Where and When:
Seattle WA :
June 17, 2012
Eligibility Year:
2011
Sf Novel
- Winner: Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
- Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Dancing with Bears, Michael Swanwick (Night Shade)
- Grail, Elizabeth Bear (Spectra)
- Deadline, Mira Grant (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Home Fires, Gene Wolfe (Tor; PS Publishing)
- Vortex, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
- Earthbound, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- The Clockwork Rocket, Greg Egan (Night Shade)
- The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- Heart of Iron, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime)
- Daybreak Zero, John Barnes (Ace)
- This Shared Dream, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
- 7th Sigma, Steven Gould (Tor)
- All the Lives He Led, Frederik Pohl (Tor)
- Wake Up and Dream, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- The Courier's New Bicycle, Kim Westwood (Voyager Australia)
- Zone One, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
- Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
- The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
- The Kingdom of Gods, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Magician King, Lev Grossman (Viking)
- The Heroes, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Orbit Us)
- The Folded World, Catherynne M. Valente (Night Shade)
- The Cold Commands, Richard K. Morgan (Del Rey; Gollancz)
- Raising Stony Mayhall, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
- The Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon)
- Redwood and Wildfire, Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct)
- Heartless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, Kim Newman (Titan)
- The Dragon's Path, Daniel Abraham (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Alchemists of Kush, Minister Faust (Narmer's Palette)
- Briarpatch, Tim Pratt (ChiZine)
- Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi (Picador UK; Riverhead)
- The Fallen Blade, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Hammer, K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Mistification, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot UK; Angry Robot US)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
- Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
- Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
- Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
- The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
- Abarat: Absolute Midnight, Clive Barker (Harper; HarperCollins UK)
- Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Across the Great Barrier, Patricia C. Wrede (Scholastic Press)
- A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness (Walker UK; Candlewick)
- Red Glove, Holly Black (McElderry)
- Mastiff, Tamora Pierce (Random House)
- The Highest Frontier, Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
- Huntress, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
- Beauty Queens, Libba Bray (Scholastic Press)
- The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA)
- Across the Universe, Beth Revis (Razorbill)
- Scrivener's Moon, Philip Reeve (Marion Lloyd)
- Eona, Alison Goodman (Viking; Angus & Robertson)
First Novel
- Winner: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
- Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
- Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
- God's War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
- Of Blood and Honey, Stina Leicht (Night Shade)
- The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht (Random House; Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow; Gollancz as Fire and Thorns)
- Seed, Rob Ziegler (Night Shade)
- The Desert of Souls, Howard Andrew Jones (St. Martin's)
- Debris, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
- Low Town, Daniel Polansky (Doubleday; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Blood Red Road, Moira Young (McElderry; Marion Lloyd)
Novella
- Winner: Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
- “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2011)
- “Kiss Me Twice”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's Jun 2011)
- “The Ants of Flanders”, Robert Reed (F&SF Jul/Aug 2011)
- The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)
- “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine”, Peter Straub (Conjunctions #56; Terra Incognita)
- “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
- “The Ice Owl”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF Nov/Dec 2011)
- Gravity Dreams, Stephen Baxter (PS Publishing)
- “The Men from Porlock”, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu)
- “Near Zennor”, Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
- “The Adakian Eagle”, Bradley Denton (Down These Strange Streets)
- “Rampion”, Alexandra Duncan (F&SF May/Jun 2011)
- Blue and Gold, K. J. Parker (Subterranean)
- A Brood of Foxes, Kristin Livdahl (Aqueduct Press)
Novelette
- Winner: “White Lines on a Green Field”, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fal 2011)
- “The Summer People”, Kelly Link (Tin House: The Ecstatic; Steampunk!)
- “What We Found”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Sep/Oct 2011)
- “Underbridge”, Peter S. Beagle (Naked City)
- “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov's Jul 2011)
- “The Choice”, Paul McAuley (Asimov's Feb 2011)
- “Fields of Gold”, Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse Four)
- “The Dala Horse”, Michael Swanwick (Tor.com 13 Jul 2011)
- “The Book of Phoenix Excerpted from The Great Book)”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld Mar 2011)
- “The Maltese Unicorn”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Supernatural Noir)
- “A Long Walk Home”, Jay Lake (Subterranean Win 2011)
- “Purple”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Mar 2011)
- “Clean”, John Kessel (Asimov's Mar 2011)
- “The Little Green God of Agony”, Stephen King (A Book of Horrors)
- “Six Months, Three Days”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 8 Jun 2011)
- “The Old Man and the Martian Sea”, Alastair Reynolds (Life on Mars)
- “Late Bloomer”, Suzy McKee Charnas (Teeth)
- “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong”, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Win 2011)
- “The Last Ride of the Glory Girls”, Libba Bray (Steampunk!)
