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)
