Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 29, 2013
Eligibility Year:
2012
Sf Novel
- Winner: Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- 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)
- Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
- The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
- The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor)
- Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace)
- Intruder, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Night Shade '13)
- Arctic Rising, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
- Bowl of Heaven, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven (Tor)
- Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK)
- Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway (Heinemann; Knopf)
- Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook; Duckworth '13)
- Jack Glass, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Rapture, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
- The Last Policeman, Ben H. Winters (Quirk)
- The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan (Night Shade; Gollancz)
- The Fourth Wall, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Fate of Worlds, Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner (Tor)
- Ashes of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Existence, David Brin (Tor)
- Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)
- In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Turing & Burroughs, Rudy Rucker (Transreal)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)
- The Killing Moon, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Orbit US)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
- The King's Blood, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Whispers Under Ground, Ben Aaronovitch (Del Rey; Gollancz)
- Worldsoul, Liz Williams (Prime)
- The Mirage, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
- Sharps, K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- And Blue Skies from Pain, Stina Leicht (Night Shade)
- Bullettime, Nick Mamatas (ChiZine)
- The Steel Seraglio, Mike Carey, Linda Carey & Louise Carey (ChiZine; Gollancz '13 as The City of Silk and Steel)
- The Troupe, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Boneland, Alan Garner (Fourth Estate)
- Range of Ghosts, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
- Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chomu)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little 2013)
- Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
- Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
- Be My Enemy, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
- Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia)
- Black Heart, Holly Black (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
- Radiant Days, Elizabeth Hand (Viking)
- Apollo's Outcasts, Allen Steele (Pyr)
- Zeuglodon, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean Press)
- The Chaos, Nalo Hopkinson (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
- Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore (Dial)
- The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little, Brown)
- The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
- Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)
- A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
- The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson (Greenwillow)
- Team Human, Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan (Harper Teen)
- Son, Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)
- Every Day, David Levithan (Knopf)
First Novel
- Winner: Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz 2013)
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
- vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
- Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
- The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
- Blackwood, Gwenda Bond (Strange Chemistry)
- Rituals, Roz Kaveney (Plus One)
- Goblin Secrets, William Alexander (McElderry)
- Wide Open, Deborah Coates (Tor)
- The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur; Headline Review)
- The Gathering Dark, Leigh Bardugo (Indigo; Hold as Shadow and Bone)
- Bad Glass, Richard E. Gropp (Del Rey)
- The Man from Primrose Lane, James Renner (Crichton; Corsair '13)
- Sanctum, Sarah Fine (Amazon Children's Publishing)
Novella
- Winner: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- “The Stars Do Not Lie”, Jay Lake (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2012)
- The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)
- “In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Jan 2012)
- On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)
- “Gods of Risk”, James S. A. Corey (Orbit Short Fiction)
- “Hand of Glory”, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
- “Murder Born”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Feb 2012)
- “Let Maps to Others”, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Sum 2012)
- “Eater-of-Bone”, Robert Reed (Eater-of-Bone)
- “Katabasis”, Robert Reed (F&SF Nov/Dec 2012)
- “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future”, Jay Lake (Subterranean Spr 2012)
- “The Last Judgment”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Apr/May 2012)
- “Twenty Lights to 'The Last of Snow'”, Michael Bishop (Going Interstellar)
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
- “Maze of Shadows”, Fred Chappell (F&SF May/Jun 2012)
- “The Moon Belongs to Everyone”, Michael Alexander & K. C. Ball (Analog Dec 2012)
- “The Mongolian Book of the Dead”, Alan Smale (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2012)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”, Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
- “Faster Gun”, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com Aug 2012)
- “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
- “The Lady Astronaut of Mars”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)
- “Fake Plastic Trees”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
- “The Wish Head”, Jeffrey Ford (Crackpot Palace)
- “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
- “Fireborn”, Robert Charles Wilson (Rip-Off!)
- “The Sea of Trees”, Rachel Swirsky (The Future Is Japanese)
- “Arbeitskraft”, Nick Mamatas (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk)
- “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery”, Eleanor Arnason (Eclipse Online 12 Nov 2012)
- “The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward”, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear (Drabblecast 31 Aug - 6 Sep 2012)
- “Troll Blood”, Peter Dickinson (F&SF Sep/Oct 2012)
- “Bruce Springsteen”, Paul McAuley (Asimov's Jan 2012)
- “The Peak of Eternal Light”, Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity)
- “Frontier Death Song”, Laird Barron (Nightmare Oct 2012)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 4 Jan 2012)
- “The Ghosts of Christmas”, Paul Cornell (Tor.com 19 Dec 2012)
- “Astrophilia”, Carrie Vaughn (Clarkesworld Jul 2012)
- “Liberty's Daughter”, Naomi Kritzer (F&SF May/Jun 2012)
- “Old Paint”, Megan Lindholm (Asimov's Jul 2012)
- “Goddess of Mercy”, Bruce Sterling (The Future Is Japanese)
- The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story, Theodora Goss (Quirk)
- “One Little Room an Everywhere”, K. J. Parker (Eclipse Online 22 Oct 2012)
- “Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous”, Dale Bailey (Asimov's Sep 2012)
- “Electrica”, Sean McMullen (F&SF Mar/Apr 2012)
- “The Grinnell Method”, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 3-10 Sep 2012)
- “The Bernoulli War”, Gord Sellar (Asimov's Aug 2012)
- “Declaration”, James Patrick Kelly (Rip-Off!)
- “No Decent Patrimony”, Elizabeth Bear (Rip-Off!)
