Xlibris Publishing shares the news about this year’s Locus Awards winners.
What are the Locus Awards?
The Locus Awards are an annual set of awards by the science-fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Winners are determine by magazine polls filled out by readers. The Locus Awards began in 1971, for publication year 1970, and has been around since. Past winners have included the late Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, China Miéville, Neil Gaiman, and many others.
Winners of the 2016 Locus Awards
This year’s winners were Ann Leckie and Naomi Novik.
Ann Leckie won her Locus Award for best science-fiction novel with her book Ancillary Mercy, the third part and conclusion to a trilogy whose first novel earned her a Hugo, a Nebula, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award. Leckie’s writing was particularly noteworthy for its unique voice and tone. In her trilogy Ann Leckie used she in reference to all characters, no matter gender. The series, with its unique voice, is a space opera following Breq, who carries within her the artificial intelligence of a starship destroyed by treachery.
Naomi Novik took home the Locus Award for best fantasy novel for her book Uprooted. Novik was already a well-regarded name in the fantasy genre for her Temeraire series of books, combining dragonriders with Napoleonic Wars historical fiction. In Uprooted, Naomi Novik tells the story of an apprentice witch and her struggles to protect all she loves from a malevolent, corrupting, magic forest. In a story incorporating both classical fantasy and Russian folklore, Uprooted is also a finalist for this year’s Hugo Award for best novel.
Other winners include a posthumous win by Terry Pratchett for his final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown. Neil Gaiman, an old friend of Pratchett’s and a past Locus award winner many times over, won two awards this year, his story Black Dog taking best novelette and his short story collection Trigger Warning winning best collection. The science-fiction anthology Old Venus, compiled and edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, won best anthology. Last year Martin and Gardner won with another anthology, Old Mars.
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