Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 21, 2008
Eligibility Year:
2007
Sf Novel
- Winner: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
- The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Axis, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Black Man (US title: Thirteen), Richard Morgan (Gollancz; Del Rey)
- The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor)
- Ha'penny, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
- Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
- Mainspring, Jay Lake (Tor)
- Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- The Sons of Heaven, Kage Baker (Tor)
- The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
- Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
- Shelter, Susan Palwick (Tor)
- HARM, Brian W. Aldiss (Del Rey; Duckworth)
- In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
- Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires/Evil for Evil/The Escapement, K. J. Parker (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- The Last Colony, John Scalzi (Tor)
- Conqueror, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
- Till Human Voices Wake Us, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)
- Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
- Endless Things, John Crowley (Small Beer Press; Overlook)
- The White Tyger, Paul Park (Tor)
- Softspoken, Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)
- Ink, Hal Duncan (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
- Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
- Whiskey and Water, Elizabeth Bear (Roc)
- The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)
- A Betrayal in Winter, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
- The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
- Titans of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)
- Daughter of Hounds, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- The Spiral Labyrinth, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Blood Engines, T. A. Pratt (Bantam Spectra)
- Bone Song, John Meaney (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra 2008)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
- The H-Bomb Girl, Stephen Baxter (Faber & Faber)
- Extras, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
- Ironside, Holly Black (McEldery)
- The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (Houghton Mifflin)
- Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey (Atheneum)
- Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury USA)
- Verdigris Deep (UK title: Well Witched), Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK; HarperCollins)
- The Dream Quake (UK title: Dreamquake), Elizabeth Knox (Faber Children's; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury USA; Arthur A. Levine Books)
First Novel
- Winner: Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
- One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)
- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
- Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
- The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe (Night Shade Books)
- Breakfast with the One You Love, Eliot Fintushel (Bantam Spectra)
- Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (HarperTeen; HarperCollins Children's UK)
- Maledicte, Lane Robins (Del Rey)
Novella
- Winner: “After the Siege”, Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
- “Memorare”, Gene Wolfe (F&SF Apr 2007)
- “All Seated on the Ground”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2007)
- “Stars Seen through Stone”, Lucius Shepard (F&SF Jul 2007)
- “Muse of Fire”, Dan Simmons (The New Space Opera)
- “The Master Miller's Tale”, Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF May 2007)
- “Fountain of Age”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jul 2007)
- Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
- “Recovering Apollo 8”, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Jul 2007)
- “The Emperor and the Maula”, Robert Silverberg (The New Space Opera)
- “Dagger Key”, Lucius Shepard (Dagger Key and Other Stories)
- “Hormiga Canyon”, Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling (Asimov's Aug 2007)
- “Dead Money”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- The Lees of Laughter's End, Steven Erikson (PS Publishing)
- The Game, Diana Wynne Jones (Viking Children's)
- “Awakening”, Judith Berman (Black Gate Spr 2007)
- Of Love and Other Monsters, Vandana Singh (Alien Crimes)
- “Womb of Every World”, Walter Jon Williams
Novelette
- Winner: “The Witch's Headstone”, Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
- “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007)
- “Dark Integers”, Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2007)
- “We Never Talk About My Brother”, Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Jun 2007)
- “Trunk and Disorderly”, Charles Stross (Asimov's Jan 2007)
- “Wikiworld”, Paul Di Filippo (Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge)
- “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics”, Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea)
- “Urdumheim”, Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
- “Cryptic Coloration”, Elizabeth Bear (Jim Baen's Universe Jun 2007)
- “The Magic Animal”, Gene Wolfe (Wizards)
- “Kiosk”, Bruce Sterling (F&SF Jan 2007)
- “Glory”, Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
- “Against the Current”, Robert Silverberg (F&SF Oct/Nov 2007)
- “Winter's Wife”, Elizabeth Hand (Wizards)
- “Light”, Kelly Link (Tin House Fall 2007)
- “Hellfire at Twilight”, Kage Baker (Gods and Pawns)
- “The Skysailor's Tale”, Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
- “Finisterra”, David Moles (F&SF Dec 2007)
- “The Constable of Abal”, Kelly Link (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales)
- “A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question”, Andy Duncan (Wizards)
- “The Surgeon's Tale”, Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo (Subterranean Win 2007)
- “An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away”, John Barnes (Jim Baen's Universe Aug 2007)
- “The Bone Man”, Frederic S. Durbin (F&SF Dec 2007)
- “Holly and Iron”, Garth Nix (Wizards)
- “The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small”, Chris Roberson (Asimov's Jul 2007)
- “Dance of Shadows”, Fred Chappell (F&SF Mar 2007)
- “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change”, Kij Johnson (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales)
- “The Forest”, Laird Barron (Inferno)
- “Safeguard”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jan 2007)
- “Wizard's Six”, Alex Irvine (F&SF Jun 2007)
- “Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon”, Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy Jun 2007)
- “Crossing the Seven”, Jay Lake (Logorrhea)
Short Story
- Winner: “A Small Room in Koboldtown”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- “The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French”, Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?”, Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)
- “Tideline”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- “Last Contact”, Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
- “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse”, Andy Duncan (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “Art of War”, Nancy Kress (The New Space Opera)
- “Jesus Christ, Reanimator”, Ken MacLeod (Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge)
