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2019 Nebula Award Winner!
The 2019 Nebula Awards were presented in an online ceremony this weekend. The best novel winner is:
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
Our congrats to Sarah Pinsker and all the other nominees.
- Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
Locus has the full list of winners in all categories.
This win puts Pinsker on our Award Winning Books by Women Authors list for the 2nd time this year.
2020 Andre Norton Award Winner!
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the winner of the 2020 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:
Riverland by Fran Wilde
The award was announced with the Nebula winners over this weekend.
Our congrats to Fran Wilde and all the nominees:
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
- Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien
- Cog by Greg van Eekhout
What do you think of this result?
2020 Locus Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2020 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
- Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone (Tor)
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
- The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
- A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
- Jade War by Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
- Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
- The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick (Tor)
- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
- Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
- Prisoner of Midnight by Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
- Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
- Black Leopard by Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
- The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
- The Institute by Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju by Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
- The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
- The Toll by Cherie Priest (Tor)
- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
- The Wicked King by Holly Black (Little by Brown; Hot Key)
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
- Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
- Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
- Angel Mage by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
- Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
- Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- Finder by Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
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. Our congratulations to all the nominees!
What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?
2019 BSFA Award Winner
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the winners of the BSFA Awards for works published in 2019.
In the Best Novel category the winner is Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, (Orbit). Our congrats to Adrian and all the nominees:
- The Green Man’s Foe by Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower Press)
- Atlas Alone by Emma Newman (Ace Books)
- Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell (Titan Books)
- The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
See the lists for all categories over on Locus. What do you think of this result?
2020 Aurora Awards Finalists
The 2020 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2019.” The nominees in the Best Novel category are:
- Haunting the Haunted by E. C. Bell (Tyche)
- The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
- A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
- The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken (Solaris)
- Jade War by Fonda Lee (Orbit)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Locus has the list of finalists in all categories.
Our congrats to all the nominees. What do you think of this list? Anything there look good to you?
