The 2015 Locus Award Finalists

Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2015 Locus Awards. I note that Connie Willis will MC the award ceremony at the Locus Awards Weekend.

Science Fiction Novel

• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
  Other formats/vendors: hardcover omnibus on B&N, Annihilation: Kindle iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook, Authority: Kindle iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook, Acceptance: Kindle iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Fantasy Novel

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US) iBooks (note: available in UK but not US store), Kobo, BN/Nook

Young Adult Book

• Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

First Novel

• Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct) (not available on iBooks or Kobo), BN/Nook
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Novella

• “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon) (not on iBooks US), Kobo, BN/Nook
• “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• “The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Novelette

• “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• “The Hand Is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
• “Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 1/14)
• “The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
• “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Short Story

• “Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• “The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• “The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope) (not available on iBooks US), Kobo, BN/Nook
• “In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• “Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden) (not available on iBooks or Kobo), BN/Nook

Anthology

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Press) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)
  iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Collection

• Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede) BN/Nook (not available in iBooks or Kobo stores)
• Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway) iBooks, Kobo, BN/Nook

Magazine

• Asimov’s
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Lightspeed
• Tor.com

Publisher

• Angry Robot
• Orbit
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tor

Editor

• John Joseph Adams
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Artist

• Jim Burns
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Non-Fiction

• Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan Eller (University of Illinois Press)
• Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison (Tor)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
• Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
• What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)

Art Book

• Jim Burns, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Titan)
• The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)
• Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Brian & Wendy Froud, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales (Abrams)
• The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller (Zenith)

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