World Fantasy Convention 2009 Progress Report 2 www.worldfantasy2009.org Thursday, Oct. 29 - Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009 San Jose, California Celebrating 200 Years of Poe Contents World Fantasy Award Nominees 3 Additional Guest of Honor 6 Banquet Information 7 Registration at Con / Dealers Room 8 Shipping 9 Bookstores 10 Getting to the Convention 11 New members since last report 13 Committee List / Contact Information / Website 20 Please check the spelling, capitalization and punctuation of your name on the label of this progress report. The database that generated the label and the list of names in this PR is what will be used to generate name badges for the convention. If your name is not spelled properly, or is capitalized in a way you do not prefer, please let us know by e-mailing [email protected] immediately, so we can have a goodlooking and appropriate badge waiting for you at Registration. Thank you! World Fantasy Award Nominees The list of nominees for the 2009 World Fantasy Awards is as follows: Best Novel • The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor) • The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) • The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury) • Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey) • Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf) Best Novella • “Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel,” Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads) • “If Angels Fight,” Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08) • “The Overseer,” Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08) • Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins) • “Good Boy,” Nisi Shawl (Filter House) Best Short Odds Story • “Caverns of Mystery,” Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy) • “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss,”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08) • “Pride and Prometheus,” John Kessel (F&SF 1/08) • “Our Man in the Sudan,” Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories) • “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica,” Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08) 3 Best Anthology • The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books) • The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey) • The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s) • Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press) • Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications) Best Collection • Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books) • The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial) • Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking) • Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press) • Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic ‘09) Best Artist • Kinuko Y. Craft – www.kycraft.com • Janet Chui – www.janetchui.net • Stephan Martinière – www.martiniere.com • John Picacio – www.johnpicacio.com • Shaun Tan – www.shauntan.com 4 Special Award, Professional • Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House) • Farah Mendelsohn (for The Rhetorics of Fantasy) • Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales) • Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft) • Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications) Special Award, Nonprofessional • Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society) • John Klima (for Electric Velocipede) • Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her “artist’s challenges.”) • Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarkesworld) • Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books) World Fantasy Award Judges • Jenny Blackford • Peter Heck • Ellen Klages • Chris Roberson • Delia Sherman 5 Additional Guest of Honor Zoran Živković Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1948. In 1973 he graduated from the Department of General Literature with the theory of literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master’s degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school, where he is currently a professor of creative writing. Živković is the author of the eighteen works of fiction: The Fourth Circle (1993), Time Gifts (1997), The Writer (1998), The Book (1999), Impossible Encounters (2000), Seven Touches of Music (2001), The Library (2002), Steps through the Mist (2003), Hidden Camera (2003), Compartments (2004), Four Stories till the End (2004), Twelve Collections and the Teashop (2005), The Bridge (2006), Miss Tamara, The Reader (2006), Amarcord (2007), The Last Book (2007), Escher’s Loops (2008) and The Ghostwriter (2009). Živković received numerous literary awards. The most prominent among them is the World Fantasy Award (2003) for his mosaic-novel The Library. Nearly fifty foreign editions of his books appeared in more than twenty languages. Several feature films and TV series were based on his works. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia, with his wife Mia, their twin sons Uroš and Andreja, and their three cats. 6 Banquet & Awards Ceremony The banquet will begin at 1 P.M. on Sunday, November 1. Banquet Menu Salad Baby field greens with toasted almonds, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette Entree choice of Petit filet of beef with cabernet shallot sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, forest mushrooms and vegetables or Sundried tomato and spinach stuffed breast of chicken with Marsala sauce, basil polenta cake, and vegetables or Grilled vegetable strudel with ricotta cheese and tomato basil sauce Dessert Fresh berries and honey-lavender ice cream Banquet tickets are $75 per person, which includes applicable taxes, gratuities and service charges. Coffee and teas are included with the banquet. Other beverages may be purchased at the no-host bar. Tickets are available before the convention through our website, or contact us at P. O. Box 61363 Sunnyvale CA 94088-1363. You can pick up these tickets in the registration area. A limited number of tickets will be for sale at the convention; however, we cannot guarantee that all entree choices will be available. Tables seating 10 are also available: contact [email protected]. Seating is otherwise on a first-come basis. Allergies and dietary restrictions: If you have food allergies or any other dietary restrictions contact [email protected] by Friday, Oct. 16. We will work with you and the hotel to accommodate your needs. The 2009 World Fantasy Awards follow the banquet in the same room. The ceremony is open to all members: doors open at approximately 2 PM. 7 Registration at the Con Registration is in the Market Street Foyer of Fairmont at these hours: Wednesday 7 PM - 10 PM Thursday Noon - 6 PM Friday 10 AM - 6 PM Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM Dealers Room Hours of operation: Thursday Noon - 6 PM Friday 10 AM - 6 PM Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM Sunday 10 AM - 3:30 PM Note: The Dealers Room will be open after the banquet ends. Many of these dealers have active websites, and would be glad to bring items you might request to the convention. Check on our website under Dealers. B. Brown & Associates Locus Publications Bad Moon Books Midnight Books Basement Books Night Shade Books Book Universe The Other Change of Hobbit Borderlands Books Phil Davis Books & Treasures Cargo Cult Books & Notions Prime Books Centipede Press Jim & Melody Rondeau Cobblestone Books Shasta/Phoenix Cold Tonnage Books Sign of the Unicorn DreamHaven Books Springtime Creations EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Tachyon Publications Publishing Underland Press Fairwood Press/Talebones Wheatland Press The Fantasy Connection Willow Jewelry Handee Books Ygor’s Books 8 Shipping The World Fantasy Convention 2009 is now accepting shipments for donated books for the attendee bookbags, as well as any related ephemera – bookmarks, postcards, flyers, buttons, stickers – being donated for giveaway at WFC. If you are a publisher wanting to donate in quantity, and have not already been in touch, please contact Rina Weisman at pub- [email protected]. Please do not send books without first emailing her. Shipments will be accepted until Tuesday, October 27th; anything that arrives after that date may be returned to sender. Please address your shipping label as follows: Rina Weisman / WFC 2009 c/o Extra Space Storage Attn: Unit 74 2501 Cesar Chavez Street San Francisco, CA 94124 Please write 'BOOKBAG' in large letters, somewhere on the side of the box. Please keep a record of your shipping information and tracking number; WFC2009 is not responsible for packages that go astray on their way to us. A letter acknowledging your donation will go out to you after the close of the convention. This address is NOT for dealers wishing to ship their merchandise to the convention. Shipments to the Dealers Room will be accepted beginning in October. Please contact Dave Clark at [email protected] if you have any questions. The shipping service at the convention, for both dealers and attendees, will be the United States Post Office. The USPS will be setting up a subsidiary station on Saturday and Sunday, and will provide Media Mail, 1st Class, and Priority Mail. Insurance and customs forms will be provided. For those wishing to ship stuff home via FedEx or UPS, the hotel maintains a business center with those services. The WFC will also have a "box farm" with plenty of sturdy cardboard boxes for packing. Hours for the USPS station will be posted at the convention. 9 Local Bookstores Support Your Local Independent Bookstores! Well, in this case, OUR local independent bookstores!