2010 Locus Awards finalists

The finalists for the 2010 Locus Awards have been announced. The winners will be awarded at the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27.

Science Fiction Novel:
- "The Empress of Mars" - Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
- "Steal Across the Sky" - Nancy Kress (Tor)
- "Boneshaker" - Cherie Priest (Tor)
- "Galileo's Dream" - Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
- "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America" - Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Fantasy Novel:
- "The City & The City" - China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- "Unseen Academicals" - Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
- "Drood" - Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
- "Palimpsest" - Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- "Finch" - Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)

First Novel:
- "The Windup Girl" - Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
- "The Manual of Detection" - Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
- "Soulless" - Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
- "Lamentation" - Ken Scholes (Tor)
- "Norse Code" - Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)

Young-Adult Novel:
- "The Hotel Under the Sand" - Kage Baker (Tachyon)
- "Going Bovine" - Libba Bray (Delacorte)
- "Catching Fire" - Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
- "Liar" - Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
- "Leviathan" - Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Novella:
- "The Women of Nell Gwynne's" - Kage Baker (Subterranean)
- "Act One" - Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
- "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" - Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
- "Shambling Towards Hiroshima" - James Morrow (Tachyon)
- "Palimpsest" - Charles Stross (Wireless)

Novelette:
- "By Moonlight" - Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
- "It Takes Two" - Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
- "First Flight" - Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
- "Eros, Philia, Agape" - Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
- "The Island" - Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)

Short Story:
- "The Pelican Bar" - Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
- "An Invocation of Incuriosity" - Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)
- "Spar" - Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
- "Going Deep" - James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
- "Useless Things" - Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)

Magazine:
- Analog
- Asimov's
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- Tor.com

Publisher:
- Baen
- Night Shade
- Pyr
- Subterranean
- Tor

Anthology:

- "Lovecraft Unbound" - Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- "The New Space Opera 2" - Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)
- "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection" - Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- "Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance" - George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean)
- "Eclipse Three" - Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Collection:
- "We Never Talk About My Brother" - Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- "Cyberabad Days" - Ian McDonald (Pyr)
- "Wireless" - Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
- "The Best of Gene Wolfe" - Gene Wolfe (Tor); as "The Very Best of Gene Wolfe" (PS)
- "The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6" - Roger Zelazny (NESFA)

Editor:
- Ellen Datlow
- Gardner Dozois
- David G. Hartwell
- Jonathan Strahan
- Gordon Van Gelder

Artist:
- Stephan Martinière
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan

Non-fiction/Art Book:

- "Powers: Secret Histories" - John Berlyne (PS)
- "Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" - Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- "Cheek by Jowl" - Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)
- "This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I")" - Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- "Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess" - Charles Vess (Dark Horse)

Congratulations and good luck to all!