2012 Locus Award Winners Announced
Locus Magazine has announced the winners of the 2012 Locus Awards. The winners in the novel categories are:
- Science Fiction Novel: Embassytown, China MiƩville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Fantasy Novel: A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
- Young Adult Novel: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
- First Novel: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
The complete list of all categories is available on the Locus web site. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees! So what do you think of the results?
The Locus Young Adult Award
As part of our new YA Genre Fiction Month we’ve just added the Locus Young Adult Award for best novel to the site. The award was first issued in 2003 so it has not been around a long time like some of our other awards but we feel it’s a great place to start our expanded coverage.
If you’re a fan of YA this is the award for you but more than that it’s a great resource for us parents trying to introduce our children to genre fiction. Tolkien and Lewis, and the other classics we know and love, can only take us so far. If you’re at all like me you may not know where to begin with the more recent work and oftentimes unfamiliar authors. Plus, with the holiday season rolling ’round the corner, this list of great books might come in handy when you go shopping. Christmas without books is just not Christmas – even if my kids disagree.
So what do you think of this award? Have you read many of these books? Any that you would recommend?