Locus Awards 2005

Winners and nominees of the 2005 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Best Anthology

🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (winner)
✦The First Heroes — Noreen Doyle (nominee)
✦ Polyphony: Volume 4 (nominee)
✦ All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (nominee)
✦ The First Heroes (nominee)
✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection — Kelly Link(nominee)
✦ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (nominee)
✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (nominee)
✦ Between Worlds (nominee)
✦ Microcosms (nominee)
✦ Conqueror Fantastic (nominee)
✦ Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (nominee)
✦ The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (nominee)
✦ Year's Best Fantasy 4 (nominee)
✦ Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 (nominee)
✦ Best Short Novels: 2004 (nominee)
✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
✦ Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (nominee)
✦Between Worlds — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
✦Microcosms — Gregory Benford(nominee)
✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
✦Conqueror Fantastic — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
✦The First Heroes — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
✦Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy — Al Sarrantonio(nominee)
✦The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy — Charles N. Brown (nominee)
✦Year's Best Fantasy 4 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
✦Year's Best SF 9 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
✦All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories — David Moles (nominee)
✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection — Gavin Grant (nominee)
✦The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦Best Short Novels: 2004 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 — Karen Haber (nominee)
✦Year's Best Fantasy 4 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
✦Year's Best SF 9 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
✦Polyphony: Volume 4 — Deborah Layne (nominee)
✦Polyphony: Volume 4 — Jay Lake(nominee)
✦All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories — Jay Lake(nominee)

Best Collection

🏆The John Varley Reader — John Varley (winner)
✦Secret Life — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦Black Juice — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
✦Neutrino Drag — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
✦The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
✦Trujillo and Other Stories — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
✦Two Trains Running — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
✦Mother Aegypt and Other Stories — Kage Baker (nominee)
✦Phases of the Moon — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
✦Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer — Jack Williamson (nominee)
✦Innocents Aboard — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦Cartomancy — Mary Gentle(nominee)
✦The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories — Liz Williams(nominee)
✦Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
✦Thumbprints — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
✦Stable Strategies and Others — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
✦Love's Body, Dancing in Time — L. Timmel Duchamp (nominee)
✦Breathmoss and Other Exhalations — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
✦Morning Child and Other Stories — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
✦American Sorrows — Jay Lake(nominee)
✦Partial Eclipse and Other Stories — Graham Joyce(nominee)
✦The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories — James Morrow(nominee)
✦Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction — John Crowley (nominee)

Best Fantasy Novel

🏆Iron Council — China Miéville(winner)
✦The Charnel Prince — Gregory Keyes (nominee)
✦Last Guardian of Everness — John C. Wright(nominee)
✦Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke(nominee)
✦A Handbook of American Prayer — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
✦Alphabet of Thorn(nominee)
✦Dead Lines — Greg Bear(nominee)
✦The Family Trade — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦Glass Dragons — Sean McMullen (nominee)
✦The Wizard — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦The Knight — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦In the Night Room — Peter Straub(nominee)
✦Perfect Circle — Sean Stewart(nominee)
✦Shadowmarch — Tad Williams(nominee)
✦The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah — Stephen King(nominee)
✦Murder of Angels — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
✦Dragon's Treasure — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
✦Going Postal — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
✦One King, One Soldier — Alex Irvine(nominee)
✦The Witches' Kitchen — Cecelia Holland (nominee)
✦Mortal Love — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
✦The Last Light of the Sun — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)

Best First Novel

🏆Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke(winner)
✦The Year of Our War — Steph Swainston (nominee)
✦Trash Sex Magic — Jennifer Stevenson (nominee)
✦Weapons of Choice — John Birmingham(nominee)
✦City of Pearl — Karen Traviss (nominee)
✦Through Violet Eyes — Stephen Woodworth (nominee)
✦Olympic Games — Leslie What (nominee)
✦The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad — Malcolm Azania (nominee)
✦Move Under Ground — Nick Mamatas(nominee)
✦The Gods and Their Machines — Oisín McGann (nominee)
✦Firethorn — Sarah Micklem (nominee)
✦Ghosts in the Snow — Tamara Siler Jones (nominee)
✦Fitzpatrick's War — Theodore Judson (nominee)
✦The Arcanum — Tom Wheeler (nominee)
✦The Labyrinth — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)

Best Novelette

🏆The Faery Handbag — Kelly Link(winner)
🏆Reports of Certain Events in London — China Miéville(winner)
✦Three Days in a Border Town — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Voluntary State — Christopher Rowe (nominee)
✦Leviathan Wept — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
✦Flat Diane — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
✦Stone Animals — Kelly Link(nominee)
✦Super 8 — Terry Bisson (nominee)
✦The Dragons of Summer Gulch — Robert Reed (nominee)
✦Mere — Robert Reed (nominee)
✦Observable Things — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
✦A Night in the Tropics — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
✦The Clapping Hands of God — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
✦Leaving His Cares Behind Him — Kage Baker (nominee)
✦The Catch — Kage Baker (nominee)
✦The People of Sand and Slag — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
✦Inappropriate Behavior — Pat Murphy (nominee)
✦Quarry — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
✦PeriAndry's Quest — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
✦Q — John Grant (nominee)
✦The Lost Pilgrim — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦The Little Stranger — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦Pat Moore — Tim Powers(nominee)
✦Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle — Peter Straub(nominee)
✦Men Are Trouble — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
✦Riding the White Bull — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
✦The Silver Dragon — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
✦The Word That Sings the Scythe — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
✦Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
✦The Seal Hunter — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
✦CATNYP — Delia Sherman(nominee)
✦The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
✦The Fear Gun — Judith Berman (nominee)
✦The Gladiator's War: A Dialog — Lois Tilton (nominee)
✦The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
✦Martyrs of the Upshot Knothole — James Morrow(nominee)

