Locus Award Finalists

Finalists for this year’s Locus Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented at the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010.

Science Fiction Novel

• The Empress of Mars, by Kage Baker
• Steal Across the Sky, by Nancy Kress
• Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
• Galileo’s Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, by Robert Charles Wilson

Fantasy Novel

• The City & The City, by China Miéville
• Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett
• Drood, by Dan Simmons
• Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente
• Finch, by Jeff VanderMeer

First Novel

• The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Manual of Detection, by Jedediah Berry
• Soulless, by Gail Carriger
• Lamentation, by Ken Scholes
• Norse Code, by Greg van Eekhout

Young-Adult Novel

• The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker
• Going Bovine, by Libba Bray
• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
• Liar, by Justine Larbalestier
• Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld

Novella

• The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, by Kage Baker
• “Act One,” by Nancy Kress
• “Vishnu at the Cat Circus,” by Ian McDonald
• Shambling Towards Hiroshima, by James Morrow
• “Palimpsest,” by Charles Stross

Novelette

• “By Moonlight,” by Peter S. Beagle
• “It Takes Two,” by Nicola Griffith
• “First Flight,” by Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Eros, Philia, Agape,” by Rachel Swirsky
• “The Island,” by Peter Watts

Short Story

• “The Pelican Bar,” by Karen Joy Fowler
• “An Invocation of Incuriosity,” by Neil Gaiman
• “Spar,” by Kij Johnson
• “Going Deep,” by James Patrick Kelly
• “Useless Things,” by Maureen F. McHugh

Magazine

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Tor.com

Publisher

• Baen
• Night Shade
• Pyr
• Subterranean
• Tor

Anthology

• Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow
• The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
• Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan

Collection

• We Never Talk About My Brother, by Peter S. Beagle
• Cyberabad Days, by Ian McDonald
• Wireless, by Charles Stross
• The Best of Gene Wolfe, by Gene Wolfe
• The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, by Roger Zelazny

Editor

• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Jonathan Strahan
• Gordon Van Gelder

Artist

• Stephan Martinière
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Non-fiction/Art Book

• Powers: Secret Histories, by John Berlyne
• Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner
• Cheek by Jowl, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), by Jack Vance
• Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, by Charles Vess

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