The speculative fiction award season is underway, and results of one of the major awards, the Locus, has been announced at this weekend’s Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, Washington. After this year’s uproar over the Hugo Awards, it’s great to see a mix of excellent books get their due reward.
At the top of the list was Ancillary Sword for Science Fiction novel, The Goblin Emperor for Fantasy Novel, Half A King for YA novel and The Memory Garden for Debut Novel.
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Here’s the full list of winners and finalists:
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
Winner: Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie
The Peripheral, William Gibson
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
Lock In, John Scalzi
Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer
FANTASY NOVEL
Winner: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear
City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett
The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman
The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley
YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Winner: Half a King, Joe Abercrombie
The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi
Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger
Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald
Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)
FIRST NOVEL
Winner: The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert
Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett
A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias
The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato
The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley
NOVELLA
Winner: Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress
“The Man Who Sold the Moon,” Cory Doctorow
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory
“The Regular,” Ken Liu
“The Lightning Tree,” Patrick Rothfuss
NOVELETTE
Winner: “Tough Times All Over,” Joe Abercrombie
“The Hand Is Quicker,” Elizabeth Bear
“Memorials,” Aliette de Bodard
“The Jar of Water,” Ursula K. Le Guin
“A Year and a Day in Old Theradane,” Scott Lynch
SHORT STORY
Winner: “The Truth About Owls,” Amal El-Mohtar
“Covenant,” Elizabeth Bear
“The Dust Queen,” Aliette de Bodard
“In Babelsberg,” Alastair Reynolds
“Ogres of East Africa,” Sofia Samatar
ANTHOLOGY
Winner: Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds.
Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds.
COLLECTION
Winner: Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (
Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty
Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg
MAGAZINE
Winner: Tor.com
Asimov’s
Clarkesworld
F&SF
Lightspeed
PUBLISHER
Winner: Tor
Angry Robot
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
EDITOR
Winner: Ellen Datlow
John Joseph Adams
Gardner Dozois
Jonathan Strahan
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
ARTIST
Winner: John Picacio
Jim Burns
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
Winner: What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton
Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan Eller
Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988, William H. Patterson, Jr.
ART BOOK
Winner: Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed.
Jim Burns, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal
The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell
Brian & Wendy Froud, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales
The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller
[Tor.com]
