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Locus Poll & Survey

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Locus Poll

In each category, enter '1' in the Rank column for your first choice, '2' for your second choice, '3' for your third choice, '4' for your fourth choice, and '5' for your fifth choice. Do not vote for more than five items in each category.

Best SF Novel

Rank Title
The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
Ark, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Little, Brown UK as by Iain Banks)
The Devil's Alphabet, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
Buyout, Alexander C. Irvine (Del Rey)
Under the Dome, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday)
Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Gollancz; Pyr '10)
The Walls of the Universe, Paul Melko (Tor)
Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
The Sunless Countries, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
This Is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
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Best Fantasy Novel

Rank Title
The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland)
Dragon in Chains, Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
Gears of the City, Felix Gilman (Bantam Spectra)
Cloud & Ashes, Greer Gilman (Small Beer)
Avilion, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz)
The High City, Cecelia Holland (Forge)
The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
Green, Jay Lake (Tor)
Madness of Flowers, Jay Lake (Night Shade)
Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)
Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
Spell Games, T.A. Pratt (Bantam Spectra)
Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
The Revolution Business, Charles Stross (Tor)
Canticle, Ken Scholes (Tor)
Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
Lifelode, Jo Walton (NESFA)
The Painting and the City, Robert Wexler (PS)
In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK; Del Rey)
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Best YA Book

Rank Title
The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
Sacred Scars, Kathleen Duey (Atheneum)
Gullstruck Island, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK); as The Lost Conspiracy (Harper)
Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness (Walker UK; Candlewick)
Heroes of the Valley, Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion; Doubleday UK)
Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
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Best First Novel

Rank Title
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
The Adamantine Palace, Stephen Deas (Gollancz; Roc '10)
Total Oblivion, More or Less, Alan DeNiro (Ballantine Spectra)
Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire (DAW)
Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
Harbinger, Jack Skillingstead (Fairwood)
Spellbent, Lucy A. Snyder (Del Rey)
Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring (DAW)
Lightbreaker, Mark Teppo (Night Shade)
Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)
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Best Collection

Rank Title
The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson: Volumes 1 & 2, Poul Anderson (NESFA)
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet)
Tides from the New Worlds, Tobias S. Buckell (Wyrm)
Ancestors and Others, Fred Chappell (St. Martin's)
Oceanic, Greg Egan (Gollancz)
Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
Grazing the Long Acre, Gwyneth Jones (PS)
A is for Alien, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt, Jack McDevitt (Subterranean)
Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
The Best of Michael Moorcock, Michael Moorcock (Tachyon)
Northwest Passages, Barbara Roden (Prime)
Viator Plus, Lucius Shepard (PS)
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume Four: Trips: 1972-1973, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean)
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories, Vandana Singh (Zubaan)
Are You There and Other Stories, Jack Skillingstead (Golden Gryphon)
Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
Slow Sculpture: Volume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic)
Wild Thyme, Green Magic, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)
The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
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Best Anthology

Rank Title
Postscripts 20/21, Peter Crowther, ed. (PS)
The Dragon Book, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Ace; Andersen Press)
Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
Troll's Eye View, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)
Other Earths, Nick Gevers & Jay Lake, eds. (DAW)
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three, George Mann, ed. (Solaris)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean)
Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between: Impossible Realism, Bradford Morrow & Brian Evenson, eds. (Bard College)
Firebirds Soaring, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)
X6, Keith Stevenson, ed. (coeur de lion)
Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
Federations, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade)
The Secret History of Science Fiction, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon)
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
Year's Best Fantasy 9, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tor.com)
Year's Best SF 14, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download, Rich Horton (Wyrm)
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2009, Rich Horton (Prime)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
Best American Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Prime)
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Best Nonfiction/Art Book

