Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 16, 2007
Eligibility Year:
2006
Sf Novel
- Winner: Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
- Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
- Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
- Carnival, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
- Farthing, Jo Walton (Tor)
- The Clan Corporate, Charles Stross (Tor)
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Knopf; Picador)
- Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon (Penguin; Cape)
- Sun of Suns, karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Mathematicians in Love, Rudy Rucker (Tor)
- Eifelheim, Michael Flynn (Tor)
- Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
- End of the World Blues, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
- Matriarch, Karen Traviss (Eos)
- The Armies of Memory, John Barnes (Tor)
- Polity Agent, Neal Asher (Tor UK)
- Emperor, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
- Keeping It Real, Justina Robson (Gollancz; Pyr)
- The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi (Tor)
- Horizons, Mary Rosenblum (Tor)
- Babylon, Richard Calder (PS Publishing)
- The Android's Dream, John Scalzi (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Small Beer Press; Bantam Spectra)
- The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (Golden Gryphon; Ace)
- Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Subterranean; Morrow)
- The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Morrow)
- Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff VanderMeer (Tor UK; Tor)
- Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- Forest Mage, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Eos)
- The Vengeance of Rome, Michael Moorcock (Cape)
- Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- (tie): The Thousandfold Thought, R. Scott Bakker (Penguin Canada; Overlook)
- (tie): The Tourmaline, Paul Park (Tor)
- The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier (Murray; Pantheon)
- The Blood Knight, Greg Keyes (Del Rey)
- Trial of Flowers, Jay Lake (Night Shade)
- The Demon and the City, Liz Williams (Night Shade)
- The Virtu, Sarah Monette (Ace)
- Fugitives of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)
- Ilario: The Lion's Eye, Mary Gentle (Gollancz; Eos)
- Majestrum, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade)
- Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder War, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Voyager)
- The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperTempest)
- Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion Children's; Harcourt)
- Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
- Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
- The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic)
- The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins Children's UK; Greenwillow)
- Specials, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
- Do the Creepy Thing, Graham Joyce (Faber & Faber)
- A Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve (Scholastic UK; Eos)
- The Last Days, Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill)
- Midnighters, Book Three: Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld (Eos)
First Novel
- Winner: Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder War, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Voyager)
- The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
- Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
- The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
- The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
- A Shadow in Summer, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
- Summer of the Apocalypse, James Van Pelt (Fairwood)
- Scar Night, Alan Campbell (Tor UK; Bantam Spectra)
- The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Pyr)
- The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Cape; Doubleday)
- The Burning Girl, Holly Phillips (Prime)
- The Patron Saint of Plagues, Barth Anderson (Bantam Spectra)
Novella
- Winner: “Missile Gap”, Charles Stross (One Million A.D.)
- “The Mars Girl”, Joe Haldeman (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space)
- “Lord Weary's Empire”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Dec 2006)
- “Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream)
- “Map of Dreams”, M. Rickert (Map of Dreams)
- “A Billion Eves”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2006)
- “The Siege of Earth”, Stephen Baxter (Resplendent)
- Julian: A Christmas Story, Robert Charles Wilson (PS Publishing)
- “The Plurality of Worlds”, Brian Stableford (Asimov's Aug 2006)
- The Voyage of Night Shining White, Chris Roberson (PS Publishing)
- “Where the Golden Apples Grow”, Kage Baker (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space)
- “Riding the Crocodile”, Greg Egan (One Million A.D.)
- “The Walls of the Universe”, Paul Melko (Asimov's Apr/May 2006)
- “Nightingale”, Alastair Reynolds (Galactic North)
- “Blackburn and the Blade”, Bradley Denton (Lords of the Razor)
- “'The Night is Fine,' the Waldrus Said”, John Barnes (Analog Jan/Feb 2006)
- “The Good Kill”, Barry B. Longyear (Analog Nov 2006)
- “Hallucigenia”, Laird Barron (F&SF Jun 2006)
- “Inclination”, William Shunn (Asimov's Apr/May 2006)
- “The Revivalist”, Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF Mar 2006)
- “Good Mountain”, Robert Reed (One Million A.D.)
