FantLab's Book of the Year Award


The FantLab's book of the year award are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works published in Russia during previous year. The awards are named after FantLab web site.
It is organized and overseen by society of reader's registered at FantLab site, the awards are given each year. They were first given in 2007, and have been awarded every year since. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently FantLab Awards are given in 9 categories, and include works published on websites.
For lists of winners and nominees for each category, see the [|list of award categories] below.
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Award

In 2007 as popularity of the site grew and when number of daily visitors reached 4 thousand a day, site decided to implement a voting system that allowed nomination of popular and best reviewed books.
FantLab's Book of the Year Award is given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in Russian in the prior calendar year. There are no written rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy, and the decision of eligibility in that regard is left up to the voters. Award winners are chosen based on vote count. The awards are split into 9 categories.

Award winners & nominees 2007-2015

Winners in Bold
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  • Best Translated Novel / Best Collection by foreign writer:
  • * Brandon Sanderson, "The Way of Kings"
  • * Joe Abercrombie, "Best Served Cold"
  • * Stephen King, "11/22/63"
  • * China Miéville, "Embassytown"
  • * Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear"
  • Best Russian Novel / Best Collection by Russian writer:
  • * Julia Zonis, Catherine Chernyavskaya "Lord of the Mirrors"
  • * Vladimir Arenev, "Lord of the Road"
  • * H. L. Oldie, "Wolfling"
  • * Ksenia Medvedev, "Halif's Falcon"
  • * Nadezhda Popova, "Catcher of Men"
  • Best Translated Novella or Short Story:
  • * Ken Liu, "Mono No Aware"
  • * Neil Gaiman, "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains"
  • * Neil Gaiman, "Odd and the Frost Giants"
  • * Neil Gaiman, "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury"
  • * Joe Hill, "The Devil on the Staircase"
  • Best Russian Novella or Short Story:
  • * Aleksandra Davydova, "Lights of St. Elm"
  • * Mike Gelprin, "Every civilized man""
  • * Vladimir Arenev, "Dushnica"
  • * Oleg Divov, "Objects in Mirror are Closer than they appear"
  • Best Anthology
  • * Aleksandra Davydova, "Zarisovka O"
  • * Igor Minakov, "Zombies are Quite Here"
  • * Sergei Chekmaev "Bestiarium",
  • * Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, "Stories: All-New Tales"
  • * Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling "Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales"
  • Best On-line publication in Large Form
  • * Olga Onojko, "Sea of Possibilities"
  • * Konstantin Kostinov, "White on White"
  • * Oksana Demchenko "EC- Earthman's Collection",
  • Best On-line publication in Small Form
  • * Ken Liu, "The Paper Menagerie"
  • * Aleksej Vert, "G&G"
  • * Anatoly Belilovsky, "Karlsson"
  • Best Literary SF Criticism Long Form
  • * H. L. Oldie, "Ten Temptations"
  • * Maria Galina, "Not Only on SF"
  • * Nina Demurova, "Lewis Carroll"
  • Best Literary SF Criticism Review/Article
  • * Sergei Berezhnoi, "Bomb That Went Off Twice"
  • * Sergei Berezhnoi, "Space battles of local meaning" '
  • * Nikolaj Karavaev, "Triple Life of Cordwainer Smith"
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