These were released last night shortly before I went to bed. You can see all of the lists here. Remember that these are not short lists. The winners are already known, and there is no additional round of voting. Locus simply releases the names of the top five in each category early so as to build interest in the awards.
I’m delighted to see Clarkesworld in the Best Magazine category, and “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu in the Short Story category. I’m also very pleased to see people like Cat Valente, Ian McDonald, Kameron Hurley, Ken Liu, Nnedi Okorafor, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan and Genevieve Valentine in the lists.
We have two finalists in the bookstore. Here they are:
| Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine (Best First Novel) |
Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (Best Novella) |
And, in addition to Cat Valente, Cat Valente, Cat Valente, Cat Valente and Cat Valente. (:
//JJ
Anyone would think you were associated with a convention for which Cat is the Guest of Honor. 😉
I do like the timing!
Then again, we didn’t start liking her because we invited her, we invited her because we liked her work, so it’d have been pretty cool anyway.
//JJ
Not surprisingly the Washington SF Association (WSFA Press) are pretty happy too.