Locus Awards 2008
Winners and nominees of the 2008 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The New Space Opera — Jonathan Strahan (winner)
- 🏆The New Space Opera — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The New Space Opera (winner)
- ✦ Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Fast Forward 1 (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen (nominee)
- ✦ Eclipse One (nominee)
- ✦ Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The SFWA European Hall of Fame — Kathryn Morrow (nominee)
- ✦ The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (nominee)
- ✦ The SFWA European Hall of Fame (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 7 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (nominee)
- ✦ Best Short Novels 2007 (nominee)
- ✦ Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction — Neal Asher (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Inferno — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦ Inferno (nominee)
- ✦Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction — Peter F. Hamilton(nominee)
- ✦ Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 7 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 12 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection — Gavin Grant (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet — Gavin Grant (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction — George Mann(nominee)
- ✦Wizards — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Eclipse One — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Best Short Novels 2007 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 7 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 12 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Fast Forward 1 — Lou Anders(nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Wizards — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The SFWA European Hall of Fame — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology — Sheila Williams (nominee)
- ✦ Wizards (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆Charles Vess(winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories: A Connie Willis Compendium — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦New Amsterdam — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Overclocked — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦The Nail and the Oracle — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Dagger Key and Other Stories — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Gods and Pawns — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Jack Vance Treasury — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Dog Said Bow-Wow — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Portable Childhoods — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦Hart & Boot & Other Stories — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005 — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Making Money — Terry Pratchett(winner)
- ✦Whiskey and Water — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦A Betrayal in Winter — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Ink — Hal Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Titans of Chaos — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Softspoken — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The New Moon's Arms — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦Territory — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Bone Song — John Meaney (nominee)
- ✦The White Tyger — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Pirate Freedom — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Spiral Labyrinth — Matt Hughes (nominee)
- ✦Daughter of Hounds — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss(nominee)
- ✦The Secret History of Moscow — Ekaterina Sedia(nominee)
- ✦Blood Engines — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Endless Things — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦In the Cities of Coin and Spice — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Ysabel — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Heart-Shaped Box — Joe Hill(winner)
- ✦Maledicte(nominee)
- ✦Grey — Jon Armstrong (nominee)
- ✦Wicked Lovely — Melissa Marr(nominee)
- ✦City of Bones — Cassandra Clare(nominee)
- ✦The Sword-Edged Blonde — Alex Bledsoe (nominee)
- ✦The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss(nominee)
- ✦One for Sorrow — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦Breakfast with the Ones You Love — Eliot Fintushel (nominee)
- ✦Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog — Ysabeau S. Wilce (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Witch's Headstone — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Cryptic Coloration — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Surgeon's Tale — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Light — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Constable of Abal — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Wikiworld — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Safeguard — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Hellfire at Twilight — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦We Never Talk About My Brother — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Kiosk — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Against the Current — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Dark Integers — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Glory — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Trunk and Disorderly — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Magic Animal — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Skysailor's Tale — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Urdumheim — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Wizard's Six — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate — Ted Chiang (nominee)
- ✦The Surgeon's Tale — Cat Rambo (nominee)
- ✦The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small — Chris Roberson(nominee)
- ✦Finisterra — David Moles (nominee)
- ✦Holly and Iron — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Dance of Shadows — Fred Chappell (nominee)
- ✦The Bone Man — Frederic S. Durbin (nominee)
- ✦Winter's Wife — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦The Forest — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦An Ocean Is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦Crossing the Seven — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon — Theodora Goss(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆After the Siege — Cory Doctorow(winner)
- ✦All Seated on the Ground — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Game — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦Fountain of Age — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Stars Seen Through Stone — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Dead Money — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Dagger Key — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Muse of Fire — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Hormiga Canyon — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Emperor and the Maula — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Memorare — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Lees of Laughter's End — Steven Erikson(nominee)
- ✦Recovering Apollo 8 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Illyria — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Awakening — Judith Berman (nominee)
- ✦The Master Miller's Tale — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Womb of Every World — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Of Love and Other Monsters — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦Hormiga Canyon — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Undertow — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Sixty Days and Counting — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Spook Country — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦HARM — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Axis — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Black Man — Richard K. Morgan(nominee)
- ✦The Sons of Heaven — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Last Colony — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦The Yiddish Policemen's Union — Michael Chabon(nominee)
- ✦Conqueror — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Queen of Candesce — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦In War Times — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦Devices and Desires — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Evil for Evil — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Escapement — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Halting State — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Accidental Time Machine — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Execution Channel — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦The Prefect — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Ha'penny — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Brasyl — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Bad Monkeys — Matt Ruff(nominee)
- ✦Till Human Voices Wake Us — Mark Budz (nominee)
- ✦Mainspring — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Shelter — Susan Palwick (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆A Small Room in Koboldtown — Michael Swanwick(winner)
- ✦Orm the Beautiful — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Tideline — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Third Bear — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Pirates of the Somali Coast — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Art of War — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦By Fools Like Me — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Drowned Life — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Dreaming Wind — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Manticore Spell — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Under the Bottom of the Lake — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Ruby Incomparable — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Among Strangers — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Three Days of Rain — Holly Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Soul Case — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Barrens Dance — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦A Plain Tale from Our Hills — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Lustration — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Last Contact — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Electric Rains — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦Fragrant Goddess — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Jesus Christ, Reanimator — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Graduation Afternoon — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Always — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Verthandi's Ring — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Sanjeev and Robotwallah — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Molly and the Red Hat — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
- ✦Osama Phone Home — David Marusek (nominee)
- ✦Mrs. Zeno's Paradox — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦C-Rock City — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦Artifice and Intelligence — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Clockmaker's Requiem(nominee)
- ✦Memoir of a Deer Woman — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦Holiday — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦C-Rock City — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Catherine and the Satyr — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦Singing of Mount Abora — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦Stone and the Librarian — William Browning Spencer (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Un Lun Dun — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦Magic's Child — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦Powers — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Extras — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Ironside — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The H-Bomb Girl — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Skin Hunger — Kathleen Duey(nominee)
- ✦Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — J. K. Rowling(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow Speaker — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Verdigris Deep — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Dreamquake — Elizabeth Knox (nominee)
- ✦Book of a Thousand Days — Shannon Hale(nominee)
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