The Award Season cometh!
Are you racking your brains trying to remember what was published in 2013, while looking at a blank awards ballot? We want to help. So here, in one blog piece, is a quick reminder of the fantastic books we published in 2013 to help jog your memory.
For best novel categories:
Fantasy
The Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
Gateway of the Saviours by A. J. Dalton
The City of Silk and Steel by Mike, Lin and Lou Carey
The Stranger’s Shadow by Max Frei
Elves: Beyond the Mists of Katura by James Barclay
Exodus of the Xandim by Maggie Furey
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
The Raven’s Shadow by Elspeth Cooper
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding
The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
The Chickens of Atlantis by Robert Rankin
The Path of Anger by Antoine Rouaud
The Last Dark by Stephen Donaldson
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
SF
Queen of Nowhere by Jaine Fenn
Crysis: Escalation by Gavin G. Smith
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins
The Age of Scorpio by Gavin G. Smith
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
Terra by Mitch Benn
Evening’s Empires by Paul McAuley
On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds
The Arrows of Time by Greg Egan
Horror
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce
And then, for your ease of reference, from the above list these were our 2013 debuts:
The Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
The Path of Anger by Antoine Rouaud
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins
Terra by Mitch Benn
And the following three novels are all published in translation:
The Stranger’s Shadow by Max Frei, translated by Polly Gannon and Ast A. Moore
The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David French
The Path of Anger by Antoine Rouaud, translated by Tom Clegg
Then we had a few Short Story Collections:
We published six novellas:
The Orcs War-Fighting Manual by Den Patrick
The Elves War-Fighting Manual by Den Patrick
The Dwarves War-Fighting Manual by Den Patrick
And two novellettes:
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
And finally, as some awards also recognise Long Form editors, this is the Gollancz team: