Just Announced: World Fantasy Award Nominees

This year's World Fantasy Award nominees have been announced!  The winner won't be revealed until the World Fantasy Convention in late October, so why not read them all and see if your favorite wins?
  • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes - Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit – and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her lastpaycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons.
  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin - After Yeine Darr is summoned to the majestic city of Sky and named an heiress to the king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, she is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had, drawing ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.  The first book in a planned trilogy.
  • The Silent Land by Graham Joyce - Buried under a flash avalanche while skiing, young married couple Jake and Zoe miraculously dig their way out only to discover themselves alone in an eerily silent, evacuated region and unable to contact the outside world.
  • Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay - Shen Tai, a general serving the Emperor of Kitai, receives 250 Sardian horses, an unthinkable gift fit to overwhelm an emperor, and travels to claim the horses in person.
  • Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord - When Paama leaves her husband, she attracts the attention of the undying ones who present her with the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world.

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