novel, fantasy novel)

Precious Dragon by Liz Williams (novel, fantasy novel)

Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey (novel, fantasy novel)

The Princes of the Golden Cage by Nathalie Mallet (novel, fantasy novel, first novel)

The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes (novel, fantasy novel)

The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe (novel, fantasy novel, first novel)

Collections

Hart & Boot & Other Stories by Tim Pratt (single-author collection)

Balefires by David Drake (single-author collection)

The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (single-author collection)

Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon (single-author collection)

Ice, Iron and Gold by S.M. Stirling (single-author collection)

Anthologies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan (anthology)

Eclipse One edited by Jonathan Strahan (anthology)

Short Fiction

"Dream Engines" by Tim Pratt (short story)

"Procession of the Black Sloth" by Laird Barron (novella)

"Say Cheese" by Elizabeth Moon (short story)

"Something For Yew" by S. M. Stirling (novella)

"The Last and Only, or Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French" by Peter S. Beagle (short story)

"The Transformation of Targ" by Jack Dann & Paul Brandon (short story)

"Toother" by Terry Dowling (short story)

"Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse"  by Andy Duncan (short story)

"The Drowned Life" by Jeffrey Ford (novelette)

"Electric Rains" by Kathleen Ann Goonan (short story)

"Off the Fire Road" by Eileen Gunn (novelette)

"In The Forest Of The Queen" by Gwyneth Jones (short story)

"Mrs. Zeno’s Paradox" by Ellen Klages (short story)

"She-Creatures" by Margo Lanagan (short story)

"The Lost Boy:  A Reporter At Large" by Maureen F. McHugh (short story)

"Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex" by Garth Nix (short story)

"Larissa Miusov" by Lucius Shepard (novelette)

"The Lustration" by Bruce Sterling (short story)

"Quartermaster Returns" by Ysabeau Wilce (short story)

Artists

Jeremy Geddes, Grey

JK Potter, Softspoken

Jon Foster, Precious Dragon

Dan Dos Santos, Butcher Bird

Paul Youll, The Princes of the Golden Cage

Tom Kidd, The Spiral Labyrinth

Justin Sweet, The Sword-Edged Blonde

Richard Marchand, Hart & Boot & Other Stories

Richard Pellegrino, Balefires

Eleni Tsami, The Imago Sequence

Dave Seeley, Moon Flights

Vincent Chong, Ice, Iron and Gold

Stephan Martiniere, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 1

Michael Whelan, Eclipse One

John Berkey, The Complete Hammer’s Slammers, Vol. 2

Vince Evans, Imaro 2: The Quest for Cush

Jason Van Hollander, The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1: The End Of The Story

Caniglia, London Revenant

Raymond Swanland, A Cruel Wind

David Martin, Voice of the Whirlwind

Edward Miller, Bronze

And, of course, we’re eligible in the "Best Book Publisher" category, and our esteemed editor-in-chief, Jeremy Lassen, is eligible in the "Best Editor" and "Best Editor, Long Form" categories, while Jonathan Strahan is eligible for "Best Editor" and "Best Editor, Short Form."

Additionally, Nathalie Mallet, Alex Bledsoe, and Jon Armstrong are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

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