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	World Fantasy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention (WFC) to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy.
		For the 2006 awards, the judges are Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.
		For the Hugos, the nominees and winners are chosen solely by members of the World Science Fiction Convention, while the Nebulas are awards for authors chosen by authors, specifically members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Fantasy_Award (332 words)

	World Fantasy Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The World Fantasy Awards are nominated by members of the World Fantasy Convention and selected by a panel of judges to acknowledge excellence in fantasy writing and art.
		The recipients of the 2002 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, MN on November 3, 2002.
		The recipients of the 2003 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb/worldfantasy (1616 words)

	Carol Emshwiller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1921) is a writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award award to the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award.
		Ursula Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount.
		In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carol_Emshwiller (175 words)

	Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society and the J.
		She was a superior writer and a pioneer in the field of fantasy and science fiction.
		The award for the best science fiction novel in the United Kingdom is named the Arthur C. Clarke Award in his honor.
	www.midamericon.org /halloffame (2138 words)

	Fantasy 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As well as writing SF, she has written SF criticism; she received the Pilgrim Award for her critical work in 1989, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
		And it is to Einfell that Alice turns in desperation, to plead for her son’s life to one who once trusted her, and suffered the consequences.
		He is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award for his alternate history novella The Summer Isles and his short story The Chop Girl, and has been shortlisted for almost every major science fiction and fantasy award including the Hugo and the Nebula.
	www.tangled-web.co.uk /new/new05/11fantasy05.html (4239 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Knight: Book One of the Wizard Knight, Wizard Knight Series #1
		Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy.
		He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo.
		This is a book -- and a series -- for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53950626 (308 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Gene Wolfe
		Bio: Gene Wolfe is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix Apollo.
		Here is a book to rival the great achievements in fantasy of the last century, one truly in the tradition founded in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
		A teenage boy passes from our world to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is soon given the body of a...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GeneWolfeeBooks.htm (265 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Slippage
		For more than 40 years, Harlan Ellison's writing career has won him more awards for his 45 books, 1300+ stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures than anybody we can name.
		In 1993, he received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
		However, his characters, whether telepath, loan shark, soldier, time traveler, or intergalactic being, are all the same fella: a short loudmouth with a Yiddish disposition.
	www.sfsite.com /08b/slip39.htm (604 words)

	ANDRE NORTON ORG: World Fantasy Convention Life Achievement Award (1998)
		ANDRE NORTON ORG: World Fantasy Convention Life Achievement Award (1998)
		According to the December '98 edition of the Locus Magazine, Andre Norton and Edward L. Ferman (long time editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) were given the Life Achievement Award on November 1st, 1998 at the World Fantasy Convention in Monterey, California.
		Norton was given, following the WFC Convention Award she received in 1987.
	www.andre-norton.org /awards/wfa2.html (75 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Wizard, Wizard Knight Ser. Series #2
		Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds.
		Description: A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth.
		Possibly the most critically acclaimed SF/Fantasy author of our time, he is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as the Nebula Award (2), the World Fantasy Award (2), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix Apollo.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=54406996&srchTerms=0765312018&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (479 words)

	Mylibrary: Conan The Swordsman, Bjorn Nyberg, et al (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sprague de Camp, a SFWA Grand Master and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, wrote the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard.
		Lin Carter was the key figure behind the popular Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series of the 1970s.
		Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world.
	www.mylibrary.nu /Books/Books.cfm/ID/5585/PageID/22 (225 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Best known for his multiverse of interlocking heroic fantasy characters, Moorcock was recently awarded the World Fantasy Grandmaster Award for life achievement and is the recipient of many literary awards.
		But that is exactly the same as you read your first novel about real life, you don't feel you've got to know everything about the real world.
		So I did interviews with various people, and anybody, in fact, who was still alive and had written a fantasy novel, there were only about three or four, as a boy I got in touch with.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue206/interview.html (3603 words)

	Locus Online News: World Fantasy Awards Ballot
		Nominations for the 2004 World Fantasy Awards, covering the 2003 publishing year, have been announced:
		Two nominees in each category are placed on the ballot by reader votes submitted by members of the annual World Fantasy Convention, and the rest of the ballot is completed by a panel of five judges.
		The winners, including one or more winners in the Life Achievement category, whose candidates are not announced in advance, will be selected by the judges and will be announced at the Awards Banquet on Sunday at this year's World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 28-31, 2004, in Tempe, Arizona.
	www.locusmag.com /2004/News/08_WorldFantasyAwardBallot.html (176 words)

	The SF Site: World Fantasy Award Nominees
		The nine awards are presented at the banquet of the World Fantasy Convention held each year around the end of October.
		The nominees for that award are not released in advance.
		The Awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention awards banquet to be held in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
	www.sfsite.com /08b/wfa158.htm (355 words)

