#locus awards

[colleendoran]

Delighted to have the LOCUS and EISNER Awards for Neil Gaiman's CHIVALRY in the house! Thank you Dave Marshall for accepting for us and thank you to the committee, our co-letterer Todd Klein, Dark Horse Comics, and all the readers who helped make this dream come true!!!

Please do ask for CHIVALRY at your local library, comic shop, or bookstore. or order online! Thank you!

[smashpages]

Chivalry, the short story by Neil Gaiman adapted into a graphic novel by Colleen Doran, has won a Locus Award in the category of “Illustrated and Art Book.”

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[betterthanapokeintheeye]

Huzzah !

The wonderfully humble Rob Wilkins has won an Locus Award for Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes!

We really couldnt' be more pleased for him, he really does derserve all the awards for his beautiful biography of Terry.

For those who don't know, the Locus Awards are a set of literary awards that are voted upon by the readers of Locus magazine although in recent years, anyone can vote.

They started back in 1971 and they are highly regarded in the industry.

Many well known authors have a few Locus awards on their shelves, Terry Pratchett won five over the years for Making Money, The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, A Hat Full of Sky and posthumously for The Shepherd's Crown.

[tardistogongen]

For your consideration: With "Apple Tree Yard" as my submission for the IAMTW Scribe Awards, I'm crossing my fingers this will be my year. It's my strongest and most notable submission so far, and I hope folks give it a shot :) . Also eligible for other awards including the Locus Awards in the novelette category! You can read it here for free.

[brittanyacts]

Your girl made the recommended reading list for the Locus scifi & fantasy lit awards! 😭😭

2023 Locus Magazine Recommending Reading List

This is on top of them reviewing That Self-Same Metal and saying wonderful things. I'm just thrilled about it frfr

Y'all can vote here between now & April 15th. Run it up for our girl Joan 💜

[gollancz]

https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2024-locus-awards-top-ten-finalists/

The finalists for the 2024 Locus awards are here and we're tickled pink and chuffed to bits to have a few representatives in the running!

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

A Fire Born of Exile - Aliette de Bodard

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath - Garth Nix

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi

BEST PUBLISHER

Gollancz

The Locus Awards shortlists are the result of a public ballot by readers, so this means so much as it shows people out there enjoying our authors and our work. Thanks so much, guys!

I will be unbearable if any of them win!

[bookmaven]

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ by Walter M. Miller. (New York: Lippincot, 1959) Cover art by M. Glasser. First edition was issued with a paper banner from publisher.

‘A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.

The novel is an amalgamation of three short stories Miller had originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [April 1955-February 1957], inspired by the author's participation in the bombing of a monastery at the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II. The book is considered one of the classics of science fiction and has never been out of print. Appealing to mainstream and genre critics and readers alike, it won the 1961 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and often appears on "best of" lists. It has been recognized three times with Locus Poll Awards for best all-time science fiction novel. Its themes of religion, recurrence, and church versus state have generated a significant body of scholarly research.’

source [NPR radio drama]

source [paperback edition]

[theladyfromplanetx]

The many covers of The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[exrpan]

in which life continues to be surreal

In some incredible news, AN ARROW TO THE MOON is a Locus Award finalist AND has been nominated for a Chinese American Librarians Association best book award. (!!!!!!!!!!!)

I’m fiercely proud of the way I leveled up as a writer with ARROW, so it’s just really very lovely to get these nods. The Locus Award is one of those things that my teenage self dreamed of—I’m very tickled to imagine how I might have reacted half my lifetime ago, if someone from the future had traveled back in time to tell me that one day I would be a Locus finalist alongside some very talented authors.

[pointliteral]

System Collapse de Martha Wells, o sétimo volume da série “The Murderbot Diaries”, foi o grande vencedor na categoria de Melhor Ficção Científica do Locus Award.

[colleendoran]

Very pleased and excited, CHIVALRY by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by me with lettering by me and Todd Klein, published by Dark Horse Comics makes the LOCUS Awards Best Illustrated and Art Book nomination list.

I was bowled over by Kinuko Craft's amazing VISIONS OF BEAUTY, and being nominated alongside her has me really stoked. Charles Vess is also nominated for Best Artist.

