Locus Awards 2016
Winners and nominees of the 2016 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Old Venus — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- 🏆 Old Venus (winner)
- 🏆Old Venus — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦ Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (nominee)
- ✦Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven (nominee)
- ✦Warrior Women — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan — Masumi Washington (nominee)
- ✦ Stories for Chip (nominee)
- ✦Stories for Chip — Bill Campbell (nominee)
- ✦ Meeting Infinity (nominee)
- ✦ Operation Arcana (nominee)
- ✦ Twelve Tomorrows (nominee)
- ✦ Future Visions (nominee)
- ✦Future Visions — Jennifer Henshaw (nominee)
- ✦Future Visions — Allison Linn (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦ The Doll Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Anatomy of Curiosity — Tessa Gratton(nominee)
- ✦ Black Wings IV (nominee)
- ✦ Warrior Women (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 (nominee)
- ✦ Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan (nominee)
- ✦ The Anatomy of Curiosity (nominee)
- ✦ There Will Be War: Volume X (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (nominee)
- ✦ Wilde Stories 2015 (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015(nominee)
- ✦She Walks in Shadows — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Doll Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Anatomy of Curiosity — Brenna Yovanoff (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦There Will Be War: Volume X — Vox Day (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦The Anatomy of Curiosity — Maggie Stiefvater(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Daniel H. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Twelve Tomorrows — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Karen Russell(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
- ✦Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Cat Rambo (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two — Kathe Koja (nominee)
- ✦There Will Be War: Volume X — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Jess Row (nominee)
- ✦Operation Arcana — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Black Wings IV — Sunand Tryambak Joshi(nominee)
- ✦Meeting Infinity — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 (nominee)
- ✦Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan — Nick Mamatas(nominee)
- ✦Stories for Chip — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Wilde Stories 2015 — Steve Berman (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Susan Palwick (nominee)
- ✦She Walks in Shadows — Paula R. Stiles (nominee)
- ✦ She Walks in Shadows (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — T. C. Boyle(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two — Michael Kelly (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Trigger Warning — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦Get in Trouble — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Tales of Dunk and Egg — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Nancy Kress — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Dancing Through the Fire: A Collection of Stories in Five Moves — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Falling in Love with Hominids — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦The Very Best of Kate Elliott — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦The End of the End of Everything: Stories — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Endurance — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Three Moments of an Explosion — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Gregory Benford — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Bone Swans — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
- ✦The Finest Ass in the Universe — Anna Tambour (nominee)
- ✦Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦Hidden Folk — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦To Hold the Bridge — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories — M. Rickert (nominee)
- ✦Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction — Leena Krohn (nominee)
- ✦Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Ghost Summer — Tananarive Due(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Uprooted — Naomi Novik(winner)
- ✦Karen Memory — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦A Net of Dawn and Bones — C. Chancy (nominee)
- ✦Nightwise — R. S. Belcher (nominee)
- ✦The Aeronaut's Windlass — Jim Butcher(nominee)
- ✦Son of the Black Sword — Larry Correia (nominee)
- ✦Killing Pretty — Richard Kadrey(nominee)
- ✦The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦The Liminal War — Ayize Jama-Everett (nominee)
- ✦A God in Ruins — Kate Atkinson(nominee)
- ✦The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro(nominee)
- ✦Savages — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Annihilation Score — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Finders Keepers — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Slade House — David Mitchell(nominee)
- ✦The Philosopher Kings — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦The House of Shattered Wings — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Pacific Fire — Greg van Eekhout (nominee)
- ✦Wylding Hall — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Empire Ascendant — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
- ✦Archivist Wasp(nominee)
- ✦Foxglove Summer — Ben Aaronovitch(nominee)
- ✦Beneath London — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Last Song Before Night — Ilana C. Myer (nominee)
- ✦The Grace of Kings — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Signal to Noise — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦The Traitor Baru Cormorant — Seth Dickinson (nominee)
- ✦Sorcerer to the Crown — Zen Cho(nominee)
- ✦Updraft — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦The Devourers — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
- ✦The Watchmaker of Filigree Street — Natasha Pulley(nominee)
- ✦Agent of the Imperium — Marc W. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Abomination — Gary Whitta (nominee)
- ✦Archangel — Marguerite Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Weave — Nancy Jane Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps — Kai Ashante Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Vermilion — Molly Tanzer(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Black Dog — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦The Heart's Filthy Lesson — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Fabulous Beasts — Priya Sharma (nominee)
- ✦Flashpoint: Titan — Kai Wai Cheah (nominee)
- ✦What Price Humanity? — David VanDyke (nominee)
- ✦Hyperspace Demons — Jonathan Moeller (nominee)
- ✦Another Word for World — Ann Leckie(nominee)
- ✦Corpsemouth — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦Empty — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Planet of Fear — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Machine Learning — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦So Much Cooking — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦The Thyme Fiend — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Folding Beijing — Hao Jingfang (nominee)
