2016 Locus Awards Winners

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards on Saturday, June 25, 2016 during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA.

Science Fiction Novel

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

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

Fantasy Novel

• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

• 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)

Young Adult Book

• The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)

• 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)

First Novel

• The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)

• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan UK)
• 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

• Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)

• 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)

Novelette

• ‘‘Black Dog’’, Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning)

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

Short Story

• ‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)

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

Anthology

• Old Venus, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)
  

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  
• 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

• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)

• The Best of Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford (Subterranean)
• 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

• Tor

• Baen
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Subterranean

Editor

• David G. Hartwell

• John Joseph Adams
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan

Artist

• Michael Whelan

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

Non-Fiction

• Letters to Tiptree, Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks, Simone Caroti (McFarland)
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Edward James (University of Illinois Press)
• 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)

 

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.

Connie Willis was MC for the awards ceremony. Weekend events included author readings with Willis and Stephen Graham Jones; 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 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 about the Locus Awards please visit the 2016 Locus Awards Information Page.