Locus Award Winners

Locus has released the results of their annual poll, and the winners are:

• SF NOVEL: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
• FANTASY NOVEL: Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
• YOUNG ADULT BOOK: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• FIRST NOVEL: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• NOVELLA: "After the Siege" by Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
• NOVELETTE: "The Witch's Headstone" by Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
• SHORT STORY: "A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
• COLLECTION: The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories by Connie Willis (Subterranean)
• ANTHOLOGY: The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (Editors) (Eos)
• NON-FICTION: Breakfast in the Ruins by Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
• ART BOOK: The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian 2006; Scholastic)
• EDITOR: Ellen Datlow
• MAGAZINE: F&SF
• PUBLISHER: Tor
• ARTIST: Charles Vess

(seen several places first, but snagged from SF Signal)

Looking at the list of finalists -- which were the top vote-getters in the one-round poll, not a shortlist that anyone chose between -- I might have gone differently if I were King of the World. (I'd probably rank Pirate Freedom above Making Money, and I'm not a huge fan of "The Witch's Headstone.") But, generally, it looks like the Locus voters were canny and thoughtful this year -- which is to say that they agree with me.