2012 Locus Poll Award

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Best SF Novel
1	Embassytown	China Miéville^?China Mieville
2	11/22/63	Stephen King
3	Rule 34	Charles Stross
4	The Children of the Sky	Vernor Vinge
5	Leviathan Wakes	Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck
6	Dancing with Bears	Michael Swanwick
7	Grail	Elizabeth Bear
8	Home Fires	Gene Wolfe
9	Deadline	Mira Grant
10	Vortex	Robert Charles Wilson
11	Earthbound	Joe Haldeman
12	Firebird	Jack McDevitt
13	The Clockwork Rocket	Greg Egan
14	The Islanders	Christopher Priest
15	Heart of Iron	Ekaterina Sedia
16	Daybreak Zero	John Barnes
17	This Shared Dream	Kathleen Ann Goonan
18	7th Sigma	Steven Gould
19	All the Lives He Led	Frederik Pohl
20	Wake Up and Dream	Ian R. MacLeod
21	The Courier's New Bicycle	Kim Westwood
22	Zone One	Colson Whitehead

Best Fantasy Novel
1	A Dance with Dragons	George R. R. Martin
2	Among Others	Jo Walton
3	Snuff	Terry Pratchett
4	The Wise Man's Fear	Patrick Rothfuss
5	Deathless	Catherynne M. Valente
6	The Kingdom of Gods	N. K. Jemisin
7	The Magician King	Lev Grossman
8	The Heroes	Joe Abercrombie
9	The Folded World	Catherynne M. Valente
10	The Cold Commands	Richard K. Morgan
11	Raising Stony Mayhall	Daryl Gregory
12	The Uncertain Places	Lisa Goldstein
13	Redwood and Wildfire	Andrea Hairston
14	Heartless	Gail Carriger
15	Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles	Kim Newman
16	The Dragon's Path	Daniel Abraham
17	The Alchemists of Kush	Minister Faust
18	Mr. Fox	Helen Oyeyemi
19	Briarpatch	Tim Pratt
20	The Fallen Blade	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
21	The Hammer	K. J. Parker
22	Mistification	Kaaron Warren

Best First Novel
1	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern
2	Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti	Genevieve Valentine
3	Soft Apocalypse	Will McIntosh
4	God's War	Kameron Hurley
5	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline
6	Of Blood and Honey	Stina Leicht
7	The Tiger's Wife	Téa Obreht
8	The Girl of Fire and Thorns	Rae Carson
9	Seed	Rob Ziegler
10	The Desert of Souls	Howard Andrew Jones
11	Debris	Jo Anderton
12	Low Town	Daniel Polansky
13	Blood Red Road	Moira Young

Best Young Adult Book
1	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making	Catherynne M. Valente
2	Planesrunner	Ian McDonald
3	Akata Witch	Nnedi Okorafor
4	Goliath	Scott Westerfeld
5	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
6	The Freedom Maze	Delia Sherman
7	Absolute Midnight	Clive Barker
8	Daughter of Smoke & Bone	Laini Taylor
9	Across the Great Barrier	Patricia C. Wrede
10	A Monster Calls	Patrick Ness
11	Red Glove	Holly Black
12	Mastiff	Tamora Pierce
13	The Highest Frontier	Joan Slonczewski
14	Huntress	Malinda Lo
15	Beauty Queens	Libba Bray
16	The Boy at the End of the World	Greg van Eekhout
17	Across the Universe	Beth Revis
18	Scrivener's Moon	Philip Reeve
19	Eona	Alison Goodman

Best Novella
1	Silently and Very Fast	Catherynne M. Valente
2	The Man Who Bridged the Mist	Kij Johnson
3	Kiss Me Twice	Mary Robinette Kowal
4	The Ants of Flanders	Robert Reed
5	The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs	James P. Blaylock
6	The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine	Peter Straub
7	The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary	Ken Liu
8	The Ice Owl	Carolyn Ives Gilman
9	Gravity Dreams	Stephen Baxter
10	The Men from Porlock	Laird Barron
11	Near Zennor	Elizabeth Hand
12	The Adakian Eagle	Bradley Denton
13	Rampion	Alexandra Duncan
14	Blue and Gold	K. J. Parker
15	A Brood of Foxes	Kristin Livdahl

