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2019 Locus Awards Winners
The winners for the 2019 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- WINNER: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit)
- Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit)
- Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
- If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
- Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
- Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- WINNER: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Ahab’s Return by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
- Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)
- Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
- European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss (Saga)
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
- Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
- The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
- The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (Tor)
- The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)
- WINNER: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
- Annex by Rich Larson (Orbit)
- Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
- Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
- The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken (Solaris)
- Semiosis by Sue Burke (Tor)
- Severance by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)
- WINNER: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- The Agony House by Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
- Cross Fire by Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, by Brown; Hot Key)
- The Gone Away Place by Christopher Barzak (Knopf)
- Half-Witch by John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
- Impostors by Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic)
- Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen (Philomel)
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (Random House)
See the complete list of winners and nominees for all categories over on Locus.
New version 5 of Classics of Science Fiction
We are now rolling out version 5 of the Classics of Science Fiction list. Since 1987 how the lists were generated has changed with each new version. Version 5 is driven by a database and programs that allow us to add new citation sources on the fly. Hopefully, that means we won’t have to write new versions of the list generator in the future. But it does mean the list will automatically change when we add new data.
We have never claimed our lists of “classic science fiction” are the absolute best of all science fiction to read. Our goal has been to track how science fiction stories are remembered over time. Most stories are quickly forgotten. A few get remembered for years, and sometimes decades. Rare works are still read a century later. Collectively, we remember some stories, but that doesn’t mean that individuals don’t find stories that resonate overwhelmingly with their own unique reading tastes that don’t get recognition statistically.
In version 5 of the Classics of Science Fiction and Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories, almost everything is a hyperlink, and each column can be resorted by clicking on the heading label. There is also a build your own list where visitors can create custom lists. Titles and authors are linked to ISFDB.org, and from there you can follow links to other resources.
At the top of each list is the option to show the citations or turn them off. The citations are in order by year. If you study these lists and citations, you’ll see how stories are remembered and forgotten. If you are old enough, this might spur wistful memories.
We control the size of the generated lists by specifying the number of citations. For our classics lists we use 12 for books, and 8 for stories. These produce lists of around 100 titles, a size that seems to capture the most remembered stories. Stories we like to think of as classics. If you want fewer stories up the citation requirements, if you want more, lower them.
A fun thing to do with the custom list builder is to search for the most popular science fiction for the decade of your teen years. That tends to be everyone’s golden age of science fiction.
Our new URL is https://csfquery.com.
