The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards. on Saturday, June 25, 2016 during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Borzoi; Orbit UK)
• Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
• A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Roc; Gollancz)
• Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS; Open Road)
• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)

• Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Harper Voyager UK)
• Half the World, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)
• Harrison Squared, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
• Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)

• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan UK)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)

NOVELLA

• Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)

• Penric’s Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold (self-published)
• ‘‘The Citadel of Weeping Pearls’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 10-11/15)
• ‘‘The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred’’, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 12/15)
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

• ‘‘Black Dog’’, Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning)

• ‘‘The Heart’s Filthy Lesson’’, Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus)
• ‘‘And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead’’, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
• ‘‘Folding Beijing’’, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny 1-2/15)
• ‘‘Another Word for World’’, Ann Leckie (Future Visions)

SHORT STORY

• ‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)

• ‘‘Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/15)
• ‘‘Madeleine’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
• ‘‘The Dowager of Bees’’, China Miéville (Three Moments of an Explosion)
• ‘‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’’, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)

ANTHOLOGY

• Old Venus, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)
  

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  
• Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
  
• Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl & Bill Campbell, eds. (Rosarium)
  
• Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

COLLECTION

• Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)

• The Best of Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford (Subterranean)
• The Best of Nancy Kress, Nancy Kress (Subterranean)
• Dancing Through the Fire, Tanith Lee (Fantastic Books)
• Three Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey 2016)

MAGAZINE

• Asimov’s

• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Tor.com

PUBLISHER

• Tor

• Baen
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Subterranean

EDITOR

• David G. Hartwell

• John Joseph Adams
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan

ARTIST

• Michael Whelan

• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• John Picacio

NON-FICTION

• Letters to Tiptree, Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks, Simone Caroti (McFarland)
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Edward James (University of Illinois Press)
• Frederik Pohl, Michael R. Page (University of Illinois Press)
• Ray Bradbury, David Seed (University of Illinois Press)

ART BOOK

• Julie Dillon, Julie Dillon’s Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky (self-published)

• Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner, ed. (Underwood)
• Spectrum 22: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design, Steven Heller, ed. (Pomegranate)
• The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume One: Lands & Legends, Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer (Michael Publishing)

 

The Locus Awards are chosen by a survey of readers in an open online poll that runs from February 1 to April 15. We welcome and invite everyone to vote in the poll. Our recommended list for 2015 can be found here.

Connie Willis was M

C for the awards ceremony. Weekend events included author readings with Willis and Stephen Graham Jones; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Paul Park, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale courtesy of University Book Store; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai’ian shirt contest, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night.

For more information about the Locus Awards please visit the 2016 Locus Awards Information Page.