Locus Awards 2004
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Noreascon 4,
Boston MA :
September 3, 2004
Eligibility Year: 2003
Eligibility Year: 2003
Sf Novel
- Winner: Ilium, Dan Simmons (Eos)
- Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Putnam)
- Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
- Darwin's Children, Greg Bear (Del Rey)
- The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon (Orbit 2002; Ballantine)
- Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2004)
- Singularity Sky, Charles Stross (Ace)
- Omega, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- Coalescent, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey)
- Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- The Golden Age: The Phoenix Exultant; The Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright (Tor two volumes; SFBC)
- Nothing Human, Nancy Kress (Golden Gryphon)
- Natural History, Justina Robson (Macmillan)
- Succession: The Risen Empire; The Killing of Worlds, Scott Westerfeld (Tor two volumes; SFBC)
- The Poison Master, Liz Williams (Bantam Spectra)
- Sister Alice, Robert Reed (Orbit; Tor)
- Felaheen: The Third Arabesk, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Earthlight)
- Memory, Linda Nagata (Tor)
- The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein (Del Rey)
- The Line of Polity, Neal Asher (Tor UK)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)
- Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod (Ace)
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner)
- 1610: A Sundial in a Grave, Mary Gentle (Gollancz)
- The War of the Flowers, Tad Williams (DAW)
- The Briar King, Greg Keyes (Del Rey)
- lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub (Random House)
- Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Bantam Spectra 2004)
- The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)
- The Crystal City, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
- The Skrayling Tree, Michael Moorcock (Warner Aspect)
- The Anvil of the World, Kage Baker (Tor)
- In the Forests of Serre, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- Sunshine, Robin McKinley (Berkley)
- Midnight Lamp, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
- Mortal Suns, Tanith Lee (Overlook)
- The Night Country, Stewart O'Nan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
- Abhorsen, Garth Nix (Eos)
- The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow)
- Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Simon & Schuster)
- A Stir of Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
- Inkheart, Cornelia Funke (The Chicken House)
- Trickster's Choice, Tamora Pierce (Random House)
- Midwinter Nightingale, Joan Aiken (Delacorte)
- The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud (Miramix)
- Firebirds, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird Books)
- New Skies, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed. (Tor)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Scholastic)
- Predator's Gold, Philip Reeve (Scholastic UK)
- The Tears of the Salamander, Peter Dickinson (Macmillan; Lamb)
- Stravaganza: City of Stars, Mary Hoffman (Bloomsbury)
First Novel
- Winner: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
- Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
- The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage)
- The Etched City, K. J. Bishop (Prime Books)
- Paper Mage, Leah R. Cutter (Roc)
- Spin State, Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)
- Clade, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
- The Darkness That Comes Before, R. Scott Bakker (Penguin Canada)
- Star Dragon, Mike Brotherton (Tor)
- A Telling of Stars, Caitlin Sweet (Penguin Canada)
- Magic's Silken Snare, ElizaBeth Gilligan (DAW)
- The Buzzing, Jim Knipfel (Vintage)
Novella
- Winner: “The Cookie Monster”, Vernor Vinge (Analog Oct 2003)
- “Just Like the Ones We Used to Know”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2003)
- “The Empress of Mars”, Kage Baker (Asimov's Jul 2003)
- “The Sworn Sword”, George R. R. Martin (Legends II)
- “Ariel”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
- “The Bone Witch”, R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF Feb 2003)
- Dear Abbey, Terry Bisson (PS Publishing)
- “The Green Leopard Plague”, Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
- “Curator”, Charles Stross (Asimov's Dec 2003)
- “Liar's House”, Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 3 Dec 2003)
- “Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst”, Kage Baker (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
- “Jailwise”, Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 4 Jun 2003)
- “Off on a Starship”, William Barton (Asimov's Sep 2003)
- “Greetings”, Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 3 Sep 2003)
- In Springdale Town, Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
- “The Ice”, Steven Popkes (Asimov's Jan 2003)
- “A Crowd of Bone”, Greer Gilman (Trampoline: An Anthology)
- “The Albertine Notes”, Rick Moody (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
- “Awake in the Night”, John C. Wright (The Night Lands 19 Jan 2003)
Novelette
- Winner: “A Study in Emerald”, Neil Gaiman (Shadows Over Baker Street)
- “The Monarch of the Glen”, Neil Gaiman (Legends II)
