I’ve added the shortlist for the David Gemmell Awards to the 2014 noticable SFF novels list:
Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel:
- Half a King — Joe Abercrombie
- Valour — John Gwynne
- Prince of Fools — Mark Lawrence
- Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson
- The Broken Eye — Brent Weeks
Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel:
- Traitor’s Blade — Sebastien de Castell
- The Mirror Empire — Kameron Hurley
- The Godless — Ben Peek
- The Emperor’s Blades — Brian Staveley
- The Age of Iron — by Angus Watson
Interesting to see that Joe Abercrombie, Kameron Hurley and Brian Staveley all made it on both the Locus and the Gemmell shortlists and no other so far and that this is the only overlap the Gemmell has with any of the other major awards. Both the Locus and the Gemmell are of course open awards that can be voted on through the interwebs. I had expected more critical appreciation of Hurley’s novel though.