Best Science Fiction Novel
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The Collapsing Empire by John ScalziCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI
Riding The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, humanity spreads to inumerable planets through the universe. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, maintaining its control based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. But just as a river changes course, the Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When it's discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, three individuals--a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency--must race against time to discover what can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
Best Fantasy Novel
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The Stone Sky by N. K. JemisinCall Number: FANTASY JEMISIN
This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
Best Horror Novel
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The Changeling by Victor LaValleCall Number: FICTION LAVALLE
Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go far beyond that. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act–beyond any parent’s comprehension–and vanishes, seemingly into thin air. Thus begins Apollo’s odyssey through a world he only thought he understood to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined.
Best YA Novel
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Akata Warrior by Nnedi OkoraforCall Number: TEEN OKORAFOR
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
Best First Novel
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora GossWhile looking into her father’s work, Mary Jekyll finds the daughters of other mad scientists, as well as a darker secret that unites them.
Best Novella
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All Systems Red by Martha WellsCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION WELLS
Stuck on a distant planet with an exploratory crew, a Security Robot kills time watching soaps. After a group of scientists is killed, the robot (now calling itself “Murderbot”) must figure out how to save its crew from a similar fate.
Best Anthology
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The Book of Swords by Gardner Dozois (ed)Call Number: FANTASY BOOK
Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction--and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure. Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters--many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds.
Finalists
- Cosmic Powers by John Joseph Adams (ed.)
- Black Feathers by Ellen Datlow (ed.)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (ed.)
- Bookburners by Max Gladstone (ed.)
- The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (eds.)
- The Best of Subterranean by William Schafer (ed.)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven by Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
- Infinity Wars by Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
- Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction by Bogi Takács
Best Collection
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories by Ursula K. Le GuinFor the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish novels and stories are brought together in a single edition, complete and with new introductions by the author. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, these remarkable works redrew the map of modern science fiction. In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Le Guin imagined a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain—an array of worlds whose divergent societies were the result of both evolution and genetic engineering.
Best Nonfiction
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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler by Alexandra Pierce (Editor)Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of color.
Finalists
- Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Liz Bourke
- In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969 by Samuel R. Delaney
- The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
- Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction by James Gunn
- Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid
- Not So Good a Gay Man by Frank M. Robinson
- Don’t Live for Your Obituary by John Scalzi
- A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff
- J.G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson
Best Science Fiction Novel
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Death's End by Cixin LiuCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION LIU
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
Best Fantasy Novel
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane AndersCall Number: FANTASY ANDERS
When Patricia Delfine was six years old, a wounded bird led her deep into the forest to the Parliament of Birds, where she met the Great Tree and was asked a question that would determine the course of her life. When Laurence Armstead was in grade school, he cobbled together a wristwatch-sized device that could send its wearer two seconds into the future. When Patricia and Laurence first met in high school, they didn’t understand one another at all. But as time went on, they kept bumping into one another’s lives. Now they’re both grown up, and the planet is falling apart around them. Neither Laurence nor Patricia can keep pace with the speed at which things fall apart. But something bigger than either of them, something begun deep in their childhoods, is determined to bring them together.
Best Horror Novel
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The Fireman by Joe HillCall Number: HORROR HILL
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The fireman is coming. Stay cool.
Best Young Adult Novel
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Revenger by Alastair ReynoldsRevenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future--a tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism and of vengeance...
Best First Novel
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Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION LEE
To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.
Best Novella
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireCall Number: FANTASY MCGUIRE
Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
Best Collection
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken LiuCall Number: FANTASY LIU
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."
Finalists
- The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. LeGuin by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Beyond the Aqua Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds by Alastair Reynolds
- Not So Much, Said the Cat by Michael Swanwick
Best Anthology
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The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer (Editors)Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION BIG
What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers.
Best Nonfiction
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The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron HurleyCall Number: 808.3876 HURLEY
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.
Best Science Fiction Novel
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Ancillary Mercy by Ann LeckieCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION LECKIE
In order to save Atheok Station from her most bitter enemy, professional soldier Breq devises her most desperate plan yet.
Best Fantasy Novel
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Uprooted by Naomi NovikCall Number: FANTASY NOVIK
The Dragon protects the valley, but when Agnieszka becomes his servant she learns that the danger—and her power—is greater than she'd ever imagined.
