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May 12, 2011 02:00 am PDT

Locus Award finalists announced

Locus magazine has announced the finalists for this year's Locus Award, a popular science fiction, fantasy and horror award voted on by the magazine's readers. I reviewed several of these; I've hotlinked them to their Boing Boing reviews, in case you're interested: Science Fiction Novel * Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US) * Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) * Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK) * The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz) * Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Fantasy Novel * Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc) * Kraken, China Miville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey) * Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) * The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK) * The Sorcerer's House, Gene Wolfe (Tor) First Novel * The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade) * The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) * Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) * The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor) * How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon) Young Adult Book * Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) * Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) * Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow) * I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins) * Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) Click through for the rest of the shortlist. 2011 Locus Award Finalists (via Tor.com)...


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