2017 Locus Awards Winners Announced

The 2017 Locus Awards were announced Saturday, June 24, at the Locus Awards Weekend held in Seattle, WA. The awards are hosted by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation and winners determined through an open online poll; this year the poll ran from February 1 to April 15.   The nominees and winners are:

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Winner: Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
• The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)
• Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear (Orbit)
• Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
• Babylon’s Ashes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)
• Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)
• Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Winner: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor)
• Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL)
• The Wall of Storms, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
• The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross (Ace) Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)

HORROR NOVEL

• Winner: The Fireman, Joe Hill (Morrow)
• The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R.S. Belcher (Tor)
• Fellside, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)
• The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)
• Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)
• HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

FIRST NOVEL

• Winner: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US)
• The Reader, Traci Chee (Putnam)
• Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen (Dunne)
• The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
• The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
• Roses and Rot, Kat Howard (Saga)
• Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
• Infomocracy, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
• Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
• Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Winner: Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
• Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (Holt)
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond (Switch)
• Truthwitch, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen)
• Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan) Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)
• This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

NOVELLA

• Winner: Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Census-taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
• The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds (NewCon)
• The Dispatcher, John Scalzi (Audible; Subterranean)
• Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling (Tachyon)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• Winner: “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny May/June 2016)
• ‘‘The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com July 27, 2016)
• “Pearl”, Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)
• “Red as Blood and White as Bone”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com May 4, 2016)
• “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 3, 2016)
• “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s August 2016)
• “Spinning Silver”, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
• “Those Shadows Laugh”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF September/October 2016)
• “The Future is Blue”, Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)

SHORT STORY

• Winner: “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “The Story of Kao Yu”, Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com December 7, 2016) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny November/December 2016)
• “A Salvaging of Ghosts”, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 17, 2016)
• “The City Born Great”, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com September 28, 2016)
• “Seven Birthdays”, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
• “Afrofuturist 419”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld November 2016) “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
• “That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com March 16, 2016)
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com March 2, 2016)

ANTHOLOGY

• Winner: The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage)
• Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke (Crossed Genres)
• Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner (Serial Box; Saga)
• Invisible Planets, Ken Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (Saga)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris US)
• Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris US)
• Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan (Solaris US)

COLLECTION

• Winner: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit)
• Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct)
• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
• The Found and the Lost, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
• The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald (PS)
• Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
• Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
• Not So Much, Said the Cat, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)

 

NON-FICTION

• Winner: The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor) Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981-1990, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University)
• Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press) Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
• The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline)
• Time Travel: A History, James Gleick (Pantheon)
• Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

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