Best Young Adult Novel
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The Shepherd's Crown by Terry PratchettCall Number: TEEN PRATCHET
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning. . . .
Best First Novel
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The Grace of Kings by Ken LiuCall Number: FANTASY LIU
The Grace of Kings, the first book in this epic series, tells the story of two men who become friends through rebelling against tyranny and then turn against each other in defense of irreconcilable ideals. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who seem to prophesy the future.
Best Novella
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Slow Bullets by Alastair ReynoldsA vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur—and for humanity—peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship. Passengers are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life.
Finalists
- Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard
- The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan
Best Collection
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Trigger Warning by Neil GaimanCall Number: HORROR GAIMAN
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.
Finalists
- Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville
- The Best of Gregory Benford by Gregory Benford
- Dancing Through the Fire by Tanith Lee
- The Best of Nancy Kress by Nancy Kress
Best Anthology
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Old Venus by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Editors)Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION OLD
This original anthology of all-new stories harkens back to the Golden Age of SF, when science fiction was filled with tales from our own solar system, at a time when no one knew what lay on the surface of our nearest galactic neighbors and speculation ran rampant. And though that old solar system was "disproved" in the 1960s, when space probes showed that the real worlds were very different from those of our imaginations, these linked anthologies take us back to the time when it still seemed possible that Mars was home to dying civilizations, and Venus was a steamy, swampy jungle world, with strange creatures lurking amidst the lush vegetation.
Finalists
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (ed.)
- Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany by Nisi Shawl & Bill Campbell (eds.)
- Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan by Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington (eds.)
- Meeting Infinity by Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
Best Nonfiction
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Letters to Tiptree by Alexandra Pierce (Editor)For nearly a decade, a middle-aged woman in Virginia (her own words) had much of the science fiction community in thrall. Her short stories were awarded, lauded and extremely well-reviewed. They were also regarded as “ineluctably masculine,” because Alice Sheldon was writing as James Tiptree Jr. In celebration of Alice Sheldon's centenary, Letters to Tiptree presents a selection of thoughtful letters from thirty-nine science fiction and fantasy writers, editors, critics, and fans address questions of gender, of sexuality, of the impossibility and joy of knowing someone only through their fiction and biography.
Finalists
- The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks by Simone Caroti
- Ray Bradbury by David Seed
- Lois McMaster Bujold by Edward James
- Frederik Pohl by Michael R. Page
Best Science Fiction Novel
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Ancillary Sword by Ann LeckieCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION LECKIE
What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything is not as tranquil as it appears. Old divisions are still troublesome, Athoek Station's AI is unhappy with the situation, and it looks like the alien Presger might have taken an interest in what's going on. With no guarantees that interest is benevolent.
Best Fantasy Novel
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend... and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne – or his life.
Best Young Adult Novel
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Half a King by Joe AbercrombieCall Number: FANTASY ABERCROM
Left for dead, outcast, and enslaved, young prince Yarvi must find his own inner strength and purpose to return home and claim his father's throne.
Best First Novel
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The Memory Garden by Mary RickertBay Singer has bigger secrets than most. She doesn't know about them, though. Her mother, Nan, has made sure of that. But one phone call from the sheriff makes Nan realize that the past is catching up. Nan decides that she has to make things right, and invites over the two estranged friends who know the truth. Ruthie and Mavis arrive in a whirlwind of painful memories, offering Nan little hope of protecting Bay. But even the most ruined garden is resilient, and their curious reunion has powerful effects that none of them could imagine, least of all Bay.
Best Novella
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Yesterday's Kin by Nancy KressAliens have landed in New York. A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now that plague is heading for Earth, and threatens humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure?
Best Collection
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Last Plane to Heaven by Jay LakeLong before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. In Last Plane to Heaven, Lake has assembled thirty-two of the best of them. Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story, a hard-edged and breathtaking look at how a real alien visitor might be received, to the savage truth of “The Cancer Catechisms.” Here are more than thirty short stories written by a master of the form, science fiction and fantasy both.