Best Novelette
1	White Lines on a Green Field	Catherynne M. Valente
2	The Summer People	Kelly Link
3	What We Found	Geoff Ryman
4	Underbridge	Peter S. Beagle
5	The Copenhagen Interpretation	Paul Cornell
6	The Choice	Paul McAuley
7	Fields of Gold	Rachel Swirsky
8	The Dala Horse	Michael Swanwick
9	The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)	Nnedi Okorafor
10	The Maltese Unicorn	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
11	A Long Walk Home	Jay Lake
12	Purple	Robert Reed
13	Clean	John Kessel
14	The Little Green God of Agony	Stephen King
15	Six Months, Three Days	Charlie Jane Anders
16	The Old Man and the Martian Sea	Alastair Reynolds
17	Late Bloomer	Suzy McKee Charnas
18	A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong	K. J. Parker
19	The Last Ride of the Glory Girls	Libba Bray
20	My Husband Steinn	Eleanor Arnason
21	Laika's Ghost	Karl Schroeder
22	Blackwood's Baby	Laird Barron
23	The Cold Step Beyond	Ian R. MacLeod
24	The Projected Girl	Lavie Tidhar
25	The Vicar of Mars	Gwyneth Jones
26	The Ki-anna	Gwyneth Jones
27	Ghostweight	Yoon Ha Lee
28	Mysteries of the Old Quarter	Paul Park
29	----	uncredited
30	Steam Girl	Dylan Horrocks

Best Short Story
1	The Case of Death and Honey	Neil Gaiman
2	The Paper Menagerie	Ken Liu
3	The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees	E. Lily Yu
4	The Bread We Eat in Dreams	Catherynne M. Valente
5	The Way It Works Out and All	Peter S. Beagle
6	"And Weep Like Alexander"	Neil Gaiman
7	Tidal Forces	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
8	The Brave Little Toaster	Cory Doctorow
9	The Invasion of Venus	Stephen Baxter
10	Valley of the Girls	Kelly Link
11	After the Apocalypse	Maureen F. McHugh
12	Dolly	Elizabeth Bear
13	Attlee and the Long Walk	Kage Baker
14	For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again	Michael Swanwick
15	Goodnight Moons	Ellen Klages
16	Pug	Theodora Goss
17	Ascension Day	Alastair Reynolds
18	Daddy Long Legs of the Evening	Jeffrey Ford
19	Younger Women	Karen Joy Fowler
20	Mulberry Boys	Margo Lanagan
21	Smoke City	Christopher Barzak
22	The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece	M. Rickert
23	The Server and the Dragon	Hannu Rajaniemi
24	Slow As a Bullet	Andy Duncan
25	The Sandal-Bride	Genevieve Valentine
26	Woman Leaves Room	Robert Reed
27	Movement	Nancy Fulda
28	The Patrician	Tansy Rayner Roberts
29	And Go Like This	John Crowley
30	Tying Knots	Ken Liu

Best Collection
1	The Bible Repairman and Other Stories	Tim Powers
2	After the Apocalypse: Stories	Maureen F. McHugh
3	Sleight of Hand	Peter S. Beagle
4	The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1	Carol Emshwiller
5	Two Worlds and In Between	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
6	Paradise Tales	Geoff Ryman
7	Admiralty	Poul Anderson
8	Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, 1963-1973	Kurt Vonnegut
9	Gothic High-Tech	Bruce Sterling
10	When the Great Days Come	Gardner Dozois
11	The Inheritance and Other Stories	Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm
12	Yellowcake	Margo Lanagan
13	Unpossible and Other Stories	Daryl Gregory
14	Love and Romanpunk	Tansy Rayner Roberts
15	Somewhere Beneath Those Waves	Sarah Monette
16	The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories	Joan Aiken
17	TVA Baby and Other Stories	Terry Bisson
18	The Universe of Things	Gwyneth Jones
19	Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex	Lucy Sussex

Best Anthology
1	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection	Gardner Dozois
2	Welcome to Bordertown	Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
3	Engineering Infinity	Jonathan Strahan
4	Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories	Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
5	Eclipse Four: New Science Fiction and Fantasy	Jonathan Strahan
6	The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories	Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
7	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities	Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
8	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five	Jonathan Strahan
9	Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier	Jonathan Strahan
10	Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy	Ellen Datlow
11	Year's Best SF 16	Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
12	Teeth: Vampire Tales	Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
13	The Book of Cthulhu	Ross E. Lockhart
14	Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense	Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
15	Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2	William Schafer
16	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three	Ellen Datlow
17	Blood and Other Cravings	Ellen Datlow
18	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011	Rich Horton
19	Happily Ever After	John Klima
20	A Book of Horrors	Stephen Jones
21	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22	Stephen Jones
22	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011 Edition	Paula Guran