Rank Title
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, & Sherryl Vint, eds. (Routledge)
Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute (Beccon)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century, Jane Frank (McFarland)
Imagination/Space, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct)
Starcombing, David Langford (Cosmos)
Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)
The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction, Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland)
On Joanna Russ, Farah Mendlesohn, ed. (Wesleyan)
Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career & Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees, Michael Swanwick (Temporary Culture)
This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King, George Beahm (Centipede Press)
Reynold Brown, Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, Daniel Zimmer & David Hornung (Illustrated Press)
Imaginaire II: Magic Realism 2010, Claus Brusen, ed. (Fantasmus)
The Future of Fantasy Art, Aly Fell & Duddlebug (Collins Design)
Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett (Abrams Image)
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist, James Gurney (Andrews McMeel)
Sci-Fi Art, A Graphic History, Steve Holland (Ilex; Collins Design)
Alice in Wonderland, Rodney Matthews (Templar)
The Late Fauna of Early North America /b>, Scott Musgrove (Last Gasp)
Frank R. Paul, From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul, Stephen D. Korshak, ed. (Shasta-Phoenix)
Norman Saunders, Norman Saunders, David Saunders (Illustrated Press)
Charles Vess, Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess (Dark Horse)
Exposé 7, Daniel Wade & Paul Hellard, eds. (Ballistic)
Michael Whelan, The Little Sisters of Eluria, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant)
Gahan Wilson, Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, Mike Baehr (Fantagraphics)
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Best Novella

Rank Title
The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
Horn, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
"Sugar", Leah Bobet (Shadow Unit 4/5/09)
"Cuckoo", Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, & Leah Bobet (Shadow Unit 8/2/09)
"Paradiso Lost", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 6-7/09)
"Hot Rock", Greg Egan (Oceanic)
"Where the Winds Are All Asleep", Michael F. Flynn (Analog 10/09)
"Wives", Paul Haines (X6)
The Push, Dave Hutchinson (NewCon Press)
"Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
"Sea-Hearts", Margo Lanagan (X6)
"The Wide, Carnivorous Sky", John Langan (By Blood We Live)
"Crimes and Glory", Paul McAuley (Subterranean Spring '09)
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
A Special Place, Peter Straub (Borderlands Press)
"Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)
"The Far End of History", John C. Wright (The New Space Opera 2)
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Best Novelette

