Locus Awards Nomination Period Now Open

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This year’s Locus Awards nomination period is now open.

Anyone may vote for the Locus Awards. In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth). Listed options in each category are based on Locus‘s 2012 Recommended Reading List, with options in categories for editor, artist, magazine, and publisher including results of the past two years. You are welcome to use the write-in boxes to vote for other titles and nominees in any category. Nominations close April 15, 2013. To nominate, go here.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.

  • All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
  • All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
  • Selected stories from Armored are available online.
  • Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online.
  • Selected stories from Other Worlds Than These (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).
  • Selected stories from Epic: Legends of Fantasy (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novelettes

Lightspeed

  • The Sweet Spot — A. M. Dellamonica — 7700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Sympathy — Eric Gregory — 8200 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

  • Property Condemned — Jonathan Maberry — 8900 words — (Nightmare)
  • Frontier Death Song — Laird Barron — 9950 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

  • The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams — 9300 words — (Armored)
  • Jungle Walkers — Tobias S. Buckell & David Klecha — 8325 words — (Armored)
  • The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine — 8050 words — (Armored)
  • HARRE — Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson — 8750 words — (Armored)
  • Nomad — Karin Lowachee — 7700 words — (Armored)
  • The Cat’s Pajamas — Jack McDevitt — 7800 words — (Armored)
  • Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R Green — 9442 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

  • The Metal Men of Mars — Joe R. Lansdale — 8000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • The Ghost That Haunts the Superstition Mountains — Chris Claremont — 8100 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • The Jasoom Project — S. M. Stirling — 11110 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Short Stories

Lightspeed

  • Forget You — Marc Laidlaw — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Mother Ship — Caroline M. Yoachim — 1400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Beauty — David Barr Kirtley — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Dreams in Dust — D. Thomas Minton — 2000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Requiem in the Key of Prose — Jake Kerr — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Breaking the Frame — Kat Howard — 2200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • War 3.01 — Keith Brooke — 2400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species — Ken Liu — 2600 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Children of Hamelin — Dale Bailey — 3000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? — Megan Arkenberg — 3081 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Ghost River Red — Aidan Doyle — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Sun Dogs — Brooke Bolander — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition — Megan Arkenberg — 3200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring — Genevieve Valentine — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
  • A Well-Adjusted Man — Tom Crosshill — 3500 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Seven Samovars — Peter Sursi — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • My Wife Hates Time Travel — Adam-Troy Castro — 3700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Day They Came — Kali Wallace — 3900 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Test — Steven Utley — 4000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns — Richard Bowes — 4100 words — (Lightspeed)
  • My Teacher, My Enemy — Kelsey Ann Barrett — 4200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • A Moment Before It Struck — Linda Nagata — 4300 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream — Maria Dahvana Headley — 4400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist — C. C. Finlay — 4900 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Cristóbal Effect — Simon McCaffery — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Spindles — L. B. Gale — 5000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Bear and Shifty — Benjamin Parzybok — 5200 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Blue Lace Agate — Sarah Monette — 5400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza — Jeremiah Tolbert — 5500 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Alarms — S. L. Gilbow — 5600 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Searching for Slave Leia — Sandra McDonald — 5700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment — Robert Reed — 5850 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers — Sarah Langan — 5900 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring — Brooke Bolander — 6000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Nightside on Callisto — Linda Nagata — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Renfrew’s Course — John Langan — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal — J.T. Petty — 6400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Flash Bang Remember — Tina / Caroline Connolly / Yoachim — 6500 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Ruminations in an Alien Tongue — Vandana Singh — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Monster, Finder, Shifter — Nina Kiriki Hoffman — 6700 words — (Lightspeed)
  • On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) — Marissa Lingen — 6900 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil — Carrie Vaughn — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • A Plague of Zhe — Maggie Clark — 7000 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Five Elements of the Heart Mind — Ken Liu — 7300 words — (Lightspeed)
  • Mother of All Russiya — Melanie Rawn — 7400 words — (Lightspeed)
  • The Perfect Match — Ken Liu — 7450 words — (Lightspeed)

Nightmare

  • Good Fences — Genevieve Valentine — 3050 words — (Nightmare)
  • Afterlife — Sarah Langan — 5850 words — (Nightmare)
  • Construction Project — Desirina Boskovich — 2640 words — (Nightmare)
  • At Lorn Hall — Ramsey Campbell — 6900 words — (Nightmare)
  • Chop Shop — J. B. Park — 2924 words — (Nightmare)
  • Foul Weather — Daniel H. Wilson — 2600 words — (Nightmare)

Armored

  • The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas — 6100 words — (Armored)
  • Hel’s Half-Acre — Jack Campbell — 6000 words — (Armored)
  • Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett — 1500 words — (Armored)
  • Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley — 4100 words — (Armored)
  • The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine — 6000 words — (Armored)
  • Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole — 6300 words — (Armored)
  • Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds — 6600 words — (Armored)
  • Contained Vacuum — David Sherman — 7000 words — (Armored)
  • You Do What You Do — Tanya Huff — 5781 words — (Armored)
  • Human Error — John Jackson Miller — 5400 words — (Armored)
  • Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant — 1750 words — (Armored)
  • Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn — 4200 words — (Armored)
  • The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner — 4800 words — (Armored)
  • The Green — Lauren Beukes — 5230 words — (Armored)
  • Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner — 5450 words — (Armored)
  • Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson — 6000 words — (Armored)

Under the Moons of Mars

  • Coming of Age on Barsoom — Catherynne M. Valente — 3500 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • Three Deaths — David Barr Kirtley — 4400 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • River Gods of Mars — Austin Grossman — 4630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • A Tinker of Warhoon — Tobias S. Buckell — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • A Game of Mars — Genevieve Valentine — 5000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • The Ape-Man of Mars — Peter S. Beagle — 5456 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • Woola’s Song — Theodora Goss — 5600 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • The Bronze Man of Mars — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. — 5630 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • Vengeance of Mars — Robin Wasserman — 5700 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • The Death Song of Dwar Guntha — Jonathan Maberry — 6000 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)
  • Sidekick of Mars — Garth Nix — 6123 words — (Under the Moons of Mars)

Anthology

Magazine of Fanzine

Editor – Pro or Fan

  • John Joseph Adams

Artist – Pro or Fan

Locus Magazine