2017 Locus Award Winners Announced

Locus Magazine announced the winners of the 2017 Locus Awards this weekend during a ceremony held in Seattle, Washington. The winners were chosen by an online poll of readers.

Here is a list of winners, along with the nominees in each category:

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: Death’s End by Cixin Liu
• Company Town by Madeline Ashby
• The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds
• Take Back the Sky by Greg Bear
• Visitor by C.J. Cherryh
• Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey
• After Atlas by Emma Newman
• Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson

FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle
• City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
• Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
• The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
• Necessity by Jo Walton

HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: The Fireman by Joe Hill
• The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher
• Fellside by M.R. Carey
• Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Fisherman by John Langan
• Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
• Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• WINNER: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
• Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
• Lois Lane: Double Down by Gwenda Bond
• Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
• Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
• Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh
• Goldenhand by Garth Nix
• This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman

FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Reader by Traci Chee
• Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen
• The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
• The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
• Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
• Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine
• Infomocracy by Malka Older
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• Vigil by Angela Slatter

NOVELLA

• WINNER: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• This Census-taker by China Miéville
• The Iron Tactician by Alastair Reynolds
• The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
• Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling
• A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

NOVELETTE

• WINNER: “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)
• ‘‘The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (Tor.com)
• “Pearl” by Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)
• “Red as Blood and White as Bone” by Theodora Goss (Tor.com)
• “Foxfire, Foxfire” by Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16)
• “The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/16)
• “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
• “Those Shadows Laugh” by Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/16)
• “The Future is Blue” by Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

SHORT STORY

• WINNER: “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “The Story of Kao Yu” by Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com)
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• “A Salvaging of Ghosts” by Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)
• “The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com)
• “Seven Birthdays” by Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
• “Afrofuturist 419” by Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 11/16)
• “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee” by Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
• “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com)
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com)

ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: The Big Book of Science Fiction, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• Children of Lovecraft, edited by Ellen Datlow
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, edited by Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke
• Tremontaine, edited by Ellen Kushner
• Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu
• The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
• Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathan Strahan

COLLECTION

• WINNER: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
• Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
• Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason
• A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford
• The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Found and the Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Best of Ian McDonald by Ian McDonald
• Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip
• Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds by Alastair Reynolds
• Not So Much, Said the Cat by Michael Swanwick

MAGAZINE

• WINNER: Tor.com
• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• WINNER: Tor
• Angry Robot
• Baen
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Saga
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• WINNER: Ellen Datlow
• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Gardner Dozois
• C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
• Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams
• Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

• WINNER: Julie Dillon
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• Victo Ngai
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• WINNER: The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
• Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981-1990 by Mike Ashley
• Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan
• Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction by André M. Carrington
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
• The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
• Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
• Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition by Adam Roberts
• Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

ART BOOK

• WINNER: Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie by Charles Vess
• Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano
• Beauty and the Beast, illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft
• Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book by Kinuko Y. Craft
• Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by John Fleskes
• Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law by Stephanie Law
• Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie by Ralph McQuarrie
• Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined by Ron Miller
• The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, edited by Dermot Power
• The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales, illustrated by Shaun Tan

Congratulations to the winners and all the nominees!