2015 Locus Awards Winners

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2015 Locus Awards on Saturday, June 27, 2015 during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)

• Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)

• Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
• The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
• The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)

• The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)
• Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)

NOVELLA

• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

• “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• “The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)

NOVELETTE

• “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)

• “The Hand Is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
• “Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 1/14)
• “The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
• “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues)

SHORT STORY

• “The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)

• “Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
• “The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
• “In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
• “Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)

ANTHOLOGY

• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Press)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)

COLLECTION

• Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)

• Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
• The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
• Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)

NON-FICTION

• What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)

• Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan Eller (University of Illinois Press)
• Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison (Tor)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
• Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)

ART BOOK

• Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

• Jim Burns, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Titan)
• The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)
• Brian & Wendy Froud, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales (Abrams)
• The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller (Zenith)

ARTIST

• John Picacio

• Jim Burns
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

EDITOR

• Ellen Datlow

• John Joseph Adams
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

MAGAZINE

• Tor.com

• Asimov’s
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Lightspeed

PUBLISHER

• Tor

• Angry Robot
• Orbit
• Small Beer
• Subterranean

Connie Willis was MC for the awards ceremony. Weekend events included author readings with Willis and Daryl Gregory; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Andy Duncan, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale courtesy of University Book Store; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai’ian shirt contest, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night.

For more information please visit the 2015 Locus Awards Information Page.