Locus award for best sf of 2008 -- shortlist published

The Locus Award shortlist has been posted -- this is the list of the best science fiction books and stories of the year, as chosen by the general public. I'm immensely gratified to say that I'm on the list three times, for my young adult novel Little Brother, my collaborative novella True Names (with Ben Rosenbaum), and my novelette The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away.

The whole list is a great jumping-off point for exploring the best written sf and fantasy of 2008!

2009 Locus Award Finalists

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

@#1: I agree. I have a big problem with genre creep. I don’t dislike that fantasy stuff but it’s not my thing. Why give them distinct categories just to lump them all together?
nutbastard

i know this is like shouting at an iceberg, but lord how i wish SF and Fantasy weren’t lumped together all. the. time. It’s a real pain in book stores, I’m looking for Hard SF and it’s all buried in with books featuring wizards and swords and crap on the covers.