Locus has unveiled its finalists for their annual awards. The winners will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, on June 26-27, of this year.
SF Novel –
Matter by Iain M. Banks
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
Fantasy Novel -
The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Bell at Sealey Head, Patricia A. McKillip
The Dragons of Babel, Michael Swanwick
An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe
First Novel –
Thunderer, Felix Gilman
Black Ships, Jo Graham
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway
Singularity’s Ring, Paul Melko
YA Novel -
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
Novella -
“The Erdmann Nexus” by Nancy Kress
“Pretty Monsters” by Kelly Link
“The Tear” by Ian McDonald
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
“True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
Novelette –
“Pump Six” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Ice War” by Stephen Baxter
“Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away” by Cory Doctorow
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel
Short Story –
“King Pelles the Sure” by Peter S. Beagle
“Boojum” by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
“The Kindness of Strangers” by Nancy Kress
“After the Coup” by John Scalzi
Magazine –
Analog
Asimov’s
F&SF
Realms of Fantasy
Subterranean
Publisher –
Ace
Baen
Night Shade Books
Subterranean Press
Tor
Anthology –
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant
Galactic Empires edited by Gardner Dozois
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
Eclipse Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
Collection –
Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
The Best of Lucius Shepard by Lucius Shepard
The Best of Michael Swanwick by Michael Swanwick
Editor –
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Artist –
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
Non-Fiction/Art book –
Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn
Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
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