Locus Award Winners for 2010

Locus magazine has announced the winners of their annual reader poll for the best SFF of the year, in the usual large array of categories. I don't agree with all of their voters' choices -- in several cases, a better-known thing has come out ahead of something that is clearly (in my mind) stronger -- but that's how polls work. In any case, it's a fine list of good stuff from the genre last year, and an interesting reading list:

Best SF Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette: ‘‘By Moonlight’’, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story: ‘‘An Invocation of Incuriosity’’, Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

Best Non-Fiction Book/Art Book: Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)

Best Artist: Michael Whelan

Best Editor: Ellen Datlow

Best Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Best Book Publisher: Tor

(I've reviewed both The City & The City and Leviathan, but I was more impressed with one than the other. I still haven't gathered up the intestinal fortitude to read The Windup Girl, though I see Baciagalupi has at least one other dreary near-future novel out as well. And I hope I'll be able to read The Women of Nell Gwynne's without shelling out for a pricey limited hardcover.)

[via Locus, of course]