Fundatia Locus a dat publicitatii lista finalistilor la toate categoriile Premiilor Locus. Cistigatorii vor fi anuntati in cadrul traditionalului Locus Awards Weekend, intre 28-30 iunie, la Seattle. Maestrul de ceremonii al evenimentului va fi Connie Willis. Alte intimplari notabile ce vor avea loc pe parcursul manifestarii: petrecerea de deschidere a atelierului Clarion West; o sesiune de autografe cu autorii prezenti; lansarea antologiei Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology, editata de Ellen Datlow.

Iata lista finalistilor:

ROMAN SCIENCE FICTION: 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)

ROMAN FANTASY: The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK); The Drowning Girl, Caitlin 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)

ROMAN PENTRU TINERET (YA): The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom); Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen); Railsea, China Mieville (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)

ROMAN DE DEBUT: 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)

NUVELA: “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)

NUVELETA: “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”, Caitlin R. Kiernan (After); “The Lady Astronaut of Mars”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)

POVESTIRE: “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)

ANTOLOGIE: 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)

CULEGERE DE AUTOR: 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 si Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer); The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)

REVISTA: Asimov’s; F&SF; Tor.com; Clarkesworld; Subterranean

EDITURA: 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-FICTIUNE: 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)

ALBUM DE ARTA: 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)