- ✦Jamaica Ginger — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦Our Lady of the Open Road(nominee)
- ✦And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead — Brooke Bolander(nominee)
- ✦The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦The Machine Starts — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Obits — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red, Red Coal — Chaz Brenchley (nominee)
- ✦Ruins — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Bannerless — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Frost on Glass — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Deepwater Bride — Tamsyn Muir(nominee)
- ✦My Last Bringback — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦Jamaica Ginger — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Slow Bullets — Alastair Reynolds(winner)
- ✦The Vital Abyss — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Fear of the Unknown and Self-Loathing in Hollywood — Nick Cole (nominee)
- ✦The Vital Abyss — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
- ✦Penric's Demon — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Last Witness — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Binti — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Two Paupers — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
- ✦The Bone Swans of Amandale — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
- ✦Johnny Rev — Rachel Pollack (nominee)
- ✦The New Mother(nominee)
- ✦Inhuman Garbage — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Perfect State — Brandon Sanderson(nominee)
- ✦The Citadel of Weeping Pearls — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Gypsy — Carter Scholz (nominee)
- ✦The Visible Filth(nominee)
- ✦Waters of Versailles — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦Teaching the Dog to Read — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦The Strangers — Robert Aickman (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Nemesis Games — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Aurora — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Ancillary Mercy — Ann Leckie(nominee)
- ✦Persona — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Nemesis Games — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦Red Rising — Pierce Brown (nominee)
- ✦Golden Son — Pierce Brown (nominee)
- ✦Somewhither — John C. Wright(nominee)
- ✦Dark Orbit — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦Tracker — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Water Knife — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦The End of All Things — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Europe at Midnight — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦Seveneves — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
- ✦The Thing Itself — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦A Borrowed Man — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Poseidon's Wake — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Agent of the Imperium — Marc W. Miller (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Phoenix — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Planetfall — Emma Newman(nominee)
- ✦Going Dark — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Glorious Angels — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦Luna: New Moon — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Chasing the Phoenix — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Forest — Liu Cixin (nominee)
- ✦Nemesis Games — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦Weighing Shadows — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Radiance — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Cat Pictures Please — Naomi Kritzer (winner)
- ✦The Game of Smash and Recovery — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦Asymmetrical Warfare — S. R. Algernon (nominee)
- ✦Seven Kill Tiger — Charles W. Shao (nominee)
- ✦If You Were an Award, My Love(nominee)
- ✦If You Were an Award, My Love — S. Harris (nominee)
- ✦The Commuter — Thomas A. Mays (nominee)
- ✦Hold-Time Violations — John Chu (nominee)
- ✦The Empress in Her Glory — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Wild Honey — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Space Raptor Butt Invasion — Chuck Tingle(nominee)
- ✦Madeleine — Amal El-Mohtar(nominee)
- ✦Please Undo This Hurt — Seth Dickinson (nominee)
- ✦Little Sisters — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers(nominee)
- ✦The Winter Wraith — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦City of Ash — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Calved — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦When Your Child Strays from God — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Consolation — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Dowager of Bees — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦Hello, Hello — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦A Murmuration — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Dancy vs. the Pterosaur — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Falls — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Pyramid of Krakow — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦In Blue Lily's Wake — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Telling Stories to the Sky — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦Two-Year Man — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦Hairwork — Gemma Files(nominee)
- ✦Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦Rates of Change — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦Today I Am Paul — Martin L. Shoemaker (nominee)
- ✦Pocosin — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
- ✦The Lily and the Horn — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Capitalism in the 22nd Century, or Air — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆The Shepherd's Crown — Terry Pratchett(winner)
- ✦Zeroes — Margo Lanagan(nominee)
- ✦Carry On — Rainbow Rowell(nominee)
- ✦Zeroes — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
- ✦Nimona — N.D. Stevenson(nominee)
- ✦Shadowshaper — Daniel José Older(nominee)
- ✦The Darkest Part of the Forest — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Bone Gap — Laura Ruby (nominee)
- ✦Harrison Squared — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Lair of Dreams — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦The Lie Tree — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Half the World — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦Half a War — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦Zeroes — Deborah Biancotti (nominee)
- ✦Fall — Sean Williams(nominee)
- ✦The Deep Woods — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Magonia — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Wonders of the Invisible World — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦The Walls Around Us — Nova Ren Suma (nominee)
- ✦Railhead — Philip Reeve(nominee)
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