The Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010

Originally posted at Hellnotes
posted by Dave

Here are the winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010, as announced at the British Fantasy Awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2010 this past weekend:

Best Novel: The August Derleth Fantasy Award
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Conrad Williams (Virgin Horror)

Best Novella
The Language Of Dying
Sarah Pinborough (PS Publishing)

Best Short Fiction
“What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night”
Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)

Best Anthology
The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 20
Edited by Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)

Best Collection
Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical
Robert Shearman (Big Finish)

The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award
Telos Publishing
David Howe

Best Comic/Graphic Novel
Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?
Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC Comics/Titan Books)

Best Artist Vincent Chong
For work including covers for:
The Witnesses Are Gone (PS Publishing)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Constable & Robinson)

Best Non-Fiction
Ansible
David Langford

Best Magazine/Periodical
Murky Depths
Edited and published by Terry Martin

Best Television
Doctor Who
Head writer: Russell T Davies (BBC Wales)

Best Film
Let The Right One In
Directed by Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)

Best Newcomer – The Sydney J. Bounds Award
Kari Sperring
For Living With Ghosts (DAW)

The British Fantasy Society Special Award: The Karl Edward Wagner Award
Robert Holdstock

The British Fantasy Award winners were decided by a vote of the combined memberships of the British Fantasy Society, FantasyCon 2009 and FantasyCon 2010. The exceptions are the the Sydney J. Bounds Award, decided by a panel of appointed judges, and the Karl Edward Wagner Award, decided by the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon 2010 committees.

The winner of the BFS Short Story Competition 2010 was also announced during the ceremony. The winning story was “Omar the Teller of Tales” by Robin Tompkins. The runner-up was “The Song” by Travis Heermann, and third place went to “Beating Heart” by Dan Malach.

Brian Keene Poised to Unleash Maelstrom: But What is It?

Hello.

My name is Gregory Fisher. I'm also called the Undead Rat. I run a blog focusing on my favorite topic: Horror Books.

For sometime now, horror author Brian Keene has been dropping hints on The Official Website of Author Brian Keene about something called Maelstrom.

First announce in a cryptic blog post on June 11, 2010 and the referred to in three subsequent posts. Little by little Brian Keene has revealed what we absolutely needed to know and not much more.

He has stated:

* Maelstrom is big . . . huge . . . humongous even!

* Subscribers to the newsletter Of Keene Interest will find out what it is before the rest of us -- in fact they should already know.

* It will come out October 1st, 2010

* On August 16 he announced it will cost $125.00, giving us a month and a half to scrape up the funds

* Maelstrom will be offered as an online purchase only. Do not expect it to come to a store near you.

* Did I mention it was gargantuan?


What is Maelstrom? Well, most of us will have to wait until October to find out but I'm willing to hazard a guess.

Before I do, please realize I have no special insight, no relationship with the man (other than I buy his books), and no communication with him on this subject (I do not even have rudimentary telepathy). I'm also not a subscriber to Of Keene Interest, yet.

My best guess is that Maelstrom is the Labyrinth Mythos, the origin story that comes before the stories in Mr. Keene's horror novels such as The Rising, Earthworm Gods, Ghoul, Darkness on the Edge of Town and many others.