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The winners of this year’s awards will be announced during Mythcon XL, to be held July 17-20, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone (Roc)
• Daryl Gregory, Pandemonium (Del Rey)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (Harcourt)
• Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head (Ace)
• Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest (Tor)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Kristin Cashore, Graceling (Harcourt Children’s Books)
• Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins)
• Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways (HarperCollins)
• Ingrid Law, Savvy (Dial)
• Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Gavin Ashenden, Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration (Kent State, 2008)
• Veryln Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds. Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes (HarperCollins, 2008)
• John Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
• Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford, 2008)
• Elizabeth A. Whittingham, The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth (McFarland, 2008)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
• Jason Marc Harris, Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Ashgate, 2008)
• Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2008)
• Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card (McFarland, 2008)
• Richard Carl Tuerk, Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books (McFarland, 2007)

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This issue we feature reviews of ten books, and we have made the text of these reviews available online:

• Lilith in a New Light: Essays on the George Macdonald Fantasy Novel, edited by Lucas H. Harriman
  
• Black and White Ogre Country: The Lost Tales of Hilary Tolkien, edited by Angela Gardner
• The new second edition of C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion, by John Beversluis
• Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon by K. Dale Koontz
• Fritz Leiber, Critical Essays, edited by Benjamin Szumanskyj
• Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings, edited by Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger
• From Narnia to A Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis, edited by Ryder W. Miller
• The Mirror Crack’d: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Major Works, edited by Lynn Forest-Hill
• Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, by Douglas Charles Kane
• Night Operation and Eager Spring, novellas by Owen Barfield

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Early conference registration for Mythcon 40, to be held in July 2009 in Los Angeles, California, has been extended. These rates will be good until January 31, 2009; registration can be completed online from the Mythcon 40 Registration page.

• $60 for Mythopoeic Society members
• $70 for non-members

The following table shows how the rates will change from now until the conference: rates will increase after January 31 and May 15, and after July 6 registration can only be completed at the door.

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UPDATE (02/01/2009): Student rate added. Please visit the Mythcon 40 Registration page for current rates.

Individual members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to nominate books for the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, and/or to volunteer to serve on any of the committees. (You need not join the committee to make nominations.) Deadline for committee volunteers and for nominations (limit of five per person per category, please!) is February 25, 2009; send nominations to the awards administrator (see contact info below) via e-mail (preferred) or U.S. mail. Authors or publishers may not nominate their own books for any of the awards. Books published by the Mythopoeic Press are not eligible for the awards. The Mythopoeic Society does not accept or review unsolicited manuscripts.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”. Books not selected as finalists in the year after publication are eligible for a second year. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from “Young Adults” to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the previous three years are eligible, including finalists for previous years.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.

Winners of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 40th Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XL), to be held from July 17-20, 2009 at the UCLA DeNeve Plaza in Los Angeles, California.

Please contact David Oberhelman, the Awards Administrator, to nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process.

David Oberhelman
Mythopoeic Awards Administrator
306 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater OK, 74078
E-mail: awards@mythsoc.org

For a list of previous winners and more information, please visit the Mythopoeic Awards section of the site.