Tantos y tan buenos: estos son los finalistas de los Premios Locus 2018

La Locus Science Fiction Foundation ya ha decidido quienes son los diez finalistas en cada categoría de los Premios Locus, edición 2018. Los ganadores se darán a conocer en el Locus Awards Weekend que se celebrará en Seattle (Washington) del 22 al 24 de junio —Connie Willis será la anfitriona de la ceremonia—, en la que habrá lecturas y firmas de autores, invitados especiales, paneles y el concurso anual de camisetas hawaianas.

Lee también:
Los finalistas de los Premios Hugo 2018

Esos finalistas fueron escogidos por los propios lectores en una encuesta abierta en internet desde el 1 de febrero al 15 de abril —la LSFF también ha recomendado una lista de autores de ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror que se puede leer aquí—.

Sin más dilación, estos son los agraciados que pasan a la última fase:

CIENCIA FICCIÓN

Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor, Head of Zeus)
Las estrellas son legión, Kameron Hurley (Saga, Angry Robot UK, Runas)
Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US, Solaris UK)
Luna: Luna de lobos, Ian McDonald (Tor, Gollancz, Ediciones B)
Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
Nueva York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US, Orbit UK, Minotauro)
The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

FANTASÍA

The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway, Jo Fletcher)
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace, Gollancz)
The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf, riverrun)
The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing, Orbit UK)
Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)

TERROR

Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Scribe UK)
After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US, Abaddon UK)
The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron, HarperCollins UK)
Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

JUVENIL

Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury USA)
Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan, Amulet)
Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin, Piccadilly)
Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
El libro de la oscuridad: La bella salvaje, Philip Pullman (Knopf, Fickling UK, Roca Editorial)

PRIMERA NOVELA

The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House, Bloomsbury)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

NOVELA CORTA

In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Agentes de Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing, Runas)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing, Crononauta)
“And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

RELATO

“Children of Thorns, Children of Water”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“Extracurricular Activities”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
“The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
“The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“The Lamentation of Their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
“Waiting on a Bright Moon”, JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

HISTORIA CORTA

“Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
“Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
“Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
“Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
“The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
“Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
“Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

ANTOLOGÍA

Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam, HarperCollins UK)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US, Solaris UK)
The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)

EDITORIAL

Angry Robot
Baen
DAW
Gollancz
Orbit
Saga
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tor

ARTISTA

Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
Gregory Manchess
Victo Ngai
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

NO FICCIÓN

Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany (Volume 1, 1957-1969), Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US, Chatto & Windus 2016)
Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
Don’t Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
J. G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)

LIBRO DE ARTE

The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium, Paul Kidby (Gollancz)
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Jeffrey Alan Love y Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
Above the Timberline, Gregory Manchess (Saga)
The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Syd Mead y Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom, Jean-Baptiste Monge (Goblin’s WAY)
Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, Wendy Pini y Richard Pini (Flesk)
Goblin Market, Omar Rayyan y Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh, James Wyatt (Viz)

por Loren Sparrow mayo 02, 2018