Locus Award Winners 2012

The winners of the Locus Awards for 2012 were announced over the weekend over in Seattle at the Locus Awards Weekend.

The Winners include China Miéville for Embassytown, George R.R. Martin for A Dance with Dragons and Neil Gaiman for his short story “The Case of Death and Honey”.

You can see full coverage of the event in the August edition of the Locus magazine but for now here is a list of those winners along with those short-listed titles.

Science Fiction Novel

Embassytown - China Miéville
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Rule 34 - Charles Stross
The Children of the Sky - Vernor Vinge

Fantasy Novel

A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
Snuff - Terry Pratchett
The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente
Among Others - Jo Walton

First Novel

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
God’s War - Kameron Hurley
Soft Apocalypse - Will McIntosh
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti - Genevieve Valentine

Young Adult Book

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente
Planesrunner - Ian McDonald
Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Goliath - Scott Westerfeld

Novella

Silently and Very Fast - Catherynne M. Valente
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs - James P. Blaylock
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” - Kij Johnson
“Kiss Me Twice” - Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Ants of Flanders” - Robert Reed

Novelette

“White Lines on a Green Field” - Catherynne M. Valente
“Underbridge” - Peter S. Beagle
“The Copenhagen Interpretation” - Paul Cornell
“The Summer People” - Kelly Link
“What We Found” - Geoff Ryman

Short Story

“The Case of Death and Honey” - Neil Gaiman
“The Way It Works Out and All” - Peter S. Beagle
“The Paper Menagerie” - Ken Liu
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams” - Catherynne M. Valente
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” - E. Lily Yu

Anthology

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection - Gardner Dozois, ed.
Welcome to Bordertown - Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, eds.
Steampunk! - Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.
Eclipse Four - Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Engineering Infinity - Jonathan Strahan, ed.

Collection

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories - Tim Powers
Sleight of Hand - Peter S. Beagle
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1 - Carol Emshwiller
Two Worlds and In Between - Caitlín R. Kiernan
After the Apocalypse - Maureen F. McHugh

Non-fiction

Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature - Gary K. Wolfe
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination - Margaret Atwood
Becoming Ray Bradbury - Jonathan R. Eller
Musings and Meditations - Robert Silverberg
Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006 - Gary K. Wolfe

Art Books

Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art - Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner
Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It - Mike Ashley, ed.
A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings - Cor Blok
Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art - Karen Haber, ed.
Jeffrey Jones - Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art

Artist

Shaun Tan
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

Editor

Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
Jonathan Strahan
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Gordon Van Gelder

Magazine

Asimov’s
Analog
Clarkesworld
F&SF
Tor.com

Publisher

Tor
Baen
Night Shade
Small Beer
Subterranean