Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 27, 2015
Eligibility Year:
2014
Sf Novel
- Winner: Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
- Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
- Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder)
- Cibola Burn, James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
- Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (Tor; Titan)
- The Causal Angel, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor; Gollancz)
- Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)
- War Dogs, Greg Bear (Orbit; Gollancz)
- Shipstar, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven (Tor)
- Work Done for Hire, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Ultima, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Dark Lightning, John Varley (Ace)
- Tigerman, Nick Harkaway (Knopf)
- The Memory of Sky, Robert Reed (Prime)
- Wolves, Simon Ings (Gollancz)
- (tie): Artemis Awakening, Jane Lindskold (Tor)
- (tie): The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber (Hogarth; Canongate)
- World of Trouble, Ben H. Winters (Quirk)
- Bęte, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- The Blood of Angels, Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owen)
- Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
- All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot)
- Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
- The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
- Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone (Tor)
- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine (Atria)
- Revival, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Beautiful Blood, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
- California Bones, Greg van Eekhout (Tor)
- The Widow's House, Daniel Abraham (Orbit)
- A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Hawk, Steven Brust (Tor)
- The Dark Defiles, Richard K. Morgan (Del Rey; Gollancz)
- Bathing the Lion, Jonathan Carroll (St. Martin's)
- The Bees, Laline Paull (Ecco)
- Heirs of Grace, Tim Pratt (47North)
- The Winter Boy, Sally Wiener Grotta (Pixel Hall)
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Keith Donohue (Picador)
- Resurrections, Roz Kaveney (Plus One)
- Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)
- The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)
- Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)
- Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)
- Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Exo, Steven Gould (Tor)
- Memory of Water, Emmi Itäranta (Harper Voyager UK)
- Girl on a Wire, Gwenda Bond (Skyscape)
- Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
- Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
- (tie): Dreams of Gods & Monsters, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown; Hodder & Stoughton)
- (tie): Love is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
- Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (MacMillan Children's UK)
- (tie): The Child Eater, Rachel Pollack (Jo Fletcher)
- (tie): The Grasshopper's Child, Gwyneth Jones (Tjoy Books)
- Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo (Holt; Indigo)
- Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
First Novel
- Winner: The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)
- A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
- The Emperor's Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)
- Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
- The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
- The Girl In the Road, Monica Byrne (Crown; Blackfriars)
- The Race, Nina Allan (NewCon)
- The Stone Boatmen, Sarah Tolmie (Aqueduct)
- Unwrapped Sky, Rjurik Davidson (Tor; Tor UK)
- Otherbound, Corinne Duyvis (Amulet)
- The Angel of Losses, Stephanie Feldman (Ecco)
Novella
- Winner: Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- “The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)
- We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
- “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
- “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 30 Apr 2014)
- “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Sum 2014)
- “The Things We Do For Love”, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Sum 2014)
- The Madonna and the Starship, James Morrow (Tachyon)
- Dream Houses, Genevieve Valentine (WSFA/Wyrm)
- The Adventure of the Ring of Stones, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)
- “Entanglement”, Vandana Singh (Hieroglyph)
- “Kur-A-Len”, Lavie Tidhar (Black Gods Kiss)
- “The Black Sun”, Lewis Shiner (Subterranean Sum 2014)
- “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 19 Nov 2014)
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- “Children of the Fang”, John Langan (Lovecraft's Monsters)
Novelette
- Winner: “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
- “The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
- “The Hand is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
- “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues)
- “Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's Jan 2014)
- “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 2 Apr 2014)
- “The Fifth Dragon”, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
- “Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind)”, Holly Black (Monstrous Affections)
- “Wine”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld Jan 2014)
- “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF Jul/Aug 2014)
- “The New Boyfriend”, Kelly Link (Monstrous Affections)
- “The Colonel”, Peter Watts (Tor.com 29 Jul 2014)
- “A Better Way to Die”, Paul Cornell (Rogues)
- “Tawny Petticoats”, Michael Swanwick (Rogues)
- “The Cryptic Age”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Dec 2014)
- “The Insects of Love”, Genevieve Valentine (Tor.com 28 May 2014)
- (tie): “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link (McSweeney's #48)
- (tie): “A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star”, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor.com 20 Jul 2014)
- “Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
- “The Magician and Laplace's Demon”, Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld Dec 2014)
- “Collateral”, Peter Watts (Upgraded)
- “Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2014)
- “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa”, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean Spr 2014)
- “A Hotel in Antarctica”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Hieroglyph)
- “The Litany of Earth”, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com 14 May 2014)
- “The Cats of River Street (1925)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
- “Among the Thorns”, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 7 May 2014)
- “Heaven Thunders the Truth”, K. J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2 Oct 2014)
- “The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (The Book of Silverberg)
- “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 23 Apr 2014)
- “Seventh Sight”, Greg Egan (Upgraded)
- “Home is the Haunter”, Garth Nix (Fearsome Magics)
- “Kheldyu”, Karl Schroeder (Reach for Infinity)
- “Shadow Flock”, Greg Egan (Coming Soon Enough)
- “A Wish from a Bone”, Gemma Files (Fearful Symmetries)
