2016 Locus Awards Finalists

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2016 Locus Awards.

Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 24-26, 2016; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Paul Park, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale thanks to University Book Store; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai’ian shirt contest, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night.

The Locus Awards are chosen by a survey of readers in an open online poll that runs from February 1 to April 15. We welcome and invite everyone to vote in the poll. Our recommended list for 2015 can be found here.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Borzoi; Orbit UK)
• Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
• A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Roc; Gollancz)
• Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS; Open Road)
• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Harper Voyager UK)
• Half the World, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)
• Harrison Squared, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
• Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
• The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan UK)
• The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)

NOVELLA

• Penric’s Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold (self-published)
• ‘‘The Citadel of Weeping Pearls’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 10-11/15)
• ‘‘The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred’’, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 12/15)
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
• Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)

NOVELETTE

• ‘‘The Heart’s Filthy Lesson’’, Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus)
• ‘‘And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead’’, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
• ‘‘Black Dog’’, Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning)
• ‘‘Folding Beijing’’, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny 1-2/15)
• ‘‘Another Word for World’’, Ann Leckie (Future Visions)

SHORT STORY

• ‘‘Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/15)
• ‘‘Madeleine’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
• ‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
• ‘‘The Dowager of Bees’’, China Miéville (Three Moments of an Explosion)
• ‘‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’’, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  
• Old Venus, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)
  
• Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
  
• Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl & Bill Campbell, eds. (Rosarium)
  
• Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

COLLECTION

• The Best of Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford (Subterranean)
• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
• The Best of Nancy Kress, Nancy Kress (Subterranean)
• Dancing Through the Fire, Tanith Lee (Fantastic Books)
• Three Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey 2016)

MAGAZINE

• Asimov’s
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Tor.com

PUBLISHER

• Baen
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Tor
• Subterranean

EDITOR

• John Joseph Adams
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Jonathan Strahan

ARTIST

• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• John Picacio
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks, Simone Caroti (McFarland)
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Edward James (University of Illinois Press)
• Letters to Tiptree, Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Frederik Pohl, Michael R. Page (University of Illinois Press)
• Ray Bradbury, David Seed (University of Illinois Press)

ART BOOK

• Julie Dillon, Julie Dillon’s Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky (self-published)
• Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner, ed. (Underwood)
• Spectrum 22: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design, Steven Heller, ed. (Pomegranate)
• The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume One: Lands & Legends, Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer (Michael Publishing)

For more information about the Seattle event and for Locus Awards and Locus Workshop ticketing, please visit the 2016 Locus Awards Information Page.