Best Novella

🏆Golden City Far — Gene Wolfe(winner)
✦The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Duty and Appeals Court — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
✦Shadow Twin — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
✦Under the Flag of Night — Ian McDowell (nominee)
✦The Bad Hamburger — Jonathan Andrew Sheen (nominee)
✦The Bad Hamburger — Matthew Jarpe (nominee)
✦Shadow Twin — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
✦Viator — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
✦The Gorgon in the Cupboard(nominee)
✦Mayflower II — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
✦No Traveller Returns — Paul Park(nominee)
✦Elector — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Duty and Appeals Court — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦The Concrete Jungle — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦The Wreck of the Godspeed — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
✦The Tribes of Bela — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
✦Arabian Wine — Gregory Feeley (nominee)
✦Giliad — Gregory Feeley (nominee)
✦The Héloïse Archive — L. Timmel Duchamp (nominee)
✦Shadow Twin — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
✦Long Voyage Home — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
✦Sergeant Chip — Bradley Denton (nominee)

Best Science Fiction Novel

🏆The Baroque Cycle — Neal Stephenson(winner)
✦Eastern Standard Tribe — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
✦For Us, the Living — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
✦The Fourth Circle — Zoran Živković (nominee)
✦Forty Signs of Rain — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
✦The Plot Against America — Philip Roth(nominee)
✦White Devils — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
✦Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
✦Crucible — Nancy Kress(nominee)
✦The Life of the World to Come — Kage Baker (nominee)
✦Life — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
✦City of Pearl — Karen Traviss (nominee)
✦The Algebraist — Iain Banks(nominee)
✦The Confusion — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
✦The System of the World — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
✦The Zenith Angle — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
✦Exultant — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
✦Iron Sunrise — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦Camouflage — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
✦Lost in Transmission — Wil McCarthy (nominee)
✦Newton's Wake: A Space Opera — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
✦Century Rain — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
✦Black Brillion — Matt Hughes (nominee)
✦Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell(nominee)
✦Banner of Souls — Liz Williams(nominee)
✦River of Gods — Ian McDonald(nominee)
✦Polaris — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
✦The Language of Power — Rosemary Kirstein (nominee)
✦Stamping Butterflies — Jon Courtenay Grimwood(nominee)
✦Frek and the Elixir — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
✦Air — Geoff Ryman(nominee)

Best Short Story

🏆Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire — Neil Gaiman(winner)
✦Singing My Sister Down — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
✦Scout's Honor — Terry Bisson (nominee)
✦Strood — Neal Asher (nominee)
✦Opal Ball — Robert Reed (nominee)
✦My Mother, Dancing — Nancy Kress(nominee)
✦The Annals of Eelin-Ok — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
✦The Night Market — Holly Black(nominee)
✦Zero's Twin — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
✦All of Us Can Almost ... — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
✦Gliders Though They Be — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
✦Oversite — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
✦The Baum Plan for Financial Independence — John Kessel (nominee)
✦Synthetic Serendipity — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
✦Luciferase — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
✦'Tis the Season — China Miéville(nominee)
✦Dinosaur Songs — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
✦Faces — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
✦Pulp Cover — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
✦The Best Christmas Ever — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
✦Skindancing — Liz Williams(nominee)
✦The Last Geek — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
✦Zora and the Zombie — Andy Duncan (nominee)
✦Embracing-the-New — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
✦Start the Clock — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
✦Red Hands, Black Hands — Chris Roberson(nominee)
✦The Green Glass Sea — Ellen Klages (nominee)
✦Wonderwall — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
✦Alone in the House of Mims(nominee)
✦Cold Fires — M. Rickert (nominee)
✦The Mission — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
✦The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
✦The Gods of a Lesser Creation — William Barton (nominee)
✦Tourism — M. John Harrison (nominee)
✦Hula Ville — James Blaylock(nominee)

Best Young Adult Book

🏆A Hat Full of Sky — Terry Pratchett(winner)
✦The Blue Girl — Charles de Lint(nominee)
✦Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales — Deborah Noyes (nominee)
✦Airborn — Kenneth Oppel(nominee)
✦ The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (nominee)
✦ New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy (nominee)
✦The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦Gifts — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
✦The Secret Hour — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
✦Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
✦Days of Magic, Nights of War — Clive Barker (nominee)
✦The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm — Terri Windling(nominee)
✦The Golem's Eye — Jonathan Stroud(nominee)
✦The Sea of Trolls — Nancy Farmer(nominee)
✦Grim Tuesday — Garth Nix(nominee)
✦ Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales (nominee)
✦Basilisk — N. M. Browne (nominee)
✦New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy — Patrick Nielsen Hayden (nominee)
✦Kingdom of the Golden Dragon — Isabel Allende(nominee)

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