Tor finalists for Locus Awards

Locus Magazine has announced the finalists for the 2008 Locus Awards!

Winners will be announced at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle on June 21st.

Here are the finalists -- the top five ranking items -- in each category, listed here alphabetically by title, then by nominee.

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SF NOVEL
The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)

FANTASY NOVEL
Endless Things, John Crowley (Small Beer Press; Overlook)
Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Extras, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
The H-Bomb Girl, Stephen Baxter (Faber & Faber)
Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

FIRST NOVEL
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/McElderry)
Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)

NOVELLA
After the Siege, Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
All Seated on the Ground, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 2007)
Memorare, Gene Wolfe (F&SF Apr 2007)
Muse of Fire, Dan Simmons (The New Space Opera)
Stars Seen through Stone, Lucius Shepard (F&SF Jul 2007)

NOVELETTE
Dark Integers, Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2007)
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Ted Chiang (F&SF Sep 2007)
Trunk and Disorderly, Charles Stross (Asimov's Jan 2007)
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Jun 2007)
The Witch's Headstone, Neil Gaiman (Wizards)

SHORT STORY
The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French, Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One)
Last Contact, Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
A Small Room in Koboldtown, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
Tideline, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?, Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)

COLLECTION
The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)
The Jack Vance Treasury, Jack Vance (Subterranean)
Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder's Mouth)
Things Will Never Be the Same, Howard Waldrop (Old Earth)
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean)

ANTHOLOGY
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Ballantine Del Rey)
The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (St. Martin's)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)

NON-FICTION
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher, ed. (Oxford University Press)
Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
The Country You Have Never Seen, Joanna Russ (Liverpool University Press)
Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe, Peter Wright (Liverpool University Press)

ART BOOK
The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Lothian 2006; Scholastic)
Dreamscape: The Best of Imaginary Realism, Claus Brusen & Marcel Salome, eds. (SalBru)
Emshwiller: Infinity x Two, Luis Ortiz, ed. (Nonstop Press)
[i] Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, compiled by Sebastian Peake & Alison Eldred, edited by G. Peter Winnington (Peter Owen)
Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)

EDITOR
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Gordon Van Gelder

MAGAZINE
Analog
Asimov's
F&SF
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Subterranean

PUBLISHER
Baen
Bantam Spectra
Night Shade Books
Subterranean Press
Tor

ARTIST
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan