{"id":13855,"date":"2012-05-28T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2012-05-28T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:02:59","slug":"the-2012-mythopoeic-award-shortlist-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/the-2012-mythopoeic-award-shortlist-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2012 Mythopoeic Award Shortlist Is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Mythopoeic Award shortlist\u00a0 has been announced. The Awards are given annually by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythsoc.org\/\">Mythopoeic Society<\/a> and here&#8217;s what the fiction lists look like:<\/p>\n<h3>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult\u00a0Literature:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8212; for the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults that best exemplifies \u201cthe spirit of the Inklings\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lisa Goldstein, <em>The Uncertain Places<\/em> (Tachyon)<\/li>\n<li>Erin Morgenstern, <em>The Night Circus<\/em> (Doubleday)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Parks, <em>The Heavenly Fox<\/em> (PS\u00a0Publishing)<\/li>\n<li>Catherynne M. Valente, <em>Deathless<\/em> (Tor)<\/li>\n<li>Jo Walton, <em>Among Others<\/em> (Tor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children\u2019s\u00a0Literature:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8212; for\u00a0 books for younger readers\u00a0 in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lisa Mantchev, <em>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Illuminata<\/em> series, consisting of <em>Eyes Like Stars<\/em>, <em>Perchance to Dream<\/em>, and <em>So Silver Bright<\/em> (Feiwel and\u00a0Friends)<\/li>\n<li>Tamora Pierce, <em>Beka Cooper<\/em> series, consisting of <em>Terrier<\/em>, <em>Bloodhound<\/em>, and <em>Mastiff<\/em> (Random\u00a0House)<\/li>\n<li>Delia Sherman, <em>The Freedom Maze<\/em> (Big Mouth\u00a0House)<\/li>\n<li>Maggie Stiefvater, <em>The Scorpio Races<\/em> (Scholastic)<\/li>\n<li>Catherynne M. Valente, <em>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making<\/em> (Feiwel and\u00a0Friends)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Points of interest include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jo Walton,\u00a0 <em>Among Others<\/em> has recently won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and is a finalist for both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel<\/li>\n<li>Catherynne M. Valente, <em>Deathless<\/em> is also a finalist in the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel &#8212; just as <em>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making<\/em> features on the Locus Award shortlist for (Best) Young Adult Book<\/li>\n<li>Delia Sherman&#8217;s <em>The Freedom Maze<\/em> recently won the Andre Norton Award for (Best) Young Adult SF and Fantasy Book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nice to see some new titles included on the shortlist, together with a selection of currently &#8216;trending&#8217; books .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Mythopoeic Award shortlist\u00a0 has been announced. The Awards are given annually by the Mythopoeic Society and here&#8217;s what the fiction lists look like: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult\u00a0Literature: &#8212; for the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults that best exemplifies \u201cthe spirit of the Inklings\u201d Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13866,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions\/13866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}