- “My Husband Steinn”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2011)
- “Laika's Ghost”, Karl Schroeder (Engineering Infinity)
- “Blackwood's Baby”, Laird Barron (Ghosts by Gaslight)
- “The Cold Step Beyond”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's Jun 2011)
- “The Projected Girl”, Lavie Tidhar (Naked City)
- “The Vicar of Mars”, Gwyneth Jones (Eclipse Four)
- “The Ki-Anna”, Gwyneth Jones (Engineering Infinity)
- “Ghostweight”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld Jan 2011)
- “Mysteries of the Old Quarter”, Paul Park (Ghosts by Gaslight)
- “Steam Girl”, Dylan Horrocks (Steampunk!)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Case of Death and Honey”, Neil Gaiman (A Study In Sherlock)
- “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF Mar/Apr 2011)
- “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Apr 2011)
- “The Bread We Eat in Dreams”, Catherynne M. Valente (Apex Nov 2011)
- “The Way It Works Out and All”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF Jul/Aug 2011)
- “And Weep Like Alexander”, Neil Gaiman (Fables from the Fountain)
- “Tidal Forces”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Eclipse Four)
- “The Brave Little Toaster”, Cory Doctorow (TRSF)
- “The Invasion of Venus”, Stephen Baxter (Engineering Infinity)
- “Valley of the Girls”, Kelly Link (Subterranean Sum 2011)
- “After the Apocalypse”, Maureen F. McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
- “Dolly”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Jan 2011)
- “Attlee and the Long Walk”, Kage Baker (Life on Mars)
- “For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Aug 2011)
- “Goodnight Moons”, Ellen Klages (Life on Mars)
- “Pug”, Theodora Goss (Asimov's Jul 2011)
- “Ascension Day”, Alastair Reynolds (Voices from the Past)
- “Daddy Long Legs of the Evening”, Jeffrey Ford (Naked City)
- “Younger Women”, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Sum 2011)
- “Mulberry Boys”, Margo Lanagan (Blood and Other Cravings)
- “Smoke City”, Christopher Barzak (Asimov's Apr/May 2011)
- “The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece”, M. Rickert (F&SF Sep/Oct 2011)
- “The Server and the Dragon”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Engineering Infinity)
- “Slow as a Bullet”, Andy Duncan (Eclipse Four)
- “The Sandal-Bride”, Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy Mar 2011)
- “Woman Leaves Room”, Robert Reed (Lightspeed Apr 2011)
- “Movement”, Nancy Fulda (Asimov's Mar 2011)
- “The Patrician”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk)
- “And Go Like This”, John Crowley (Naked City)
- “Tying Knots”, Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Jan 2011)
Collection
- Winner: The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)
- After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
- Sleight of Hand, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1, Carol Emshwiller (Nonstop)
- Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One), Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- Paradise Tales, Geoff Ryman (Small Beer)
- The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 4: Admiralty, Poul Anderson (NESFA)
- Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973, Kurt Vonnegut (Library of America)
- Gothic High-Tech, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean)
- When the Great Days Come, Gardner Dozois (Prime)
- The Inheritance and Other Stories, Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
- Yellowcake, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- Unpossible and Other Stories, Daryl Gregory (Fairwood)
- Love and Romanpunk, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet)
- Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, Sarah Monette (Prime)
- The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories, Joan Aiken (Small Beer)
- TVA Baby and Other Stories, Terry Bisson (PM)
- The Universe of Things, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct)
- Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex, Lucy Sussex (Ticonderoga)
Anthology
- Winner: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-eighth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Welcome to Bordertown, Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, eds. (Random House)
- Engineering Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris; Solaris UK)
- Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Candlewick; Walker UK)
- Eclipse Four, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
- The Weird, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor 2012)
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- Life on Mars: Tales of the New Frontier, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)
- Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Year's Best SF 16, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Harper Voyager)
- Teeth: Vampire Tales, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Harper)
- The Book of Cthulhu, Ross E. Lockhart, ed. (Night Shade)
- Ghosts by Gaslight, Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
- Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
- Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2011 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
- Happily Ever After, John Klima, ed. (Night Shade)
- A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 22, Stephen Jones, ed. (Running Press; Robinson)
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, Gary K. Wolfe (Wesleyan)
- Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois)
- Musings and Meditations, Robert Silverberg (Nonstop)
- In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood (Talese: Virago: Signal (Canada))
- Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)
- Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm, John Clute (Beccon)
- Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (PS Publishing; Tor)
- Denying Science, John Grant (Prometheus)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, Karen Haber, ed. (Rockport)
- Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, Mike Ashley, ed. (British Library)
- A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings, Cor Blok (HarperCollins UK)
- Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art, Jeffrey Jones (IDW)
- Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss, Chris Foss (Titan)
- Fantasy+ 3: Best Hand-painted Illustrations, Vincent Zhao, ed. (CYPI/Gingko)
- Exposé 9: Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe, Daniel Wade, ed. (Ballistic)