Dark Matter is first AOL Time Warner Trade Publishing title to win World Fantasy Award. (Awards Spotlight).Black speculative fiction is definitely on the rise. Dark Matter: A Century of Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree Thomas, has won the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy anthology voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention. Award winners and finalists 2004 WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. . Along with the Nebula and Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. Since 1975, when they were first awarded, they have been handed out at the World Fantasy Convention. is one of the top three awards in the genre of speculative fiction. Among Dark Matter's contributors are Amiri Baraka, Stephen Barnes, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Fleming, Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley, and Kalamu ya Salaam Kalamu ya Salaam, born 24 March 1947, is a poet, author, and teacher from the 9th Ward of New Orleans. A well known activist and social critic, Salaam has spoken out on a number of racial and human rights issues. For years he did radio shows on WWOZ. . This is AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Trade Publishing's first-ever World Fantasy Award. Dark Matter is now available in trade paperback from Warner Aspect Dark Matter II is coming in January 2003. |
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