The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts reports on its newsblog that Christopher Barzak's novel One for Sorrow (Bantam Spectra), about a ghost-haunted high-school student, has won this year's Crawford Award for best first fantasy book. Runners-up include Laird Barron's story collection The Imago Sequence (Night Shade); Ron Currie Jr.'s novel God Is Dead (Viking); Ellen Klages' story collection Portable Childhoods (Tachyon); and Ysabeau Wilce's young-adult novel Flora Segunda (Harcort).
Portable Childhoods includes Klages' story "In the House of the Seven Librarians," which is in our Year's Best Fantasy & Horror volume; Flora Segunda is set in the same world as Wilce's story "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," which is in our Year's Best Fantasy & Horror volume as well; and one of this year's Crawford Award judges was Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and a co-editor of our Year's Best Fantasy & Horror volume.
A good reading list (once you're done with this semester's texts, of course) is the lineup of past Crawford Award winners, here at Locus Online. The 2007 winner, not let added to this list, is M. Rickert's story collection Map of Dreams. (A Rickert story is in our Year's Best Fantasy & Horror volume, too.)
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