World Fantasy Best Novel

 

Nominierung 2011

Who Fears Death

World Fantasy Best Novel 2011

von Nnedi Okorafor

The critically-acclaimed novel-now in paperback.

In a far-future, post-apocalyptic Saharan Africa, genocide plagues one region. When the only surviving member of a slain village is brutally raped, she manages...


Nominierung 2010

The City & The City

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2010, Locus Best Fantasy Novel 2010, Arthur C. Clarke 2010, World Fantasy Best Novel 2010

von China Mieville

BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES...


Nominierung 2009

The Shadow Year

World Fantasy Best Novel 2009

von Jeffrey Ford

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom...


Tender Morsels

World Fantasy Best Novel 2009

von Margo Lanagan

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her...


Nominierung 2008

Ysabel

World Fantasy Best Novel 2008

von Guy Gavriel Kay

Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the lens of a celebrated photographer, and a perfect place for the photographer's son, Ned Marriner,...


Nominierung 2007

Soldier of Sidon

The Soldier series #3

World Fantasy Best Novel 2007

von Gene Wolfe

Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful...


Nominierung 2006

Kafka on the Shore

World Fantasy Best Novel 2006

von Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister;...


Nominierung 2005

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2005, World Fantasy Best Novel 2005

von Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke's brilliant novel is an utterly compelling, epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the way two very different magicians, who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its...


Nominierung 2004

Tooth and Claw

World Fantasy Best Novel 2004

von Jo Walton

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons

Tooth and Claw

Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King’s Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod....


Nominierung 2003

Ombria in Shadow

World Fantasy Best Novel 2003

von Patricia McKillip

When Ombria’s prince, Royce Greve, breathes his last—in palace rooms high above the city—he leaves his young son and mistress at the mercy of his ancient and powerful great-aunt, Domina Pearl. Meanwhile,...


Nominierung 2002

The Other Wind

Earthsea novels #5

World Fantasy Best Novel 2002

von Ursula K. Le Guin

An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards.


Nominierung 2001

Declare

World Fantasy Best Novel 2001

von Tim Powers

As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront...


Nominierung 1999

The Antelope Wife

World Fantasy Best Novel 1999

von Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife extends the branches of the families who populate Louise Erdrich's earlier novels, and once again, her unsentimental, unsparing writing captures the Native American sense of despair, magic,...


Nominierung 1993

Last Call

Locus Best Fantasy Novel 1993, World Fantasy Best Novel 1993

von Tim Powers

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.

Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld...


Nominierung 1991

Thomas the Rhymer

World Fantasy Best Novel 1991

von Ellen Kushner

Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid

contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with...


Nominierung 1989

Koko

Blue Rose Trilogy #1

World Fantasy Best Novel 1989

von Peter Straub

Bestselling author Peter Straub's Koko is a gripping psychological thriller in which horror and paranoia are indistinguishable from reality.Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They...


Nominierung 1988

Replay

World Fantasy Best Novel 1988

von Ken Grimwood

Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again --...


Nominierung 1986

Song of Kali

World Fantasy Best Novel 1986

von Dan Simmons

Elizabeth Ann Scarboroughís Song of Sorcery is another light-hearted contemporary fantasy adventure which will please the authorís many fans. Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely...


Nominierung 1982

Little, Big

World Fantasy Best Novel 1982

von John Crowley

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater,...


Nominierung 1979

Gloriana

World Fantasy Best Novel 1979

von Michael Moorcock, Tom Joyner & Mary Flowers Boyce

Queen Elizabeth I of England (ruled in late 1500's), also known as Gloriana and Good Queen Bess, has been a source of endless fascination for centuries. There are many movies (Elizabeth made Cate Blanchett's...


Nominierung 1978

Our Lady of Darkness

World Fantasy Best Novel 1978

von Fritz Leiber

Ben Raines is searching for his family in the chaos that remains after devastation hits America. Thieves and gangsters take the streets in the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse. Fearful American citizens band...