The winners of 2011 Locus Awards were announced late June in Seattle, Washington. We confess that we missed them. They tend to be more toward fantasy and science fiction, but since in many ways these are genres that often invokes horror, much as horror invokes them, we thought you might be interested. So here are the winners …
Science Fiction Novel
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Fantasy Novel
Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
First Novel
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Young Adult Book
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Novella
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
Novelette
“The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)
Short Story
“The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)
Magazine
Asimov’s
Publisher
Tor
Anthology
Warriors, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)
Collection
Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)
Editor
Ellen Datlow
Artist
Shaun Tan
Non-fiction
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr., (Tor)
Art Books
Spectrum 17, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
