E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 2004
Judges: Judith Clute, Alan DeNiro, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret McBride (chair), Cecilia Tan

WINNER (tie)

Camouflage, Joe Haldeman (Ace)

Not Before Sundown (Troll: A Love Story), Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owen 2003; Grove)

SHORT LIST

"All of Us Can Almost...", Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 17 Nov 2004)

"Kissing Frogs", Jaye Lawrence (F&SF May 2004)

Life, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct Press)

Little Black Book of Stories, A. S. Byatt (Knopf)

Love's Body, Dancing in Time, L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct Press)

The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)

Stable Strategies and Others, Eileen Gunn (Tachyon Publications)

LONG LIST

"Burning Day", Glenn Grant (Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic)

Even the Stones, Marie Jakober (Edge Publishing)

Hopeful Monsters, Hiromi Goto (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Inventing Memory, Anne Harris (Tor)

Master of None, N. Lee Wood (Warner Aspect)

Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins 2003)

Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand (HarperCollins/Morrow)

"The Other Angelas", Christopher Barzak (Pindeldyboz 6 Dec 2004)

River of Gods, Ian McDonald (Simon & Schuster UK)

"Romance for Augmented Trio", Tom Purdom (Asimov's Feb 2004)

Sleep, Kat Meads (Livingston Press)

"This Tragic Glass", Elizabeth Bear (Sci Fiction 7 Apr 2004)

"Time's Swell", Victoria Somogyi & Kathleen Chamberlain (Strange Horizons 15 Nov 2004)

Tonguecat, Peter Verhelst (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Unspeakable Vitrine, Victoria Elisabeth Garcia (Clawfoot Bathdog Press)

SPECIAL MENTION

Changing Ones, Will Roscoe (St. Martin's Griffin 2000)

Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (20th anniversary edition), Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press 1984) (20th anniversary republication)