Locus Awards 2011 Winners

The winners of the 2011 Locus Awards have been announced:

Best Science Fiction Novel

Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis

• Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks
• Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Zero History, William Gibson
• The Dervish House, Ian McDonald

Best Fantasy Novel

Kraken, China Miéville

• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay
• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross
• The Sorcerer’s House, Gene Wolfe

Best First Novel

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin

• The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu

Best Young Adult Book

Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi

• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
• Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
• Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld

Best Novella

The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)

• Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (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)

Best Novelette

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, Neil Gaiman (Stories)

• The Fool Jobs, Joe Abercrombie (Swords & Dark Magic)
• The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 1/18-1/25/10)
• Plus or Minus, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
• Marya and the Pirate, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 1/10)

Best Short Story

The Thing About Cassandra, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)

• Booth’s Ghost, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
• Names for Water, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/10)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/10)
• The Things, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

Best Magazine

Asimov’s

• Analog
• F&SF
• Subterranean
• Tor.com

Best Book Publisher

Tor

• Baen
• Night Shade Books
• Orbit
• Subterranean Press

Best Anthology

Warriors, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.

• Zombies vs. Unicorns, Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, eds.
• The Beastly Bride, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.
• Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds.

Best Collection

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber

• Mirror Kingdoms, Peter S. Beagle
• What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler
• The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves, Roger Zelazny

Best Editor

Ellen Datlow

• Gardner Dozois
• Gordon Van Gelder
• David G. Hartwell
• Jonathan Strahan

Best Artist

Shaun Tan

• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• John Picacio
• Michael Whelan

Best Non-Fiction Book

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr.,

• 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin, eds.
• Conversations with Octavia Butler, Conseula Francis
• CM Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary, Mark Rich
• Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe

Best Art Book

Spectrum 17, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds.

• Bob Eggleton, Dragon’s Domain
• Donato Giancola, Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth
• Shaun Tan, The Bird King and Other Sketches
• Charles Vess & Neil Gaiman, Instructions