Sono stati resi noti i finalisti dei prestigiosi Premi Locus, assegnati ogni anno dalla famosa rivista sulla base dei voti dei lettori.

Insieme all'Hugo e al Nebula è uno dei riconoscimenti maggiori del settore e spesso fornisce indicazioni sulle opere che poi risulteranno vincitrici negli altri due premi.

La lista dei premiati sarà resa nota il 16 giugno 2007 alla cerimonia di premiazione che sarà tenuta nel corso del Science Fiction Museum's Hall of Fame weekend.

Tra i finalisti nella categoria fantasy anche The Last Witchfinder di James Morrow, già in finale al BSFA e Soldier of Sidon, dell’inossidabile Gene Wolf.

Ecco l'elenco completo in ordine alfabetico.

 

Miglior Romanzo di fantascienza

Blindsight, Peter Watts

Carnival, Elizabeth Bear

Farthing, Jo Walton

Glasshouse, Charles Stross

Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge

Miglior Romanzo fantasy

The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross

The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow

The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner

Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe

Three Days to Never, Tim Powers

Opera prima

Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist

The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder, Naomi Novik; come Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)

Romanzo per ragazzi

The Keys to the Kingdom: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix

Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier

Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin

Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett

Miglior romanzo breve

"Botch Town", Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream)

"Lord Weary's Empire", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 12/06)

"Map of Dreams", M. Rickert (Map of Dreams)

"The Mars Girl", Joe Haldeman (Escape from Earth)

"Missile Gap", Charles Stross (One Million A.D.)

Miglior racconto lungo

"I, Row-Boat", Cory Doctorow (Flurb 1, Fall '06)

"The Night Whiskey", Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)

"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)", Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11/06)

"The Singularity Needs Women!", Paul Di Filippo (Forbidden Planets [Crowther])

"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth", Cory Doctorow (Baen's Universe 8/06)

Miglior racconto breve

"How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)

"In the Abyss of Time", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 8/06)

"Nano Comes to Clifford Falls", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 7/06)

"Sob in the Silence", Gene Wolfe (Strange Birds)

"Tin Marsh", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 8/06)

Miglior rivista

Analog

Asimov's

Interzone

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Strange Horizons

Miglior editore

Baen

Del Rey

Night Shade Books

Subterranean Press

Tor

Miglior antologia

One Million A.D., Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)

Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth Press)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)

Year's Best SF 11, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)

Miglior antologia personale

The Best of Philip José Farmer, Philip José Farmer (Subterranean Press)

The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)

Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)

Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Miglior curatore

Jim Baen

Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

David G. Hartwell

Gordon Van Gelder

Miglior artista

Bob Eggleton

Donato Giancola

John Picacio

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

Miglior saggio

About Writing, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)

Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn (MonkeyBrain Books)

The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, John Clute (Payseur & Schmidt)

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)

Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Win Scott Eckert (MonkeyBrain Books)

Miglior libro di illustrazioni

Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Underwood)

Edward Gorey, Amphigorey Again (Harcourt)

John Jude Palencar, Origins (Underwood Books)

John Picacio, Cover Story (MonkeyBrain Books)

Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, The Fabulous Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (HarperCollins/Collins Design)