Locus Awards 2015
Winners and nominees of the 2015 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Rogues — Daniel Abraham (winner)
- 🏆Rogues — David W. Ball (winner)
- 🏆Rogues — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Scott Lynch(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Connie Willis(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Gillian Flynn(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Matt Hughes (winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Lisa Tuttle(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Michael Swanwick(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Patrick Rothfuss(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Joe Abercrombie(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Garth Nix(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Carrie Vaughn(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Joe R. Lansdale(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Walter Jon Williams (winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Paul Cornell(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Phyllis Eisenstein(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Cherie Priest(winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Bradley Denton (winner)
- 🏆Rogues — Steven Saylor (winner)
- ✦The Time Traveler's Almanac — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women — Alex Dally MacFarlane (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦ Solaris Rising 3 (nominee)
- ✦ Upgraded (nominee)
- ✦ Fearsome Magics (nominee)
- ✦ Fearful Symmetries (nominee)
- ✦ Monstrous Affections (nominee)
- ✦ Nightmare Carnival (nominee)
- ✦ Lovecraft's Monsters (nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Affections — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories — Alisa Krasnostein (nominee)
- ✦Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future — Ed Finn (nominee)
- ✦ Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (nominee)
- ✦ The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight (nominee)
- ✦Fearful Symmetries — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Nightmare Carnival — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Lovecraft's Monsters — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History — Daniel José Older(nominee)
- ✦ Reach for Infinity (nominee)
- ✦The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2 — Gordon Van Gelder (nominee)
- ✦The Time Traveler's Almanac — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Affections — Gavin Grant (nominee)
- ✦Solaris Rising 3 — Ian Whates (nominee)
- ✦Fearsome Magics — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Reach for Infinity — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014 (nominee)
- ✦Upgraded — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Silverberg — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One — Michael Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Silverberg — William Schafer (nominee)
- ✦Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories — Julia Rios (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 John Picacio (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection — Jay Lake(winner)
- ✦The Millennium Express: 1995-2009 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Academic Exercises — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Young Woman in a Garden — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦Questionable Practices — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
- ✦Gifts for the One Who Comes After(nominee)
- ✦Death at the Blue Elephant — Janeen Webb (nominee)
- ✦How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and Other Stories — Kate Bernheimer (nominee)
- ✦The Court of Lies — Mark Teppo (nominee)
- ✦They Do the Same Things Different There: The Best Weird Fantasy of Robert Shearman — Robert Shearman (nominee)
- ✦Secret Lives of Books — Rosaleen Love (nominee)
- ✦Prophecies Libels and Dreams: Stories of Califa — Ysabeau S. Wilce (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Made Models — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Goblin Emperor — Sarah Monette(winner)
- ✦Steles of the Sky — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Winter Boy — Sally Wiener Grotta (nominee)
- ✦The Widow's House — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦City of Stairs — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦Full Fathom Five — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦The Girls at the Kingfisher Club — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Hawk — Steven Brust(nominee)
- ✦The Bees — Laline Paull (nominee)
- ✦The Dark Defiles — Richard K. Morgan(nominee)
- ✦The Magician's Land — Lev Grossman(nominee)
- ✦Beautiful Blood — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Revival — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson(nominee)
- ✦California Bones — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦Heirs of Grace — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦The Mirror Empire — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
- ✦The Boy Who Drew Monsters — Keith Donohue (nominee)
- ✦A Man Lies Dreaming — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Bathing the Lion — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Resurrections — Roz Kaveney(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Memory Garden — M. Rickert (winner)
- ✦The Stone Boatmen — Sarah Tolmie (nominee)
- ✦Unwrapped Sky — Rjurik Davidson (nominee)
- ✦The Angel of Losses — Stephanie Feldman (nominee)
- ✦The Race — Nina Allan (nominee)
- ✦The Girl in the Road — Monica Byrne(nominee)
- ✦The Emperor's Blades — Brian Staveley (nominee)
- ✦The Clockwork Dagger(nominee)
- ✦A Darkling Sea — James Cambias (nominee)
- ✦Elysium(nominee)
- ✦Otherbound — Corinne Duyvis(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Tough Times All Over — Joe Abercrombie(winner)
- ✦The Hand is Quicker— — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦I Can See Right Through You — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The New Boyfriend — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Wine — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Insects of Love — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦The Magician and Laplace's Demon — Tom Crosshill (nominee)
- ✦The Jar of Water — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Cryptic Age — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦I'll Follow the Sun — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦A Year and a Day in Old Theradane — Scott Lynch(nominee)
- ✦Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦The End of the End of Everything — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Seventh Sight — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Shadow Flock — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Kheldyu — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦Heaven Thunders the Truth — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Last Log of the Lachrimosa — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Cats of River Street (1925) — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Among the Thorns — Veronica Schanoes (nominee)
