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2015 LOCUS AWARD FINALISTS. Clockwise, top left: Charles Vess, Shaun Tan, Jim Burns, John Picacio, Michael Whelan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to this year\u2019s Locus Award Finalists<\/a>! And wow, what an amazing<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019ve taken their careers lately, so thank you, Locus Magazine<\/em> voters. Very appreciated.<\/p>\n

Good luck to all! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the rundown:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Locus Science Fiction Foundation<\/a>\u00a0has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2015 Locus Awards.<\/p>\n

Winners will be announced during the\u00a0 Locus Awards Weekend<\/a>\u00a0in 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\u00a0 University Book Store<\/a>; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai\u2019ian shirt contest, all followed by a\u00a0Locus<\/em>\u00a0party on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/b>The Peripheral<\/a><\/b>, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)<\/li>\n
Ancillary Sword<\/a><\/b>, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Three-Body Problem<\/a><\/b>, Cixin Liu (Tor)<\/li>\n
<\/b>Lock In<\/a><\/b>, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)<\/li>\n
Annihilation\/Authority\/Acceptance<\/a><\/b>, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
FANTASY NOVEL<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/b>The Goblin Emperor<\/a><\/b>, Katherine Addison (Tor)<\/li>\n
Steles of the Sky<\/a><\/b>, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)<\/li>\n
<\/b>City of Stairs<\/a><\/b>, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)<\/li>\n
The Magician\u2019s Land<\/a><\/b>, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Mirror Empire<\/a><\/b>, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
YOUNG ADULT BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/b>Half a King<\/a><\/b>, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Doubt Factory<\/a><\/b>, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)<\/li>\n
Waistcoats & Weaponry<\/a><\/b>, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)<\/li>\n
<\/b>Empress of the Sun<\/a><\/b>, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)<\/li>\n
<\/b>Clariel<\/a><\/b>, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
FIRST NOVEL<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Elysium<\/a><\/b>, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)<\/li>\n
<\/b>A Darkling Sea<\/a><\/b>, James L. Cambias (Tor)<\/li>\n
The Clockwork Dagger<\/a><\/b>, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)<\/li>\n
The Memory Garden<\/a><\/b>, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Emperor\u2019s Blades<\/a><\/b>, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
NOVELLA<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Man Who Sold the Moon\u201d, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
We Are All Completely Fine<\/a><\/b>, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)<\/li>\n
Yesterday\u2019s Kin<\/a><\/b>, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Regular\u201d, Ken Liu (Upgraded<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Lightning Tree\u201d, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
NOVELETTE<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u201cTough Times All Over\u201d, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Hand Is Quicker\u201d, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cMemorials\u201d, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov\u2019s<\/em>\u00a01\/14)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Jar of Water\u201d, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House<\/em>\u00a0#62)<\/li>\n
\u201cA Year and a Day in Old Theradane\u201d, Scott Lynch (Rogues<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SHORT STORY<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\u201cCovenant\u201d, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Dust Queen\u201d, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cThe Truth About Owls\u201d, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cIn Babelsberg\u201d, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n
\u201cOgres of East Africa\u201d, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden<\/a><\/b>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ANTHOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The Year\u2019s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection<\/a><\/b>, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin\u2019s Press)<\/li>\n
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History<\/a><\/b>, Rose Fox & Daniel Jos\u00e9 Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)<\/li>\n
Rogues<\/a><\/b>, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)<\/li>\n
Reach for Infinity<\/a><\/b>, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Time Traveler\u2019s Almanac<\/a><\/b>, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
COLLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Questionable Practices<\/a><\/b>, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)<\/li>\n
The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models<\/a><\/b>, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)<\/li>\n
Last Plane to Heaven<\/a><\/b>, Jay Lake (Tor)<\/li>\n
<\/b>Academic Exercises<\/a><\/b>, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
MAGAZINE<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Asimov\u2019s<\/em><\/li>\n
Clarkesworld<\/em><\/li>\n
F&SF<\/em><\/li>\n
Lightspeed<\/em><\/li>\n
Tor.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
PUBLISHER<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Angry Robot<\/li>\n
Orbit<\/li>\n
Small Beer<\/li>\n
Subterranean<\/li>\n
Tor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
EDITOR<\/strong><\/p>\n
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John Joseph Adams<\/li>\n
Ellen Datlow<\/li>\n
Gardner Dozois<\/li>\n
Jonathan Strahan<\/li>\n
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Jim Burns<\/li>\n
John Picacio<\/li>\n
Shaun Tan<\/li>\n
Charles Vess<\/li>\n
Michael Whelan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
NON-FICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Ray Bradbury Unbound<\/a><\/b>, Jonathan Eller (University of Illinois Press)<\/li>\n
Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!<\/a><\/b>, Harry Harrison (Tor)<\/li>\n
The Secret History of Wonder Woman<\/a><\/b>, Jill Lepore (Knopf)<\/li>\n
<\/b>Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988<\/a><\/b>, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)<\/li>\n
<\/b>What Makes This Book So Great<\/a><\/b>, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ART BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Jim Burns,\u00a0The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(Titan)<\/li>\n
The Art of Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/b>, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)<\/li>\n
Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art<\/a><\/b>, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)<\/li>\n
Brian & Wendy Froud,\u00a0Brian Froud\u2019s Faeries\u2019 Tales<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(Abrams)<\/li>\n
<\/b>The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era<\/a><\/b>, Ron Miller (Zenith)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For more information about the Seattle event and for Locus Awards and Locus Workshop ticketing, please visit the\u00a0 2015 Locus Awards Information Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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