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2015 Locus Award Finalists Announced

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the nominations for the 2015 Locus Awards. The winners are selected by the readers of Locus magazine. The awards began in 1971, originally as a way to highlight quality work in advance of the Hugo Awards. The winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, on June 26-28, 2015. In addition to creators, the Locus Foundation also honors winning publishers with certificates, which I think is kind of neat….

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The 2013 Locus Award Winners

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Yesterday the Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2013 Locus Awards at the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle. The winners are: FANTASY NOVEL The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace) SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor) FIRST NOVEL Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW) YOUNG ADULT BOOK Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey)

The 2013 Locus Awards Finalists

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I consider the annual Locus Awards to be one of the major genre prizes, right behind the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a subscriber to Locus, the magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy field, for over 20 years, and have noticed how reliable the award is at ferreting out really important work year after year. Maybe it’s because Locus readers tend to be older, and more committed to the genre, than the average fan. Or maybe…

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“Even a God Can be Moved”: Locus Online on “When the Glimmer Faire Came to the City of the Lonely Eye”

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Lois Tilton at Locus Online reviews John R. Fultz’s “When the Glimmer Faire Came to the City of the Lonely Eye” published here on Sunday, January 6: Artifice the Quill, in exile, has joined a company of players and is now about to see his first play staged for the ghosts that haunt Mornitetra, a city where the eye of its god looks down from a tall pedestal in the central plaza. The subject of his drama is the doom…

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Locus Online on the Best SF & Fantasy Short Fiction of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Two weeks ago, we reported that Locus Online, the web-based offshoot of the newspaper of the science fiction and fantasy field, had announced the results of their ambitious poll to determine the best science fiction and fantasy novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. The complete poll had three additional categories: novella, novelette, and short story. Since all votes were write-ins, compiling the short fiction results took a while longer, but LO‘s diligent editor Mark R. Kelly finally published them Saturday,…

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Locus Online on the Best Fantasy Novels of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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‘Tis the season for Top Ten lists. David E. Harris kicked it off here this morning with his Arbitrary Top 10: Fantasy Films (which missed Watership Down and It’s a Wonderful Life, but at least had the good sense to include Jumanji), but similar lists have been popping up all over the blogosphere. Locus Online conducted a poll to determine the best novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries last month, with five categories: science fiction novel,…

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A Dance With Dragons wins the 2012 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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The winners of the 2012 Locus Awards were announced today: Fantasy Novel — A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin Science Fiction Novel — Embassytown, China Miéville First Novel — The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Young Adult Book — The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente 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…

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Vote in the 2011 Locus Online Poll!

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Balloting for the annual Locus Poll and Survey is now open! The winners of the poll are given the prestigious Locus Awards each year. Categories include Best SF novel, Best Fantasy novel, Best First novel, Best Anthology, Best Magazine, Best Editor, Best Artist, and many others. But the Locus Poll is more than just an awards ballot. Locus has been taking the pulse of the entire industry for the last 42 years, and the information collected — on buying habits,…

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The 2011 Locus Award Winners

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The 2011 Locus Awards were announced last weekend. The winners are: Best Science Fiction Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Best Fantasy Novel: Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey) Best First Novel: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) Best Young Adult Book: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) Best Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean) Best Novelette: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories) Best Short Story:…

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Locus Online Reviews Black Gate 15

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Lois Tilton at Locus Online is one of the most diligent short fiction reviewers in the industry, and she’s been a friend and frequent champion of Black Gate for years. She’s the first to check in with a complete (and I do mean complete) review of our latest issue, although as usual she’s cranky about our fondness for series fiction: I found much to praise in the last issue, and particularly the absence of the usual series stories. Possibly just…

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