Locus Awards 2011 Winners

The winners of the 2011 Locus Awards have been announced:

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

• Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)

Best Fantasy Novel

• Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)

• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• The Sorcerer’s House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Best First Novel

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)

• The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)

Best Young Adult Book

• Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)
• Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella

• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)

• Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
• “The Mystery Knight”’, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
• “Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)

Best Novelette

• “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)

• “The Fool Jobs”, Joe Abercrombie (Swords & Dark Magic)
• “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter”, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 1/18-1/25/10)
• “Plus or Minus”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
• “Marya and the Pirate”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 1/10)

Best Short Story

• “The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)

• “Booth’s Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
• “Names for Water”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/10)
• “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/10)
• “The Things”, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

Best Magazine

• Asimov’s

• Analog
• F&SF
• Subterranean
• Tor.com

Best Book Publisher

• Tor

• Baen
• Night Shade Books
• Orbit
• Subterranean Press

Best Anthology

• Warriors, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)

• Zombies vs. Unicorns, Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, eds. (McElderry)
• The Beastly Bride, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s)
• Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (HarperCollins)

Best Collection

• Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)

• Mirror Kingdoms, Peter S. Beagle (Subterranean)
• What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
• The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Night Shade)
• The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)

Best Editor

• Ellen Datlow

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

Best Artist

• Shaun Tan

• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• John Picacio
• Michael Whelan

Best Non-Fiction Book

• Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr., (Tor)

• 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin, eds. (Aqueduct)
• Conversations with Octavia Butler, Conseula Francis (University Press of Mississippi)
• CM Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary, Mark Rich (McFarland)
• Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)

Best Art Book

• Spectrum 17, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)

• Bob Eggleton, Dragon’s Domain (Impact)
• Donato Giancola, Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth (Underwood)
• Shaun Tan, The Bird King and Other Sketches (Windy Hollow)
• Charles Vess & Neil Gaiman, Instructions (Harper)

Winners were announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 24-26, 2011. Full coverage of the ceremony will run in the August 2011 issue of Locus.