- “The Dreaming Wind”, Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales)
- “Pirates of the Somali Coast”, Terry Bisson (Subterranean Oct 2007)
- “Barrens Dancing”, Peter S. Beagle (Wizards)
- “The Third Bear”, Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld Magazine Apr 2007)
- “The Drowned Life”, Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “Always”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- “Artifice and Intelligence”, Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 6 Aug 2007)
- “Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys”, Robert Reed (F&SF Mar 2007)
- “Among Strangers”, Pat Cadigan (disLOCATIONS)
- “Orm the Beautiful”, Elizabeth Bear (Clarkesworld Magazine Jan 2007)
- “Mrs. Zeno's Paradox”, Ellen Klages (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “Verthandi's Ring”, Ian McDonald (The New Space Opera)
- “The Ruby Incomparable”, Kage Baker (Wizards)
- “Memoir of a Deer Woman”, M. Rickert (F&SF Mar 2007)
- “Osama Phone Home”, David Marusek (MIT Technology Review Mar/Apr 2007)
- “Stone and the Librarian”, William Browning Spencer (F&SF Feb 2007)
- “Sanjeev and Robotwallah”, Ian McDonald (Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge)
- “The Manticore Spell”, Jeffrey Ford (Wizards)
- “Holiday”, M. Rickert (Subterranean Oct 2007)
- (tie): “The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large”, Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- (tie): “Under the Bottom of the Lake”, Jeffrey Ford (Subterranean Oct 2007)
- “Three Days of Rain”, Holly Phillips (Asimov's Jun 2007)
- “Soul Case”, Nalo Hopkinson (Foundation Sum 2007)
- “By Fools Like Me”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Sep 2007)
- “Singing of Mount Abora”, Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
- “Fragrant Goddess”, Paul Park (F&SF Oct/Nov 2007)
- “The Lustration”, Bruce Sterling (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “Electric Rains”, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction)
- “A Plain Tale from Our Hills”, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Oct 2007)
- “Graduation Afternoon”, Stephen King (Postscripts Spr 2007)
- “Clockmaker's Requiem”, Barth Anderson (Clarkesworld Magazine Mar 2007)
- “Catherine and the Satyr”, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons Oct 2007)
- “Molly and the Red Hat”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Interzone #212 Sep/Oct 2007)
- “C-Rock City”, Jay Lake & Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
Collection
- Winner: The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean)
- The Jack Vance Treasury, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
- Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder's Mouth)
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)
- Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005, Howard Waldrop (Old Earth)
- New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
- Gods and Pawns, Kage Baker (Tor)
- Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean)
- Dagger Key and Other Stories, Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)
- Portable Childhoods, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
- The Nail and the Oracle: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume XI, Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic)
- Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Tim Pratt (Night Shade Books)
- Getting to Know You, David Marusek (Subterranean)
- Past Magic, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
- The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick (Tachyon)
- Dangerous Space, Kelley Eskridge (Aqueduct)
- The Guild of Xenolinguists, Sheila Finch (Golden Gryphon)
- The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories, Bruce McAllister (Golden Gryphon)
- Rynemonn, Terry Dowling (coeur de lion)
Anthology
- Winner: The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (St. Martin's)
- The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Wizards, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Berkley)
- Logorrhea, John Klima, ed. (Bantam Spectra)
- Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, Lou Anders, ed. (Pyr)
- Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- Year's Best SF 12, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
- The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, George Mann, ed. (Solaris)
- Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology, Sheila Williams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Best Short Novels: 2007, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (SFBC)
- The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, eds. (Tor)
- The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Year's Best Fantasy 7, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tachyon)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Alexander Levitsky, ed. (Overlook)
- Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
- Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
- Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher, ed. (Oxford University Press)
- The Country You Have Never Seen, Joanna Russ (Liverpool University Press)
- Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
- Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe, Peter Wright (Liverpool University Press)
- Sides, Peter Straub (Cemetery Dance)
- Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, S. T. Joshi, ed. (Greenwood)
- Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons, Robin Roberts (University Press of Mississippi)
- Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia, Brian Stableford (Routledge 2006)
- Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, Gary Westfahl (McFarland)
- The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Carl B. Yoke & Carol L. Robinson, eds. (The Edwin Mellen Press)
Art Book
- Winner: The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Lothian 2006; Scholastic)
- Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- Emshwiller: Infinity x Two, Luis Ortiz, ed. (Nonstop Press)
- Dreamscape: The Best of Imaginary Realism, Claus Brusen & Marcel Salome, eds. (SalBru)
- Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, compiled by Sebastian Peake & Alison Eldred, edited by G. Peter Winnington (Peter Owen)
- Fantasy Art Now: The Very Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art & Illustration, Martin McKenna, ed. (Collins Design)
- Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes, retold by Nicky Raven, illustrated by John Howe (Candlewick)
- Worlds of Amano, Yoshitaka Amano (DH Press)
- The Adventuress, Audrey Niffenegger (Abrams)
- Women: Motifs and Variations, Rafal Olbinski (Hudson Hill Press)
Magazine
- Winner: F&SF
- Asimov's
- Analog
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- Subterranean
- Interzone
- Realms of Fantasy
- Jim Baen's Universe
- Strange Horizons
- The New York Review of Science Fiction
- Weird Tales
- Postscripts
- Ansible
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- SF Site
- Fantasy Magazine
- SF Weekly
- Cemetery Dance
- Electric Velocipede
- Black Gate
- SFRevu
- Internet Review of Science Fiction
- Talebones
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean Press
- Night Shade Books
- Baen
- Bantam Spectra
- Ace
- DAW
- Del Rey
- Gollancz
- Pyr
- PS Publishing
- Small Beer Press
- Golden Gryphon
- Tachyon
- Eos
- Roc
- Orbit
- NESFA Press
- Firebird
- St. Martin's
- MonkeyBrain
- SF Book Club
- Arkham House
- Meisha Merlin
- Prime
- Luna
- Wheatland