Locus Award Winners 2013

The Locus Awards are poll-based awards for books published in the previous year, and are voted on by readers across the world. Congratulations to this year’s finalists and winners, it is truly a who’s who of genre fiction. I am thrilled for the winners and sad for those who did not win, but with the quality of the competition, it is clear how great an honor it is to have a work be a finalist. Any and all are invited on our show. Now, go support these authors, artists and publishers.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Winner: Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

FANTASY NOVEL

Winner: The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

Winner: Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little ’13)

FIRST NOVEL

Winner: Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)

NOVELLA

Winner: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall: A Novel by Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns,” Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s 1/12)
“On a Red Station, Drifting,” Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)
“The Stars Do Not Lie,” Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
“The Boolean Gate,” Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)

NOVELETTE

Winner: “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi,” Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
“Faster Gun,” Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/12)
“Close Encounters,” Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
“Fake Plastic Trees,” Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
“The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)

SHORT STORY

Winner: “Immersion,” Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
“The Deeps of the Sky,” Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
“Mantis Wives,” Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
“Elementals,” Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fall ’12)
“Mono No Aware,” Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)

ANTHOLOGY

Winner: Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Hyperion)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25)
The Future Is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

COLLECTION

Winner: Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
The Best of Kage Baker, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)

MAGAZINE

Winner: Asimov’s
F&SF
Tor.com
Clarkesworld
Subterranean

PUBLISHER

Winner: Tor Books
Subterranean Press
Orbit
Baen
Angry Robot

EDITOR

Winner: Ellen Datlow
John Joseph Adams
Gardner Dozois
Jonathan Strahan
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

ARTIST

Winner: Michael Whelan
Donato Giancola
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio
Shaun Tan

NON-FICTION

Winner: Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
An Exile on Planet Earth, Brian Aldiss (Bodleian Library)
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, eds. (NonStop)
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

ART BOOK

Winner: Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
Trolls, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration, Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan)
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, eds. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Steampunk: An Illustrated History, Brian J. Robb (Aurum)