Rank Title
"Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance", Daniel Abraham (Postscripts 19)
"The Best Monkey", Daniel Abraham (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three)
"A Tiny Feast", Chris Adrian (The New Yorker)
"Things Undone", John Barnes (Jim Baen's Universe 12/09)
"Formidable Caress", Stephen Baxter (Analog 12/09)
"By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
"Vanishing", Peter S. Beagle (Intergalactic Medicine Show 3/09)
"The Qualia Engine", Damien Broderick (Asimov's 8/09)
"This Wind Blowing, and this Tide", Damien Broderick (Asimov's 4-5/09)
"Truth and Bone", Pat Cadigan (Poe)
"Lowland Sea", Suzy McKee Charnas (Poe)
"One of our Bastards is Missing", Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three)
"Healing Benjamin", Dennis Danvers (Realms of Fantasy 8/09)
"Yes We Have No Bananas", Paul Di Filippo (Eclipse Three)
"The Lion's Den", Steve Duffy (Cern Zoo: Nemonymous Nine)
"The Dragaman's Bride", Andy Duncan (The Dragon Book)
"each thing i show you is a piece of my death", Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer (Clockwork Phoenix 2)
"The Death of Sugar Daddy", Toiya Kristen Finley (Electric Velocipede Spring '09)
"Sails Above Greensea", Adam Corbin Fusco (Realms of Fantasy 4/09)
"Economancer", Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 6-7/09)
"It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
"Dragon's Deep", Cecelia Holland (The Dragon Book)
"Dragon's Teeth", Alex Irvine (F&SF 12/09)
"Seventh Fall", Alex Irvine (Subterranean Summer '09)
"The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles", Kij Johnson (Tor.com 7/14/09)
"Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance", John Kessel (The New Space Opera 2)
"Galapagos", Caitlín R. Kiernan (Eclipse Three)
"Blood Dauber", Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore (Asimov's 10-11/09)
"First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
"A Wild and a Wicked Youth", Ellen Kushner (F&SF 4-5/09)
"Technicolor", John Langan (Poe)
"Clockatrice", Tanith Lee (Fantasy 10/5/09)
"The Pain of Glass", Tanith Lee (Clockwork Phoenix 2)
"The Bones of Giants", Yoon Ha Lee (F&SF 8-9/09)
"Secret Identity", Kelly Link (Geektastic)
"Diana Comet", Sandra McDonald (Strange Horizons 3/2 - 3/9/09)
"White Charles", Sarah Monette (Clarkesworld 10/09)
"Mongoose", Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear (Lovecraft Unbound)
"The Heart of the City", Garth Nix (Subterranean Summer '09)
"The Long, Cold Goodbye", Holly Phillips (Asimov's 3/09)
"Thieves of Silence", Holly Phillips (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/16/09)
"Controlled Experiment", Tom Purdom (Asimov's 6/09)
"Siren Beat", Tansy Rayner Roberts (Siren Beat/Roadkill)
"Hair", Adam Roberts (When It Changed)
"SinBad the Sand Sailor", R. Garcia y Robertson (Asimov's 7/09)
"Wife-Stealing Time", R. Garcia y Robertson (Asimov's 10-11/09)
"Cracklegrackle", Justina Robson (The New Space Opera 2)
"Lion Walk", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's 1/09)
"You", Geoff Ryman (When It Changed)
"A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon", Ken Scholes (Tor.com 2/17/09)
"Sylgarmo's Proclamation", Lucius Shepard (Songs of the Dying Earth)
"The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale", Robert Silverberg (Songs of the Dying Earth)
"Infinities", Vandana Singh (The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet)
"Black Swan", Bruce Sterling (Interzone 3-4/09)
"Monetized", Jason Stoddard (Interzone 2/09)
"Zeppelin City", Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn (Tor.com 10/6/09)
"Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
"The City Quiet as Death", Steven Utley & Michael Bishop (Tor.com 6/9/09)
"Riders of the Three-Toed Horse", Garrett W. Vance (Jim Baen's Universe 2/09)
"Conquistador de la Noche", Carrie Vaughn (Subterranean Spring '09)
"The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
"Sails the Morne", Chris Willrich (Asimov's 6/09)
"This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe", Robert Charles Wilson (Other Earths)
"Utriusque Cosmi", Robert Charles Wilson (The New Space Opera 2)
"Everland", Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)
"Twilight of the Gods", John C. Wright (Federations)
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Best Short Story