- “I'll Follow the Sun”, Paul Di Filippo (F&SF Nov/Dec 2014)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)
- “Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
- “Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)
- “The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
- “In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
- “This Chance Planet”, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 22 Oct 2014)
- “West to East”, Jay Lake (Subterranean Sum 2014)
- “I Met a Man Who Wasn't There”, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Win 2014)
- “Invisible Planets”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Reach for Infinity)
- “Passage of Earth”, Michael Swanwick (Clarkesworld Apr 2014)
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family”, Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
- “Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying”, Alice Sola Kim (Monstrous Affections; Tin House #61)
- “Left Foot, Right”, Nalo Hopkinson (Monstrous Affections)
- “The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick”, Charlie Jane Anders (Lightspeed Jun 2014)
- “How to Get Back to the Forest”, Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed Mar 2014)
- “The Long Haul: From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009”, Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Nov 2014)
- “Moriabe's Children”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Monstrous Affections)
- “The Lady and the Fox”, Kelly Link (My True Love Gave to Me)
- “Someday”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Apr/May 2014)
- “The Contemporary Foxwife”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld Jul 2014)
- “Amicae Aeternum”, Ellen Klages (Reach for Infinity)
- “Hibbler's Minions”, Jeffrey Ford (Nightmare Carnival)
- “The Scrivener”, Eleanor Arnason (Subterranean Win 2014)
- “The Instructive Tale of the Archaeologist and His Wife”, Alexander Jablokov (Asimov's Jul 2014)
- “Pernicious Romance”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld Nov 2014)
- “Combustion Hour”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 18 Jun 2014)
- “Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
- “Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story”, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Win 2014)
- “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide”, Sarah Pinsker (F&SF Mar/Apr 2014)
- “The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile”, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Spr 2014)
- “The Tallest Doll in New York City”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Tor.com 14 Feb 2014)
- “Sadness”, Timons Esaias (Analog Jul/Aug 2014)
- “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed Jul 2014)
- “The Walking-Stick Forest”, Anna Tambour (Tor.com 21 May 2014)
- “Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die”, Lavie Tidhar (Analog Sep 2014)
- “Aberration”, Genevieve Valentine (Fearsome Magics)
Collection
- Winner: Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)
- Academic Exercises, K. J. Parker (Subterranean)
- The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)
- Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
- The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R. A. Lafferty (Centipede)
- Young Woman in a Garden, Delia Sherman (Small Beer)
- Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams: Stories of Califa, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Small Beer)
- They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
- Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
- Secret Lives of Books, Rosaleen Love (Twelfth Planet)
- How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, Kate Bernheimer (Coffee House)
- The Court of Lies, Mark Teppo (Resurrection)
- Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)
Anthology
- Winner: Rogues, George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)
- The Time Traveler's Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)
- Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (Candlewick)
- Upgraded, Neil Clarke, ed. (Wyrm)
- Kaleidoscope, Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Lovecraft's Monsters, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tachyon)
- Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future, Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Morrow)
- The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women, Alex Dally MacFarlane, ed. (Robinson; Running Press)
- Solaris Rising 3, Ian Whates, ed. (Solaris)
- Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Book of Silverberg: Stories In Honor of Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois & William Schafer, eds. (Subterranean)
- Nightmare Carnival, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 2, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
- Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume One, Laird Barron & Michael Kelly, eds. (Undertow)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
Non-fiction
- Winner: What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)
- The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
- Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: 1948-1988: The Man Who Learned Better, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
- Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press)
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison (Tor)
- Greg Egan, Karen Burnham (University of Illinois Press)
- Stay, John Clute (Beccon)
- The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, Rob Latham (Oxford)
- The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction, Thomas D. Clareson & Joe Sanders (McFarland)
- Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews, Adam Roberts (Steel Quill)
- Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans (Wesleyan University Press)
- Call and Response, Paul Kincaid (Beccon)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)
- The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller (Zenith)
- Brian Froud's Faeries' Tales, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
- The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal, Jim Burns (Titan)
- The Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay, Robert Weinberg, Douglas Ellis & Robert T. Garcia, eds. (American Fantasy)
- Dreamland, Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell (Harper)
- The Art of Ian Miller, Ian Miller (Titan)
- Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy, Anonymous, ed. (3dtotal)
- Biomech Art: Surrealism, Cyborgs and Alien Universes, Martin de Diego Sádaba (Graffito)
- The Art of Fred Gambino: Dark Shepherd, Fred Gambino (Titan)
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- Asimov's
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- Lightspeed
- Subterranean
- Strange Horizons
- Analog
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- SF Signal
- Interzone
- The Coode Street Podcast
- Ansible
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Apex
- Galactic Suburbia
- Daily SF
- The New York Review of SF
- File 770
- (tie): Amazon
- (tie): Black Gate
- Cemetery Dance
- Shimmer
- SF Squeecast
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Angry Robot
- Gollancz
- DAW
- Baen
- Tachyon
- Ballantine/Del Rey
- Solaris
- Ace
- PS Publishing
- Aqueduct
- Twelfth Planet
- Centipede
- NESFA
- ChiZine
- Harper
- St. Martin's
- Pyr
- Roc
- Penguin
- Night Shade
- Tor UK