Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 25, 2011
Eligibility Year:
2010
Sf Novel
- Winner: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
- Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
- Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- The Passage, Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
- Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear (Orbit)
- Terminal World, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
- Chill, Elizabeth Bear (Spectra)
- Starbound, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Yarn, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade)
- Zendegi, Greg Egan (Night Shade)
- Directive 51, John Barnes (Ace)
- Sleepless, Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
- Brain Thief, Alexander Jablokov (Tor)
- Birdbrain, Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owen)
- Saltation, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Baen)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
- Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
- The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Sorcerer's House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- The Habitation of the Blessed, Catherynne M. Valente (Night Shade)
- Horns, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- The Bird of the River, Kage Baker (Tor)
- A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday; Orion)
- Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
- Changeless, Gail Carriger (Orbit)
- Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde (Viking; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Half-Made World, Felix Gilman (Tor)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (Sceptre; Random House)
- The Desert Spear, Peter V. Brett (Del Rey; Voyager)
- Hespira, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade)
- The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime)
- The Wolf Age, James Enge (Pyr)
- The Folding Knife, K. J. Parker (Orbit)
- Jade Man's Skin, Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
- Kings of the North, Cecelia Holland (Tor)
- The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
- A Matter of Blood, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
- White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
- Pathfinder, Orson Scott Card (Simon Pulse)
- Tresholds, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
- The Boneshaker, Kate Milford (Clarion)
- The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7: Lord Sunday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Scholasatic; HarperCollins UK)
- Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness (Candlewick; Walker UK)
- Kid vs. Squid, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA)
- Factotum, D. M. Cornish (Omnibus Australia; Fickling UK; Putnam)
- Fever Crumb, Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
First Novel
- Winner: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)
- The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor 2011)
- Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)
- The Bookman, Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot)
- The Native Star, M. K. Hobson (Spectra)
- A Book of Tongues, Gemma Files (ChiZine)
- Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)
- Clowns at Midnight, Terry Dowling (PS)
- The Dream of Perpetual Motion, Dexter Palmer (St. Martin's)
- The Replacement, Brenna Yovanoff (Razorbill)
- Meeks, Julia Holmes (Small Beer)
- The Last Page, Anthony Huso (Tor)
- Noise, Darin Bradley (Spectra)
Novella
- Winner: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
- Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
- “The Mystery Knight”, George R. R. Martin (Warriors)
- “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Sum 2010)
- “Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
- “The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
- “The Sultan of the Clouds”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Sep 2010)
- The Taborin Scale, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
- “A History of Terraforming”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Jul 2010)
- “Dead Man's Run”, Robert Reed (F&SF Nov/Dec 2010)
- “Chicken Little”, Cory Doctorow (Gateways)
- “Mammoths of the Great Plains”, Eleanor Arnason (Mammoths of the Great Plains)
