Science Fiction Awards Watch

The results of this year’s Locus Awards were announced in Seattle today. We helped Locus provide live coverage at their website. Here are the winners:

Science Fiction Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Young Adult Novel: Leviathan, Scott [...]

The Locus Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Seattle tomorrow. Locus has chosen to use CoverItLive to provide live, text-based web coverage of the ceremony, just as we have done for the Hugos and World Fantasy Awards. Cheryl and Kevin will be on hand to help out. Liz Argall will report live from [...]

Locus magazine has announced the top five finishers in their annual Locus Awards. As usual, the winners are already known to Locus. There are no further rounds of voting. The winners will be announced and the awards presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010. The full lists are available [...]

There are a number of major award deadlines coming up. Only SFWA members can vote in the Nebulas, but everyone can participate in the Locus Awards and David Gemmell Awards (yes, horribly designed web site, sorry). Vote over the weekend, you know you won’t have time during the week and by Easter it will be [...]

Our apologies to Dark Scribe magazine for being a bit late commenting on the winners of their Black Quill Awards. You can find this year’s winners here.
We tend to be slightly skeptical of magazine awards here as they are often just a reader poll for material published in the magazine. However, Dark Scribe, like Locus [...]

Locus magazine has opened voting in their 40th annual awards. The poll looks a little different this year, with the traditional drop-down menus being replaced by boxes where you are asked to enter up to 5 preferences. As usual the books on the Locus Recommended Reading List are all included as options, but you have [...]

Just announced at the award ceremony in Seattle, here they are:

Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)
Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
First Novel: Singularity’s Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)
Young-Adult Book: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)
Novella: “Pretty Monsters”, Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)
Novelette: “Pump Six”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)
Short [...]

The finalists for this year’s Locus Awards have been announced. The full lists are available on the Locus web site.
If the usual practice is being kept to then the winners are already known – these lists are just for your entertainment between now and Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle on June 26-27.
(Hat tip, and congratulations, [...]

The deadline for voting in the Locus Awards is April 15th. It is free to vote, so all you have to do is go and fill in the form. Remember that the drop-downs are not binding – you can write in candidates if you want.
Hmm, Emerald City is still listed in the drop-down for Best [...]

Further to our discussion of fiction category lengths, Charles Brown has published the relevant section of his last Locus editorial on the new Locus Online blog. You can read it all here and comment.
We have no particular views one way or another with regard to what the actual boundaries should be, though we would love [...]

The 2009 Locus Awards have opened with the publication of the usual poll on the Locus web site. The voting instructions don’t say anything about how votes will be counted, but at the moment we are assuming that, as with last year, the votes of subscribers will be given more weight than those of non-subscribers. [...]

io9 has finally caught up with the Locus Awards affair. There’s a fairly large comment thread with a few rather depressing if predictable entries:
hey all votes are rigged, just like the real elections
and
Wow, Locus is as twisted and dishonest as republicans are. That’s the end of my subscription. Dishonest organizations don’t deserve our $$.
But most [...]

The latest issue of Locus has apparently arrived with subscribers. We don’t have our copy. Cheryl is in the UK and Kevin is still driving home from Westercon. But other people have theirs, and have been busily reading about the award voting statistics. Neil Clark is not happy, and it is easy to see why. [...]

From Locus Online, we see the results of this year’s Locus Awards:

SF Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
Fantasy Novel: Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
Young Adult Book: Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
Novella: “After the Siege”, Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix [...]

Locus has posted the top five finishers in each category for the Locus Awards. These are not “nominees” in the usual sense of finalists that will be voted upon. The winners are already known, and will be announced at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle on June 21st. Locus is just announcing the top five [...]

The deadline for the Locus Awards is now less than a week away. Remember, it costs nothing to vote, you don’t have to be a member or a club or a convention, or a Locus subscriber. There is no conspiracy preventing you from voting. You can do so here.

OK, so the Hugos are done and dusted for a while, but award season is in full swing. The next deadline on your calendar should be the Locus Awards. Remember, the voting for these awards is completely open. You don’t have to pay a fee, you don’t have to join a convention, you don’t even [...]

The ballot for this year’s Locus Awards is now available here. This is an open ballot. You don’t have to be a member of any organization, or pay any money, in order to vote, so you have no excuses for not participating. The deadline is April 15th.

One of the Hugo Categories that gets most flak from people is Best Related Book, because it is unashamedly a “catch-all”. Voters complain about the impossibility of deciding which is best between an art book and a collection of academic essays. The artists and the academics both complain about how unfair it is that they [...]