2008 Locus Awards Finalists

This is hardly new, but since I expect to be done reading the Hugo Nominees in short order and wanted yet another reading list, I found the 2008 Locus Awards finalists. The Locus Awards are something like the People’s Choice Awards, but the people here recognize quality a little bit more than those who vote for the People’s Choice Awards. This should make me sound just enough like a presumptuous a—that I’ll be able to sleep tonight.

I suspect that when I finish with the Hugo nominees and before World Fantasy is announced much later this year, I’ll knock through the stories I haven’t yet read.

The Locus Awards will be announced on June 21.


SF NOVEL
The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)

FANTASY NOVEL
Endless Things, John Crowley (Small Beer Press; Overlook)
Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Extras, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
The H-Bomb Girl, Stephen Baxter (Faber & Faber)
Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

FIRST NOVEL
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)

NOVELLA
"After the Siege", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
"All Seated on the Ground", Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2007)
"Memorare", Gene Wolfe (F&SF Apr 2007)
"Muse of Fire", Dan Simmons (The New Space Opera)
"Stars Seen through Stone", Lucius Shepard (F&SF Jul 2007)

NOVELETTE
"Dark Integers", Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2007)
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007)
"Trunk and Disorderly", Charles Stross (Asimov's Jan 2007)
"We Never Talk About My Brother", Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Jun 2007)
"The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman (Wizards)

SHORT STORY
"The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French", Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One)
"Last Contact", Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
"A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
"Tideline", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?", Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)

COLLECTION
The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)
The Jack Vance Treasury, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder's Mouth)
Things Will Never Be the Same, Howard Waldrop (Old Earth)
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean)

ANTHOLOGY
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Ballantine Del Rey)
The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (St. Martin's)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)