	Powell's Books - The Wizard: Book Two of the Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
		Outstanding fantasy these days is often convincingly and compellingly anti-Tolkien, but Wolfe proves one can tell an epic, myth-based story of honor, loyalty, courage and faith relevant to our own dark times.
		Here is a work to rival the greatest fantasy of the last century; one truly in Tolkien's tradition.
		A teenager passed from Earth to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he was soon given a hero's adult body and the name Able.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0765312018-1 (1033 words)

	SFBookcase.com - Author Gene Wolfe's Biography,Bibliography,Novels,Short Stories,Related Websites - Reference of ...
		Hence the reason these books are categorised as science fantasy rather than either one or the other genre.
		Wolfe takes many of the classic fantasy elements (i.e., elves, giants, ogres, damsel in distress, young protagonist in over-his-head on a quest) and puts a new spin on them.
		Wolfe is regarded as a fine writer, regardless of genre, and this foray into fantasy shows why; lyrical, poetic, whimsical and deeply moving.
	www.sfbookcase.com /author.asp?authorid=953 (1192 words)

	World Fantasy Awards, 1975-2001 (World Fantasy Convention)
		Life Achievement: Frank Franzetta and Philip José Farmer.
		Special Award, Professional: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, by John Clute and John Grant (1997).
		Life Achievement: Edward L. Ferman and Andre Norton.
	www.hycyber.com /HF/world_fantasy_awards.html (1459 words)

	Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library : Ohio Authors Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		She also continued to write, and by the time she left Gnome in 1958 she had published 23 novels and a number of short stories.
		Norton was most recognized as an author of science fiction for young adults and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy award, as well as the Nebula Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement from the Science Fiction Writers of America.
		In 1966, she moved to Florida and later to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she passed away at the age of 93.
	www.ohiocenterforthebook.org /ohioauthors.aspx?id=48&mode=detail (431 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2001054056
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		Sprague de Camp, winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, was fluent in several languages and traveled the world.
		He was chased by a hippopotamus in Uganda and sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, he saw tigers and rhinoceroses from elephantback in India, and he was bitten by a lizard in the jungles of Guatemala.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/hol055/2001054056.html (174 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		The 2004 World Fantasy Award Winners for works from 2003 were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Tempe, Ariz., over the Halloween weekend.
		The judges included John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant and Scott Wyatt; the awards administrator was Peter Dennis Pautz.
		The film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials wants to take religion, the Big Bad of the books, out of the equation.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-11/01/10.00.books (129 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003060683
		A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality.
		With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. Tolkien, E. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and
		This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol041/2003060683.html (259 words)

	World Fantasy Awards Home Page
		Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (Harvill; Knopf)
		World Fantasy Award Winners - By Name
		All material in this Site is copyright by the World Fantasy Board.
	www.worldfantasy.org /awards (296 words)

	PRESS RELEASE
		The World Fantasy Award is a juried award that has been
		at the World Fantasy Convention in London, England.
		Witness to Life, this year’s Finalist -- and prequel to that
	www.tmgreen.com /wfcpr.html (315 words)

	Powell's Books - The Knight: Book One of the Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
		This is a book — and a series — for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.
		Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post.
		A former engineer, he has become one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0765313480-0 (597 words)

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		A satirical, at times hilarious spoof on air travel by one of the world's most elegant writers.
		Changing Planes is an intriguing, enticing mixture of Gulliver's Travels and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.
		Ursula Le Guin has won many awards, literary and genre, adult and children's, including a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
	www.allenandunwin.com /Bookseller/product.asp?ISBN=0575076232 (242 words)

	World Fantasy Award Winners - SFWA News
		The 2005 World Fantasy Awards for works published in 2004 were presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday, November 6, 2005.
		More photos from the awards at Midamercan Fan Photo Archive
		Except where otherwise noted, content and design copyright © 1995-2000 by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. ("SFWA").
	www.sfwa.org /News/05wfcwin.htm (143 words)

	EVENT PROFILE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Harlan Ellison's writing career had spanned more than forty years.
		He won more awards for his 45 books, over 1300 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures than any other living writer.
		Harlan served as creative consultant on the revival of the series The Twilight Zone and is presently a creative consultant for Babylon 5.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/spectrum/more.php?id=100797 (102 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sagas of Conan : Three Conan Novels in One Volume: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Imagine a world of gods and demons, where the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world.
		Subjects > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Anthologies
		Subjects > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > General
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0765310546 (387 words)

	Romantic SF & Fantasy Novels \| Weblog Entry - 11/04/2004: "2004 World Fantasy Award Winners"
		Weblog Entry - 11/04/2004: "2004 World Fantasy Award Winners"
		The 2004 World Fantasy Awards were presented Sunday afternoon, October 31, at the World Fantasy Convention in Tempe, Arizona.
		The winners were: Life Achievement Stephen King Gahan Wilson Novel TOOTH
	www.romanticsf.com /news/00000273.shtml (109 words)

	1999 World Fantasy Award Nominations
		The winners were announced at the November 1999 World Fantasy Conventionin Providence, RI.
		Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton (British Fantasy Society)
		Nominees are not pre-announced in the Life Achievement category.
	www.dpsinfo.com /awardweb/worldfantasy/1999.html (277 words)

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