The nominees for the 2009 Locus Awards have been announced. The full list is here.
Here’s a few highlights:
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- Matter, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK)
- City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (Gollancz, Del Rey)
- Marsbound, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)
- Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Orbit, Ace)
Of which I have read three and was generally disappointed with Matter and Saturn’s Children, so Anathem is my winner out of those three.
The first novel nominees contains The Gone-Away World, which I loved and four others I haven’t read.
I also noticed that a large proportion of the short stories, novellas and novellettes are from anthologies or collections, which seems like a change? Two were published on Tor.com and three were published in Asimov’s. As usual it’s hard to tell how much is due to exposure. Out of the nominees the only stories I’ve read are Exhalation by Ted Chiang and The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away by Cory Doctorow. Both of which I quite liked.
The Locus Awards will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 26-27, 2009
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