Posts Tagged ‘Charles Stross’

The Locus Foundation has announced the finalists for the Locus Awards in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.  See the complete list. Winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 15-17, 2012.

Science Fiction Novel

• Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• 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

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

Young Adult Book

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

Novella

• 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)
• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)

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