Locus Awards 2004
Winners and nominees of the 2004 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (winner)
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦Album Zutique — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦ Trampoline (nominee)
- ✦ The Silver Gryphon (nominee)
- ✦ The Dark (nominee)
- ✦Trampoline — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦ McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (nominee)
- ✦ Gathering the Bones (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen (nominee)
- ✦ Album Zutique (nominee)
- ✦ Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (nominee)
- ✦ One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 3 (nominee)
- ✦ Infinity Plus Two (nominee)
- ✦ Polyphony 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Dragon Quintet (nominee)
- ✦ Cities (nominee)
- ✦ New Voices in Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦Infinity Plus Two — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦The Dark — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian — Janis Ian (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction — Gordon Van Gelder (nominee)
- ✦Mojo: Conjure Stories — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Diana Gabaldon(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (nominee)
- ✦McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales — Michael Chabon(nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Terry Brooks(nominee)
- ✦Legends II(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Legends II — Elizabeth Haydon(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 3 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 8 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Gathering the Bones — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦Gathering the Bones — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Silver Gryphon — Gary Turner (nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 — Karen Haber (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 3 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 8 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Infinity Plus Two — Keith Brooke (nominee)
- ✦Polyphony 2 — Deborah Layne (nominee)
- ✦ Live Without a Net (nominee)
- ✦Live Without a Net — Lou Anders(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Quintet — Marvin Kaye(nominee)
- ✦Gathering the Bones — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦Cities — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦Polyphony 2 — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 8 (nominee)
- ✦Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦New Voices in Science Fiction — Mike Resnick(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Changing Planes — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦A Place So Foreign and Eight More — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦More Tomorrow & Other Stories — Michael Marshall Smith (nominee)
- ✦Ghosts of Yesterday — Jack Cady (nominee)
- ✦Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦GRRM: A RRetrospective — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦And Now the News ... — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Kalpa Imperial — Angélica Gorodischer (nominee)
- ✦The Resurrection Man's Legacy — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Budayeen Nights — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦Roma Eterna — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Transfinite: The Essential A. E. van Vogt — A. E. van Vogt(nominee)
- ✦Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦A New Dawn — John W. Campbell (nominee)
- ✦Aye, and Gomorrah, and Other Stories — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Unintended Consequences — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦Budayeen Nights — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦The Two Sams: Ghost Stories — Glen Hirshberg (nominee)
- ✦Bibliomancy — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Little Gods — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Greetings from Lake Wu — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Far from This Earth and Other Stories — Chad Oliver (nominee)
- ✦A Star Above It and Other Stories — Chad Oliver (nominee)
- ✦Limekiller! — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Things That Never Happen — M. John Harrison (nominee)
- ✦In for a Penny — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold(winner)
- ✦The Briar King — Gregory Keyes (nominee)
- ✦The Night Country — Stewart O'Nan (nominee)
- ✦The Crystal City — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Fool's Fate — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Anvil of the World — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Mortal Suns — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦In the Forests of Serre(nominee)
- ✦The Salt Roads — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦Midnight Lamp — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Sunshine — Robin McKinley(nominee)
- ✦The Skrayling Tree — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Lost Boy, Lost Girl — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The War of the Flowers — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦1610 — Mary Gentle(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Regiment — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Light Ages — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Veniss Underground — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦The Time Traveler's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger(nominee)
- ✦Paper Mage — Leah Cutter (nominee)
- ✦The Darkness That Comes Before — R. Scott Bakker(nominee)
- ✦The Buzzing — Jim Knipfel (nominee)
- ✦The Etched City — K. J. Bishop (nominee)
- ✦A Telling of Stars — Caitlin Sweet (nominee)
- ✦Spin State — Chris Moriarty (nominee)
- ✦Magic's Silken Snare — Elizabeth Gilligan (nominee)
- ✦Clade — Mark Budz (nominee)
- ✦Star Dragon — Mike Brotherton (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆A Study in Emerald — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Catskin — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Hortlak — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Almost Home — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Hexagons — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Child of the Stones — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Clouds and Cold Fires — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Bitter Grounds — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦The Monarch of the Glen — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦Amnesty — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦The Empire of Ice Cream — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Only Partly Here — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Fluted Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Dragon's Gate — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦The Census Taker — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Junk DNA — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Breeding Ground — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Chop Line — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Nightfall — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Hydrogen Wall — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Bernardo's House — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦King Dragon — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Legions in Time — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Vandoise and the Bone Monster — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦Pictures from an Expedition — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦The Bellman — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Old Virginia — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦Anomalous Structures of My Dreams — M. Shayne Bell (nominee)
- ✦Junk DNA — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦The Door Gunner — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Devil in the Details — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Cookie Monster — Vernor Vinge(winner)
- ✦Dear Abbey — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Greetings — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦The Sworn Sword — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Awake in the Night — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Just Like the Ones We Used to Know — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Ariel — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Liar's House — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Jailwise — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Empress of Mars — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Curator — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦A Crowd of Bone — Greer Gilman (nominee)
- ✦The Albertine Notes — Rick Moody (nominee)
- ✦The Green Leopard Plague — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦In Springdale Town — Robert Freeman Wexler (nominee)
- ✦The Bone Witch — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦The Ice — Steven Popkes (nominee)
- ✦Off on a Starship — William Barton (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦The Line of Polity — Neal Asher (nominee)
- ✦The Killing of Worlds — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦The Risen Empire — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Sister Alice — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Pattern Recognition — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Phoenix Exultant — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦The Golden Transcendence — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Nothing Human — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Blind Lake — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Speed of Dark — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦Ilium — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Quicksilver — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
- ✦Coalescent — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Darwin's Children — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Singularity Sky — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Absolution Gap — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Poison Master — Liz Williams(nominee)
- ✦Memory — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Natural History — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦Omega — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦The Lost Steersman — Rosemary Kirstein (nominee)
- ✦Felaheen — Jon Courtenay Grimwood(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Closing Time — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Flowers from Alice — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦555 — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Ej-Es — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Hibernators — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦The Beautiful Gelreesh — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Trentino Kid — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦A Night on the Barbary Coast — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Boys — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Ancestor Money — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Of New Arrivals, Many Johns, and the Music of the Spheres — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Flowers from Alice — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Rogue Farm — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Four Short Novels — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Castaway — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Graylord Man's Last Words — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Mother — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦June Sixteenth at Anna's — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Deep in the Woods of Grammarie — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Post-utopian Future — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Joe Steele — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Grey Star — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
- ✦Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦In Fading Suns and Dying Moons — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Wild Thing — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦The Tale of the Golden Eagle — David D. Levine (nominee)
- ✦Big Ugly Mama and the Zk — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦The Apocalypse According to Olaf(nominee)
- ✦Fairy Tale — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Calling Your Name — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦D = R x T — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Birth Days — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆The Wee Free Men — Terry Pratchett(winner)
- ✦ Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (nominee)
- ✦ New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦A Stir of Bones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Merlin Conspiracy — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦Midwinter Nightingale — Joan Aiken (nominee)
- ✦City of Stars — Mary Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — J. K. Rowling(nominee)
- ✦Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The Amulet of Samarkand — Jonathan Stroud(nominee)
- ✦Trickster's Choice — Tamora Pierce(nominee)
- ✦Abhorsen — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Inkheart — Cornelia Funke(nominee)
- ✦The Tears of the Salamander — Peter Dickinson(nominee)
- ✦New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction — Patrick Nielsen Hayden (nominee)
- ✦Firebirds — Sharyn November (nominee)
- ✦ Firebirds (nominee)
- ✦Predator's Gold — Philip Reeve(nominee)
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