Locus Award winners!
Jun. 23rd, 2018 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraSee the list yourself here. I voted in them this year; it's an open online poll but subscriber votes (which I am not) count double.
So let's see. Collapsing Empire beat Provenance, Raven Strategem, and New York 2140 for Science Fiction Novel (and other things - there were ten finalists per category - including Stars Are Legion, which got my top vote). Stone Sky won Fantasy Novel. Akata Warrior beat In Other Lands, Skinful of Shadows, and Book of Dust (and Frogkisser) for YA. Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter beat Bear and the Nightingale, Art of Starving, and Unkindness of Ghosts for First Novel (and also City of Brass, Winter Tide, and Autonomous). Hard to say exactly what this might foreshadow for Hugo-land given that the categories don't line up the same way, but the Akata Warrior win lends some credence to my theory that the YA voting will favor someone with a bigger name who people are more likely to have read.
Short fiction: All Systems Red beat all five other nominees from the Hugo ballot (as I'm predicting for the Hugos as well). A Delaney novelette I haven't read, "The Hermit of Houston" from F&SF, beat "Children of Thorns", "Extracurricular Activities", and "Wind Will Rove". "The Martian Obelisk" beat "Fandom for Robots", "Carnival Nine", and "Authentic Indian Experience", possibly the biggest surprise to me of these awards. (Really? Martian Obelisk, over both "Fandom for Robots" and "Indian Experience"??)
Hm, anthologies, collections, art books; Tor.com won for best magazine, Datlow for editor, and Julie Dillon for artist. Best magazine almost feels like more of a demographic question here, like, where has this voting population come from. That Luminescent Threads:Connections to Octavia Butler related work won Non-Fiction, beating some of the other Hugo Related Work nominees.
So let's see. Collapsing Empire beat Provenance, Raven Strategem, and New York 2140 for Science Fiction Novel (and other things - there were ten finalists per category - including Stars Are Legion, which got my top vote). Stone Sky won Fantasy Novel. Akata Warrior beat In Other Lands, Skinful of Shadows, and Book of Dust (and Frogkisser) for YA. Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter beat Bear and the Nightingale, Art of Starving, and Unkindness of Ghosts for First Novel (and also City of Brass, Winter Tide, and Autonomous). Hard to say exactly what this might foreshadow for Hugo-land given that the categories don't line up the same way, but the Akata Warrior win lends some credence to my theory that the YA voting will favor someone with a bigger name who people are more likely to have read.
Short fiction: All Systems Red beat all five other nominees from the Hugo ballot (as I'm predicting for the Hugos as well). A Delaney novelette I haven't read, "The Hermit of Houston" from F&SF, beat "Children of Thorns", "Extracurricular Activities", and "Wind Will Rove". "The Martian Obelisk" beat "Fandom for Robots", "Carnival Nine", and "Authentic Indian Experience", possibly the biggest surprise to me of these awards. (Really? Martian Obelisk, over both "Fandom for Robots" and "Indian Experience"??)
Hm, anthologies, collections, art books; Tor.com won for best magazine, Datlow for editor, and Julie Dillon for artist. Best magazine almost feels like more of a demographic question here, like, where has this voting population come from. That Luminescent Threads:Connections to Octavia Butler related work won Non-Fiction, beating some of the other Hugo Related Work nominees.