Good luck to all and thanks for including us, we're really honored.

[ellisnyeland]

Awards Post!

In the event that any of you are reading for any awards right now, I've had a grand total of one (1) short story published in 2024. "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a story about love, community, being disabled in the End(ing) Times, local news, and how much planned obsolescence pisses me off. (It's also free to read for EVERYONE, not just people reading for awards.)

This is a SciFi short story and I'm American, so I believe it's primarily eligible for Locus/Hugo/Nebula awards. And it's been nominated for a Pushcart! (Which I believe is a "judges" situation, not an "everyone voting" one.)

[ctraceywrites]

In an attempt to get the short story group I meet with once a month to read ANYTHING close to the types of stories I like, I looked up the finalists for the Locus Short Story Awards. I hadn't read any of them in advance, I just sent the list of stories to the woman who runs the group and she picked one out kind of randomly.

Now I LOVED the story, it was very much up my ally. I knew if it was up for a Locus Award I was going to like it. But she ended up picking one with a VERY heavy topic: school shootings.

We had a great conversation though and I think the woman in our group who really didn't like the story at all came around by the end of it. It's a horror story and it's not really meant to be fun to read, it's meant to shake you a bit. And I think that clicked more with her by the end.

I definitely suggest reading it (there's also a narration if you'd prefer to listen). It's called The Sound Of Children Screaming by Rachel K Jones. It's horror fantasy and plays around with the portal fantasy kind of story as (some) children try to escape the horrors of an active school shooting.

Again, this is a rough story. It touches on a lot of the real horrors of a school shooting, but it's also an important story and it touches on a lot of really relevant topics. In our discussion we saw links to the under appreciation of teachers, the school to military pipeline, the way institutions take advantage of vulnerable people, the lack of agency we give to children, etc.

If this topic isn't a major trigger for you, please read it.

[gollancz]

Locus Awards - Vote for Gollancz!

The annual Locus Awards close for voting on 15th April - anyone can vote, for their favourite SFF books, authors, short stories, editors, magazines and fanworks!

You can vote here! Voting is open to anyone, you just have to request a link.

We have a number of nominations, hidden below the cut for easy reference! (Write-ins are also welcome if you have any books you adored but which aren't currently listed)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

The Thousand Earths, Stephen Baxter

Eversion, Alastair Reynolds

The This, Adam Roberts

Beyond the Burn Line, Paul McAuley

The Red Scholar's Wake, Aliette de Bodard

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

Aspects, John M. Ford (published under our Gateway imprint, with introduction by @neil-gaiman)

The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (published under our sister imprint Orion)

BEST EDITOR

Gillian Redfearn, Gollancz

Maybe we're biased, but Gillian's the best. She's been at Gollancz nearly 20 years, and is the editor for Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard, Joanne Harris, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Patrick Rothfuss, Miles Cameron, Chris Wooding, Sarah Pinborough, Charlaine Harris... the list goes on! The only UK-based editor to be shortlisted for a Hugo award, she's also genuinely one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

BEST PUBLISHER

Gollancz

We are the oldest dedicated SFF imprint in the world. Founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927, we were the original home of George Orwell, Daphne du Maurier, Kingsley Amis and many others. Victor Gollancz was a proud humanitarian, and that informed his publishing ethos. A newspaper review in 1933 read, "On a yellow Gollancz wrapped you will alway find a black V on G. You may interpret it as either Victor Gollancz or as Very Good, and in either case you'll be right." In the 1960s, Gollancz became a dedicated SFF and horror imprint, and has continued to publish some of the best works in the genre. Through our SF Gateway list, we have created an archive of books which has rescued and reissued books which had never before been digitised, as well as collecting some of the greatest SFF ever written.

In 2019, we partnered with Ben Aaronovitch to launch the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME award, looking for British writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The success of this led to it expanding into its current form as The Future Worlds Prize, which now involves several UK SFF publishers.

In 2021, we won the British Book Award for Best Imprint - the first time it had ever been awarded to an SFF imprint.

We have big plans to keep growing in the run up to our centenary, and we can't wait to tell you about them!