- “The Color Least Used by Nature”, Ted Kosmatka (F&SF Jan/Feb 2012)
Short Story
- Winner: “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld Jun 2012)
- “Mono No Aware”, Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)
- “The Deeps of the Sky”, Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
- “Mantis Wives”, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld Aug 2012)
- “Elementals”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fal 2012)
- “Great-Grandmother in the Cellar”, Peter S. Beagle (Under My Hat)
- “Coming of Age on Barsoom”, Catherynne M. Valente (Under the Moons of Mars)
- “Blood Drive”, Jeffrey Ford (After)
- “Valedictorian”, N. K. Jemisin (After)
- “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld Jan 2012)
- “Two Houses”, Kelly Link (Shadow Show)
- “Goggles (c. 1910)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution)
- “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF Jul/Aug 2012)
- “Tyche and the Ants”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Edge of Infinity)
- “Reindeer Mountain”, Karin Tidbeck (Jagannath)
- “One Breath, One Stroke”, Catherynne M. Valente (The Future Is Japanese)
- “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times”, Eleanor Arnason (F&SF Jul/Aug 2012)
- “Rebecka”, Karin Tidbeck (Jagannath)
- “The Water Thief”, Alastair Reynolds (Arc 1.1)
- “The Easthound”, Nalo Hopkinson (After)
- “Antarctica Starts Here”, Paul McAuley (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2012)
- “About Fairies”, Pat Murphy (Tor.com May 2012)
- “The Education of a Witch”, Ellen Klages (Under My Hat)
- “England Under the White Witch”, Theodora Goss (Clarkesworld Oct 2012)
- “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed Jul 2012)
- “Blue Lace Agate”, Sarah Monette (Lightspeed Jan 2012)
- “Bricks, Sticks, Straw”, Gwyneth Jones (Edge of Infinity)
- “Nightside on Callisto”, Linda Nagata (Lightspeed May 2012)
- “Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden”, Paul McAuley (Edge of Infinity)
- “In Autotelia”, M. John Harrison (Arc 1.1)
- “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight”, Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Feb 2012)
- “The Memcordist”, Lavie Tidhar (Eclipse Online 24 Dec 2012)
- “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones”, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld Oct 2012)
Collection
- Winner: Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
- The Best of Kage Baker, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
- The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (PS)
- Jagannath: Stories, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)
- Fountain of Age, Nancy Kress (Small Beer)
- Crackpot Palace, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
- The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 7: We Are for the Dark, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean)
- Dream Castles: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Wool Omnibus, Hugh Howey (self-published)
- Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean)
- Cracklescape, Margo Lanagan (Twelfth Planet)
- Last and First Contacts, Stephen Baxter (NewCon)
- Wonders of the Invisible World, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
- Errantry: Strange Stories, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer)
- Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas, Robert Reed (PS)
- Permeable Borders, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fairwood)
- The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, Michael Bishop (Subterranean)
- Store of the Worlds, Robert Sheckley (New York Review Books)
- Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr., Neal Barrett, Jr. (Subterranean)
- Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu (Pantheon)
- Ancient, Ancient, Kiini Ibura Salaam (Aqueduct)
- Moscow But Dreaming, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime)
- Birds and Birthdays, Christopher Barzak (Aqueduct)
- Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures, Peter Dickinson (Big Mouth House)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- The Janus Tree and Other Stories, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean)
Anthology
- Winner: Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- 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)
- After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Hyperion)
- The Future Is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
- Year's Best SF 17, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Harper Voyager)
- Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, Ann VanderMeer, ed. (Tachyon)
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
- Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Brit Mandelo, ed. (Lethe)
- Rip-Off!, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Audible.com)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- Solaris Rising 1.5, Ian Whates, ed. (Solaris)
- Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon)
- AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, Ivor W. Hartmann, ed. (StoryTime)
- The Sword & Sorcery Anthology, David G. Hartwell & Jacob Weisman, eds. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
- The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume One and Volume Two, John Pelan, ed. (Cemetery Dance)
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 23, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Running Press)
- Ishtar, Amanda Pillar & K. V. Taylor, eds. (Gilgamesh)
- Breaking the Bow: Stories Inspired by the Ramayana, Anil Menon & Vandana Singh, eds. (Zubaan)
- Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
- Robots: The Recent A.I., Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, eds. (Prime)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
- Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo (NonStop)
- Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
- An Exile on Planet Earth, Brian Aldiss (Bodleian Library)
- We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling, Brit Mandelo (Aqueduct)
- London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction, Michael Moorcock (PM Press)
- On Conan Doyle, Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
- Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, Sonya Andermahr & Lawrence Phillips, eds. (Continuum)
- As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, Michael Saler (Oxford University Press)
- Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America, John Cheng (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner (Underwood)
- Steampunk: An Illustrated History, Brian J. Robb (Aurum)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Trolls, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
- Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration, Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan)
- Velocity, Stephan Martiniere
- The Art of the Dragon, Patrick Wilshire & J. David Spurlock, eds.
- Star Wars Art: Illustration, Eric Klopfer, ed.
- Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!, John Fleskes, ed.
- Fantasy+ 4: The Best Artworks of Fantastic Art, Vincent Zhao, ed.
Magazine
- Winner: Asimov's
- F&SF
- Tor.com
- Clarkesworld
- Subterranean
- Analog
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- SF Signal
- Interzone
- Apex
- The New York Review of SF
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Ansible
- Cemetery Dance
- Weird Tales
- SF Site
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean Press
- Orbit
- Baen
- Angry Robot
- Night Shade Books
- Small Beer Press
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Ace
- Pyr
- Del Rey
- PS Publishing
- Tachyon
- NESFA Press
- Roc
- ChiZine Publications
- St. Martin's
- HarperVoyager
- Twelfth Planet Press
- Prime
- Solaris
- Aqueduct
- Haffner Press
- Haikasoru