2017 Locus Award Finalists
The finalists for the 2017 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- Company Town by Madeline Ashby (Tor)
- The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)
- Take Back the Sky by Greg Bear (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Visitor by C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- After Atlas by Emma Newman (Roc)
- Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)
- Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
- The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- Necessity by Jo Walton (Tor)
- The Reader by Traci Chee (Putnam)
- Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen (Dunne)
- The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
- The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
- Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (Saga)
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine (Tor)
- Infomocracy by Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl (Tor)
- Vigil by Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Holt)
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
- Double Down by Gwenda Bond (Switch)
- Truthwitch by Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Tor UK)
- Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan)
- Goldenhand by Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)
- Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US ’17)
- This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 23-25, 2017; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Our congratulations to all the nominees!
What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites? How do you like the expanded 10 noms per category?
1 Comment
I’d be lying if I said I’m surprised an utter cash-grab turd as The Medusa Chronicles was able to get on the ballot.
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