Locus has announced the finalists for their annual Poll; winners will be announced on June 16th at the Locus Awards Ceremony at the Science Fiction Museum during the Hall of Fame Weekend.

Best Science Fiction Novel:

• Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
• Carnival, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Farthing, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Orbit; Ace)
• Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel:

• The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (Golden Gryphon Press; Ace) (also available in the SFBC omnibus On Her Majesty's Occult Service)
• The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Morrow)
• The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra) (also available in the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside)
• Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)

Best First Novel:

• Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
• The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
• The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
• Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Voyager); as Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)

Best Young Adult Book:

• The Keys to the Kingdom: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; The Chicken House)
• Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier (Penguin/Razorbill) (also available in the SFBC omnibus The Magic of Reason)
• Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
• Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion Children's; Harcourt)
• Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperTempest)

Best Novella:

• "Botch Town", Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream) (also available in Best Short Novels: 2007)
• Lord Weary's Empire", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 12/06)  (also available in Best Short Novels: 2007)
• "Map of Dreams", M. Rickert (Map of Dreams)
• "The Mars Girl", Joe Haldeman (Escape from Earth)
• Missile Gap", Charles Stross (One Million A.D.)

Best Novelette: 

• "I, Row-Boat", Cory Doctorow (Flurb 1, Fall '06)
• "The Night Whiskey", Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)
• "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)", Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11/06)
• "The Singularity Needs Women!", Paul Di Filippo (Forbidden Planets [Crowther])
• "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth", Cory Doctorow (Baen's Universe 8/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)

Best Short Story: 

• "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
• "In the Abyss of Time", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 8/06)
• "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 7/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)
• "Sob in the Silence", Gene Wolfe (Strange Birds)
• "Tin Marsh", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 8/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)

Best Magazine: 

• Analog
• Asimov's
• Interzone
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Strange Horizons

Best Publisher: 

• Baen
• Del Rey
• Night Shade Books
• Subterranean Press
• Tor

Best Anthology: 

• One Million A.D., Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)
• Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth Press)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
• Year's Best SF 11, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)

Best Collection: 

• The Best of Philip José Farmer, Philip José Farmer (Subterranean Press) 
• The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
• Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
• Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Best Editor: 

• Jim Baen
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Gordon Van Gelder

Best Artist: 

• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Best Non-Fiction: 

• About Writing, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
• Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn (MonkeyBrain Books)
• The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, John Clute (Payseur & Schmidt)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)
• Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Win Scott Eckert (MonkeyBrain Books)

Best Art Book: 

• Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Underwood)
• Edward Gorey, Amphigorey Again (Harcourt)
• John Jude Palencar, Origins (Underwood Books)
• John Picacio, Cover Story (MonkeyBrain Books)
• Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, The Fabulous Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (HarperCollins/Collins Design)

Good luck to all of the nominees!