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Ursula K. Le Guin; Best Novella, “The Spacetime Pool,” by Catherine Asaro; Best Novelette, “Pride and Prometheus,” by John Kessel; Best Short Story, “Trophy Wives,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman; Best Script, WALL-E , by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Peter Docter; the Andre Norton Award to Flora’s Dare , by Ysabeau S. Wilce; plus the Ray Bradbury Award to Joss Whedon; the Solstice Award to Kate Wilhelm, A.J. Budrys, and Martin H. Greenberg; the Author Emeritus Award to M.J. Engh; and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award to Harry Harrison.
    The 2009 World Fantasy Awards, presented at a banquet at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California on 29 October–1 November 2009, during the World Fantasy Convention, were: Best Novel, The Shadow Year , by Jeffrey Ford, and Tender Morsels , by Margo Lanagan (tie); Best Novella, “If Angels Fight,” by Richard Bowes; Best Short Story, “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss,” by Kij Johnson; Best Collection, The Drowned Life , by Jeffrey Ford; Best Anthology, Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy , edited by Ekaterina Sedia; Best Artist, Shaun Tan; Special Award (Professional), to Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House; Special Award (Non-Professional), to Michael Walsh, for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books; plus the Life Achievement Award to Ellen Asher and Jane Yolen.
    The 2008 Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers of America during a banquet at the Burbank Marriott Hotel near Los Angeles, California on 13 June 2009, were: Best Novel, Duma Key , by Stephen King; Best First Novel, The Gentling Box , by Lisa Mannetti; Best Long Fiction, Miranda , by John R. Little; Best Short Fiction, “The Lost,” by Sarah Langan; Best Fiction Collection, Just After Sunset , by Stephen King; Best Anthology, Unspeakable Horror , edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder; Best Nonfiction, A Hallowe’en Anthology , by Lisa Morton; Best Poetry Collection, The Nightmare Collection , by Bruce Boston; plus Lifetime Achievement Awards to F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
    The 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award was awarded to Little Brother , by Cory Doctorow, and Songs of Time , by Ian R. MacLeod (tie).
    The 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Story was won by “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story,” by James Alan Gardner.
    The 2009 Philip K. Dick Award went to Emissaries from the Dead , by Adam-Troy Castro, and Terminal Mind , by David Walton (tie).
    The 2009 Arthur C. Clarke award was won by Song of Time , by Ian R. Mac Leod.
    The 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award was won by The Knife of Never Letting Go , by Patrick Ness, and Filter House , by Nisi Shawl (tie).
    The 2009 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award went to A. Merritt.
    Dead in 2009 or early 2010 were:
    PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER , 91, multiple Hugo winner, a SFWA Grand Master, and a winner of the World Fantasy Award: Life Achievement, the author of a huge number of books, including the Riverworld, World of Tiers , and Dayworld series, and many others, whose best-known book was probably the Hugo-winning To Your Scattered Bodies Go; J.G. BALLARD , 78, widely acclaimed outside the genre for his autobiographical World War II novel, Empire of the Sun , which was filmed by Stephen Spielberg, best known inside the genre as one of the ancestral figures in the British New Wave of the sixties, author of many groundbreaking short stories, some of the best of which were collected in Vermilion Sands and The Voices of Time , as well as novels such as The Drowned World, The Crystal World, Concrete Island , and many others; CHARLES N. BROWN , 72, a longtime fan and one-time nuclear engineer who was one of the co-founders of Locus , which under his multi-decade direction as editor and publisher became the most important and prominent news magazine in the history of SF, and earned the magazine twenty-nine Hugo Awards, also a tireless promoter of SF from thousands of