Locus Magazine a dévoilé les finalistes du prix Locus. Les vainqueurs définitifs seront annoncés le week-end du 24 juin. Voici la liste de tous les nominés pour le prix pour toutes les catégories :
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
*The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Borzoi; Orbit UK)
*Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
*Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
*Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
*A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
FANTASY NOVEL
*Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
*The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Roc; Gollancz)
*Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS; Open Road)
*The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
*Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
YOUNG ADULT BOOK
*Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Harper Voyager UK)
*Half the World, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey)
*Harrison Squared, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
*Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
*The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
FIRST NOVEL
*Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan UK)
*The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
*Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
*The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
*The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com)
NOVELLA
*Penric’s Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold (self-published)
*‘‘The Citadel of Weeping Pearls’’, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 10-11/15)
*‘‘The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred’’, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 12/15)
*Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
*Slow Bullets, Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)
NOVELETTE
*‘‘The Heart’s Filthy Lesson’’, Elizabeth Bear (Old Venus)
*‘‘And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead’’, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
*‘‘Black Dog’’, Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning)
*‘‘Folding Beijing’’, Hao Jingfang (Uncanny 1-2/15)
*‘‘Another Word for World’’, Ann Leckie (Future Visions)
SHORT STORY
*‘‘Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/15)
*‘'Madeleine’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
*‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
*‘‘The Dowager of Bees’’, China Miéville (Three Moments of an Explosion)
*‘‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’’, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)
ANTHOLOGY
*The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-second Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
*Old Venus, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)
*Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
*Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl & Bill Campbell, eds. (Rosarium)
*Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
COLLECTION
*The Best of Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford (Subterranean)
*Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
*The Best of Nancy Kress, Nancy Kress (Subterranean)
*Dancing Through the Fire, Tanith Lee (Fantastic Books)
*Three Moments of an Explosion, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey 2016)
MAGAZINE
*Asimov’s
*Clarkesworld
*F&SF
*File 770
*Tor.com
PUBLISHER
*Baen
*Gollancz
*Orbit
*Tor
*Subterranean
EDITOR
*John Joseph Adams
*Ellen Datlow
*Gardner Dozois
*David G. Hartwell
*Jonathan Strahan
ARTIST
*Galen Dara
*Julie Dillon
*Bob Eggleton
*John Picacio
*Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
*The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks, Simone Caroti (McFarland)
*Lois McMaster Bujold, Edward James (University of Illinois Press)
*Letters to Tiptree, Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
*Frederik Pohl, Michael R. Page (University of Illinois Press)
*Ray Bradbury, David Seed (University of Illinois Press)
ART BOOK
*Julie Dillon, Julie Dillon’s Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky (self-published)
*Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner, ed. (Underwood)
*Spectrum 22: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
*Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design, Steven Heller, ed. (Pomegranate)
*The Fantasy Illustration Library, Volume One: Lands & Legends, Malcolm R. Phifer & Michael C. Phifer (Michael Publishing)