“The Situation” and Fast Ships Finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award
Jeff VanderMeer • April 15th, 2009 @ 10:40 am • News
I’m thrilled that “The Situation” is a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award. You can read the novelette on GeekDad/Wired and you can still buy the PS Publishing book of it in the 500-copy version, I believe.
Congrats to Ann for Fast Ships, Black Sails being up in the anthology category–she did most of the reading on that one! Congrats to Conrad Williams for his story from the pirate antho also being up. Congrats, in fact, to all of the nominees. Some really cool stuff on there.
(Full cover art by Scott Eagle, without titles, for the PS Publishing edition of “The Situation”.)
April 15, 2009 at 10:46 am
Bravo; finally got round to reading The Situation a few weeks ago, and I can only conclude that you’ve worked some jobs that were even shittier than some of mine… :)
April 15, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Cool!
Very nice to see a couple of my favorite books from last year get some more well-deserved critical acclaim. Heartiest congratulations to you both.
JKS
April 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Congrats!
April 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Well, I’ve only read three of the books listed: ‘The Situation’, ‘Fast Ships..’, and ‘Dangerous laughter’ – all three are highly deserving of the honor and I would recommend. Any recommendations for other books on that list that I should add to my TBR list?
April 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Congratulations all round! Hope you win, and make Jackson even more proud.
April 16, 2009 at 9:34 am
But what if the Shirley Jackson Award winner is chosen by lottery? And if you win, a bunch of people chase you around town with paintball guns? What then? I’m just asking.
April 16, 2009 at 10:17 am
Ah…memories of HS Honors English…where we put a huge black dot on a piece of paper and left it for the teacher.
April 16, 2009 at 11:00 am
The maxim is true, Barbara – the smarter the students, the more devious…
April 16, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Congratulations to you both.
Mord should have won last year…
April 16, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Hey, thanks all!
May 2, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Congratulations!!!! I still hope to get The Situation published in Portuguese! (Of course I wish I could also publish Fast Sails – and Steampunk, and The New Weird…. Keep your fingers crossed!)
May 4, 2009 at 4:40 am
Fábio: Are you working on anything by Jeff? I’m translating City of Saints & Madmen and would love to compare notes if you are, too.