Locus Awards 2010
Winners and nominees of the 2010 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The New Space Opera 2 (winner)
- 🏆The New Space Opera 2 — Jonathan Strahan (winner)
- 🏆The New Space Opera 2 — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦Best American Fantasy 2 — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦ Best American Fantasy 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Firebirds Soaring (nominee)
- ✦ The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three (nominee)
- ✦ Poe (nominee)
- ✦ Lovecraft Unbound (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Jack Finney(nominee)
- ✦ Eclipse Three (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Donald Wandrei (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — George Saunders(nominee)
- ✦ The Dragon Book (nominee)
- ✦ The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (nominee)
- ✦ The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Secret History of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (nominee)
- ✦ Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realities (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy 9 (nominee)
- ✦ Federations (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three (nominee)
- ✦ X 6: A Novellanthology (nominee)
- ✦ Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download (nominee)
- ✦ Edison's Frankenstein (Postscripts #20/21) (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Gertrude Atherton(nominee)
- ✦Edison's Frankenstein (Postscripts #20/21) — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦Other Earths — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Edgar Allan Poe(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — H. P. Lovecraft (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 14 (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Henry James(nominee)
- ✦Poe — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Lovecraft Unbound — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Songs of the Dying Earth — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Ambrose Bierce(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — David H. Keller (nominee)
- ✦The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology — Gordon Van Gelder (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Anthony Boucher (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Davis Grubb (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Charlotte Perkins Gilman(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Charles Beaumont (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Bret Harte (nominee)
- ✦The Secret History of Science Fiction — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Jack Snow (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — John Cheever(nominee)
- ✦Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦The Secret History of Science Fiction — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Conrad Aiken (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦ Songs of the Dying Earth (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Charles Brockden Brown(nominee)
- ✦Best American Fantasy 2 — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Benjamin Percy(nominee)
- ✦Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realities — Bradford Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realities — Brian Evenson (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Brian Evenson (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Herman Melville(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — August Derleth (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 9 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 14 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Edward Lucas White (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Fred Chappell (nominee)
- ✦The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three — George Mann(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Clark Ashton Smith(nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Jerome Bixby(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Book — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Federations — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Eclipse Three — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy 9 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 14 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦X 6: A Novellanthology — Keith Stevenson (nominee)
- ✦Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 (nominee)
- ✦ Other Earths (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Frank Norris (nominee)
- ✦Edison's Frankenstein (Postscripts #20/21) — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Book — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Songs of the Dying Earth — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Other Earths — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Firebirds Soaring — Sharyn November (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — Isaac Bashevis Singer(nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦American Fantastic Tales — F. Scott Fitzgerald(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction — Gene Wolfe(winner)
- ✦A Book of Endings — Alisa Krasnostein (nominee)
- ✦Everland and Other Stories — Paul Witcover (nominee)
- ✦Tides from the New Worlds — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Are You There and Other Stories — Jack Skillingstead (nominee)
- ✦Call Me Joe — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦The Queen of Air and Darkness — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Slow Sculpture — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Viator Plus — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦We Never Talk About My Brother — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Grazing the Long Acre — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Nine Black Doves — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Road to Amber — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Threshold — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Power & Light — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦This Mortal Mountain — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Last Exit to Babylon — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Wild Thyme, Green Magic — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Trips: 1972-73 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Michael Moorcock — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Oceanic — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Wireless — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦A Is for Alien — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Cyberabad Days — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Fugue State — Brian Evenson (nominee)
- ✦A Book of Endings — Deborah Biancotti (nominee)
- ✦Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦ Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦Northwest Passages — Barbara Roden (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The City & the City — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦Finch — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Price of Spring — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Canticle — Ken Scholes (nominee)
- ✦In Great Waters — Kit Whitfield (nominee)
- ✦Drood — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Gears of the City — Felix Gilman(nominee)
- ✦The Revolution Business — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Red Tree — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Lifelode — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Last Days — Brian Evenson (nominee)
- ✦The High City — Cecelia Holland (nominee)
- ✦Dragon in Chains — Chaz Brenchley (nominee)
- ✦Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales — Greer Gilman (nominee)
