Jeff VanderMeer


science fiction awards database

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2022
Locus Awards 2023 — editor — 10th place

2021
Hummingbird Salamander • novel • MCD
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2022 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2022 — sf novel — 8th place
Locus Awards 2022 — editor — 6th place

2020
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • Vintage
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2021 — anthology — winner
• Locus Awards 2021 — anthology — 4th place
A Peculiar Peril • novel • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
awards:
• Dragon Awards 2021 — YA/middle grade novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2021 — young adult book — 4th place
Locus Awards 2021 — editor — 3rd place

2019
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Vintage
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2020 — anthology — nomination
• British Fantasy Awards 2020 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2020 — anthology — 7th place
Dead Astronauts • novel • Farrar, Straus, Giroux/MCD
awards:
• Dragon Awards 2020 — fantasy novel (including paranormal) — nomination
• Locus Awards 2020 — fantasy novel — 8th place
Locus Awards 2020 — editor — 4th place

2018
Locus Awards 2019 — editor — 7th place

2017
Borne • novel • Macmillan/MCD
awards:
• Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 — shortlist
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2018 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2018 — sf novel — 6th place
Locus Awards 2018 — editor — 6th place

2016
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Random House/Vintage
awards:
• Locus Awards 2017 — anthology — winner
“Introduction” (by Ann VanderMeer & JV) • short fiction • The Big Book of Science Fiction
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2017 — nonfiction — nomination
Locus Awards 2017 — editor — 5th place

2015
“From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey” • short fiction • The Atlantic Jan 2015
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2016 — nonfiction — nomination

2014
The Time Traveller's Almanac (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Head of Zeus
awards:
• Locus Awards 2015 — anthology — 2nd place
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy • omnibus • Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals, 2014
citations:
• 2017: Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, Third Edition, Paul Di Filippo
Annihilation • novel • Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2015 — novel — winner
• World Fantasy Awards 2015 — novel — nomination
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2015 — finalist
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2015 — novel — winner
• Locus Awards 2015 — sf novel — 3rd place
citations:
• 2021: NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy, NPR
• 2015: 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime, Amazon Editors
“Fragments from the Notes of a Dead Mycologist”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2015
Locus Awards 2015 — editor — 3rd place

2013
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (by JV, with Jeremy Zerfoss) • nonfiction • Abrams Image
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2014 — related work — nomination
• British SF Association Awards 2014 — nonfiction — winner
• Locus Awards 2014 — non-fiction — winner
World Fantasy Awards 2014 — special award, professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2014 — editor — 4th place

2012
(by Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer & JV), for Weird Fiction Review
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2013 — special award, professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2013 — editor — 5th place

2011
The Weird (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • Corvus
awards:
• British Fantasy Awards 2012 — anthology — winner
• Locus Awards 2012 — anthology — 6th place
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Corvus
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2012 — anthology — winner
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Harper Voyager
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2012 — anthology — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2012 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2012 — anthology — 7th place
The Steampunk Bible (by JV & S. J. Chambers) • nonfiction • Abrams Image
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — related work — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2012 — special award, professional — nomination
Locus Awards 2012 — editor — 4th place

2010
The Third Bear • collection • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2011 — collection — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2011 — collection — 14th place
Locus Awards 2011 — editor — 8th place

2009
Finch • novel • Underland Press
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2010 — novel — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2010 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2010 — fantasy novel — 5th place
• SF Site Readers Poll 2010 — sf/fantasy book — 7th place (tie)
Best American Fantasy (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Prime Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — anthology — 12th place
“The Goat Variations”
anthologies:
• Other Worlds Than These, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2012
“The Final Quest of the Wizard Sarnod”
anthologies:
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Subterranean Press 2009
Locus Awards 2010 — editor — 6th place

2008
The Situation • novel • PS Publishing
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — novelette — nomination
The New Weird (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• Locus Awards 2009 — anthology — 11th place
Steampunk (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Tachyon Publications
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2009 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — anthology — 8th place
Fast Ships, Black Sails (Ann VanderMeer & JV, eds.) • anthology • Night Shade Books
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — anthology — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — anthology — 7th place
“Fixing Hanover” • short fiction • Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology
awards:
• Locus Awards 2009 — short story — 14th place
anthologies:
• More Human than Human, ed. Neil Clarke, Night Shade Books 2017
• Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, ed. Ann VanderMeer, Tachyon Publications 2012
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
• Year's Best SF 14, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Eos 2009
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2009
Locus Awards 2009 — editor — 8th place