Finalists
- Academic Exercises by KJ Parker
- The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express by Robert Silverberg
- Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn
- The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models by RA Lafferty
Best Anthology
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Rogues by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Editors)Call Number: FANTASY ROGUES
Featuring some of the hottest names in fiction--including New York Times bestsellers Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman, and Patrick Rothfuss, PLUS a new Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin--the second of our three George R. R. Martin/Gardner Dozois all-original anthologies. Everybody loves a rogue, though sometimes we live to regret it. In this anthology, each of the contributors was asked for a story about a rogue, full of deft twists, cunning plans, and reversals.
Best Nonfiction
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo WaltonCall Number: 813.0876 WALTON
As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series.
Best Science Fiction Novel
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Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. CoreyCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION COREY
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
Best Fantasy Novel
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanCall Number: FANTASY GAIMAN
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.
Best Young Adult Novel
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The Girl Who Soared over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. ValenteSeptember misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home, and embark on a new adventure. Little does she know that this time, she will be spirited away to the moon, reunited with her friends, and find herself faced with saving Fairyland from a moon-Yeti with great and mysterious powers.
Best First Novel
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Ancillary Justice by Ann LeckieCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION LECKIE
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Best Novella
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Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. ValenteA plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents—a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have.
Finalists
- Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages
- The Princess and the Queen by George RR Martin
- Black Helicopters by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Precious Mental by Robert Reed
Best Collection
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The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Connie WillisFew authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. All ten of the stories gathered here are Hugo or Nebula award winners—some even have the distinction of winning both. With a new Introduction by the author and personal afterwords to each story—plus a special look at three of Willis’s unique public speeches—this is unquestionably the collection of the season, a book that every Connie Willis fan will treasure, and, to those unfamiliar with her work, the perfect introduction to one of the most accomplished and best-loved writers of our time.
Finalists
- The Best of Joe Haldeman by Joe Haldeman
- The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
- Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Best Anthology
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Old Mars by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Editors)Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein’s Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction’s greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own—a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations.
Best Nonfiction
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Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer & Jeremy Zerfoss (Illustrator)Call Number: 808.3 VANDERME
This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object.
Best Science Fiction Novel
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Redshirts by John ScalziEnsign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that: (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed. Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is…and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
Best Fantasy Novel
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The Apocalypse Codex by Charles StrossCall Number: SCIENCE FICTION STROSS
For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller--an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill--becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministry and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And it's Bob's job to make sure Persephone doesn't cause an international incident. But it's a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about--a global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean up..
Best Young Adult Novel
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Railsea by China MiévilleCall Number: TEEN MIEVILLE
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored mole she's been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict--a kind of treasure map indicating a mythical place untouched by iron rails--leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters, & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
Best First Novel
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Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin AhmedCall Number: FANTASY AHMED
Three superheroes in the Crescent Moon Kingdoms bound together by a series of magical murders must work together in a race against time to prevent a sorcerer's plot from destroying the world.
Best Novella
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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy KressThe year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Weaving three consecutive time lines to unravel both the mystery of the Earth's destruction and the key to its salvation, this taut post-apocalyptic thriller offers a topical plot with a satisfying twist.
Finalists
- The Stars Do Not Lie by Jay Lake
- The Boolean Gate by Walter John Williams
- In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns by Elizabeth Bear
- On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Best Collection
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Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth BearShort fiction from Elizabeth Bear, recipient of the "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer." Includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning "Tideline" and Hugo-winning novelette, "Shoggoths in Bloom," as well as an original, never-published story. A World Fantasy, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick nominee, Bear is one of speculative fiction's most acclaimed, respected, and prolific authors.
Finalists
- The Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
Best Anthology
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Edge of Infinity by Jonathan Strahan (Editor)"One giant leap for mankind". Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Our destiny would now be to reach out to eternity. Brought to you by the creators of Engineering Infinity, Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System.
Finalists
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois (ed.)
- After by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Ed.)
- The Future is Japanese by Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington (Eds.)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six by Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
Best Nonfiction
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Distrust That Particular Flavor by William GibsonCall Number: 814.54 GIBSON
William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture. These essays and articles have never been collected-until now. Some have never appeared in print at all. In addition, Distrust That Particular Flavor includes journalism from small publishers, online sources, and magazines no longer in existence. This volume will be essential reading for any lover of William Gibson's novels. Distrust That Particular Flavor offers readers a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture.
Finalists
- Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 by Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo
- Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (eds.)
- An Exile on Planet Earth by Brian Aldiss