2007 Locus Awards

The 2007 Locus Award Nominees have been announced. In the major categories:

Best Science Fiction Novel

Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
Carnival, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
Farthing, Jo Walton (Tor)
Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Orbit; Ace)
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel

The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (Golden Gryphon Press; Ace)
The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Morrow)
The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra)
Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)

Best First Novel

Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
Temeraire: His Majesty’s Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Voyager); as Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)

Best Young Adult Book

The Keys to the Kingdom: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; The Chicken House)
Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier (Penguin/Razorbill)
Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion Children’s; Harcourt)
Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperTempest)

Best Novella

“Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream)
“Lord Weary’s Empire”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 12/06)
“Map of Dreams”, M. Rickert (Map of Dreams)
“The Mars Girl”, Joe Haldeman (Escape from Earth)
“Missile Gap”, Charles Stross (One Million A.D.)

Best Novelette

“I, Row-Boat”, Cory Doctorow (Flurb 1, Fall ‘06)
“The Night Whiskey”, Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)
“Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11/06)
“The Singularity Needs Women!”, Paul Di Filippo (Forbidden Planets [Crowther])
“When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”, Cory Doctorow (Baen’s Universe 8/06)

Best Short Story

“How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
“In the Abyss of Time”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov’s 8/06)
“Nano Comes to Clifford Falls”, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 7/06)
“Sob in the Silence”, Gene Wolfe (Strange Birds)
“Tin Marsh”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 8/06)

Best Anthology

One Million A.D., Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)
Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder’s Mouth Press)
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s)
Year’s Best SF 11, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)

Best Collection

The Best of Philip José Farmer, Philip José Farmer (Subterranean Press)
The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Best Editor

Jim Baen
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Gordon Van Gelder

Best Artist

Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
John Picacio
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

Personally, I think the most interesting category is best first novel. I would have a hard time choosing between Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series and Scott Lynch’s Lies of Locke Lamora. The results are announced in mid June. Via SFSignal.