Locus Awards 2013
Winners and nominees of the 2013 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Edge of Infinity — Jonathan Strahan (winner)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2012 Edition — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦ Robots: The Recent A. I. (nominee)
- ✦ The Future Is Japanese (nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Japanese — Masumi Washington (nominee)
- ✦Three Messages and a Warning — Eduardo Jiménez Mayo (nominee)
- ✦ Three Messages and a Warning (nominee)
- ✦ After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (nominee)
- ✦ Epic: Legends of Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2012 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 23 (nominee)
- ✦ Steampunk Revolution (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 17 (nominee)
- ✦ The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Solaris Rising 1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 (nominee)
- ✦ The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (nominee)
- ✦ Rip-Off! (nominee)
- ✦ Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (nominee)
- ✦ Ishtar (nominee)
- ✦ AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (nominee)
- ✦Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana — Anil Menon (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (nominee)
- ✦After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 23 — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Steampunk Revolution — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 17 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦The Sword & Sorcery Anthology — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Solaris Rising 1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction — Ian Whates (nominee)
- ✦The Sword & Sorcery Anthology — Jacob Weisman (nominee)
- ✦Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction — Lee Mandelo (nominee)
- ✦Epic: Legends of Fantasy — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 — John Pelan(nominee)
- ✦The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 — John Pelan(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 17 — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Robots: The Recent A. I. — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 (nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Japanese — Nick Mamatas(nominee)
- ✦Rip-Off! — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Robots: The Recent A. I. — Sean Wallace (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦ Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Shoggoths in Bloom — Elizabeth Bear(winner)
- ✦Cracklescape — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Cracklescape — Alisa Krasnostein (nominee)
- ✦Ancient, Ancient — Kiini Ibura Salaam (nominee)
- ✦Permeable Borders — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Where on Earth — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Outer Space, Inner Lands — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Fountain of Age: Stories — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Crackpot Palace — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Jagannath: Stories — Karin Tidbeck (nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Griaule — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Kage Baker — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Wonders of the Invisible World(nominee)
- ✦Dream Castles: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦At the Mouth of the River of Bees — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Last and First Contacts — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦We Are for the Dark: 1987-90 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Sorry Please Thank You — Charles Yu(nominee)
- ✦Moscow But Dreaming — Ekaterina Sedia(nominee)
- ✦The Janus Tree and Other Stories — Glen Hirshberg (nominee)
- ✦Wool — Hugh Howey (nominee)
- ✦Errantry: Strange Stories — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Birds and Birthdays — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures — Peter Dickinson(nominee)
- ✦The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Remember Why You Fear Me: The Best Dark Fiction of Robert Shearman — Robert Shearman (nominee)
- ✦The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Apocalypse Codex — Charles Stross(winner)
- ✦Range of Ghosts — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The King's Blood — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Steel Seraglio — Linda Carey (nominee)
- ✦The Steel Seraglio — Louise Carey (nominee)
- ✦The Troupe — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦And Blue Skies from Pain — Stina Leicht (nominee)
- ✦The Killing Moon — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Sharps — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Hide Me Among the Graves — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Boneland — Alan Garner (nominee)
- ✦The Drowning Girl — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Glamour in Glass — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦Worldsoul — Liz Williams(nominee)
- ✦Crandolin — Anna Tambour (nominee)
- ✦Red Country — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦The Mirage — Matt Ruff(nominee)
- ✦The Steel Seraglio — Mike Carey (nominee)
- ✦Bullettime — Nick Mamatas(nominee)
- ✦Some Kind of Fairy Tale — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦Whispers Under Ground — Ben Aaronovitch(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Throne of the Crescent Moon — Saladin Ahmed (winner)
- ✦Bad Glass — Richard E. Gropp (nominee)
- ✦The Snow Child — Eowyn Ivey (nominee)
- ✦Shadow and Bone — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
- ✦Seraphina — Rachel Hartman (nominee)
- ✦vN — Madeline Ashby (nominee)
- ✦Wide Open — Deborah Coates (nominee)
- ✦Alif the Unseen — G. Willow Wilson (nominee)
- ✦The Man From Primrose Lane — James Renner (nominee)
- ✦Blackwood — Gwenda Bond (nominee)
- ✦Sanctum — Sarah Fine(nominee)
- ✦Rhapsody of Blood — Roz Kaveney(nominee)
- ✦The Games — Ted Kosmatka (nominee)
- ✦Goblin Secrets — William Alexander (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi — Pat Cadigan(winner)
- ✦The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward" — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Faster Gun — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦No Decent Patrimony — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Swift, Brutal Retaliation — Meghan McCarron (nominee)
- ✦The Bernoulli War — Gord Sellar (nominee)
- ✦Significant Dust — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Bruce Springsteen — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Old Paint — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Fireborn — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Liberty's Daughter — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦The Wish Head — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Goddess of Mercy — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Peak of Eternal Light — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦One Little Room an Everywhere — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Electrica — Sean McMullen (nominee)
