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World Awards Nomination Ballot This ballot must be postmarked by June 30, 2003 Novel Author Title Publisher/Source ______Novella – 10,000 to 40,000 words ______Short Story – under 10,000 words ______Anthology – multiple authors – original or reprint – single or multiple editors ______Collection – single author – original or reprint – single or multiple editors ______Artist — not eligible: Allen Koszowski ______Special Award – Professional — not eligible: Jo Fletcher (), ______Special Award – Non-Professional — not eligible: Raymond Russell and Rosalie Parker (Tartarus Press) ______Life Achievement – please see the next page for a complete list of past Life Achievement Award winners ______2003 World Fantasy Awards Information Each year, the convention members nominate two of the entries for each category on the awards ballot. To this, the judges can add three or more nominees. No indictation of the nominee source appears on the final ballot. The judges are chosen by the World Fantasy Awards Administration. Winners will be announced at the 2003 Banquet on November 2, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington DC. Eligibility: All nominated material must have been published in 2002 or have a 2002 cover date. Only living persons may be nominated. All Fan- tasy is eligible, from supernatural horror to Tolkienesque to sword & sorcery to the occult to children’s and YA books, and beyond. Nomination Instructions: When listing stories or other material that may not be to all the judges, please include pertinent information such as author, edi- tor, publisher, magazine name, and date, etc. You may nominate up to five items in each category, in no particular order. These items are not point-rated. You don't have to nomi- nate items in every category but you must nominate in more than one. The two items in each category receiving the most nominations (ex- cept for ineligible nominations) will be placed on the final ballot. The remainder are added by the judges. Categories: Life Achievement; Best Novel; Best Novella; Best ; Best Anthology; Best Collection; Best Artist; Special Award Profes- sional; Special Award Non-Professional. A list of past award winners may be found at http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html. Please note the nominees in the Life Achievement category will not be released. Only the winner’s name will be announced at the awards banquet. The past Life Achievement winners: Forrest J. Ackerman Hugh B. Cave Everett F. Bleiler R.A. Lafferty C.L. Moore L. Sprague de Camp Madeleine L’Engle Ursula K. Le Guin E. Hoffmann Price Philip José Farmer Edward L. Ferman George Scithers . All questions pertaining to the convention itself should be sent directly to the Convention Chair. Questions of eligibility, the judges, and the administration should be sent directly to the attention of Peter D. Pautz at [email protected]. 2003 Judges: We have a slate of five judges for the World Fantasy Awards. Materials to be considered for awards must be received, no later than June 1, 2003, by all five judges with an additional copy to the World Fantasy Awards Association. Please send materials directly to each judge, and very importantly, please mark any packages as World Fantasy Awards Materials. Also, please make sure to send a file copy of any and all materials to the Awards Administrator so a comprehensive list may be kept, as well as backup copies for any that are lost or mis- placed. This is the only way the judges can consider all eligible items, and you can be sure that your work has been given fair attention.

Justin Ackroyd, Slow Glass Books Lawrence Evans c/o Carlton Post Office 5 Solitaire Court 31 School Street 146 Elgin Street Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Hatfield, MA 01038 Carlton Victoria 3053 USA USA Australia Laura Anne Gilman World Fantasy Awards Association 63 Laurel Avenue Peter D. Pautz, Awards Administrator 63 Mayfair Avenue Roseland, NJ 07068 PO Box 43 Ilford IG1 3DG USA Mukilteo, WA 98275-0043 Great Britain USA

Please seal your ballot in an envelope and return to: Rodger Turner 70 Fourth Avenue Name: ______Ottawa, Ontario E-Mail: ______CANADA K1S 2L2 All ballots cast will be verified against WFC membership lists [email protected] from , , and Washington, DC. Postage Rates for Letters Mailed to Canada This ballot must be postmarked by June 30, 2003 Australian postage is $1.65A for airmail up to 50g UK postage is 0.61£ for surface mail up to 60g An e-mail version of this ballot is located on the WFC 2003 US postage is 60 cents for airmail up to 1oz web site at http://www.worldfantasy2003.org/awards.htm