Winaars Locus Awards 2018 bekend gemaakt

Tijdens het Locus Awards evenement in Seattle werden dit weekend de winnaars bekend gemaakt van de prestigieuze Locus Awards. Verdeeld over 16 categorieën, zoals beste fantasyboek, beste sciencefictionboek, beste horrorboek en beste debuut waren er telkens 10 auteurs geselecteerd die meededen voor de prijs. Klik hier voor de complete lijst met nominaties en winnaars.

Enkele van de winnaars van verschillende categorieën en de mede-genomineerden (dikgedrukt bovenaan is de winnaar):

SCIENCE FICTION BOEK

• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor)
• Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US)
• Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga)
• Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US)
• Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US)
• Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor)
• Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US)
• Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada)

FANTASY BOEK

• The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace)
• The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
• Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US)
• The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing)
• Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)

HORROR BOEK

• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
• Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar)
• After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
• Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US)
• The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
• Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
• Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron)
• Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
• Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOEK

• Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
• Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin)
• Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf)

DEBUUT

• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
• Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
• Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
• Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
• Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

NOVELLE

• All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
• In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
• Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• And Then There Were (N-One),” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)