The 2011 Locus Awards have just been announced at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle with live coverage provided on the Locus website. The winners are:
- Science Fiction Novel: Blackout / All Clear – Connie Willis (Spectra)
- Fantasy Novel: Kraken – China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
- First Novel: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- Young Adult Book: Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects – Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
- Novelette: “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains” – Neil Gaiman (Stories)
- Short Story: “The Thing About Cassandra” – Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)
- Magazine: Asimov’s
- Publisher: Tor
- Anthology: Warriors – George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)
- Collection: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories – Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)
- Editor: Ellen Datlow
- Artist: Shaun Tan
- Non-Fiction: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve – William H. Patterson, Jr., (Tor)
- Art Book: Spectrum 17 – Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
Congrats to all the winners and nominees! So what do you think of the results? Anybody in particular that you were pulling for? No real surprises in the novel categories it seems.