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 )

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  • slip Across the Sky , Nancy Kress ( Tor )

  • Boneshaker , Cherie Priest ( Tor )

  • Galileo ’s Dream , Kim Stanley Robinson ( HarperVoyager ; Ballantine Spectra )

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  • Julian Comstock : A Story of 22nd - Century America , Robert Charles Wilson ( Tor )

Fantasy Novel

  • The City & The City , China Miéville ( Del Rey ; Macmillan UK )

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  • Unseen Academicals , Terry Pratchett ( Harper ; Doubleday UK )

  • Drood , Dan Simmons ( minuscule , Brown )

  • Palimpsest , Catherynne M. Valente ( Bantam Spectra )

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  • Finch , Jeff VanderMeer ( Underland )

First Novel

  • The Windup Girl , Paolo Bacigalupi ( Night Shade )

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  • The Manual of Detection , Jedediah Berry ( Penguin )

  • Soulless , Gail Carriger ( Orbit US )

  • Lamentation , Ken Scholes ( Tor )

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  • Norse Code , Greg van Eekhout ( Ballantine Spectra )

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  • The Hotel Under the Sand , Kage Baker ( Tachyon )

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  • fail Bovine , Libba Bray ( Delacorte )

  • Catching Fire , Suzanne Collins ( Scholastic ; Scholastic UK )

  • Liar , Justine Larbalestier ( Bloomsbury ; Allen & Unwin Australia )

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  • Leviathan , Scott Westerfeld ( Simon Pulse ; Simon & Schuster UK )

Novella

  • The Women of Nell Gwynne ’s , Kage Baker ( Subterranean )

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  • “ Act One ” , Nancy Kress ( Asimov ’s 3/09 )

  • “ Vishnu at the Cat Circus ” , Ian McDonald ( Cyberabad Days )

  • Shambling Towards Hiroshima , James Morrow ( Tachyon )

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  • “ Palimpsest ” , Charles Stross ( Wireless )

Novelette

  • “ By Moonlight ” , Peter S. Beagle ( We Never Talk About My crony )

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  • “ 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 )

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  • “ The Island ” , Peter Watts ( The New Space Opera 2 )

Short Story

  • “ The Pelican Bar ” , Karen Joy Fowler ( Eclipse Three )

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  • “ 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

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  • Asimov ’s

  • Clarkesworld

  • F&SF

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  • 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 )

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  • 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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