Annal:2001 World Fantasy Award for Collection
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Collection
- Fantasy books
- Fantasy authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories
- 2001 WFA–Collection winner
- Score: 10.51
This collection of fiction includes two never-before-published pieces in addition to a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated story. The title story spins the tale of a guitarist who refuses to disembark the train at Hell and his adventures at the next stop, Beluthahatchie. Other stories include plot lines about the career concerns of a member of “The Executioner’s Guild” and graveyard romances in “The Premature Burials.” These science fiction and speculative stories are told with a flair for Southern patois and are followed by comprehensive author’s notes.
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.51
Terry Dowling’s new book, Blackwater Days, is a collection of seven linked short stories set in and around the Blackwater Psychiatric Hospital in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley.
The stories, inspired by Shaun Tan’s painting “Black Water”, were written in a creative burst in mid-1996.
Magic Terror: Seven Tales
- 2000 Stoker–Collection winner
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- 2000 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 22.5
No one tells a story like Peter Straub. He dazzles with the complexity of his plots. He delights with the sophistication and eloquence of his prose. He startles you into laughter in the face of events so dark you begin to question your own moral compass. Then he reduces you to jelly by spinning a tale so terrifying-and surprising-you wind up sleeping with the lights on.
With Magic Terror, the bestselling author of Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King) has given us one of the most imaginatively unsettling collections in years.…
Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.51
The work of novelist and short-story writer Neal Barrett, Jr., runs the gamut from science fiction, westerns, and historical novels to off-the-wall but well-received mainstream fiction. This collection brings together 11 previously uncollected short stories, many of which first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Best of the West, and The New Frontier. It also features the novella “Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus” and presents the reader with a distinct mix of science fiction and western, which is Barrett at his offbeat best. Here…
The Perseids and Other Stories
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.51
Robert Charles Wilson’s time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction’s Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson’s brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time.
Beginning with “The Perseids,” winner of Canada’s national SF award, this collection showcases Wilson’s suppleness and strength: bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings facing choices that matter. Also…
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.51
Having previously published eight novels and three collections of stories, M. John Harrison’s latest collection, Travel Arrangements, confirms the abilities of a writer of singular subtlety and intelligence; that he is not more celebrated may in part be due to the tendency of writers to be categorised by genre. The author’s previous books have often been labelled as science-fiction or fantasy but the stories gathered here demonstrate the limitations of such categories. Harrison’s writing balances disquietingly on the edge of realism and careful…