- “Rococo”, Robert Reed (Forbidden Planets (Kaye))
- “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire”, Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF Jul 2006)
Novelette
- Winner: “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”, Cory Doctorow (Jim Baen's Universe Aug 2006)
- “Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)
- “I, Row-Boat”, Cory Doctorow (Flurb #1 Fall 2006)
- “The Night Whiskey”, Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)
- “The Singularity Needs Women!”, Paul Di Filippo (Forbidden Planets (Crowther))
- “Salt Wine”, Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy Magazine #3)
- “In the House of the Seven Librarians”, Ellen Klages (Firebirds Rising)
- “The Djinn's Wife”, Ian McDonald (Asimov's Jul 2006)
- “Yellow Card Man”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Asimov's Dec 2006)
- A Soul in a Bottle, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press)
- “El Regalo”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)
- “Counterfactual”, Gardner Dozois (F&SF Jun 2006)
- “Wane”, Elizabeth Bear (Interzone #203 Apr 2006)
- “Kansas, She Says, Is the Name of the Star”, R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF Jul 2006)
- “Lessons with Miss Gray”, Theodora Goss (Fantasy Magazine #2)
- “Signal to Noise”, Alastair Reynolds (Zima Blue and Other Stories)
- “The Cartesian Theater”, Robert Charles Wilson (Futureshocks)
- “The Pacific Mystery”, Stephen Baxter (The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction)
- “What Used to Be Good Still Is”, Emma Bull (Firebirds Rising)
- “Jack o'Lantern”, Patricia A. McKillip (Firebirds Rising)
- “Bow Shock”, Gregory Benford (Jim Baen's Universe Jun 2006)
- “Shambhala”, Alex Irvine (F&SF Mar 2006)
- “Okanoggan Falls”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF Aug 2006)
- “Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth”, Michael F. Flynn (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2006)
- “Dead Men Walking”, Paul J. McAuley (Asimov's Mar 2006)
- “Tiger, Burning”, Alastair Reynolds (Forbidden Planets (Crowther))
- “Chandail”, Peter S. Beagle (Salon Fantastique)
- “Incarnation Day”, Walter Jon Williams (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space)
- “Journey into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert (F&SF Dec 2006)
- “Femaville 29”, Paul Di Filippo (Salon Fantastique)
- The Highway Men, Ken MacLeod (Sandstone Press)
- “A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange”, Beth Bernobich (Asimov's Jun 2006)
- “Every Hole Is Outlined”, John Barnes (Jim Baen's Universe Oct 2006)
- “Sunlight or Rock”, John Kessel (Asimov's Sep 2006)
- “A Siege of Cranes”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics)
- “...the darkest evening of the year...”, Candas Jane Dorsey (The Future Is Queer)
- “Home Movies”, Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's Apr/May 2006)
- “I'll Give You My Word”, Diana Wynne Jones (Firebirds Rising)
- “Dead Man”, Alexander Jablokov (Asimov's Aug 2006)
- “The Christmas Witch”, M. Rickert (F&SF Dec 2006)
Short Story
- Winner: “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
- “Nano Comes to Clifford Falls”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jul 2006)
- “Sob in the Silence”, Gene Wolfe (Strange Birds)
- “In the Abyss of Time”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Aug 2006)
- “Tin Marsh”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Aug 2006)
- “The Way He Does It”, Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede #10 Spr 2006)
- “Impossible Dreams”, Tim Pratt (Asimov's Jul 2006)
- “The American Dead”, Jay Lake (Interzone #203 Apr 2006)
- “Eight Episodes”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Jun 2006)
- “The Saffron Gatherers”, Elizabeth Hand (Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories)
- “Another Word for Map Is Faith”, Christopher Rowe (F&SF Aug 2006)
- “Killers”, Carol Emshwiller (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)
- “Chu and the Nants”, Rudy Rucker (Asimov's Jun 2006)
- “The Secret Paths of Rajan Khanna”, Jeff VanderMeer (Paraspheres: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories)
- “A Fine Magic”, Margo Lanagan (Eidolon 1)
- “World of No Return”, Carol Emshwiller (Asimov's Jan 2006)
- “The House Beyond Your Sky”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons 4 Sep 2006)
- “Preemption”, Charlie Rosenkranz (Analog Jun 2006)
- “Taking Good Care of Myself”, Ian R. MacLeod (Nature 4 May 2006)
- “Under Hell, Over Heaven”, Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)
- “The Age of Ice”, Liz Williams (Asimov's Apr/May 2006)
- “Cup and Table”, Tim Pratt (Twenty Epics)
- “Kyle Meets the River”, Ian McDonald (Forbidden Planets (Crowther))
- “You Have Never Been Here”, M. Rickert (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology)
- “Revelation”, Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)
- “Kin”, Bruce McAllister (Asimov's Feb 2006)
- “Winkie”, Margo Lanagan (Red Spikes)
- “To Measure the Earth”, Jedediah Berry (Salon Fantastique)
- “Lighthouse”, Michael Shara & Jack McDevitt (Analog Mar 2006)
- “The Small Astral Object Genius”, James Van Pelt (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2006)
- “The League of Last Girls”, Christopher Rowe (Aegri Somnia: The Apex Featured Writer Anthology)
- “The Town on Blighted Sea”, A. M. Dellamonica (Strange Horizons 21 Aug 2006)
Collection
- Winner: Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Review)
- The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
- The Best of Philip José Farmer, Philip José Farmer (Subterranean)
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- The Line Between, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- A Separate War and Other Stories, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Zima Blue and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Night Shade)
