Chesley Awards 2018
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Worldcon 76,
San Jose CA :
August 17, 2018
Eligibility Year: 2017
Eligibility Year: 2017
Cover Illustration, Hardcover
- Winner: Marc Simonetti for The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Grim Oak)
- Donato Giancola for Assassin's Price by L. E. Jr. Modesitt (Tor)
- Julie Dillon for Final Girls by Mira Grant (Subterranean)
- Tommy Arnold for Horizon by Fran Wilde (Tor)
- Marcela Bolívar for Julia by Peter Straub (Centipede)
- John Harris for The Man in the Tree by Sage Walker (Tor)
- Elizabeth Leggett for Retrograde by Peter Cawdron (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Cover Illustration, Paperback Or E-book
- Winner: Jaime Jones for The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
- Stephen Youll for Acadie by Dave Hutchinson (Tor.com)
- Julie Dillon for Beyond the Stars: New Worlds, New Suns by Ellen Campbell, ed. (self-published)
- David Palumbo for Binti: Home by Nneti Okorafor (Tor.com)
- Gene Mollica for Call of Fire by Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
- Miranda Meeks for The Fisher of Bones by Sarah Gailey (Fireside)
- Aly Fell for Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire (DAW)
Cover Illustration, Magazine
- Winner: Ingrid Kallick for Cricket Jan 2017
- Julie Dillon for Clarkesworld May 2017
- Eddie Mendoza for Clarkesworld Jul 2017
- Reiko Murakami for Lightspeed Mar 2017
- Sergie Sarichev for Clarkesworld Mar 2017
Interior Illustration
- Winner: Gregory Manchess for Above the Timberline by Gregory Manchess (Saga)
- Omar Rayyan for Goblin Market by Christine Rosetti (Donald M. Grant)
- Dan Dos Santos for The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
- Marc Simonetti for The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Grim Oak)
- Sam Weber for “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Jul 2017)
- John Picacio for “When the Devil Drives” by Melinda Snodgrass (Tor.com Jul 2017)
Color Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “Not All Treasure Is Gold”, Charles Urbach (colored pencil)
- “Deconstructing Wonderland”, Cynthia Sheppard (digital)
- “Erebor”, Serena Maylon (watercolor and gouache)
- “Kindred Spirits”, Alessandra Pisano (oil)
- “Respite”, Eric Velhagen (oil)
Monochrome Work, Unpublished
- Winner: “Dragon Drum”, Ruth Sanderson (ink)
- “Ada”, Karla Ortiz (oil)
- “Gumiho”, Christine Rhee (graphite)
- “Pensive”, Kaysha Siemens (oil)
- “Release”, Shawn E. Russell (graphite)
- “Romeo and Juliet”, Bobby Chiu (digital)
- “Thistledown”, Ed Binkley (digital)
Three-dimensional
- Winner: “Octopoid Descending”, Forest Rogers (kato polyclay)
- “The Burden of Motion and Ambition”, Ellen Jewett (cold porcelain and polymer clay)
- “Fever Dream #17”, Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
- “Gift of the Faun”, Colin Poole & Kristine Poole (bronze)
- “Manifesting Orb Dragon”, Lisa Sell (aves apoxie sculpt)
- “Resentful Beast”, Skink Chen (painted cast resin)
Lifetime Artistic Achievement
Art Director
Gaming-related Illustration
- Winner: Offering Sagaborn RPG Core Rule Book, Melissa Gay (Lone Wanderer Entertainment)
- “Chandra Gremlin Wrangler”, Kari Christensen (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Compulsive Research Magic”, Sara Winters (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Moaning Wall Magic”, Piotr Jablonski (Wizards of the Coast)
- “Ur-Dragon Magic”, Jaime Jones (Wizards of the Coast)
Product Illustration
- Winner: “Stormy Serenade”, Annie Stegg Gerard
- American Gods, Julie Dillon
- “Call of Cthulhu”, Kari Christensen
- “In a Galaxy Far, Far Away”, Adam Hughes
- “Knight of Cups”, Rachel Quinlan
- The Shape of Water, James Jean
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