Blogging Westercon – Locus Awards

Here I am, high (35th floor of the International Hotel) above Calgary, awaiting the results of this year’s Locus Awards. (UPDATE: This was initially live-blogged, with photos and links added later.)

Charles Brown began with a comic introduction of Connie Willis (first pretending to think he was at a literary conference in China).

Charles Brown and Connie Willis

Connie Willis riffed on being from U.S. in Canada–jokes on recent news items of individuals displaying lack of smarts. (“The really good news: Paris Hilton’s chihuahua is writing a book.”) She also played off a number of famous “Americans” who are really Canadian.

Connie Willis

And then the awards begin:

Best book publisher: Tor Books.

Best magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder.

Best Editor: Ellen Datlow.

Best Artist: Michael Whelan.

Best Art Book: Spectrum 11: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Arnie and Cathy Fenner.

Best Non-Fiction Book: The Wave in the Mind, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Best Collection: The John Varley Reader by John Varley.

John Varley

Best Anthology: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

Interlude: Hawaiian shirt competition. Charles Brown once honored by everyone wearing Hawaiian shirts; it became a tradition. (Used to have a Hawaiian hulu guy, but he got broken by Bruce Sterling.) John Varley won a banana autographed by Charles Brown.

Hawaiian shirt competition

Best short story: Neil Gaiman won for “Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire.”

Best novelette: “Reports of Certain Events in London,” China Mieville.

Best novellette: “The Fairy Handbag” by Kelly Link.

Best novella: “Golden City Far” by Gene Wolfe.

Best Young Adult book: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.

Best First Novel: Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Best Fantasy Novel: The Iron Council by China Mieville.

Best Science Fiction Novel: The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson.

A reception followed, and as the rural correspondents of The Weyburn Review used to like to say, “A good time was had by all.”

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