Se ha anunciado la relación de candidatos a los premios Mundiales de Fantasia de 2010 que se anunciarán durante la Convención Mundial del género que tendrá lugar en Columbus, Ohio entre el 28 y 2l 30 del próximo mes de octubre. Estos son los seleccionados:

Novela
Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)

Novela Corta
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
“The Lion’s Den”, Steven Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)
The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)
“Sea-Hearts”, Margo Lanagan (X6 )
“Everland”, Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)

Relato
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said”, Richard Bowes (F&SF 12/09)
“The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
“A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby”, Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons 6/09)
“Singing on a Star”, Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
“The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale”, Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein )
“In Waiting”, R.B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
“Light on the Water”, Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 10/09)

Antología
Poe,  Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean/Voyager)
Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)

Colección
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
Northwest Passages, Barbara Roden (Prime)
Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor)

Ilustrador
John Jude Palencar
John Picacio
Charles Vess
Jason Zerrillo
Sam Weber

Premio especial – Profesionales
Peter & Nicky Crowther por PS Publishing
Ellen Datlow por su labor editando antologías
Hayao Miyazaki por Ponyo
Barbara & Christopher Roden por Ash-Tree Press
Jonathan Strahan por su labor editando antologías
Jacob & Rina Weisman por Tachyon Publications

Premio Especial – Aficionados
John Berlyne por Powers: Secret Histories
Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, & Sean Wallace por Clarkesworld
Susan Marie Groppi por Strange Horizons
John Klima por Electric Velocipede
Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw and Eric M. Van por Readercon
Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker por Tartarus Press