Deadlands: Ghostwalkers, Jonathan Maberry (Tor).

1636: The Cardinal Virtues, Eric Flint & Walter H.

1635: A Parcel of Rogues, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis (Baen).

League of Dragons, Naomi Novik (Del Rey).

The Price of Valor, Django Wexler (Roc).

The End of All Things, John Scalzi (Tor).

Wrath of an Angry God, Gibson Michaels (Arc Flash).

Chains of Command, Marko Kloos (47North).

Blood in the Water, Taylor Anderson (Roc).Hell’s Foundations Quiver, David Weber (Tor).Calamity, Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte)īest Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel.Trix and the Faerie Queen, Alethea Kontis (Self-published).The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper).The Aeronaut’s Windlass, Jim Butcher (Roc).Blood Hound, James Osiris Baldwin (Gift Horse Productions).Son of the Black Sword, Larry Correia (Baen).Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller (Far Future Enterprises).Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, John C.That obviously raises the question of stuffing the ballot box, but there’s no evidence of that at this time. Anyone with a web browser and an email address could nominate a title, and then later vote for that title. Unlike the Hugo Awards, which more or less had a poll tax (voting was limited to con members) the Dragon Awards featured an open nomination and voting process this year. There were no awards for best writer, editor, or related work. There were a total of fifteen categories this year, and yes, several of the categories overlapped (Novik’s Dragon title, for example, could have been nominated for alternate history and military SF&F). Rather than focus on the length of a work and crown a single title the 'best' in categories defined by word counts, the Dragon Awards went for a more granular approach in its first year and instead awarded prizes for SF, alternate history, fantasy, military SF&F, apocalyptic, horror, YA, and comic book. I’m still waiting to hear back from Dragon Con on the number of voters and participants, so here’s a rundown on the basic facts. The inaugural Dragon Awards includes categories which cover SF and fantasy (traditionally the domain of the Hugo Awards), comics books, Horror ( Bram Stoker Awards), video games, and tv/movie works. Dragon Con is a 30-year-old SF convention held in Atlanta every year and attended by about fifteen to twenty times as many warm bodies as WorldCon, and it gave away its first awards on Sunday.

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