Origins Awards, Best Game-Related Book

Every year, the Origins Games Fair holds the Origins Awards. The nominations for these awards vary from game publishers to fiction publishers, to products, and authors. With the Origins convention recently over, congratulations is due Catalyst Games for the winner of the Best Game-Related Book category. Their winning title was: BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction by Catalyst Game Labs, written by Randall N. Bills, Jason Schmetzer & Matt Heerdt. Needless to say, this is a worthy title to win the award. And the folks at ESP wish them the best. Of course, ESP’s The Best of All Flesh was also nominated for the same award. So a large congratulation goes to the editor of the anthology James Lowder, and all of its contributors. While the anthology’s stories are gathered from previous titles based on the role-playing game, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, it is also a stand-alone book. Here is the list of contributors, in order of appearance, and a brief description of the anthology:

Bringing the living dead into stark reality, this anthology reveals the best of undead horror and monstrous zombie tales. Culled from the popular All Flesh Must Be Eaten zombie anthology series, this broad collection of stories proves that no place in the world is safe when the dead rise again. Their shambling hordes flood cities, scour the countryside, and leave no part of history untouched. Ideal for fans of supernatural terror and apocalyptic fiction, this horrific array includes narratives by Kris Dikeman, Warren and Lana Brown, Robin D. Laws, Barry Hollander, Michael Jasper, Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Nicholson, Shane Stewart, Jeremy Zoss, Michael Laimo, Jesse Bullington, Jim C. Hines, Mark McLaughlin, Charles Coleman Finaly, Lucien Soulban, Rebecca Brock, Claude Lalumiere, Ed Greenwood, Myke Cole, Christine Morgan, Tom Piccirilli, and Scott Edelman.