Announcing the 2011 Locus Award Winners

The winners of 2011 Locus Awards were announced this afternoon in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. We are, of course, especially excited that Tor Books won for “Best Publisher.” All our thanks go out to this wonderful community of readers, authors, and artists.

Science Fiction Novel

• WINNER: 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)

Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: 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)

First Novel

• WINNER: 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)

Young Adult Book

• WINNER: 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)

Novella

• WINNER: 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)

Novelette

• WINNER: “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)

Short Story

• WINNER: “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)

Magazine

• WINNER: Asimov’s
• Analog
• F&SF
• Subterranean
• Tor.com

Publisher

• WINNER: Tor
• Baen
• Night Shade Books
• Orbit
• Subterranean Press

Anthology

• WINNER: 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)

Collection

• WINNER: 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)

Editor

• WINNER: Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Gordon Van Gelder
• David G. Hartwell
• Jonathan Strahan

Artist

• WINNER: Shaun Tan
• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• John Picacio
• Michael Whelan

Non-fiction

• WINNER: 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)

Art Books

• WINNER: 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)