Ya conocemos las obras finalistas de los premios Locus 2017. Son las siguientes;
Novela de ciencia ficción
- Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
- The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)
- Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Babylon’s Ashes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)
- Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)
- Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Novela de fantasía
- All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
- The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Wall of Storms, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
- The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)
Novela de terror
- The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R.S. Belcher (Tor)
- Fellside, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Fireman, Joe Hill (Morrow)
- Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)
- The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)
- Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)
- HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)
- Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
- Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)
Mejor novela juvenil
- Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (Holt)
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
- Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond (Switch)
- Truthwitch, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Tor UK)
- Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan)
- Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)
- Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US ’17)
- This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
Primera novela
- The Reader, Traci Chee (Putnam)
- Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen (Dunne)
- The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
- The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
- Roses and Rot, Kat Howard (Saga)
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
- Infomocracy, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
- Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
- Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)
Novella
- The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
- Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
- Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- This Census-taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
- The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds (NewCon)
- The Dispatcher, John Scalzi (Audible; Subterranean 2017)
- Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling (Tachyon)
- A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)
Novelette
- ‘‘The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16)
- “Pearl”, Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)
- “Red as Blood and White as Bone”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 5/4/16)
- “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16)
- “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/16)
- “Spinning Silver”, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
- “Those Shadows Laugh”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/16)
- “The Future is Blue”, Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
- “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)
Relato corto
- “The Story of Kao Yu“, Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com 12/7/16)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
- “A Salvaging of Ghosts“, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)
- “Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Amal el-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
- “The City Born Great“, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)
- “Seven Birthdays”, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
- “Afrofuturist 419“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 11/16)
- “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
- “That Game We Played During the War“, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 3/16/16)
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers“, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/02/16)
Antología
- Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29)
- Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke, eds. (Crossed Genres)
- Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, ed. (Serial Box; Saga ’17)
- Invisible Planets, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
Colección
- Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct)
- A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
- The Found and the Lost, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald (PS)
- Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
- Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean; Gollancz)
- Not So Much, Said the Cat, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)
Revista
- Analog
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- File 770
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Tor.com
- Uncanny
Editorial
- Angry Robot
- Baen
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Orbit
- Saga
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tachyon
- Tor
Editor
- John Joseph Adams
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Gardner Dozois
- C.C. Finlay
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
- Navah Wolfe
Artista
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Galen Dara
- Julie Dillon
- Bob Eggleton
- Donato Giancola
- Victo Ngai
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
No ficción
- Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981-1990, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University)
- Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press)
- Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
- The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline)
- Time Travel: A History, James Gleick (Pantheon)
- The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)
- Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
Libro de arte
- Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations, Yoshitaka Amano (VIZ Media)
- Kinuko Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast, Mahlon F. Craft (Harper)
- Kinuko Y. Craft, Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book (Amber Lotus)
- Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- Stephanie Law, Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes)
- Ralph McQuarrie, Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie (Abrams)
- Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined, Ron Miller (Smithsonian/Elephant Book Company)
- The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dermot Power, ed. (Harper Design; HarperCollins UK)
- Shaun Tan, The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Allen & Unwin 2015; Arthur A. Levine; Walker UK)
- Charles Vess, Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Faerie Magazine)
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!
