Best American Fantasy and the Hugos

Best American Fantasy has released the table of contents for the next volume, and ASF contributor Katie Williams has landed a story in the anthology.

Katie Williams’s “Serials” from our Summer/Fall 2008 issue won the honor. Guest editor Kevin Brockmeier describes the story as “darkly comic” and explains “‘Serials’ profoundly violates the customs of our world, if not its rules, presenting a society that mirrors our own.”

The book will be out in January 2010. Congratulations, Katie!

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In other SF/fantasy news, Neil Gaiman nabbed a Hugo Award for The Graveyard Book. (In fact, he tweeted his response to the win. You can follow him at @neilhimself.)

Other winners besides Gaiman floated out of the World Science Fiction Society’s 54th annual Hugo Awards on August 9.

David Anthony Durham, for example, took home the award for Best New Writer.

Other wins included. . .

Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
Best Short Story: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
Best Graphic Story: “Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones” written by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wrig

View the complete list of winners here.