2008 Locus Award Finalists

The 2008 Locus Award Finalists has been announced:

SF NOVEL

• The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Pyr) [See SF Signal review]
• Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK) [See SF Signal review]
• Spook Country by William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Endless Things by John Crowley (Small Beer Press; Overlook)
• Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
• Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe (Tor) [See SF Signal review]
• Territory by Emma Bull (Tor)
• Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
• The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter (Faber & Faber)
• Magic’s Child by Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
• Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
• Un Lun Dun by China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
• Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
• One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (Ballantine Del Rey)
• The Coyote Road edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. (Viking)
• The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan(Eos)
• The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant(St. Martin’s)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s) [See SF Signal review]

Locus Online has the full list of nominees.

See also: Past winners.

Filed under: Awards

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