We know how to pick 'em.
This past weekend, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks --MashableReads' September 2014 selection -- won Best Novel at the 2015 World Fantasy Awards in Saratoga Springs, NY.
The Bone Clocks is a tour de force that transcends time and place via interconnecting stories, in the same vein as Mitchell's previous works, including 2004's Cloud Atlas. Fans will recognize appearances by many of Mitchell's characters, but the story is accessible for new readers as well. Its main thread follows 1980s English teen Holly Sykes, whose burgeoning connection to the supernatural propels the book's central mystery. You can read an excerpt from the novel here.
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Up until this year, the World Fantasy Convention's top prize came in the form of a bust of author HP Lovecraft. But over the past year, critics have taken issue with the veneration of Lovecraft -- an "avowed racist," as written in a Change.org petition from last year that received 2,500 signatures. The organization has not yet announced what the 2016 trophy will look like.
#WFC2015 #wfcon2015 David Hartwell just announced this is the last year the World Fantasy Award will be the H.P.Lovecraft statue!— EK Tremontaine (@EllenKushner) November 8, 2015
Other World Fantasy Award winners include artist Samuel Araya, the anthology Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, and the novella We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory. You can find the full list of nominees and winners here.