Les finalistes du prix Locus 2012 viennent d'être annoncés. 
Les lauréats seront connus le week-end du 15-17 juin à l'occasion du Science Fiction Awards Weekend à Seattle. 

Science Fiction Novel 
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) 
11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63) 
Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan) 
Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK) 
The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor) 

Fantasy Novel 
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK) 
Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK) 
The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz) 
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor) 
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) 

First Novel 
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century) 
God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade) 
Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade) 
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday) 
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime) 

Young Adult Book 
Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr) 
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking) 
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk) 
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends) 
Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) 

Novella 
The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean) 
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11) 
“Kiss Me Twice”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11) 
“The Ants of Flanders”, Robert Reed (F&SF 7-8/11) 
Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA) 

Novelette 
“Underbridge”, Peter S. Beagle (Naked City) 
“The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11) 
“The Summer People”, Kelly Link (Tin House: The Ecstatic/Steampunk!) 
“What We Found”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11) 
“White Lines on a Green Field”, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fall ’11) 

Short Story 
“The Way It Works Out and All”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF 7-8/11) 
“The Case of Death and Honey”, Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock) 
“The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11) 
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams”, Catherynne M. Valente (Apex 11/11) 
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11) 

Le reste des nominations