Publisher Jacob Weisman with all the Tachyon 2018 World Fantasy Awards (photo: Renee Babcock)

At the 2018 World Fantasy Convention in Baltimore, MD, two Tachyon titles won the prestigious World Fantasy Award.  THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, co-edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman, received recognition as Best Anthology  and Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS for Best Collection. Ellen Klages took home Best Novella for the non-Tachyon titles Passing Strange. Charles de Lint was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Best Novel

• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau) (winner-tie)
• Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK) (winner-tie)
• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)

Best Novella

• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing) (winner)
• The Teardrop Method, Simon Avery (TTA)
• IN CALABRIA, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “The Birding: A Fairy Tale”, Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons 12/18/17) (winner)
• “Old Souls”, Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 9-10/17)
• “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

Best Anthology

• THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman, eds. (Tachyon) (winner)
• Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)

Best Collection

• THE EMERALD CIRCUS, Jane Yolen (Tachyon) (winner)
• WICKED WONDERS, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
• Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers, Tim Powers (Baen)
• Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

Best Artist

• Gregory Manchess (winner)
• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

Special Award, Professional

• Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson, for Writing Madness (Centipede) (winner)
• C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for art direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright)

Special Award, Non-Professional

• Justina Ireland & Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction (winner)
• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali & Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE EMERALD CIRCUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CHARLES DE LINT, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Charles Vess