Locus Award Winners
These were announced last night in Seattle, as part of the Science Fiction Museum's 2006 Hall of Fame Awards Weekend. (And I saw them at Emerald City, since I'm not in Seattle right now.)
- Best Science Fiction Novel: Accelerando, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
- Best Fantasy Novel: Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Review)
- Best First Novel: Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
- Best Young Adult Book: Pay the Piper, Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple (Starscape)
- Best Novella: “Magic for Beginners”, Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners, F&SF 9/05)
- Best Novelette: “I, Robot”, Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix, 2/15/05)
- Best Short Story: “Sunbird”, Neil Gaiman (Noisy Outlaws etc.)
- Best Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Best Publisher: Tor
- Best Anthology: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
- Best Collection: Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
- Best Editor: Ellen Datlow
- Best Artist: Michael Whelan
- Best Non-Fiction: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Kate Wilhelm (Small Beer Press)
- Best Art Book: Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Underwood)

