Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/World Fantasy Award for Best Novella/archive1


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World Fantasy Award for Best Novella

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  23:48, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

You know what this place needs? If you said "more nominations of speculative fiction award lists", you're right! To that end, here's the list for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, the award for those stories in that awkward length where they're a bit too long to be short stories but still too short to generally get published on their own, as presented by the biggest player in the Fantasy-specific literary awards. Like always, the list is based off of the dozens of Hugo, Nebula, etc. award lists I've pushed through here in the last few years, with specific attention paid to the comments received at the Novel category nomination from a month ago. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  23:48, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - several of the authors have photos in their articles, could some of these not be added to make the list a bit more visually interesting........? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Support – on prose. Zia Khan 22:38, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Another great article from PresN, consistent with his other award lists; have just found a few very minor issues, included below:
 * the next-most nominations without winning is five by Kim Newman. -- not a fan of this wording, suggest a re-write
 * Per WP:ALSO, why is World Fantasy Convention repeated in the See also section?  Ruby  2010/  2013  17:18, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Reworded, and pulled the see also. -- Pres N  19:19, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks good, am happy to support.  Ruby  2010/  2013  00:14, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Comments from Crisco 1492
 * published in English or translated into English. - aren't these both, technically, published in English?
 * Why are your novellas in quotes? WP:ITALICS puts "books" (novellas are often published stand-alone, so they count) in italics, whereas short stories are in quotes.
 * and K. J. Parker, who won both times they were nominated. - what's with the singular "they"? Is Parker's gender unknown? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I was trying to be explicit that the work doesn't have to be originally written in English, just translated and published in that language in the prior year. Remove, though.
 * If you notice, some of them are in quotes and some of them are italicized- this corresponds to if the novella, in its original incarnation, was published by itself or as a part of a larger work. This, in turn, matches up with the publisher/publication column- for example, Night Moves is italicized, and the publisher is listed as Axolotl Press, but "The River of Night's Dreaming" is in quotes, and the publication listed is Whispers III (Doubleday).
 * That's an interesting way of approaching it. Has any consensus been formally established? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge, no- the MOS doesn't get any more specific about it, and WP:NOVELS doesn't have any guidelines either. That said, as far as I can tell it's the standard way of dealing with them- stand-alone works get italics, works that are a part of a longer work get quotes. After all, if it's in an anthology a novella is just a long short story, but if it's published on its own it's just a short book. Only awards try to give it a word-count definition. -- Pres N  18:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * First line of K. J. Parker's wikipedia page- "K. J. Parker is an author of fantasy fiction. The name is a pseudonym and the writer's true identity has never been revealed." -- Pres N  15:37, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support on prose: solid list, and a congratulations to PresN for his work here. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:00, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). The list page is impressive. The sourcing is detailed and helpful for each entry. This list page will surely become an invaluable resource in the future for researchers on the specific topic of World Fantasy Award but also hopefully as a model for participants at WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Science Fiction. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:04, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

- SchroCat (talk) 09:46, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
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