- ✦Declaration — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Fake Plastic Trees — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Lady Astronaut of Mars — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward" — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Close Encounters — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Astrophilia — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Grinnell Method — Molly Gloss (nominee)
- ✦Arbeitskraft — Nick Mamatas(nominee)
- ✦Troll Blood — Peter Dickinson(nominee)
- ✦The Ghosts of Christmas — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦The Sea of Trees — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦The Color Least Used by Nature — Ted Kosmatka (nominee)
- ✦The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story — Theodora Goss(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall — Nancy Kress(winner)
- ✦In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Gods of Risk — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Mongolian Book of the Dead — Alan Smale (nominee)
- ✦The Moon Belongs to Everyone — K. C. Ball (nominee)
- ✦The Moon Belongs to Everyone — Michael Alexander (nominee)
- ✦Sky — Kaaron Warren (nominee)
- ✦Murder Born — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Eater-of-Bone — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Katabasis — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Gods of Risk — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦Let Maps to Others — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Last Judgment — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦On a Red Station, Drifting — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Maze of Shadows — Fred Chappell (nominee)
- ✦Hand of Glory — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Boolean Gate — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦The Stars Do Not Lie — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow" — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Redshirts — John Scalzi(winner)
- ✦The Rapture of the Nerds — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Caliban's War — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦2312 — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Arctic Rising — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Any Day Now — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Caliban's War — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦In the Mouth of the Whale — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Angelmaker — Nick Harkaway(nominee)
- ✦Captain Vorpatril's Alliance — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Intruder — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Hydrogen Sonata — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Existence — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Bowl of Heaven — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Fate of Worlds — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Eternal Flame — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Ashes of Candesce — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦The Rapture of the Nerds — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦Bowl of Heaven — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Intrusion — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Blue Remembered Earth — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Last Policeman — Ben H. Winters(nominee)
- ✦Lost Everything — Brian Francis Slattery (nominee)
- ✦Slow Apocalypse — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Fractal Prince — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦Fate of Worlds — Edward M. Lerner (nominee)
- ✦Caliban's War — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦Rapture — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
- ✦The Fourth Wall — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Turing & Burroughs — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Empty Space — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦The Deeps of the Sky — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Two Houses — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Mono no Aware — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Elementals — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Antarctica Starts Here — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Valedictorian — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦A Natural History of Autumn — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Blood Drive — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Reindeer Mountain — Karin Tidbeck (nominee)
- ✦Rebecka — Karin Tidbeck (nominee)
- ✦The Easthound — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦About Fairies — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Great-Grandmother in the Cellar — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Bricks, Sticks, Straw — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Mantis Wives — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Water Thief — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Goggles (c.1910) — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Nightside on Callisto — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Scattered Along the River of Heaven — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Immersion — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Tyche and the Ants — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦The Education of a Witch — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦The Memcordist — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦England Under the White Witch — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight — Xia Jia (nominee)
- ✦Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦One Breath, One Stroke — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦In Autotelia — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Railsea — China Miéville(winner)
- ✦Pirate Cinema — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Sea Hearts — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Apollo's Outcasts — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Team Human — Justine Larbalestier (nominee)
- ✦The Crown of Embers — Rae Carson (nominee)
- ✦Son — Lois Lowry (nominee)
- ✦The Drowned Cities — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Black Heart — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The Chaos — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦Bitterblue — Kristin Cashore(nominee)
- ✦The Raven Boys — Maggie Stiefvater(nominee)
- ✦Every Day — David Levithan(nominee)
- ✦The Diviners — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦A Face Like Glass — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Be My Enemy — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Dodger — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Radiant Days — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Days of Blood and Starlight — Laini Taylor(nominee)
- ✦Team Human — Sarah Rees Brennan(nominee)
- ✦The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Zeuglodon — James Blaylock(nominee)
Locus Poll Award
- 🏆Distrust That Particular Flavor — William Gibson(winner)
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