Locus Magazine announced the finalist for its reader - selected Locus Awards — and the five best science fiction novel of 2009 include three female authors . The winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA , June 25 - 27 , andtickets are still available . Here are the finalist :
Science Fiction Novel
- The Empress of Mars , Kage Baker ( Subterranean ; Tor )

slip Across the Sky , Nancy Kress ( Tor )
Boneshaker , Cherie Priest ( Tor )
Galileo ’s Dream , Kim Stanley Robinson ( HarperVoyager ; Ballantine Spectra )

- Julian Comstock : A Story of 22nd - Century America , Robert Charles Wilson ( Tor )
Fantasy Novel
- The City & The City , China Miéville ( Del Rey ; Macmillan UK )

Unseen Academicals , Terry Pratchett ( Harper ; Doubleday UK )
Drood , Dan Simmons ( minuscule , Brown )
Palimpsest , Catherynne M. Valente ( Bantam Spectra )

- Finch , Jeff VanderMeer ( Underland )
First Novel
- The Windup Girl , Paolo Bacigalupi ( Night Shade )

The Manual of Detection , Jedediah Berry ( Penguin )
Soulless , Gail Carriger ( Orbit US )
Lamentation , Ken Scholes ( Tor )

- Norse Code , Greg van Eekhout ( Ballantine Spectra )
unseasoned - Adult Novel
- The Hotel Under the Sand , Kage Baker ( Tachyon )

fail Bovine , Libba Bray ( Delacorte )
Catching Fire , Suzanne Collins ( Scholastic ; Scholastic UK )
Liar , Justine Larbalestier ( Bloomsbury ; Allen & Unwin Australia )

- Leviathan , Scott Westerfeld ( Simon Pulse ; Simon & Schuster UK )
Novella
- The Women of Nell Gwynne ’s , Kage Baker ( Subterranean )

“ Act One ” , Nancy Kress ( Asimov ’s 3/09 )
“ Vishnu at the Cat Circus ” , Ian McDonald ( Cyberabad Days )
Shambling Towards Hiroshima , James Morrow ( Tachyon )

- “ Palimpsest ” , Charles Stross ( Wireless )
Novelette
- “ By Moonlight ” , Peter S. Beagle ( We Never Talk About My crony )

“ It Takes Two ” , Nicola Griffith ( Eclipse Three )
“ First Flight ” , Mary Robinette Kowal ( Tor.com 8/25/09 )
“ Eros , Philia , Agape ” , Rachel Swirsky ( Tor.com 3/3/09 )

- “ The Island ” , Peter Watts ( The New Space Opera 2 )
Short Story
- “ The Pelican Bar ” , Karen Joy Fowler ( Eclipse Three )

“ An Invocation of Incuriosity ” , Neil Gaiman ( Songs of the Dying Earth )
“ Spar ” , Kij Johnson ( Clarkesworld 10/09 )
“ Going Deep ” , James Patrick Kelly ( Asimov ’s 6/09 )
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- “ Useless Things ” , Maureen F. McHugh ( Eclipse Three )
Magazine
- Analog

Asimov ’s
Clarkesworld
F&SF

- Tor.com
Publisher
Baen
Night Shade
Pyr
ulterior
Tor
Anthology
Lovecraft Unbound , Ellen Datlow , ed . ( Dark Horse )
The New Space Opera 2 , Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan , eds . ( Eos ; HarperCollins Australia )
The Year ’s Best Science Fiction : Twenty - Sixth Annual Collection , Gardner Dozois , ed . ( St. Martin ’s )
Songs of the Dying Earth : Stories in Honor of Jack Vance , George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois , eds . ( Subterranean )
Eclipse Three , Jonathan Strahan , ed . ( Night Shade )
aggregation
We Never Talk About My Brother , Peter S. Beagle ( Tachyon )
Cyberabad Days , Ian McDonald ( Pyr )
radio receiver , Charles Stross ( Ace , Orbit UK )
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 )
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Artist
Stephan Martinière
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
Non - fiction / Art Book
Powers : Secret Histories , John Berlyne ( PS )
Spectrum 16 : The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art , Cathy & Arnie Fenner , eds . ( Underwood )
impudence by Jowl , Ursula K. Le Guin ( Aqueduct )
This is Me , Jack Vance ! ( Or , More Properly , This is “ I ” ) , Jack Vance ( Subterranean )
disembowel Down the Moon : The Art of Charles Vess , Charles Vess ( Dark Horse )
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