The 2013 Locus Awards final ballot has been announced, and as ever, it is a fabulous guide signposting some of the very best work published science fiction and fantasy in the past year — a perfect place to start your explorations of the year's books.
I am very honored to have been included on the ballot; my novel Pirate Cinema made the Best Young Adult novel list, which is a particularly strong category this year:
* The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
* Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
* Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
* Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
* The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little '13)
See the full ballot after the jump.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
* The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
* Caliban's War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
FANTASY NOVEL
* The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
* The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
* Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
* Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)
* The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
YOUNG ADULT BOOK
* The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
* Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
* Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
* Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
* The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little '13)
FIRST NOVEL
* Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz '13)
* vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
* Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
* The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
* Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
NOVELLA
* "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 1/12)
* On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)
* After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
* "The Stars Do Not Lie", Jay Lake (Asimov's 10-11/12)
* The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)
NOVELETTE
* "Faster Gun", Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/12)
* "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi", Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
* "Close Encounters", Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
* "Fake Plastic Trees", Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
* "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)
SHORT STORY
* "The Deeps of the Sky", Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
* "Immersion", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
* "Mantis Wives", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
* "Elementals", Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fall '12)
* "Mono No Aware", Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)
ANTHOLOGY
* After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Hyperion)
* The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25)
* The Future Is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
* Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
* The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
COLLECTION
* The Best of Kage Baker, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
* Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
* At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
* The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
* The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
MAGAZINE
* Asimov's
* F&SF
* Tor.com
* Clarkesworld
* Subterranean
PUBLISHER
* Tor
* Subterranean Press
* Orbit
* Baen
* Angry Robot
EDITOR
* John Joseph Adams
* Ellen Datlow
* Gardner Dozois
* Jonathan Strahan
* Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
ARTIST
* Donato Giancola
* Stephan Martiniere
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan
* Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
* An Exile on Planet Earth, Brian Aldiss (Bodleian Library)
* Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, eds. (NonStop)
* Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
* The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
* Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
ART BOOK
* Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
* Trolls, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
* Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration, Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan)
* J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, eds. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Steampunk: An Illustrated History, Brian J. Robb (Aurum)