Locus Awards 2017
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 24, 2017
Eligibility Year: 2016
Eligibility Year: 2016
Sf Novel
- Winner: Death's End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)
- Babylon's Ashes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
- Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
- Visitor, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)
- After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)
- Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear (Orbit)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Wall of Storms, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
- Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
- The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
- Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Fireman, Joe Hill (Morrow)
- Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
- The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)
- HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Disappearance at Devil's Rock, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)
- Fellside, M. R. Carey (Orbit)
- The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)
- Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)
- The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R. S. Belcher (Tor)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Golldancz; Orbit US 2017)
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
- Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (Holt)
- Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)
- Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)
- Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond (Switch)
- Truthwitch, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Tor UK)
- Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan)
First Novel
- Winner: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
- Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
- Infomocracy, Malka Older (Tor.com)
- Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
- Roses and Rot, Kat Howard (Saga)
- The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin's)
- The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
- Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen (Dunne)
- Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
- The Reader, Traci Chee (Putnam)
Novella
- Winner: Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com)
- This Census-taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
- A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
- The Dispatcher, John Scalzi (Audible; Subterranean 2017)
- The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds (NewCon)
- The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
- Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com)
- Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling (Tachyon)
Novelette
- Winner: “You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny May/Jun 2016)
- “Pearl”, Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com)
- “Spinning Silver”, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
- “The Future is Blue”, Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
- “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3 Mar 2016)
- “Red as Blood and White as Bone”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 4 May 2016)
- “Those Shadows Laugh”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Sep/Oct 2016)
- “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 27 Jul 2016)
- “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's Sep 2016)
Short Story
- Winner: “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2016)
- “The City Born Great”, N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com 28 Sep 2016)
- “The Story of Kao Yu”, Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com 7 Dec 2016)
- “A Salvaging of Ghosts”, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 17 Mar 2016)
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 2 Mar 2016)
- “Seven Birthdays”, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
- “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
- “That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 16 Mar 2016)
- “Afrofuturist 419”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld Nov 2016)
Collection
- Winner: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
- The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
- Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean; Gollancz)
- Not So Much, Said the Cat, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)
- A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald (PS Publishing)
- Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct)
- Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
- Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit; Gollancz)
Anthology
- Winner: The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, ed. (Serial Box; Saga '17)
- Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke, eds. (Crossed Genres)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Non-fiction
- Winner: The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)
- Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books, 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline)
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
- Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press)
- Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
- Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University)
- Time Travel: A History, James Gleick (Pantheon)
- The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)
Art Book
- Winner: Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie, Charles Vess (Faerie Magazine)
- Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- The Singing Bones, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin 2015; Arthur A. Levine; Walker UK)
- Beauty and the Beast, Mahlon F. Craft, illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft (Harper)
- Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined, Ron Miller (Smithsonian/Elephant Book Company)
- Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, Ralph McQuarrie (Abrams)
- Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations, Yoshitaka Amano (VIZ Media)
- Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law, Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes)
- Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book, Kinuko Y. Craft (Amber Lotus)
- The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dermot Power, ed. (Harper Design; HarperCollins UK)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- F&SF
- Asimov's
- Uncanny
- Clarkesworld
- Lightspeed
- Analog
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Strange Horizons
- File 770
Publisher
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Saga
- Angry Robot
- Baen
- Gollancz
- Tachyon
- DAW
Artist
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