FINALISTS: 2015 Locus Awards

The finalists for the 2015 Locus Awards have been announced!

• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)

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

• Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
• The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
• The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

• “The Man Who Sold the Moon””, Cory Doctorow (Heiroglyph)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• “The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)

• “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
• “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)

• “Covenant,” Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
• “The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
• “The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)
• “In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
• “Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)

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

• Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
• The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
• Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)
• Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)

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

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

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

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

• 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)

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

From Locus Online: Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 26-28, 2015; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings with Willis and Daryl Gregory; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Andy Duncan, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale thanks to University Book Store; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai’ian shirt contest, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night.

– See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/05/2015-locus-awards-finalists/#sthash.2mDCmSlV.dpuf

Congratulations to all the nominees!