2007
“The Third Bear” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Magazine Apr 2007
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2008 — short story — 12th place
• WSFA Small Press Award 2008 — shortlist — nomination
“The Surgeon's Tale” (by JV & Cat Rambo) • short fiction • Subterranean Win 2007
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — novelette — 21st place
Locus Awards 2008 — editor — 11th place

2006
Shriek: An Afterword • novel • Macmillan/Tor UK
awards:
• Locus Awards 2007 — fantasy novel — 6th place
citations:
• 2012: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn
“The Secret Paths of Rajan Khanna” • short fiction • Paraspheres: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories
awards:
• Locus Awards 2007 — short story — 14th place
“My Report on the Secret Life of Shane Hamill” • Eidolon I
anthologies:
• Eidolon 1, ed. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne, Prime 2006
Locus Awards 2007 — editor — 14th place
As Judge — World Fantasy Awards 2006

2005
“The Farmer's Cat” • short fiction • Polyphony, Volume 5
awards:
• Locus Awards 2006 — short story — 12th place (tie)
anthologies:
• Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Locus Press 2006
• Year’s Best Fantasy 6, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2006
Locus Awards 2006 — editor — 20th place

2004
Secret Life • collection • Golden Gryphon Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2005 — collection — 6th place
“Three Days in a Border Town” • short fiction • Polyphony, Volume 4
awards:
• Locus Awards 2005 — novelette — 4th place
anthologies:
• Science Fiction: The Best of 2004, ed. Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan, ibooks 2005
“Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist” • Secret Life
anthologies:
• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, ed. James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Tachyon Publications 2006
Locus Awards 2005 — editor — 14th place

2003
Veniss Underground • novel • Prime Books
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2004 — novel — nomination
• Bram Stoker Awards 2004 — first novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2004 — first novel — 2nd place
• International Horror Guild Awards 2004 — first novel — nomination
• SF Site Readers Poll 2004 — sf/fantasy book — 2nd place
• Southeastern SF Achievement Awards 2004 — novel — nomination
citations:
• 2004: Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, 5th edition, Neil Barron
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (JV & Mark Roberts, eds.) • anthology • Night Shade Books
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2004 — related book — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2004 — anthology — nomination
• British Fantasy Awards 2005 — anthology — nomination
• British Fantasy Awards 2004 — anthology — nomination
• International Horror Guild Awards 2004 — anthology — nomination
Album Zutique #1 • anthology • Ministry of Whimsy Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2004 — anthology — 12th place (tie)
Locus Awards 2004 — editor — 11th place

2002
Leviathan, Volume Three (JV & Forrest Aguirre, eds.) • anthology • Ministry of Whimsy
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2003 — anthology — winner (tie)
• Philip K. Dick Award 2003 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2003 — anthology — 8th place
City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris [revised] • collection • Prime
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2003 — collection — nomination
• SF Site Readers Poll 2003 — sf/fantasy book — 3rd place
“The Cage” • short fiction • City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris [revised]
awards:
• Southeastern SF Achievement Awards 2003 — short fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• The Weird, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Tor 2012
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2003

2001
The Exchange, by Nicholas Sporlander • novella • Hoegbottom Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2002 — short story — 29th place
City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris • collection • Cosmos Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2002 — collection — 14th place

1999
“The Transformation of Martin Lake” • short fiction • Palace Corbie #8
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2000 — novella — winner (tie)
As Judge — Philip K. Dick Award 1999

1998
Leviathan, Volume Two (JV & Rose Secrest, eds.) • anthology • Ministry of Whimsy Press
awards:
• British Fantasy Awards 1999 — anthology — nomination
“Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over” • The Third Alternative #17 1998
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards 30, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace 1996

1997
World Fantasy Awards 1998 — special award, non-professional — nomination

1996
Dradin, In Love • novella • Buzzcity Press
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 1997 — shortlist
“The General Who Is Dead” • Freezer Burn Magazine #5 1996
anthologies:
• American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now, ed. Peter Straub, Library of America 2009

1995
“The Bone-Carver's Tale” • short fiction • Asimov's Apr 1995
awards:
• Asimov's Reader Poll 1996 — short story — 10th place (tie)
anthologies:
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson/Raven Books 1996

1993
“Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over” • short fiction • The Silver Web #9
awards:
• Rhysling Awards 1994 — short poem — winner (tie)

1992
“Greensleeves”
anthologies:
• Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, ed. Paula Guran, Night Shade Books 2016



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