Locus Awards 2012
Winners and nominees of the 2012 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Weird — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011 Edition — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Cthulhu — Ross E. Lockhart (nominee)
- ✦ Teeth (nominee)
- ✦ Life on Mars (nominee)
- ✦ Steampunk! (nominee)
- ✦ Blood and Other Cravings (nominee)
- ✦ Eclipse Four (nominee)
- ✦ Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (nominee)
- ✦Steampunk! — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦ A Book of Horrors (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ The Book of Cthulhu (nominee)
- ✦ Welcome to Bordertown (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 16 (nominee)
- ✦ Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (nominee)
- ✦ Happily Ever After (nominee)
- ✦Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three (nominee)
- ✦Teeth — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Blood and Other Cravings — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦ Engineering Infinity (nominee)
- ✦Welcome to Bordertown — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Teeth — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦A Book of Horrors — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Welcome to Bordertown — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Weird — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 16 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Steampunk! — Gavin Grant (nominee)
- ✦Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Life on Mars — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Eclipse Four — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Engineering Infinity — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 16 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 (nominee)
- ✦ The Weird (nominee)
- ✦Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 — William Schafer (nominee)
- ✦ Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆Shaun Tan(winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Bible Repairman and Other Stories — Tim Powers(winner)
- ✦Yellowcake — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦TVA Baby and Other Stories — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Admiralty — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦The Inheritance — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories — Joan Aiken (nominee)
- ✦Sleight of Hand — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Universe of Things — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦After the Apocalypse: Stories — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Gothic High-Tech — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Unpossible and Other Stories — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Two Worlds and In Between — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Somewhere Beneath Those Waves — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, 1963-1973 — Kurt Vonnegut(nominee)
- ✦Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex — Lucy Sussex (nominee)
- ✦When the Great Days Come — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Love and Romanpunk — Tansy Rayner Roberts (nominee)
- ✦Paradise Tales — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆A Dance with Dragons — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦The Dragon's Path — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Mistification — Kaaron Warren (nominee)
- ✦The Kingdom of Gods — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦The Cold Commands — Richard K. Morgan(nominee)
- ✦The Magician King — Lev Grossman(nominee)
- ✦The Hammer — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Heartless — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦Raising Stony Mayhall — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Among Others — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Mr. Fox — Helen Oyeyemi(nominee)
- ✦Snuff — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Redwood and Wildfire — Andrea Hairston (nominee)
- ✦The Wise Man's Fear — Patrick Rothfuss(nominee)
- ✦The Heroes — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦Briarpatch — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦The Alchemists of Kush — Malcolm Azania (nominee)
- ✦The Uncertain Places — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦The Fallen Blade — Jon Courtenay Grimwood(nominee)
- ✦Deathless — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦The Folded World — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern(winner)
- ✦Low Town — Daniel Polansky (nominee)
- ✦The Desert of Souls — Howard Andrew Jones (nominee)
- ✦Mechanique: a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Of Blood and Honey — Stina Leicht (nominee)
- ✦The Girl of Fire and Thorns — Rae Carson (nominee)
- ✦Blood Red Road — Moira Young (nominee)
- ✦Ready Player One — Ernest Cline (nominee)
- ✦Soft Apocalypse — Will McIntosh (nominee)
- ✦The Tiger’s Wife — Téa Obreht (nominee)
- ✦Seed — Rob Ziegler (nominee)
- ✦Debris — Joanne Anderton (nominee)
- ✦God's War — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆White Lines on a Green Field — Catherynne M. Valente(winner)
- ✦The Summer People — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Ghostweight — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Purple — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Choice — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Underbridge — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Ki-anna — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Vicar of Mars — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Steam Girl — Dylan Horrocks (nominee)
- ✦Clean — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Laika's Ghost — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Mysteries of the Old Quarter — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦The Old Man and the Martian Sea — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Little Green God of Agony — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Maltese Unicorn — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Late Bloomer — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦The Last Ride of the Glory Girls — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦The Dala Horse — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Six Months, Three Days — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦My Husband Steinn — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Blackwood's Baby — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Cold Step Beyond — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Projected Girl — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Copenhagen Interpretation — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦A Long Walk Home — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Fields of Gold — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦What We Found — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Silently and Very Fast — Catherynne M. Valente(winner)
- ✦The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Ants of Flanders — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Ice Owl — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Bridged the Mist — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Gravity Dreams — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Blue and Gold — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Kiss Me Twice — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦A Brood of Foxes — Kristin Livdahl (nominee)
- ✦Rampion(nominee)
- ✦Near Zennor — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦The Men from Porlock — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Adakian Eagle — Bradley Denton (nominee)
- ✦The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆China Miéville(winner)
- ✦Grail — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Leviathan Wakes — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦7th Sigma — Steven Gould (nominee)
- ✦Leviathan Wakes — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦Vortex — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Children of the Sky — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦All the Lives He Led — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Clockwork Rocket — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦This Shared Dream — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦Rule 34 — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Earthbound — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Deadline — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Home Fires — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦11/22/63 — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Dancing with Bears — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Zone One — Colson Whitehead(nominee)
- ✦Heart of Iron — Ekaterina Sedia(nominee)
- ✦Leviathan Wakes — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦The Courier's New Bicycle — Kim Westwood (nominee)
- ✦Wake Up and Dream — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Daybreak Zero — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦The Islanders — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Firebird — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Case of Death and Honey — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Dolly — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Brave Little Toaster — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Mulberry Boys — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Valley of the Girls — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Tying Knots — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Sandal-Bride — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Woman Leaves Room — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦"And Weep, Like Alexander" — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦Daddy Long Legs of the Evening — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Attlee and the Long Walk — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Movement — Nancy Fulda (nominee)
- ✦The Way It Works Out and All — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦After the Apocalypse — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦The Invasion of Venus — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Ascension Day — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Tidal Forces — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Younger Women — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Slow As a Bullet — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦The Server and the Dragon — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦Goodnight Moons — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦Smoke City — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦And Go Like This — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦The Patrician — Tansy Rayner Roberts (nominee)
- ✦Pug — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Bread We Eat in Dreams — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making — Catherynne M. Valente(winner)
- ✦Across the Universe — Beth Revis (nominee)
- ✦Huntress — Malinda Lo(nominee)
- ✦Goliath — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Eona — Alison Goodman(nominee)
- ✦A Monster Calls — Patrick Ness(nominee)
- ✦Red Glove — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Absolute Midnight — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Akata Witch — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Across the Great Barrier — Patricia Wrede(nominee)
- ✦Mastiff — Tamora Pierce(nominee)
- ✦Beauty Queens — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦Planesrunner — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Freedom Maze — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦The Highest Frontier — Joan Slonczewski (nominee)
- ✦The Boy at the End of the World — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦Daughter of Smoke and Bone — Laini Taylor(nominee)
- ✦Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children — Ransom Riggs(nominee)
- ✦Scrivener's Moon — Philip Reeve(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Tim Powers(winner)
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