Announcements: Finalists (May 24, 2004) | Winners (August 2, 2004) | Acceptance Remarks

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Sunshine by Robin McKinley *
• Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Fudoki by Kij Johnson
• Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
• In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip

Children’s Literature

• The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle *
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth *
• Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance
• Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings by Matthew Dickerson
• C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse by Don W. King

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett *
• Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life by Mike Ashley
• A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld by Francis Bridger
• Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most by William Patrick Day
• Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100, edited by Margaret Mackey
• National Dreams: The remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-century England by Jennifer Schacker