- “The Empire of Ice Cream”, Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction 26 Feb 2003)
- “Only Partly Here”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Apr 2003)
- “Breeding Ground”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Feb 2003)
- “Bitter Grounds”, Neil Gaiman (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
- “The Chop Line”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Dec 2003)
- “Almost Home”, Terry Bisson (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)
- “The Hydrogen Wall”, Gregory Benford (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
- “Legions in Time”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr 2003)
- “The Fluted Girl”, Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF Jun 2003)
- “The Devils in the Details”, James P. Blaylock (The Devils in the Details)
- “King Dragon”, Michael Swanwick (The Dragon Quintet)
- “The Bellman”, John Varley (Asimov's Jun 2003)
- “Nightfall”, Charles Stross (Asimov's Apr 2003)
- “The Door Gunner”, Michael Bishop (The Silver Gryphon)
- “Amnesty”, Octavia E. Butler (Sci Fiction 22 Jan 2003)
- “The Census Taker”, Dale Bailey (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)
- “Pictures from an Expedition”, Alex Irvine (F&SF Sep 2003)
- “Junk DNA”, Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling (Asimov's Jan 2003)
- “Clouds and Cold Fires”, Paul Di Filippo (Live Without a Net)
- “The Hortlak”, Kelly Link (The Dark: New Ghost Stories)
- “Dragon's Gate”, Pat Murphy (F&SF Aug 2003)
- “Hexagons”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Jul 2003)
- (tie): “Catskin”, Kelly Link (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
- (tie): “Child of the Stones”, Paul McAuley (Sci Fiction 12 Nov 2003)
- “Old Virginia”, Laird Barron (F&SF Feb 2003)
- “Vandoise and the Bone Monster”, Alex Irvine (F&SF Jan 2003)
- “Bernardo's House”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 2003)
- “Anomalous Structures of My Dreams”, M. Shayne Bell (F&SF Jan 2003)
Short Story
- Winner: “Closing Time”, Neil Gaiman (McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales)
- “Four Short Novels”, Joe Haldeman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2003)
- “Castaway”, Gene Wolfe (Sci Fiction 5 Feb 2003)
- “The Tale of the Golden Eagle”, David D. Levine (F&SF Jun 2003)
- “Graylord Man's Last Words”, Gene Wolfe (Asimov's May 2003)
- “A Night on the Barbary Coast”, Kage Baker (The Silver Gryphon)
- (tie): “555”, Robert Reed (F&SF May 2003)
- (tie): “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon”, Paul Di Filippo (Sci Fiction 19 Nov 2003)
- (tie): “The Hibernators”, Brian W. Aldiss (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2003)
- (tie): “Rogue Farm”, Charles Stross (Live Without a Net)
- “Calling Your Name”, Howard Waldrop (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian)
- “Flowers from Alice”, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (New Voices in Science Fiction)
- “In Fading Suns and Dying Moons”, John Varley (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian)
- “Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future”, Michael Swanwick (Live Without a Net)
- “June Sixteenth at Anna's”, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Apr 2003)
- “Ancestor Money”, Maureen F. McHugh (Sci Fiction 1 Oct 2003)
- “Boys: A short story”, Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 28 Jan 2003)
- “D=RxT”, Howard Waldrop (Sci Fiction 22 Oct 2003)
- “Joe Steele”, Harry Turtledove (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian)
- “The Trentino Kid”, Jeffrey Ford (The Dark: New Ghost Stories)
- (tie): “Deep in the Woods of Grammarie”, Michael Swanwick (Realms of Fantasy Oct 2003)
- (tie): “Fairy Tale”, Gardner Dozois (Sci Fiction 15 Jan 2003)
- “The Apocalaypse According to Olaf”, Barth Anderson (Asimov's May 2003)
- “Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers”, Cory Doctorow (Asimov's Jun 2003)
- (tie): “Big Ugly Mama and the ZK”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's Sep 2003)
- (tie): “Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres”, John Kessel (F&SF Jun 2003)
- “Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull”, Andy Duncan (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
- “The Beautiful Gelreesh”, Jeffrey Ford (Album Zutique #1)
- “Mother”, James Patrick Kelly (The Silver Gryphon)
- (tie): “Grey Star”, Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF Jan 2003)
- (tie): “Wild Thing”, Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Jul 2003)
- “EJ-ES”, Nancy Kress (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian)
- “Birth Days”, Geoff Ryman (Interzone #188 Apr 2003)
Collection
- Winner: Changing Planes, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
- GRRM: A RRetrospective, George R. R. Martin (Subterranean Press)
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
- Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations, Howard Waldrop, et al (Golden Gryphon)
- Roma Eterna, Robert Silverberg (Eos)
- And Now the News...: Volume IX: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books)
- Budayeen Nights, George Alec Effinger (Golden Gryphon)
- Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt, A. E. van Vogt (NESFA Press)
- Aye, and Gomorrah: Stories, Samuel R. Delany (Vintage)
- Limekiller!, Avram Davidson (Old Earth Books)