- “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”, Paul Park (F&SF Jan/Feb 2010)
- “A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (And the Threat it Entails)”, Sean Williams (Godlike Machines)
- Cloud Permutations, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
- “The Rift”, John G. Hemry (Analog Oct 2010)
- Seven Cities of Gold, David Moles (PS Publishing)
- “Jackie's Boy”, Steven Popkes (Asimov's Apr/May 2010)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)
- “The Mad Scientist's Daughter”, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 18-25 Jan 2010)
- “Plus or Minus”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Dec 2010)
- “The Fool Jobs”, Joe Abercrombie (Swords & Dark Magic)
- “Marya and the Pirate”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Jan 2010)
- “A Thousand Flowers”, Margo Lanagan (Zombies vs. Unicorns)
- “The Naturalist”, Maureen F. McHugh (Subterranean Spr 2010)
- “Goats of Glory”, Steven Erikson (Swords & Dark Magic)
- “In the Stacks”, Scott Lynch (Swords & Dark Magic)
- “Map of Seventeen”, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
- “Sleepover”, Alastair Reynolds (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF; The Mammoth Book of the End of the World)
- “Eating at the End-of-the-World Café”, Dale Bailey (F&SF Sep/Oct 2010)
- “A Jar of Goodwill”, Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld May 2010)
- “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn”, Diana Peterfreund (Zombies vs. Unicorns)
- “La Lune T'Attend”, Peter S. Beagle (Full Moon City)
- “The Literomancer”, Ken Liu (F&SF Sep/Oct 2010)
- “Pining to be Human”, Richard Bowes (F&SF Jul/Aug 2010)
- “Trinity County, CA”, Peter S. Beagle (Intergalactic Medicine Show Aug 2010)
- “Blind Cat Dance”, Alexander Jablokov (Asimov's Mar 2010)
- “Amor Vincit Omnia”, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Sum 2010)
- “--30--”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
- “Seven Years from Home”, Naomi Novik (Warriors)
- “Amor Fugit”, Alexandra Duncan (F&SF Mar/Apr 2010)
- “A Rich Full Week”, K. J. Parker (Swords & Dark Magic)
- “The Cage”, A. M. Dellamonica (Tor.com 28 Jul 2010)
- “Eight Miles”, Sean McMullen (Analog Sep 2010)
- “Under/Above the Water”, Tanith Lee (Songs of Love and Death)
- “Black and White Sky”, Tanith Lee (Brighton Shock)
- “To Hold the Bridge”, Garth Nix (Legends of Australian Fantasy)
- “Princess Prettypants”, Meg Cabot (Zombies vs. Unicorns)
- “Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World”, Lavie Tidhar (Daily Science Fiction 3 Sep 2010)
- “The Spy Who Never Grew Up”, Sarah Rees Brennan (Kiss Me Deadly)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)
- “The Things”, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld Jan 2010)
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld Aug 2010)
- “Booth's Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn't See and Other Stories)
- “Names for Water”, Kij Johnson (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2010)
- “Libertarian Russia”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Dec 2010)
- “How to Become a Mars Overlord”, Catherynne M. Valente (Lightspeed Aug 2010)
- “For Want of a Nail”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's Sep 2010)
- “Sleeping Dogs”, Joe Haldeman (Gateways)
- “A Letter from the Emperor”, Steve Rasnic Tem (Asimov's Jan 2010)
- “The Green Book”, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Nov 2010)
- “The Man With the Knives”, Ellen Kushner (Temporary Culture)
- “Tonight We Fly”, Ian McDonald (Masked)
- “After the Dragon”, Sarah Monette (Fantasy Jan 2010)
- “The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening”, Cory Doctorow (Shareable 25 May 2010)
- “The Taste of Night”, Pat Cadigan (Is Anybody Out There?)
- “The Exterminator's Want-Ad”, Bruce Sterling (Shareable 22 Jun 2010)
- “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots”, Sandra McDonald (Strange Horizons 4 Oct 2010)
- “Sobek”, Holly Black (Wings of Fire)
- “Elegy for a Young Elk”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Subterranean Spr 2010)
- “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”, Jeffrey Ford (Stories)
- “Blue Fire”, Bruce McAllister (F&SF Mar/Apr 2010)
- “Clockwork Fairies”, Cat Rambo (Tor.com 20 Aug 2010)
- “Graffiti in the Library of Babel”, David Langford (Is Anybody Out There?)
