Locus Awards for 2012
I think I have too many RSS feeds in my reader; I keep getting behind and then leaving things unread to deal with “later” — but then there’s too much new stuff I haven’t even looked at, which pushes “later” much further than I’d like.
That’s all prologue to the fact that these awards came out some time ago, and, if I’m going to blog about them at all, I should do it more quickly. Nevertheless, here’s what’s happened recently in award-land:
Locus Awards for 2012
Locus magazine, the newspaper of the skiffy field, has polled its frighteningly well-read readers yet again, and these are their choices for the best of the year past:
- Science Fiction Novel: [[[Embassytown]]], China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Fantasy Novel: [[[A Dance with Dragons]]], George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
- First Novel: [[[The Night Circus]]], Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
- Young Adult Book: [[[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]], Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
- Novella: Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA; Clarkesworld)
- Novelette: “White Lines on a Green Field”, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fall ’11)
- Short Story: “The Case of Death and Honey”, Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock)
- Anthology: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Collection: The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)
- Non-fiction: [[[Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature]]], Gary K. Wolfe (Wesleyan)
- Art Books: [[[Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art]]], Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (Underwood)
- Artist: Shaun Tan
- Editor: Ellen Datlow
- Magazine: Asimov’s
- Publisher: Tor
Congratulations to all of the winners, and especially to Catherynne M. Valente, for a very impressive three wins in one year.
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