Best Magazine
1	Asimov's Science Fiction - 2011	Sheila Williams
2	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - 2011	Gordon Van Gelder
3	Clarkesworld Magazine - 2011	Neil Clarke
4	Tor.com - 2011	Liz Gorinsky and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
4	Tor.com - 2011	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
4	Tor.com - 2011	Liz Gorinsky
4	Tor.com - 2011	Megan Messinger
4	Tor.com - 2011	James R. Frenkel
4	Tor.com - 2011	David G. Hartwell
4	Tor.com - 2011	Liz Szabla
4	Tor.com - 2011	Brendan Deneen
4	Tor.com - 2011	Wesley Adams
4	Tor.com - 2011	Kate Farrell
5	Analog Science Fiction and Fact - 2011	Stanley Schmidt
6	Subterranean Online - 2011	William Schafer
6	Subterranean Online, Summer 2011	Gwenda Bond
7	Lightspeed - 2011	John Joseph Adams
8	Strange Horizons - 2011	Niall Harrison
9	Interzone - 2011	Andy Cox
9	Interzone - 2011	Andy Cox and Andy Hedgecock
10	Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet - 2011	Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
11	The New York Review of Science Fiction - 2011	David G. Hartwell and Kevin J. Maroney
12	Apex Magazine - 2011	Catherynne M. Valente
12	Apex Magazine - 2011	Lynne M. Thomas
13	Realms of Fantasy - 2011	Douglas Cohen and Shawna McCarthy
13	Realms of Fantasy - 2011	Douglas Cohen
14	Cemetery Dance - 2011	Richard Chizmar
15	Ansible - 2011	David Langford
16	Weird Tales - 2011	Ann VanderMeer
17	SF Site	uncredited
18	Fantasy Magazine - 2011	John Joseph Adams
19	Black Gate - 2011	John O'Neill
20	Beneath Ceaseless Skies - 2011	Scott H. Andrews
21	Electric Velocipede - 2011	John Klima

Best Non-Fiction
1	Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature	Gary K. Wolfe
2	Becoming Ray Bradbury	Jonathan R. Eller
3	Musings and Meditations	Robert Silverberg
4	In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination	Margaret Atwood
5	Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006	Gary K. Wolfe
6	Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm	John Clute
7	Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life	Rudy Rucker
8	Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality	John Grant

Best Art Book
1	Spectrum 18: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
2	Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art	Karen Haber
3	Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It	Mike Ashley
4	A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings	Cor Blok
5	Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art	Cliff Biggers and Jeffrey Jones
6	Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss	Chris Foss and Imogene Foss and Rian Hughes
7	Fantasy+ 3: Best Hand-Painted Illustrations	Vincent Zhao
8	Exposé 9: The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe	Daniel Wade

Best Editor
1	----	Ellen Datlow
2	----	Jonathan Strahan
3	----	Gardner Dozois
4	----	Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
5	----	Gordon Van Gelder
6	----	David G. Hartwell
7	----	John Joseph Adams
8	----	Sheila Williams
9	----	Catherynne M. Valente
10	----	Terri Windling
11	----	Lou Anders
12	----	Stanley Schmidt
13	----	Liz Gorinsky
14	----	Gavin Grant and Kelly Link
15	----	Betsy Wollheim
16	----	William Schafer
17	----	Neil Clarke
18	----	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
19	----	Martin H. Greenberg
20	----	Shawna McCarthy
21	----	Ginjer Buchanan
22	----	Alisa Krasnostein
23	----	Jeremy Lassen
24	----	Sharyn November
25	----	Stephen Jones
26	----	Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Best Publisher/Imprint
1	Tor
2	Subterranean Press
3	Night Shade Books
4	Baen Books
5	Small Beer Press
6	Orbit
7	Ace
8	DAW Books
9	Pyr
10	Angry Robot
11	PS Publishing
12	Del Rey Books
13	Gollancz
14	Tachyon
15	NESFA Press
16	Aqueduct Press
17	Roc
18	HarperVoyager
19	Twelfth Planet Press
20	ChiZine Publications
21	Haffner Press
22	Prime
23	St. Martin's

Best Artist
1	----	Shaun Tan
2	----	Michael Whelan
3	----	John Picacio
4	----	Charles Vess
5	----	Bob Eggleton
6	----	Donato Giancola
7	----	Stephan Martiniere
8	----	Kinuko Y. Craft
9	----	John Jude Palencar
10	----	Frank Frazetta
11	----	Thomas Canty
12	----	Vincent Di Fate
13	----	Jim Burns
14	----	Phil Foglio
15	----	Dave McKean
16	----	Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
17	----	Daniel Dos Santos
18	----	Tom Kidd
19	----	Yoshitaka Amano
20	----	J. K. Potter
21	----	Vincent Chong
22	----	Boris Vallejo
22	----	Brom
24	----	Julie Bell
25	----	Todd Lockwood

2012 Locus Poll Award

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Award Years for Locus Poll Award