- “A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet”, Garth Nix (Swords & Dark Magic)
- “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain”, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed Sep 2010)
- “The Children of Cadmus”, Ellen Kushner (The Beastly Bride)
- “The Cull”, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld Sep 2010)
- “The Monster's Million Faces”, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 8 Sep 2010)
- “The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 11 Aug 2010)
- “Standard Loneliness Package”, Charles Yu (Lightspeed Nov 2010)
- “Fair Ladies”, Theodora Goss (Apex 2 Aug 2010)
- “Cold Hands”, Cassandra Clare (Zombies vs. Unicorns)
- “Futures in the Memories Market”, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Clarkesworld Jun 2010)
- “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Zombies vs. Unicorns)
- “The Night Train”, Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons 14 Jun 2010)
Collection
- Winner: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)
- Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle, Peter S. Beagle (Subterranean)
- The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Night Shade)
- The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
- What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
- The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Six: The Road to Amber, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
- The Best of Larry Niven, Larry Niven (Subterranean)
- Deep Navigation, Alastair Reynolds (NESFA)
- The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 3: The Saturn Game, Poul Anderson (NESFA)
- The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, Walter Jon Williams (Night Shade)
- Leviathan Wept and Other Stories, Daniel Abraham (Subterranean)
- The Poison Eaters and Other Stories, Holly Black (Big Mouth House)
- The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)
- Mysteries of the Diogenes Club, Kim Newman (MonkeyBrain)
- Case and the Dreamer: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon: Volume XIII, Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic)
- Journeys, Ian R. MacLeod (Subterranean)
- Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
- Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Golden Gryphon)
- Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
- The Sky That Wraps, Jay Lake (Subterranean)
- Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, Sandra McDonald (Lethe)
- The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories, Peter Straub (Subterranean)
- Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder, Terry Dowling (Subterranean)
- On the Banks of the River of Heaven, Richard Parks (Prime)
Anthology
- Winner: Warriors, George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (HarperCollins)
- Zombies vs Unicorns, Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, eds. (McElderry)
- The Beastly Bride, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Godlike Machines, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (SFBC)
- The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
- Year's Best SF 15, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans, et al., eds (Wesleyan University)
- Is Anybody Out There?, Nick Gevers & Marty Halpern, eds. (DAW)
- Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tachyon)
- Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S. T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- Sympathy for the Devil, Tim Pratt, ed. (Night Shade)
- Wings of Fire, Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon, ed. (Night Shade)
- Sprawl, Alisa Krasnostein, eds (Twelfth Planet Press)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 21, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Running Press)
- The Best of Talebones, Patrick Swenson, ed. (Fairwood)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
- 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin, eds. (Aqueduct)
- CM Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary, Mark Rich (McFarland)
- Conversations with Octavia Butler, Consuela Francis (University Press of Mississippi)
- Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)
- British Science Fiction & Fantasy: Twenty Years, Two Surveys, Paul Kincaid & Niall Harrison, eds. (Odd Two Out)
- Anthopology 101: Reflections, Inspections and Dissections of SF Anthologies, Bud Webster (Merry Blacksmith)
- Into the Media Web, Michael Moorcock (Savoy)
- The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Bruce Shaw (McFarland)
- Science Fiction, Imperialism, and the Third World: Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film, Ericka Hoagland & Reema Sarwal, eds. (McFarland)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 17: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- Instructions, Charles Vess & Neil Gaiman (Harper)
- The Bird King and Other Sketches, Shaun Tan (Windy Hollow)
- Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth, Donato Giancola (Underwood)
- Dragon's Domain, Bob Eggleton (Impact)
- Otherworlds, Tom Kidd (Impact)
- Star Wars Art: Visions, Anonymous, ed. (Abrams)
- Outermost, Jack Gaughan, edited by Luis Ortiz (Non Stop)
Magazine
- Winner: Asimov's
- F&SF
- Tor.com
- Analog
- Subterranean
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Strange Horizons
- Interzone
- Lightspeed
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Realms of Fantasy
- Fantasy Magazine
- Weird Tales
- The New York Review of Science Fiction
- SF Site
- Ansible
- Black Gate
- Apex
- Jim Baen's Universe
- Cemetery Dance
- Postscripts
- Electric Velocipede
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean Press
- Night Shade Books
- Baen
- Orbit
- Pyr
- DAW
- Ace
- NESFA Press
- Del Rey
- Gollancz
- Angry Robot
- PS Publishing
- Small Beer Press
- Tachyon
- Roc
- Spectra
- Harper Voyager
- St. Martin's
- Golden Gryphon
- Aqueduct Press
- Eos