Locus Awards 2011
Winners and nominees of the 2011 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 Warriors (winner)
- 🏆Warriors — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- 🏆Warriors — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦ The Way of the Wizard (nominee)
- ✦ Swords & Dark Magic (nominee)
- ✦ Godlike Machines (nominee)
- ✦Sprawl — Alisa Krasnostein (nominee)
- ✦Zombies Vs. Unicorns — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 21 (nominee)
- ✦ Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (nominee)
- ✦ Sprawl (nominee)
- ✦ Zombies Vs. Unicorns (nominee)
- ✦ The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People (nominee)
- ✦ The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Sympathy for the Devil (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Talebones (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (nominee)
- ✦ Wings of Fire (nominee)
- ✦ Is Anybody Out There? (nominee)
- ✦ Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (nominee)
- ✦Is Anybody Out There? — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction — Arthur Bruce Evans (nominee)
- ✦Zombies Vs. Unicorns — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction — Rob Latham (nominee)
- ✦The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 21 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 15 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction — Joan Gordon (nominee)
- ✦The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction — Veronica Hollinger (nominee)
- ✦Sympathy for the Devil — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦The Way of the Wizard — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror — Sunand Tryambak Joshi(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Talebones — Patrick J. Swenson (nominee)
- ✦Swords & Dark Magic — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Godlike Machines — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Wings of Fire — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 15 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction — Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Swords & Dark Magic — Lou Anders(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 15 (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆Shaun Tan(winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories — Fritz Leiber(winner)
- ✦The Third Bear — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Leviathan Wept and Other Stories — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦ Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance (nominee)
- ✦The Saturn Game — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Case and the Dreamer — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦The Poison Eaters and Other Stories — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦On the Banks of the River of Heaven — Richard Parks (nominee)
- ✦Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Nine Black Doves — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Road to Amber — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Larry Niven — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Deep Navigation — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Ammonite Violin & Others — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦What I Didn't See and Other Stories — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Occultation and Other Stories — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦Journeys — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Holiday — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Mysteries of the Diogenes Club — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦The Sky That Wraps — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories — Sandra McDonald (nominee)
- ✦Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder — Terry Dowling (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Kraken — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦The Desert Spear — Peter V. Brett(nominee)
- ✦The Bird of the River — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Bards of Bone Plain(nominee)
- ✦The Half-Made World — Felix Gilman(nominee)
- ✦The Folding Knife — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Changeless — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦The Fuller Memorandum — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Sorcerer's House — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦A Dark Matter — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Horns — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦Hespira — Matt Hughes (nominee)
- ✦Who Fears Death — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell(nominee)
- ✦The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson(nominee)
- ✦Kings of the North — Cecelia Holland (nominee)
- ✦Jade Man's Skin — Chaz Brenchley (nominee)
- ✦The House of Discarded Dreams — Ekaterina Sedia(nominee)
- ✦The Wolf Age — James Enge (nominee)
- ✦Zoo City — Lauren Beukes(nominee)
- ✦Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron — Jasper Fforde (nominee)
- ✦A Matter of Blood — Sarah Pinborough (nominee)
- ✦The Habitation of the Blessed — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Under Heaven — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Meeks — Julia Holmes (nominee)
- ✦Noise — Darin Bradley (nominee)
- ✦The Loving Dead — Amelia Beamer (nominee)
- ✦The Last Page — Anthony Huso (nominee)
- ✦Redemption in Indigo — Karen Lord(nominee)
- ✦The Replacement — Brenna Yovanoff (nominee)
- ✦The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦The Dream of Perpetual Motion — Dexter Palmer (nominee)
- ✦Shades of Milk and Honey — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe — Charles Yu(nominee)
- ✦The Quantum Thief — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦A Book of Tongues — Gemma Files(nominee)
- ✦The Bookman — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Native Star — M. K. Hobson(nominee)
- ✦Clowns at Midnight: A Tale of Appropriate Fear — Terry Dowling (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦A Thousand Flowers — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦A Jar of Goodwill — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦The Literomancer — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦In the Stacks — Scott Lynch(nominee)
- ✦Princess Prettypants — Meg Cabot (nominee)
- ✦Seven Years from Home — Naomi Novik(nominee)
- ✦Under/Above the Water — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Black and White Sky — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn — Diana Peterfreund (nominee)
