Locus Awards 2009
Winners and nominees of the 2009 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦The New Weird — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Fast Ships, Black Sails — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Steampunk — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦ The New Weird (nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦ Fast Ships, Black Sails (nominee)
- ✦ Dreaming Again (nominee)
- ✦ The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Two (nominee)
- ✦ Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Fast Forward 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (nominee)
- ✦ Eclipse Two (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nineteen (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ A Science Fiction Omnibus (nominee)
- ✦ Poe's Children (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 8 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two (nominee)
- ✦ A Book of Wizards (nominee)
- ✦ Steampunk (nominee)
- ✦Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦A Science Fiction Omnibus — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Poe's Children — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nineteen — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Jonathan Lethem (nominee)
- ✦The New Weird — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Fast Ships, Black Sails — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Steampunk — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 8 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 13 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection — Gavin Grant (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Two — George Mann(nominee)
- ✦Dreaming Again — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Eclipse Two — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Starry Rift — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 8 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 13 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Fast Forward 2 — Lou Anders(nominee)
- ✦Sideways in Crime — Lou Anders(nominee)
- ✦A Book of Wizards — Marvin Kaye(nominee)
- ✦Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness — Mike Allen (nominee)
- ✦Wastelands — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Galactic Empires — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ The Starry Rift (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 13 (nominee)
- ✦Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy — William Schafer (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Pump Six and Other Stories — Paolo Bacigalupi(winner)
- ✦Pretty Monsters — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged — H. P. Lovecraft (nominee)
- ✦Long Walks, Last Flights & Other Strange Journeys — Ken Scholes (nominee)
- ✦Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Works of Art — James Blish(nominee)
- ✦The Drowned Life — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Lucius Shepard — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories — Joan Aiken (nominee)
- ✦The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Dark Integers and Other Stories — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Gateway to Paradise — Jack Williamson (nominee)
- ✦The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Michael Swanwick — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Ant King and Other Stories — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
- ✦The Autopsy and Other Tales — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦The Wall of America — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Ten Sigmas & Other Unlikelihoods — Paul Melko (nominee)
- ✦Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003 — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Lavinia — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦An Autumn War — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Shadow Year — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Bell at Sealey Head(nominee)
- ✦The Engine's Child — Holly Phillips (nominee)
- ✦Lord Tophet — Gregory Frost (nominee)
- ✦Shadowbridge — Gregory Frost (nominee)
- ✦The Hidden World — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦An Evil Guest — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Enchantress of Florence(nominee)
- ✦The Dragons of Babel — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Varanger — Cecelia Holland (nominee)
- ✦The Alchemy of Stone — Ekaterina Sedia(nominee)
- ✦The Love We Share Without Knowing — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦Memoirs of a Master Forger — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦The Ghost in Love — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦The Knights of the Cornerstone — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Singularity's Ring — Paul Melko (winner)
- ✦The Ninth Circle — Alex Bell (nominee)
- ✦The Painted Man — Peter V. Brett(nominee)
- ✦The Red Wolf Conspiracy — Robert V.S. Redick (nominee)
- ✦Last Dragon — J. M. McDermott (nominee)
- ✦The Gone-Away World — Nick Harkaway(nominee)
- ✦The Long Look — Richard Parks (nominee)
- ✦Graceling — Kristin Cashore(nominee)
- ✦Thunderer — Felix Gilman(nominee)
- ✦Pandemonium — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Black Ships — Jo Graham (nominee)
- ✦Alive in Necropolis — Doug Dorst (nominee)
- ✦The Cabinet of Wonders — Marie Rutkoski (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Pump Six — Paolo Bacigalupi(winner)
- ✦Shoggoths in Bloom — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Machine Maid — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Five Thrillers — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Ray-Gun: A Love Story — James Alan Gardner (nominee)
- ✦The Gambler — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Following the Pharmers — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Rabbi's Hobby — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Tale of Junko and Sayuri — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Special Economics — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Pride and Prometheus — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Turing's Apples — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Ice War — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Lost Continent — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Crystal Nights — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Memory Dog — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦The Hour of Babel — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Fury — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Star Surgeon's Apprentice — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦An Eligible Boy — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Dust Assassin — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Radio Station St. Jack — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦If Angels Fight — Richard Bowes(nominee)
- ✦Conversation Hearts — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦An Alien Heresy — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦Days of Wonder — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Pretty Monsters — Kelly Link(winner)
- ✦True Names — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦The Surfer — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Truth — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Man with the Golden Balloon — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Once Upon a Time in the North — Philip Pullman(nominee)
- ✦Arkfall — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦The Erdmann Nexus — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Philosopher's Stone — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦The Tear — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Overseer — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
- ✦Mystery Hill — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦True Names — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
- ✦The Political Prisoner — Charles Coleman Finlay (nominee)
- ✦Tenbrook of Mars — Dean McLaughlin (nominee)
- ✦The Hob Carpet — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Anathem — Neal Stephenson(winner)
- ✦The Quiet War — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The January Dancer — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Matter — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Flood — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Weaver — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Incandescence — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦City at the End of Time — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Pirate Sun — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦The Company — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Saturn's Children — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Marsbound — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Night Sessions — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦House of Suns — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Half a Crown — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Rolling Thunder — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Song of Time — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Implied Spaces — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Escapement — Jay Lake(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Exhalation — Ted Chiang (winner)
- ✦Boojum — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Fixing Hanover — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Goosle — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Private Eye — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Invisible Empire of Ascending Light — Ken Scholes (nominee)
- ✦Ass-Hat Magic Spider — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Fifty Dinosaurs — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The House Left Empty — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Thought War — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Kindness of Strangers — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Dream of Reason — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Seventh Expression of the Robot General — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Goblin Music — Joan Aiken (nominee)
- ✦After the Coup — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦King Pelles the Sure — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Evil Robot Monkey — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Scarecrow's Boy — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Boojum — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Snatch Me Another(nominee)
- ✦Reader's Guide — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦The Film-Makers of Mars — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Little Brother — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Tender Morsels — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦How to Ditch Your Fairy — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦Ink Exchange — Melissa Marr(nominee)
- ✦The Two Pearls of Wisdom — Alison Goodman(nominee)
- ✦The Knife of Never Letting Go — Patrick Ness(nominee)
- ✦The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins (nominee)
- ✦City of Ashes — Cassandra Clare(nominee)
- ✦Zoe's Tale — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Chalice — Robin McKinley(nominee)
- ✦Nation — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter — D. M. Cornish (nominee)
- ✦Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) — Ysabeau S. Wilce (nominee)
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