2012 Locus Awards Winners

The winners of the 2012 Locus Awards have been announced:

Science Fiction Novel

• Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
  
• Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Fantasy Novel

• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
• The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
• Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

First Novel

• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
  
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
• God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
• Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)

Young Adult Book

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
  
• Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
• Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
• Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Novella

• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA; Clarkesworld)
  
• The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)
• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11)
• “Kiss Me Twice”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11)
• “The Ants of Flanders”, Robert Reed (F&SF 7-8/11)

Novelette

• “White Lines on a Green Field”, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fall ’11)
• “Underbridge”, Peter S. Beagle (Naked City)
• “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
• “The Summer People”, Kelly Link (Tin House: The Ecstatic/Steampunk!)
• “What We Found”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11)

Short Story

• “The Case of Death and Honey”, Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock)
• “The Way It Works Out and All”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF 7-8/11)
• “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
• “The Bread We Eat in Dreams”, Catherynne M. Valente (Apex 11/11)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Anthology

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Welcome to Bordertown, Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, eds. (Random House)
• Steampunk!, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Candlewick; Walker UK)
• Eclipse Four, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
• Engineering Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris; Solaris UK)

Collection

• The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)
  
• Sleight of Hand, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1,
  Carol Emshwiller (Nonstop)
• Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)

Non-fiction

• Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, Gary K. Wolfe (Wesleyan)
  
• In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood (Talese; Virago; Signal (Canada))
• Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois)
• Musings and Meditations, Robert Silverberg (Nonstop)
• Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)

Art Books

• Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (Underwood)
  
• Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, Mike Ashley, ed. (British Library)
• Cor Blok, A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollins UK)
• Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, Karen Haber, ed. (Rockport)
• Jeffrey Jones, Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (IDW)

Artist

• Shaun Tan
• Bob Eggleton
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Editor

• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Gordon Van Gelder

Magazine

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

Publisher

• Tor
• Baen
• Night Shade
• Small Beer
• Subterranean

Winners were announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 15-17, 2012. Full coverage of the ceremony will run in the August 2012 issue of Locus.