Locus Awards 2003
Winners and nominees of the 2003 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦Leviathan 3 — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦ Dark Terrors 6 (nominee)
- ✦ Leviathan 3 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (nominee)
- ✦ The New Wave Fabulists (nominee)
- ✦ Worlds That Weren't (nominee)
- ✦ Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Hard SF Renaissance (nominee)
- ✦ Polyphony 1 (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Worlds That Weren't — S. M. Stirling(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction — Mike Ashley (nominee)
- ✦Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦ The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (nominee)
- ✦Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The New Wave Fabulists — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Worlds That Weren't — Mary Gentle(nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary — Betsy Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Dark Terrors 6 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Worlds That Weren't — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The New Wave Fabulists — Bradford Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 2 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦The Hard SF Renaissance — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 7 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦ Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964 (nominee)
- ✦Leviathan 3 — Forrest Aguirre (nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary — Sheila E. Gilbert (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 2 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦The Hard SF Renaissance — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 7 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Polyphony 1 — Deborah Layne (nominee)
- ✦ Mars Probes (nominee)
- ✦Worlds That Weren't — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Mars Probes — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦Polyphony 1 — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Dark Terrors 6 — David Sutton (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 7 (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 Bob Eggleton (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang (winner)
- ✦Waifs and Strays — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek — John Sladek (nominee)
- ✦Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦The Birthday of the World and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Little Doors — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Going for Infinity — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Bright Segment — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Black Projects, White Knights — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Report to the Men's Club — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Worlds Enough & Time — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦Phase Space — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Collected Stories of Greg Bear — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Nightmare at 20,000 Feet — Richard Matheson(nominee)
- ✦Toast: And Other Rusted Futures — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Martians and Madness: The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown — Fredric Brown (nominee)
- ✦Strange But Not a Stranger — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Everything's Eventual — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Counting Up, Counting Down — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Scar — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦A Fistful of Sky — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Kushiel's Chosen — Jacqueline Carey(nominee)
- ✦The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦A Bed of Earth — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Ombria in Shadow(nominee)
- ✦Castles Made of Sand — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦A Winter Haunting — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Voyage of the Shadowmoon — Sean McMullen (nominee)
- ✦The Isle of Battle — Sean Russell(nominee)
- ✦The Fall of the Kings — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Night Watch — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Fall of the Kings — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦The Lady of the Sorrows — Cecilia Dart-Thornton (nominee)
- ✦The Alchemist's Door — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Lost in a Good Book — Jasper Fforde (nominee)
- ✦The Facts of Life — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦White Apples — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦The Iron Grail — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆A Scattering of Jades — Alex Irvine(winner)
- ✦The Summer Country — James A. Hetley (nominee)
- ✦The Eye of Night — Pauline J. Alama (nominee)
- ✦Just Like Beauty — Lisa Lerner (nominee)
- ✦The Golden Age — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Fires of the Faithful — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦Altered Carbon — Richard K. Morgan(nominee)
- ✦The Red Church — Scott Nicholson (nominee)
- ✦The Atrocity Archive — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The God Who Begat a Jackal — Nega Mezlekia (nominee)
- ✦Solitaire — Kelley Eskridge (nominee)
- ✦Warchild — Karin Lowachee (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Wild Girls — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Lull — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Our Friend Electricity — Ron Wolfe (nominee)
- ✦The Children's Crusade — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Lying to Dogs — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Passenger — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦A Martian Theodicy — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦A Walking Tour of the Shambles — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦The Most Famous Little Girl in the World — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Something by the Sea — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Weight of Words — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Likely Lad — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Presence — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Madonna of the Maquiladora — Gregory Frost (nominee)
- ✦Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Halo — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Tourist — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Clear Blue Seas of Luna — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦A Walking Tour of the Shambles — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Little Red's Tango — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Real Story — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Hidden Place — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Slow Life — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Chichen Itza — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦The Big Rock Candy Mountain — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Liking What You See: A Documentary — Ted Chiang (nominee)
- ✦We Come Not to Praise Washington — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦Watching Matthew — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Pavane for a Prince of the Air — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦A Flock of Birds — James Van Pelt (nominee)
- ✦Look Away — Stephen L. Burns (nominee)
- ✦V.A.O. — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦In for a Penny or The Man Who Believed in Himself — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Tain — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦Seven Wild Sisters — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Jury Service — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦In Spirit — Pat Forde (nominee)
- ✦A Speaker for the Wooden Sea — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Paradises Lost — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Veritas — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦A Year in the Linear City — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Over Yonder — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Drive-In Puerto Rico — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦El Dia de los Muertos — Brian A. Hopkins (nominee)
- ✦Stories for Men — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Riding the Rock — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Singleton — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Router — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Jury Service — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Human Front — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Turquoise Days — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Unseen Demons — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
- ✦Ransom — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
- ✦The Political Officer — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦The Potter of Bones — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦The Least Trumps — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Breathmoss — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Bronte's Egg — Richard Chwedyk (nominee)
- ✦Ring Rats — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Years of Rice and Salt — Kim Stanley Robinson(winner)
- ✦Coyote — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦The Impossible Bird — Patrick O'Leary (nominee)
- ✦Shadow Puppets — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Diplomatic Immunity — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Probability Space — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Lion's Blood — Steven Barnes(nominee)
- ✦The Omega Expedition — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦The Mount — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Evolution — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Kiln People — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Schild's Ladder — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Vitals — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Permanence — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦Light Music — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦Guardian — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Engine City — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Redemption Ark — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Visitor — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦Bones of the Earth — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Ruled Britannia — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Sky So Big and Black — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦The Separation — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Praxis — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Chindi — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Spaceland — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Light — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆October in the Chair — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦I Saw the Light — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Social Dreaming of the Frin — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Seasons of the Ansarac — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦She Sees My Monsters Now — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Creation — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Her Father's Eyes — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Hunter's Moon(nominee)
- ✦The Invisible Empire — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦In Paradise — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Hunters of Pangaea — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Familiar — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Shields of Mars — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Waif — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Candy Art — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦What I Didn't See — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦'Hello,' Said the Stick — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Dirty Little War — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Droplet — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
- ✦Knapsack Poems — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Lambing Season — Molly Gloss (nominee)
- ✦Flight Correction — Ken Wharton (nominee)
- ✦The Hanging Curve — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The War of the Worldviews — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Some Other Time(nominee)
- ✦At Dorado — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
- ✦The Long Chase — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Coraline — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Feed — M. T. Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Abarat — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Summerland — Michael Chabon(nominee)
- ✦Lady Knight — Tamora Pierce(nominee)
- ✦A Wizard Alone — Diane Duane (nominee)
- ✦The House of the Scorpion — Nancy Farmer(nominee)
- ✦The Storm Weaver and the Sand — Sean Williams(nominee)
- ✦The Thief Lord — Cornelia Funke(nominee)
- ✦City of the Beasts — Isabel Allende(nominee)
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