Saturday 5 July 2003

Locus Awards Winners

The 2003 Locus Awards were presented Friday evening, July 4, at Westercon in SeaTac, Washington. The awards are given to winners in Locus Magazine's annual poll. Complete Locus Poll results will appear in the August issue of the magazine.

SF NOVEL

The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam)

FANTASY NOVEL

The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)

FIRST NOVEL

A Scattering of Jades, Alexander C. Irvine (Tor)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

NOVELLA

The Tain, China Miéville (PS Publishing)

NOVELETTE

"The Wild Girls", Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's, Mar 2002)

SHORT STORY

"October in the Chair", Neil Gaiman (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)

COLLECTION

Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang (Tor)

ANTHOLOGY

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years, Bruce Sterling (Random House)

ART BOOK

Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)

EDITOR

Gardner Dozois

MAGAZINE

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

BOOK PUBLISHER

Tor

ARTIST

Bob Eggleton

Toastmaster at the awards banquet was Connie Willis. Winners present were Alex Irvine, Gardner Dozois, Bruce Sterling, Gordon Van Gelder (for F&SF), Tom Doherty (for Tor), and Bob Eggleton.

Kim Stanley Robinson's award was accepted by Kathleen Ann Goonan, while Bruce Sterling accepted the two awards won by China Miéville. Neil Gaiman's two awards were accepted by Lisa Snellings. Eileen Gunn accepted for Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alex Irvine accepted for Ted Chiang. In addition to the Locus Award plaques for the winners, certificates were given out to publishers of winning books and stories.

Several additional awards were also given this year:

SPECIAL AWARD

Tom Doherty, for winning the Locus Award 15 years in a row

SPECIAL AWARD

Eileen Gunn, best acceptor

SPECIAL AWARD

Bob Eggleton, for artistic contributions to Locus

SPECIAL AWARD

Connie Willis, best toastmaster

John Berry accepted Eileen Gunn's special award; Eileen Gunn accepted for Connie Willis. Bob Eggleton showed his hair.

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Links

Locus Online—
  2002 Locus Awards Winners

Locus Index to SF Awards —
  Locus Awards —
    Past winners by Year
    Past finalists and winners

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