2015 LOCUS AWARD FINALISTS. Clockwise, top left: Charles Vess, Shaun Tan, Jim Burns, John Picacio, Michael Whelan.

Congratulations to this year’s Locus Award Finalists! And wow, what an amazing list it is, across all categories. In a year marked by heated controversy for sf/f awards, this nominations list is especially notable and remarkable.

Hugely grateful and honored to be amongst the five finalists in the Artist category, along with the stellar talents of Jim Burns, Shaun Tan, Charles Vess, and Michael Whelan. I admire all four of these artists and where they’ve taken their careers lately, so thank you, Locus Magazine voters. Very appreciated.

Good luck to all! 🙂

Here’s the rundown:

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2015 Locus Awards.

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.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• 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)

FANTASY NOVEL

• 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)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• 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)

FIRST NOVEL

• 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)

NOVELLA

• “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
• 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)

NOVELETTE

• “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)

SHORT STORY

• “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)

ANTHOLOGY

• 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)

COLLECTION

• 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)

MAGAZINE

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

PUBLISHER

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

EDITOR

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

ARTIST

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

NON-FICTION

• 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)

ART BOOK

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

For more information about the Seattle event and for Locus Awards and Locus Workshop ticketing, please visit the 2015 Locus Awards Information Page.