{"id":2076,"date":"2011-05-13T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:06","slug":"locus-award-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/13\/locus-award-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Locus Award finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locus magazine has announced the finalists for this year&#8217;s Locus Award, a popular science fiction, fantasy and horror award voted on by the magazine&#8217;s readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Science Fiction Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n* Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US)<br \/>\n* Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/09\/06\/gibsons-zero-history.html\">Zero History<\/a>, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/07\/12\/ian-mcdonalds-dervis.html\">The Dervish House<\/a>, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)<br \/>\n* Blackout\/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasy Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n* Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)<br \/>\n* Kraken, China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)<br \/>\n* Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)<br \/>\n* The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)<br \/>\n* The Sorcerer&#8217;s House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n* The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)<br \/>\n* The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/08\/02\/shades-of-milk-and-h.html\">Shades of Milk and Honey<\/a>, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)<br \/>\n* The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)<br \/>\n* How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Adult Book<\/strong><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/12\/01\/paolo-bacigalupis-sh.html\">Ship Breaker<\/a>, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)<br \/>\n* Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)<br \/>\n* Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/12\/pratchetts-i-shall-w.html\">I Shall Wear Midnight<\/a>, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/07\/scott-westerfelds-be.html\">Behemoth<\/a>, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon &amp; Schuster UK)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/12\/locus-award-finalist-1.html\">Locus Award finalists announced &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locus magazine has announced the finalists for this year&#8217;s Locus Award, a popular science fiction, fantasy and horror award voted on by the magazine&#8217;s readers. Science Fiction Novel * Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US) * Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) * Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK) * The Dervish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/13\/locus-award-finalists-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Locus Award finalists announced<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[325,252,414],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-325","tag-awards","tag-locus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10138,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}