Annal:2002 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Novel
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The Other Wind: Book 6 of The Earthsea Cycle
- 2002 WFA–Novel winner
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 2002 Nebula nominee
- Score: 22.52
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.
Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a…
- 2002 Hugo-Novel winner
- 2002 Nebula winner
- 2001 Stoker–Novel winner
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2001 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 48.52
A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary results.
Shadow dreamed of nothing but leaving prison and starting a new life. But the day before his release, his wife and best friend are killed in an accident. On the plane home to the funeral, he meets Mr. Wednesdaya beguiling stranger who seems to know everything about him. A trickster and rogue, Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and soon learns that his role in Mr. Wednesday’s schemes will be far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being foughtand the prize is the very soul of America.
- 2002 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 2002 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 22.52
On the eve of the Daughter’s Day—the grand celebration that will honor the Lady of Spring, one of the five reigning deities—a man broken in body and spirit makes his way slowly down the road to Valenda. A former courtier and soldier, Cazaril has survived indignity and horrific torture as a slave aboard an enemy galley. Now he seeks nothing more than a menial job in the kitchens of the Dowager Provincara, in the noble household where he served as page in his youth.
But the gods have greater plans for this humbled man. Welcomed warmly, clothed and fed, he is…
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves away, and comes home for a visit? His hometown has turned from American-as-apple-pie to darkest noir, his once-innocent girlfriend has transformed into something both more and less than she was, and his father has become a bum. Both parody and tribute to childhood heroes, Brown Harvest appropriates characters familiar to anyone who grew up reading detective stories. Borrowing from the Hardy Boys to Jay Cantor (Krazy Kat) and setting the characters on a collision path with hard-boiled thrillers, young adult…
From the Dust Returned: A Novel
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2001 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.52
Ray Bradbury, America’s most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family
They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois—and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and…
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.
At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips—Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city’s…
- 2002 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
Set in the fictional town of Crane’s View, New York, the familiar setting of earlier Carroll novels, The Wooden Sea also brings back the character of Police Chief Frannie McCabe. Crane’s View is a small, comfortable town nestled along the river, a place where nothing out of the ordinary would happen—and doesn’t, to the casual observer. But when a three-legged dog named Old Vertue wanders into McCabe’s office and dies, he knows that something odd is beginning, and that his life will be forever altered.
As with all Carroll novels, The Wooden Sea is…