- ✦The Fifth Dragon — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Of Finest Scarlet Was Her Gown — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Tawny Petticoats — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Memorials — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Home Is the Haunter — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦A Wish from a Bone — Gemma Files(nominee)
- ✦The Litany of Earth — Ruthanna Emrys (nominee)
- ✦The Devil in America — Kai Ashante Wilson(nominee)
- ✦A Better Way to Die — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦A Hotel in Antarctica — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
- ✦Collateral — Peter Watts(nominee)
- ✦The Colonel — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Yesterday's Kin — Nancy Kress(winner)
- ✦The Black Sun — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Sold the Moon — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦The Regular — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Dream Houses — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Where the Trains Turn — Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (nominee)
- ✦Children of the Fang — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦The Things We Do for Love — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦We Are All Completely Fine — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦The Lightning Tree — Patrick Rothfuss(nominee)
- ✦The Slow Regard of Silent Things — Patrick Rothfuss(nominee)
- ✦Kur-a-Len — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Mothers of Voorhisville — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦The Madonna and the Starship — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦Entanglement — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦The Adventure of the Ring of Stones — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Ancillary Sword — Ann Leckie(winner)
- ✦Acceptance — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Authority — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Cibola Burn — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Artemis Awakening — Jane Lindskold(nominee)
- ✦The Memory of Sky — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Cibola Burn — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦The Peripheral — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Tigerman — Nick Harkaway(nominee)
- ✦Wolves — Simon Ings (nominee)
- ✦The Blood of Angels — Johanna Sinisalo(nominee)
- ✦Lock In — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Europe in Autumn — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel(nominee)
- ✦Ultima — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Shipstar — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦War Dogs — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦All Those Vanished Engines — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Work Done for Hire — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Bête — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦Shipstar — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Afterparty — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Lagoon — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Bone Clocks — David Mitchell(nominee)
- ✦My Real Children — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦World of Trouble — Ben H. Winters(nominee)
- ✦Dark Lightning — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Causal Angel — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin (nominee)
- ✦Cibola Burn — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Strange New Things — Michel Faber (nominee)
- ✦Echopraxia — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Truth About Owls — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
- ✦Sadness — Timons Esaias (nominee)
- ✦This Chance Planet — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Covenant — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Lady and the Fox — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Long Haul: From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Combustion Hour — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Contemporary Foxwife — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Aberration — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦How to Get Back to the Forest — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Ogres of East Africa — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Pernicious Romance — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
- ✦Hibbler's Minions — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Moriabe's Children — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Left Foot, Right — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide(nominee)
- ✦I Met a Man Who Wasn't There — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Someday — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦In Babelsberg — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Passage of Earth — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Instructive Tale of the Archaeologist and His Wife — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
- ✦The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦The Dust Queen — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦The Walking-Stick Forest — Anna Tambour (nominee)
- ✦The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦Invisible Planets — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦The Scrivener — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying — Alice Sola Kim (nominee)
- ✦Amicae Aeternum — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦Shay Corsham Worsted — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Tallest Doll in New York City — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦West to East — Jay Lake(nominee)
- ✦Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology — Theodora Goss(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Half a King — Joe Abercrombie(winner)
- ✦Memory of Water — Emmi Itäranta (nominee)
- ✦Love Is the Drug — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Exo — Steven Gould (nominee)
- ✦Afterworlds — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Ruin and Rising — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
- ✦The Doubt Factory — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦The Grasshopper's Child — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Blue Lily, Lily Blue — Maggie Stiefvater(nominee)
- ✦Lockstep — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
- ✦Waistcoats & Weaponry — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦The Child Eater — Rachel Pollack (nominee)
- ✦Cuckoo Song — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Empress of the Sun — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Clariel — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Girl on a Wire — Gwenda Bond (nominee)
- ✦Dreams of Gods and Monsters — Laini Taylor(nominee)
- ✦Greenglass House — Kate Milford(nominee)
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