Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City is the winner of the inaugural 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The award was presented on July 12 by the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation at ConGregate in Winston-Salem. The Wellman Award recognizes outstanding science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors and is voted by members of four North Carolina sf conventions (illogiCon, ConCarolinas, ConTemporal, and ConGregate).