- ✦Eating at the End-of-the-World Café — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦La Lune T'Attend — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Trinity County, CA — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Naturalist — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Amor Vincit Omnia — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦A Rich Full Week — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Eight Miles — Sean McMullen (nominee)
- ✦Plus or Minus — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Sleepover — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Goats of Glory — Steven Erikson(nominee)
- ✦The Cage — A. M. Dellamonica (nominee)
- ✦Blind Cat Dance — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
- ✦The Fool Jobs — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦To Hold the Bridge: An Old Kingdom Story — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Amor Fugit(nominee)
- ✦——30—— — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Map of Seventeen — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦Pining to Be Human — Richard Bowes(nominee)
- ✦The Spy Who Never Grew Up — Sarah Rees Brennan(nominee)
- ✦The Mad Scientist's Daughter — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦Marya and the Pirate — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Lifecycle of Software Objects — Ted Chiang (winner)
- ✦Bone and Jewel Creatures — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Chicken Little — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦The Mystery Knight — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Dead Man's Run — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦A History of Terraforming — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Taborin Scale — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Rift — John G. Hemry(nominee)
- ✦Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Troika — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Seven Cities of Gold — David Moles (nominee)
- ✦Mammoths of the Great Plains — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the Threat It Entails) — Sean Williams(nominee)
- ✦The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Cloud Permutations — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦Jackie's-Boy — Steven Popkes (nominee)
- ✦The Sultan of the Clouds — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆All Clear — Connie Willis(winner)
- 🏆Blackout — Connie Willis(winner)
- 🏆Blackout/All Clear — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦Chill — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Folded Sky — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Sleepless — Charlie Huston (nominee)
- ✦Yarn — Jon Armstrong (nominee)
- ✦The Passage — Justin Cronin(nominee)
- ✦Zero History — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Cryoburn — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Birdbrain — Johanna Sinisalo(nominee)
- ✦Surface Detail — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Zendegi — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Hull Zero Three — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Starbound — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Feed — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Terminal World — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Saltation — Sharon Lee (nominee)
- ✦Saltation — Steve Miller (nominee)
- ✦The Dervish House — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Brain Thief — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
- ✦Directive 51 — John Barnes (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Thing About Cassandra — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Love Will Tear Us Apart — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Futures in the Memories Market — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦The Cull — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Green Book — Amal El-Mohtar(nominee)
- ✦Cold Hands — Cassandra Clare(nominee)
- ✦Polka Dots and Moonbeams — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Sobek — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The Taste of Night — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦The Exterminator's Want Ad — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Names for Water — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Sleeping Dogs — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦For Want of a Nail — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦The Children of Cadmus — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦The Man with the Knives — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Booth's Ghost — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Tonight We Fly — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Libertarian Russia — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦After the Dragon — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Blue Fire — Bruce McAllister (nominee)
- ✦Clockwork Fairies — Cat Rambo (nominee)
- ✦Standard Loneliness Package — Charles Yu(nominee)
- ✦The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦Elegy for a Young Elk — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦The Night Train — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Graffiti in the Library of Babel — David Langford (nominee)
- ✦The Monster's Million Faces — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots — Sandra McDonald (nominee)
- ✦A Letter from the Emperor(nominee)
- ✦Fair Ladies — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦How to Become a Mars Overlord — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦The Things — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Ship Breaker — Paolo Bacigalupi(winner)
- ✦Thresholds — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Behemoth — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Monsters of Men — Patrick Ness(nominee)
- ✦Pathfinder — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Mockingjay — Suzanne Collins (nominee)
- ✦Enchanted Glass — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦White Cat — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦I Shall Wear Midnight — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Factotum — D. M. Cornish (nominee)
- ✦Lord Sunday — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Kid Vs. Squid — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦The Boneshaker — Kate Milford(nominee)
- ✦Fever Crumb — Philip Reeve(nominee)
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