2010 Locus Award winners!

Cory Doctorow 7:14 pm Sat Jun 26, 2010

The 2010 Locus Magazine Awards for science fiction were handed out today — many of the winners were reviewed here as well (links below). You'd be hard pressed to find a better reading list of great contemporary SF:

Best SF Novel:

Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel:

The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel:

The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book:

Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella:

The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette:

"By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story:

"An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology:

The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection:

The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

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