Prošlog vikenda su proglašeni dobitnici prestižne nagrade Lokus magazina za fantastičku književnost. Proglašenje je svečano obavljeno u okviru Lokusovog nagradnog vikenda, održanog u Sijetlu, a voditeljka ceremonije bila je četvorostruka dobitnica ovog priznanja, Koni Vilis.

Lokus nagrada je dodeljena u petnaest kategorija. Za najbolji roman iz domena naučne fantastike proglašeno je delo “Ancillary Sword” En Leki. Nagrada za najbolji roman epske fantastike otišla je u ruke Katrin Adison za naslov “The Goblin Emperor”.

Nagrada za najbolji prvi roman dodeljena je Meri Rikart za “The Memory Garden”, dok je “Half a King” Džoa Aberkrombija ovenčan “Lokus” nagradom u kategoriji najboljeg romana za mlade.

U kategorijama kraćih proznih formi nagrađeni su: novela “Yesterday’s Kin” Nensi Kres, noveleta “Tough Times All Over” Džoa Aberkrombija (još jednom) i kratka priča “The Truth About Owls” Amala El-Mohtara.

Nagradu za najbolju antologiju dobio je uigrani tandem priređivača ove vrste publikacija DžR.R. Martin i Gardner Dozoa, za “Rogues”. Najboljom zbirkom proglašena je “Last Plane to Heaven” Džeja Lejka, dok je knjiga “What Makes This Book So Great” Džo Volton zavredila nagradu u kategoriji esejistike.

Nagrađeni SF/F romani

“Ancillary Sword” je nastavak višestruko nagrađivanog romana “Ancillary Justice”. Glavna junakinja je Breka, nekada svemirski brod, svest koja je upravljala stotinama tela, a sada ograničena na samo jedno. Kao zapovednica novog broda u službi carstva, Breka je poslata na udaljenu plantažnu planetu gde će pokušati da zaštiti porodicu poručnika koga je prethodno hladnokrvno ubila.

“The Goblin Emperor” je priča o polu-goblinu po imenu Maia, najmlađem carevom sinu, koji neočekivano dolazi na presto nakon tragedije koja je odnela živote njegovog oca i tri starija brata. Odrastao u izolaciji, neiskvaren i potpuno nepripremljen za ulogu koja mu je zapala, Maia je prinuđen da se nosi sa svom odgovornošću i izazovima vladanja. Nastojeći da se snađe u mreži dvorskih intriga, bez prijatelja ili očiglednih saveznika, mladi car mora ne samo da nauči da upravlja carstvom, već i da otkrije čijom krivicom je stradao ostatak njegove porodice i tako i sam izbegne istu sudbinu.

Kompletna lista nominovanih i nagrađenih:

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
• Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
• Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
• A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
• The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
• The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)
• The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)
• Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)

NOVELLA

• Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• “The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
• “The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)

NOVELETTE

• “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
• “The Hand Is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
• “Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 1/14)
• “The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
• “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues)

SHORT STORY

• “The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)
• “Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
• “The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
• “In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
• “Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)

ANTHOLOGY

• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Press)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)

COLLECTION

• Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)
• Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
• The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
• Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)

NON-FICTION

• What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)
• Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan Eller (University of Illinois Press)
• Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison (Tor)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
• Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)

ART BOOK

• Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Jim Burns, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Titan)
• The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)
• Brian & Wendy Froud, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales (Abrams)
• The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller (Zenith)

ARTIST

• John Picacio
• Jim Burns
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

EDITOR

• Ellen Datlow
• John Joseph Adams
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

MAGAZINE

• Tor.com
• Asimov’s
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Lightspeed

PUBLISHER

• Tor
• Angry Robot
• Orbit
• Small Beer
• Subterranean