The winners of the 2007 World Fantasy Awards were announced during the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.:

• Life Achievement: Betty Ballantine and Diana Wynne Jones
• Novel: Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Novella: Botch Town by Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon Press)
• Short Fiction: "Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert (F&SF, May 2006)
• Anthology: Salon Fantastique edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Thunder's Mouth)
• Collection: Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon Press)
• Artist: Shaun Tan
• Special Award, Professional: Ellen Asher (for work at the Science Fiction Book Club)
• Special Award, Non-Professional: Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews in Locus and elsewhere)

Judges for this year's awards were Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte and Carsten Polzin. The nominees are available at worldfantasy.org/awards/.

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Congratulations to the winners of USABookNews's 2007 Best Books of the Year Awards. See them all here.

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Congratulations again to Presidential Medal of Honor winners, who will be presented the award today at the White House:

• Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Brian Lamb, co-founder and CEO of C-Span and host of Booknotes on Book TV from 1989-2004
• Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project and author of The Language of God (Free Press)
• University of Chicago economist and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, author of The Economics of Discrimination, A Treatise on the Family and The Economics of Life.