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A group of fantasy authors have teamed up to launch a new award celebrating the genre and the bestselling author David Gemmell, who died in 2006.
According to the Guardian, the 18 authors on the steering group for the annual award, chaired by Stan Nicholls, author of the bestselling Orcs novels and administrated by Deborah J Miller, who has written the Last Clansman and Swarmthief series, hope the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy will help to redress the negative way in which fantasy is often viewed.
The public is currently voting on the longlist of 69 novels, with more than 3,000 votes received from 40 countries in the last three weeks. The poll closes on 31st March, when the top five novels will make the shortlist, which the public will also vote on before the winner is announced on 19th June.