- In the Forest of Forgetting, Theodora Goss (Prime Books)
- Resplendent, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Visionary in Residence, Bruce Sterling (Thunder's Mouth)
- Outbound, Jack McDevitt (ISFiC)
- Map of Dreams, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon Press)
- The Man from the Diogenes Club, Kim Newman (MonkeyBrain)
- Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, Elizabeth Hand (M Press)
- Shuteye for the Timebroker, Paul Di Filippo (Thunder's Mouth)
- Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Viking)
- Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories, Alan DeNiro (Small Beer)
- Alabaster, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- Pictures from an Expedition, Alexander C. Irvine (Night Shade)
- The Ocean and All Its Devices, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean)
- Streetcar Dreams, Richard Bowes (PS Publishing)
- The Butterflies of Memory, Ian Watson (PS Publishing)
- Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear, Terry Dowling (Cemetery Dance)
- American Morons, Glen Hirshberg (Earthling Publications)
Anthology
- Winner: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
- Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth)
- One Million A.D., Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)
- Year's Best SF 11, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tachyon)
- Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)
- Futureshocks, Lou Anders, ed. (Roc)
- Forbidden Planets, Peter Crowther, ed. (DAW)
- Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon)
- Best Short Novels: 2006, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (SFBC)
- Polyphony, Volume 6, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. (Wheatland)
- Year's Best Fantasy 6, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tachyon)
- Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (SFBC)
- Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds. (All-Star Stories)
- The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, Mike Ashley, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seventeen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Roc)
- Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Locus Press)
- Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Locus Press)
- Futures Past, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Ace)
- Paraspheres: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan, eds. (Omnidawn)
- Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, Johanna Sinisalo, ed. (Dedalus)
- Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- Eidolon 1, Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne, eds. (Eidolon; Prime)
Non-fiction
- Winner: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)
- About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan)
- Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Win Scott Eckert, ed. (MonkeyBrain)
- Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn (MonkeyBrain)
- The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, John Clute (Payseur & Schmidt)
- Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Justine Larbalestier, ed. (Weslayan)
- The History of Science Fiction, Adam Roberts (Palgrave)
- Heinlein's Children: The Juveniles, Joseph T. Major (Advent)
- Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches, Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari, eds. (ISFiC)
- The Long and the Short of It: More Essays on the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, Robert Borski (iUniverse)
- The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Leonard S. Marcus, ed. (Candlewick)
- The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticisms on Clark Ashton Smith, Scott Connors, ed. (Hippocampus)
- Visions and Re-Visions: [Re]constructing Science Fiction, Robert M. Philmus (Liverpool University)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio, John Picacio (MonkeyBrain)
- Amphigorey Again, Edward Gorey (Harcourt)
- The Fabulous Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell (Paper Tiger; Collins Design)
- Origins: The Art of John Jude Palencar, John Jude Palencar (Underwood)
- Mommy?, Maurice Sendak (Scholastic)
- James Bama: American Realist, James Bama (Flesk)
- RGK: The Art of Roy G. Krenkel, Barry Klugerman & J. David Spurlock, eds. (Vanguard)
- Fairies, Yoshitaka Amano (Dark Horse)
- Kiddography: The Art & Life of Tom Kidd, Tom Kidd (Paper Tiger 2005; SFBC)
- Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood, The World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist, Steve Starger & J. David Spurlock (Vanguard)
- Coffin: The Art of Vampire Hunter D, Yoshitaka Amano (DH Press)
- r/evolution: The Art of Jon Foster, Jon Foster (Underwood)
- The Art of Michael Parkes, Michael Parkes (Swan King)
Magazine
- Winner: F&SF
- Asimov's
- Analog
- Strange Horizons
- Interzone
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Realms of Fantasy
- Jim Baen's Universe
- The New York Review of Science Fiction
- Subterranean
- Fantasy Magazine
- Emerald City
- Ansible
- SF Site
- Weird Tales
- SF Weekly
- Cemetery Dance
- Electric Velocipede
- Postscripts
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- SciFiDimensions
- Black Gate
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- Internet Review of Science Fiction
- SFRevu
- Talebones
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Baen
- Subterranean
- Night Shade Books
- Del Rey
- Bantam Spectra
- Golden Gryphon
- DAW
- Ace
- Gollancz
- Pyr
- Small Beer Press
- MonkeyBrain
- PS Publishing
- Eos
- NESFA Press
- Roc
- Firebird
- SFBC
- Tachyon
- Meisha Merlin
- Orbit
- Arkham House
- St. Martin's
- Luna