- A Place So Foreign and Eight More, Cory Doctorow (Four Walls Eight Windows)
- Things That Never Happen, M. John Harrison (Night Shade Books)
- Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories, Michael Bishop (Golden Gryphon)
- Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer (Small Beer Press)
- Bibliomancy, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
- A New Dawn: The Don A. Stuart Stories of John W. Campbell, Jr., John W. Campbell, Jr. (NESFA Press)
- In for a Penny, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean Press)
- Ghosts of Yesterday, Jack Cady (Night Shade Books)
- The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories, Dale Bailey (Golden Gryphon)
- The Selected Stories of Chad Oliver Volume 1: A Star Above It; Volume 2: Far From This Earth, Chad Oliver (NESFA Press)
- Little Gods, Tim Pratt (Prime Books)
- More Tomorrow & Other Stories, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
- Unintended Consequences, Alex Irvine (Subterranean Press)
- The Two Sams: Ghost Stories, Glen Hirshberg (Carroll & Graf)
- Greetings from Lake Wu, Jay Lake (Wheatland Press)
Anthology
- Winner: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Legends II, Robert Silverberg, ed. (Voyager; Del Rey 2004)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
- McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Michael Chabon, ed. (Vintage)
- The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- Year's Best SF 8, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Live Without a Net, Lou Anders, ed. (Roc)
- Mojo: Conjure Stories, Nalo Hopkinson, ed. (Warner Aspect)
- Cities, Peter Crowther, ed. (Gollancz)
- Trampoline: An Anthology, Kelly Link, ed. (Small Beer Press)
- The Silver Gryphon, Gary Turner & Marty Halpern, eds. (Golden Gryphon)
- (tie): Album Zutique #1, Jeff VanderMeer, ed. (Ministry of Whimsy)
- (tie): Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, Janis Ian & Mike Resnick, eds. (DAW)
- Gathering the Bones, Jack Dann, Dennis Etchison & Ramsey Campbell, eds. (HarperCollins Voyager Australia; Tor)
- Polyphony, Volume 2, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. (Wheatland Press)
- New Voices in Science Fiction, Mike Resnick, ed. (DAW)
- Year's Best Fantasy 3, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2003, Nancy Kress, ed. (Roc)
- One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Four Walls Eight Windows)
- Science Fiction: The Best of 2002, Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, eds. (ibooks)
- Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain, Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, eds. (Wesleyan)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- The Dragon Quintet, Marvin Kaye, ed. (Science Fiction Book Club)
- infinity plus two, Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers, eds. (PS Publishing)
Non-fiction/art
- Winner: The Sandman: Endless Nights, Neil Gaiman, et al (Vertigo)
- The Wolves in the Walls, Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
- Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- Scores: Reviews 1993-2003, John Clute (Beccon Publications)
- Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, M. J. Simpson (Hodder & Stoughton; Justin Charles & Co.)
- Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert (Tor)
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
- The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Art: A Retrospective, John Grant, Elizabeth Humphrey & Pamela D. Scoville, eds. (Artist's & Photographer's Press Ltd)
- (tie): Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance: Vol. I, Robin Furth (Scribner)
- (tie): Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays 1980-2002, David Langford (Cosmos)
- Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life, Terry Brooks (Del Rey)
- The Art of John Berkey, Jane Frank (Paper Tiger)
- (tie): Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley, Alice K. Turner & Michael Andre-Driussi, eds. (Cosmos)
- (tie): The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod, Andrew M. Butler & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Science Fiction Foundation)
- The Thomas Ligotti Reader, Darrell Schweitzer, ed. (Wildside Press)
- Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Second Edition, Michael Burgess & Lisa R. Bartle, eds. (Libraries Unlimited)
- The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American, Donald Morse (Praeger)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: F&SF
- Asimov's
- Analog
- Sci Fiction
- Interzone
- The Third Alternative
- Realms of Fantasy
- Emerald City
- Strange Horizons
- SF Site
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- (tie): Ansible
- (tie): The New York Review of Science Fiction
- The Alien Online
- Cemetery Dance
- Black Gate
- Science Fiction Weekly
- Fantastic Metropolis
- Infinity Plus
- Weird Tales
- Chronicle
- Talebones
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Del Rey
- Baen
- DAW
- HarperCollins/Eos
- Ace
- Golden Gryphon
- PS Publishing
- Night Shade Books/Ministry of Whimsy
- Gollancz
- NESFA Press
- Bantam Spectra
- Subterranean Press
- Small Beer Press
- Meisha Merlin
- SFBC
- Roc
- Warner Aspect
- Penguin Group (USA)
- Prime
- Firebird
- St. Martin's
- Earthlight
- Orbit
- (tie): Voyager
- (tie): Wildside Press
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