Rank Title
"On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk", Peter M. Ball (Strange Horizons 7/6/09)
"Strappado", Laird Barron (Poe)
"Home Again", Paul M. Berger (Interzone 3-4/09)
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf", Holly Black (Troll's Eye View)
"The Coldest Girl in Coldtown", Holly Black (The Eternal Kiss)
"Under The Shouting Sky", Karl Bunker (Cosmos 8-9/09)
"Baby in the Basket", Cecil Castellucci (Strange Horizons 5/18/09)
"Voice Like a Cello", Catherine Cheek (Fantasy 5/4/09)
"Early Winter, Near Jenli Village", J. Kathleen Cheney (Fantasy 5/4/09)
"Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden", C.S.E. Cooney (Subterranean Winter '09)
"Erosion", Ian Creasey (Asimov's 10-11/09)
"Bad Matter", Alexandra Duncan (F&SF 12/09)
"Lady of the White-Spired City", Sarah L. Edwards (Interzone 5-6/09)
"The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
"An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)
"As Women Fight", Sara Genge (Asimov's 12/09)
"Child-Empress of Mars", Theodora Goss (Interfictions 2)
"A Story, With Beans", Steven Gould (Analog 5/09)
"Butterfly Bomb", Dominic Green (Interzone 5-6/09)
"Salt's Father", Eric Gregory (Strange Horizons 8/03/09)
"In the Lot and in the Air", Lisa Hannett (Clarkesworld 7/09)
"Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
"Collision", Gwyneth Jones (When It Changed)
"Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
"The Logic of the World", Robert Kelly (Conjunctions 52: Betwixt the Between)
"The Motorman's Coat", John Kessel (F&SF 6-7/09)
"Echoes of Aurora", Ellen Klages (What Remains)
"Singing on a Star", Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
"Dulce Domum", Ellen Kushner (Eclipse Three)
"On the Human Plan", Jay Lake (Lone Star Stories 2/1/09)
"Ferryman", Margo Lanagan (Firebirds Soaring)
"Living Curiosities", Margo Lanagan (Sideshow)
"The Cinderella Game", Kelly Link (Troll's Eye View)
"Excellence", Richard A. Lovett (Analog 1-2/09)
"Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)
"Catalog", Eugene Mirabelli (F&SF 2/09)
"The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale", Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21)
"Her Voice in a Bottle", Tim Pratt (Subterranean Winter '09)
"Narrative of a Beast's Life", Cat Rambo (Realms of Fantasy 12/09)
"Before My Last Breath", Robert Reed (Asimov's 10-11/09)
"Tests", Robert Reed (Postscripts 20/21)
"Edison's Frankenstein", Chris Roberson (Postscripts 20/21)
"Writ of Exception", Madeleine E. Robins (Lace and Blade 2)
"My She", Mary Rosenblum (Federations)
"Colliding Branes", Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling (Asimov's 2/09)
"The Men Burned All the Boats", Patricia Russo (Fantasy 2/9/09)
"Blocked", Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11/09)
"Of Melei, of Ulthar", Gord Sellar (Clarkesworld 10/09)
"Wizard's Apprentice", Delia Sherman (Troll's Eye View)
What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night, Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar Press)
"Bob Choi's Last Job", Jonathan Stroud (The Dragon Book)
"The Dying World", Lavie Tidhar (Clarkesworld 4/09)
"The Shangri-La Affair", Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons 1/19/09)
"Ragged Claws", Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts 20/21)
"A Delicate Architecture", Catherynne M. Valente (Troll's Eye View)
"The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew", Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/09)
"Bespoke", Genevieve Valentine (Strange Horizons 7/27/09)
"Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction", Jo Walton (Tor.com 2/6/09)
"Three Twilight Tales", Jo Walton (Firebirds Soaring)
"Donovan Sent Us", Gene Wolfe (Other Earths)
"The Horse Angel", Marly Youmans (Postscripts 20/21)
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Best Magazine or Fanzine

Rank Title
Analog
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight
Ansible
Asimov's
Aurealis
Black Gate
Black Static
Cemetery Dance
Clarkesworld
Electric Velocipede
F&SF
Fantasy Magazine
Flurb
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Internet Review of SF (IROSF)
Interzone
Jim Baen's Universe
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
The New York Review of SF
On Spec
Postscripts
Realms of Fantasy
SF Site
SF Weekly
SFRevu
Strange Horizons
Subterranean
Talebones
Tor.com
Weird Tales
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Best Book Publisher

Rank Title
Ace
Aqueduct
Arkham House
Baen
Bloomsbury
DAW
Del Rey
Eos
Fairwood
Firebird
Five Star
Golden Gryphon
Gollancz
Grand Central
Hadley Rille
HarperVoyager
Luna
MonkeyBrain
Morrow
NESFA Press
Night Shade Books
Norilana
Orbit
Prime
PS Publishing
Pyr
Roc
SF Book Club
Small Beer Press
Solaris
Spectra
St. Martin's
Subterranean Press
Tachyon
Tor
Wheatland
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Best Editor - Pro or Fan

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John Joseph Adams
Lou Anders
Mike Ashley
Ginjer Buchanan
Andy Cox
Peter Crowther
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
Gavin Grant/Kelly Link
Martin H. Greenberg
Susan Marie Groppi
Jed Hartman
David G. Hartwell
Stephen Jones
George Mann
Shawna McCarthy
Beth Meacham
Betsy Mitchell
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Sharyn November
William Schafer
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Juliet Ulman
Gordon Van Gelder
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Sean Wallace
Toni Weisskopf
Sheila Williams
Terri Windling
Betsy Wollheim
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Best Artist - Pro or Fan

