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Locus Awards 2011 Winners
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The winners of the 2011 Locus Awards have been announced:
Best Science Fiction Novel
- Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
- Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
Best Fantasy Novel
- Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
- Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
- Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Sorcerer’s House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Best First Novel
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)
- Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)
Best Young Adult Book
- Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)
- Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
2011 Hugo Award nominees
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Hugo Award nominees are:
Best Novel
- Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
- Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Best Novella
- “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2010)
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
- “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All New Tales, William Morrow)
- “The Sultan of the Clouds”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s, September 2010)
- “Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines, Science Fiction Book Club)
Best Novelette
- “Eight Miles”, Sean McMullen (Analog, September 2010)
- “The Emperor of Mars”, Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s, June 2010)
- “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s, July 2010)
- “Plus or Minus”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s, December 2010)
- “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone (Analog, September 2010)
Best Short Story
- “Amaryllis”, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed, June 2010)
- “For Want of a Nail”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s, September 2010)
- “Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com, November 17, 2010)
- “The Things”, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, January 2010)
Tähtifantasia Award Nominees 2011
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The Helsinki Science Fiction Society has announced the shortlist for the Tähtifantasia award for best translated fantasy book published in Finnish last year. The nominees are:
* Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
* The Last Wish (Ostatnie życzenie) by Andrzej Sapkowski
* The Earth Hums In B-Flat by Mari Strachan
* The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
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Diana Wynne Jones has died
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Author Diana Wynne Jones (b.1934) died on March 25 after a year-long struggle with cancer.
Brian Jacques has died
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Redwall author Brian Jacques dies aged 71
A former merchant sailor whose children's books sold millions worldwide has died aged 71.
Brian Jacques' Redwall series of books were translated into 29 languages and sold 20m globally.
He first wrote the series, set in an abbey populated by animals, for children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool.
The Liverpool-born writer's weekly show, Jakestown, ran on BBC Radio Merseyside for more than 20 years.
He died after a heart attack at the weekend and leaves a wife and two grown up sons.