2011 Locus Nominations Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2011 Locus Awards.


Winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 24-26, 2011.


Science Fiction Novel

• Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
• Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

Fantasy Novel

• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
• Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• The Sorcerer’s House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

First Novel

• The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)

Young Adult Book

• Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)
• Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Novella

• Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
• “The Mystery Knight”’, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
• “Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)