Locus Awards 2006
Winners and nominees of the 2006 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection — Kelly Link(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (winner)
- 🏆The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(winner)
- 🏆The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection — Gavin Grant (winner)
- ✦Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction — Andrew J. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦ Tesseracts Nine (nominee)
- ✦ Polyphony: Volume 5 (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 5 (nominee)
- ✦ Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (nominee)
- ✦ Fantasy: The Best of 2004 (nominee)
- ✦ Best Short Novels: 2005 (nominee)
- ✦ Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition (nominee)
- ✦ Future Washington (nominee)
- ✦The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦ The Fair Folk (nominee)
- ✦Tesseracts Nine — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦ The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (nominee)
- ✦The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦ Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Constellations (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 5 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 10 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction — Neil Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Fantasy: The Best of 2004 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Best Short Novels: 2005 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 — Karen Haber (nominee)
- ✦Fantasy: The Best of 2004 — Karen Haber (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 5 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 10 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Polyphony: Volume 5 — Deborah Layne (nominee)
- ✦The Fair Folk — Marvin Kaye(nominee)
- ✦ Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Constellations — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Polyphony: Volume 5 — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 10 (nominee)
- ✦Tesseracts Nine — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Magic for Beginners — Kelly Link(winner)
- ✦Tales — H. P. Lovecraft (nominee)
- ✦The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Cultural Breaks — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Lost the Sea — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Two-Handed Engine — Catherine Lucile Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Children of the Company — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Harrowing the Dragon(nominee)
- ✦I Live with You — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Sea Kings of Mars — Leigh Brackett(nominee)
- ✦Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp — L. Sprague de Camp(nominee)
- ✦Looking for Jake — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦The Masque of Mañana — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦Starwater Strains — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Strange Itineraries — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦20th Century Ghosts — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦To Charles Fort, with Love — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Across the Wall — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦George Alec Effinger Live! From Planet Earth — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Two-Handed Engine — Henry Kuttner (nominee)
- ✦Heart of Whitenesse — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Anansi Boys — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Knife of Dreams — Robert Jordan(nominee)
- ✦A Feast for Crows — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Orphans of Chaos — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦The Hallowed Hunt — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Shaman's Crossing — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Fledgling — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Od Magic(nominee)
- ✦A Princess of Roumania — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦The Hidden Family — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Snake Agent — Liz Williams(nominee)
- ✦Thud! — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Narrows — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦The House of Storms — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Limits of Enchantment — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦Glass Soup — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land — John Crowley (nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Hammered — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Magic or Madness — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦Vellum — Hal Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Old Man's War — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Poison Study — Maria V. Snyder(nominee)
- ✦Zahrah the Windseeker — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Fly by Night — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Mélusine — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Singer of Souls(nominee)
- ✦Spotted Lily — Anna Tambour (nominee)
- ✦The Prodigal Troll — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦Counting Heads — David Marusek (nominee)
- ✦The Green Glass Sea — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Bear Daughter — Judith Berman (nominee)
- ✦Rocket Science — Jay Lake(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆I, Robot — Cory Doctorow(winner)
- ✦Wax — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck — Neal Asher (nominee)
- ✦Dallas: An Essay — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Rats of the System — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Emperor of Gondwanaland — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦A Knot of Toads — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦A Man of Light — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Scribble Mind — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Bad Machine — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Unfortunate Gytt — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Calorie Man — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Two Hearts — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Blemmye's Strategem — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Second Person, Present Tense — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦The Edge of Nowhere — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Aquila Rift — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Zima Blue — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Gist Hunter — Matt Hughes (nominee)
- ✦Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Gold Mountain — Chris Roberson(nominee)
- ✦The Fraud — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦Last Man Standing — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦The 120 Hours of Sodom — Jim Grimsley(nominee)
- ✦The Language of Moths — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars — Ruth Nestvold (nominee)
- ✦Oxygen Rising — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦The King of Where-I-Go — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Magic for Beginners — Kelly Link(winner)
- ✦Human Readable — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Inside Job — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Cosmology of the Wider World — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Emperor — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Road to Recovery — Gregory Frost (nominee)
- ✦Bank Run — Tom Purdom (nominee)
- ✦Voluntary Commital — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦Burn — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Fishin' with Grandma Matchie — Steven Erikson(nominee)
- ✦Diving Into the Wreck — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦The Little Goddess — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Audubon in Atlantis — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Life of Riley — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦The Nursemaid's Suitor — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦Winning Mars(nominee)
- ✦The Imago Sequence — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Diversification of Its Fancy — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦The Gypsies in the Wood — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass — Vera Nazarian (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Accelerando — Charles Stross(winner)
- ✦Godplayers — Damien Broderick (nominee)
- ✦Fifty Degrees Below — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Tumbling After — Paul Witcover (nominee)
- ✦The Well of Stars — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Mind's Eye — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Carpet Makers — Andreas Eschbach(nominee)
- ✦Shadow of the Giant — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Spin — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro(nominee)
- ✦Old Man's War — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Olympos — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦The World Before — Karen Traviss (nominee)
- ✦Transcendent — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Lady of Mazes — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦Old Twentieth — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Rosetta Codex — Richard Paul Russo (nominee)
- ✦To Crush the Moon — Wil McCarthy (nominee)
- ✦Learning the World — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Living Next Door to the God of Love — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦Mammoth — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Seeker — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦9tail Fox — Jon Courtenay Grimwood(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Sunbird — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦The Farmer's Cat — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Monster — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Some Zombie Contingency Plans — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Great Divorce — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Mason's Rats — Neal Asher (nominee)
- ✦Boatman's Holiday — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Giant Land — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Two Old Women — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Is There Life After Rehab? — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦I Live with You — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦The Denial — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Children of Time — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦A Signal from Earth — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Snowball's Chance — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Angel of Light — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Comber — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Best New Horror — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦A Case of Consilience — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Triceratops Summer — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Twilight States — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
- ✦Tk'tk'tk — David D. Levine (nominee)
- ✦Helen Remembers The Stork Club — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦Calypso in Berlin — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦The Ice-Cream Man — James Van Pelt (nominee)
- ✦The Second Coming of Charles Darwin — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦The Fate of Mice — Susan Palwick (nominee)
- ✦Pip and the Fairies — Theodora Goss(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Pay the Piper — Jane Yolen(winner)
- 🏆Pay the Piper(winner)
- ✦The Sledding Hill — Chris Crutcher (nominee)
- ✦Skybreaker — Kenneth Oppel(nominee)
- ✦Peeps — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Touching Darkness — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Conrad's Fate — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦City of Flowers — Mary Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Mister Boots — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — J. K. Rowling(nominee)
- ✦Ptolemy's Gate — Jonathan Stroud(nominee)
- ✦Inkspell — Cornelia Funke(nominee)
- ✦TWOC — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦The Flowing Queen — Kai Meyer(nominee)
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