The 2016 Locus Awards Winners

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards on Saturday, June 25, during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• 'Ancillary Mercy', Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

FANTASY NOVEL

• 'Uprooted', Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• 'The Shepherd’s Crown', Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• 'The Grace of Kings', Ken Liu (Saga)

NOVELLA

• 'Slow Bullets', Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon)

NOVELETTE

• 'Black Dog', Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning)

SHORT STORY

• 'Cat Pictures Please', Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, January 15)

ANTHOLOGY

• 'Old Venus', George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam)

COLLECTION

• 'Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances', Neil Gaiman (Morrow)

MAGAZINE

• Asimov’s

PUBLISHER

• Tor

EDITOR

• David G. Hartwell

ARTIST

• Michael Whelan

ART BOOK

• 'Julie Dillon’s Imagined Realms, Book 2: Earth and Sky', Julie Dillon, (self-published)

NON-FICTION

• Letters to Tiptree, Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce, eds. (Twelfth Planet)