- ✦Spell Games — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Green — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Madness of Flowers — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦The Painting and the City — Robert Freeman Wexler (nominee)
- ✦Audrey's Door — Sarah Langan (nominee)
- ✦Palimpsest — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Avilion — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi(winner)
- ✦Ash — Malinda Lo(nominee)
- ✦Lamentation — Ken Scholes (nominee)
- ✦Harbinger — Jack Skillingstead (nominee)
- ✦Living with Ghosts — Kari Maund (nominee)
- ✦Soulless — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦Rosemary and Rue — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Norse Code — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦Blood of Ambrose — James Enge (nominee)
- ✦The Manual of Detection — Jedediah Berry (nominee)
- ✦Total Oblivion, More or Less — Anya Johanna DeNiro (nominee)
- ✦Spellbent — Lucy A. Snyder(nominee)
- ✦Lightbreaker — Mark Teppo (nominee)
- ✦The Adamantine Palace — Stephen Deas (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆By Moonlight — Peter S. Beagle (winner)
- ✦Mongoose — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Best Monkey — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Secret Identity — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦each thing i show you is a piece of my death — Stephen J. Barringer (nominee)
- ✦A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon — Ken Scholes (nominee)
- ✦Technicolor — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦Twilight of the Gods — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Yes We Have No Bananas — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Economancer — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Utriusque Cosmi — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Sylgarmo's Proclamation — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Clockatrice — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Truth and Bone — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Vanishing — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Black Swan — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Formidable Caress — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Lion Walk — Mary Rosenblum (nominee)
- ✦Galápagos — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦First Flight — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦"A Wild and a Wicked Youth" — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Lowland Sea — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦Cracklegrackle — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦It Takes Two — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦Zeppelin City — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Mongoose — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦White Charles — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Dragon's Teeth — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦The Dragaman's Bride — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Dragon's Deep — Cecelia Holland (nominee)
- ✦Zeppelin City — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
- ✦each thing i show you is a piece of my death — Gemma Files(nominee)
- ✦Eros, Philia, Agape — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦SinBad the Sand Sailor — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦The Island — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Women of Nell Gwynne's — Kage Baker (winner)
- ✦Cuckoo — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Sea-Hearts — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Horn — Peter M. Ball (nominee)
- ✦The Wide, Carnivorous Sky — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦Crimes and Glory — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Far End of History — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Act One — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Where the Winds Are All Asleep — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Cuckoo — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Hot Rock — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Palimpsest — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Vishnu at the Cat Circus — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Paradiso Lost — Albert E. Cowdrey (nominee)
- ✦Cuckoo — Leah Bobet (nominee)
- ✦Sugar — Leah Bobet (nominee)
- ✦Wives — Paul Haines (nominee)
- ✦Shambling Towards Hiroshima — James Morrow(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Boneshaker — Cherie Priest(winner)
- ✦Galileo's Dream — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Gardens of the Sun — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Steal Across the Sky — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Empress of Mars — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Transition — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Ark — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Sunless Countries — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦Yellow Blue Tibia — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦The Devil's Alphabet — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Under the Dome — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Chronic City — Jonathan Lethem (nominee)
- ✦Buyout — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦This Is Not a Game — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Walls of the Universe — Paul Melko (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆An Invocation of Incuriosity — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦As Women Fight — Sara Genge (nominee)
- ✦Ferryman — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦The Cinderella Game — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦A Story, with Beans — Steven Gould (nominee)
- ✦Before My Last Breath — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Boy Who Cried Wolf — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The Coldest Girl in Coldtown — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Useless Things — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦The Motorman's Coat — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Colliding Branes — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Spar — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Donovan Sent Us — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Going Deep — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Dulce Domum — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Three Twilight Tales — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦The Pelican Bar — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Narrative of a Beast's Life — Cat Rambo (nominee)
- ✦Edison's Frankenstein — Chris Roberson(nominee)
- ✦Wizard's Apprentice — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦Singing on a Star — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦Strappado — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦Child-Empress of Mars — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦A Delicate Architecture — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Colliding Branes — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Blocked — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Leviathan — Scott Westerfeld(winner)
- ✦Liar — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦The Ask and the Answer — Patrick Ness(nominee)
- ✦Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins (nominee)
- ✦The Hotel Under the Sand — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Sacred Scars — Kathleen Duey(nominee)
- ✦Heroes of the Valley — Jonathan Stroud(nominee)
- ✦Going Bovine — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦Gullstruck Island — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
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