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Yoshitaka Amano
Julie Bell
Brom
Jim Burns
Thomas Canty
David Cherry
Kinuko Y. Craft
Vincent Di Fate
Leo & Diane Dillon
Daniel Dos Santos
Les Edwards
Bob Eggleton
Phil Foglio
Brad Foster
Frank Frazetta
Donato Giancola
Dominic Harman
John Harris
Michael Kaluta
Paul Kidby
Tom Kidd
Don Maitz
Stephan Martiniere
Sue Mason
Chris McGrath
Dave McKean
Kurt Miller
John Jude Palencar
John Picacio
J.K. Potter
Larry Rostant
Luis Royo
Don Sipley
Steve Stone
Shaun Tan
Boris Vallejo
Charles Vess
Taral Wayne
Michael Whelan
Frank Wu
Stephen Youll
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friend/word of mouth

Do you own any of the following?
personal computer
laptop
next gen console (Wii, PS3, etc.)
e-book reader (Kindle, etc.)
plasma/HDTV
TiVo/DVR
iPod/MP3 player
digital camera
cell phone
smartphone
car

If you own a computer, how many? , and what kind(s)?
PC Mac Linux operated other:

If you own an e-book reader, what do you read on it?
books magazines other:

How many hours per week do you spend online?
0 1-2 3-5 6-9 10-19 20+

Do you have a cable or DSL connection? yes no
Do you have a web page? yes no
Do you have a blog? yes no
Do you Twitter? yes no
Do you look at YouTube? yes no
Do you use social networking sites? yes no
Do you use peer-to-peer filesharing networks? yes no
Do you play MMORPGs or game online? yes no
Do you get your news online? yes no
Do you read fiction online? yes no
  short stories? yes no
  novels? yes no
Have you ever purchased anything online? yes no
Have you ever paid for an e-book, e-story? yes no
Have you ever paid for downloaded music? yes no
Do you regularly listen to podcasts? yes no
Do you read Locus Online? yes no
Do you read other online SF publications? yes no
Have you ever donated to an online publication? yes no

Which of the following online publications do you read regularly?
Abyss & Apex
Ansible
Baen's Universe
Clarkesworld
Fantasy
Hub
Intergalactic
Medicine Show

IROSF
Lone Star Stories
Sci Fi Weekly
SFRevu
SF Site
Strange Horizons
Subterranean
Tangent Online
Tor.com
other

How long have you been reading SF regularly?
1 year
2-5 years
6-10 years
11-20 years
21-30 years
31+ years

Does SF form the major part of your pleasure reading? yes    no

Do you consider yourself a book collector? yes    no

If yes, do you primarily collect:
hardcovers
everything
paperbacks
other:
magazines

Do you like:
SF
   hard science
   social science
   adventure
Fantasy
   high/heroic
   humorous
   romantic
Horror/Dark Fantasy
   psychological
   splatter
   supernatural
other:

How many new hardcovers do you buy per month?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

How many per year?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

How many new trade paperbacks do you buy per month?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

How many per year?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

How many new paperbacks do you buy per month?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

How many per year?
0 1 2-4 5-10 11+

Is most of the SF you buy: new used about equal

Where do you buy most of your SF?
chain stores
general bookstores
specialty stores
online booksellers
mail order
newsstands
wholesale or discount stores
conventions

Are you a member of the Science Fiction Book Club? yes no
Are you a member of a general book or video club? yes no
Do you subscribe to cable or Satellite TV? yes no
Do you subscribe to Netflix? yes no

Which of the following print magazines do you read regularly?
Analog
Asimov's
F&SF
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
NY Review of SF
Interzone
Realms of Fantasy
Weird Tales
other:

Have you ever attended a:
science fiction convention? Worldcon? neither
Did you attend the 2009 Worldcon? yes no
Do you nominate vote for the Hugos?

How many conventions, aside from the Worldcon, did you attend last year?
0 1-2 3-5 6-10 11+

Which of the following related subjects are you interested in?
movies
comics/graphic novels
science, non-fiction
gaming, including RPGs
computer/video games
fanzines/small press magazines
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Heroes
Lost
Stargate
Star Trek
Star Wars
mainstream fiction
mystery fiction
historical fiction
romance fiction
young-adult fiction

How many movies do you see each month?
Theater movies?
0 1-2 3-5 6-10 11+
TV/Video/DVD movies?
0 1-2 3-5 6-10 11+

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