Here are the nominees for the 2010 British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at FantasyCon in September.
Best Novel
Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
Futile Flame, Sam Stone (House Of Murky Depths)
One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
The Naming Of The Beasts, Mike Carey (Orbit)
Under The Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Best Novella
Old Man Scratch, Rio Youers (Ps)
Roadkill, Rob Shearman
The Language Of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (Ps)
The Witnesses Are Gone, Joel Lane (Ps)
Vardoger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)
Best Short Story
“Careful What You Wish For,” Justin Carroll
“George Clooney’s Moustache,” Rob Shearman
“My Brother’s Keeper,” Nina Allan, Black Static #12
“The Confessor’s Tale,” Sarah Pinborough
“What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night,” Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)
Best Anthology
Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9, Ed. D.F. Lewis (Megazanthus)
Dragontales: Short Stories Of Flame, Tooth And Scale, Ed. Holly Stacey (Wyvern)
Hellbound Hearts, Ed. Marie O’regan And Paul Kane (Pocket)
Songs Of The Dying Earth: Stories In Honour Of Jack Vance, Ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Harpervoyager)
The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 20, Ed. Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)
Best Collection
Cyberabad Days, Ian Mcdonald (Gollancz)
Just Behind You, Ramsey Campbell (Ps)
Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
Once & Future Cities, Allen Ashley (Eibonvale)
The Terrible Changes, Joel Lane (Ex Occidente)
PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press
Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
Subterranean Press (William Schafer)
Telos Publishing (David Howe)
Tta Press (Andy Cox)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
Freakangels, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar & warrenellis.com)
locke and key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
The Girly Comic, ed. Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader? Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)
Best Artist
Charles Vess
Les Edwards
Shaun Tan
Steve Upham
Vincent Chong
Best Non-Fiction
Ansible Link, David Langford
Case Notes, Peter Tennant, Black Static
It Lives Again! Horror Movies In The New Millennium, Axelle Carolyn (Telos)
John Scalzi, Whatever
Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired By Stephen King, George Beahm and various artists (Centipede Press)
Best Magazine
Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
Cemetery Dance, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance)
Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA)
Midnight Street, ed. Trevor Denyer (Immediate Direction)
Murky Depths, ed. Terry Martin (The House of Murky Depths)
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, ed. Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood (Silver Age)
Best Television
Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi/Sky 1)
Being Human (BBC3)
Doctor Who (BBC1)
Lost (ABC/Sky 1)
Torchwood: Children Of Earth (BBC1)
Best Film
Avatar, dir. James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
Coraline, dir. Henry Selick (Focus)
District 9, dir. Neill Blomkamp (Tristar)
Let The Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)
Watchmen, dir. Zack Snyder (Warner)
