2009 Locus Awards winners announced

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30th June 2009 04:37 PM

Elaine Frei

The winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced Saturday, 27 June, in Seattle, Washington.

Among the winners were:

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow), as Best Science Fiction Novel

Lavina, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt), as Best Fantasy Novel

Singularity’s Ring, by Paul Melkor (Tor) as Best First Novel

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury) as Best Young-Adult Novel

In addition, the graphic novel version of Gaiman’s Coraline, Coraline: The Graphic Novel won in the Non-Fiction/Art Book category for adapter and illustrator P. Craig Russell.

Among winning shorter fiction, “Pretty Monsters”, by Kelly Link, was the winning novella while “Pump Six” by Paolo Bacigalupi won as best novelette and “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang was the winning short story.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozios (St. Martin’s) won in the Anthology category, while Pump Six and other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books), which includes Bacigalupi’s winning novellete, was the best Collection.

Other winners were Ellen Datlow as Best Editor, Michael Whelan as Best Artist, F&SF as Best Magazine, and Tor as Best Publisher.

The Locus Awards are determined by a poll of the readers of Locus Magazine.
 

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