2016 Aurora Award, 2015 BSFA, 2016 British Fantasy Awards, 2015 Hugo, 2016 John W. Campbell, 2015 Nebula, 2016 Philip K. Dick, 2016 Locus, 2016 Prometheus, 2016 Arthur C. Clarke, 2015 Sidewise Award, 2016 Tiptree Award and 2016 World Fantasy Awards best novel nominees.

And 2015 Red Tentacle Kitschie and 2015 Golden Tentacle Kitschie

And 2015 Andre Norton

More awards and links to those awards to be added

Books that were not nominated for these exact awards will be removed. If you want to add support for additional awards, please put that request in the comments.

Locus First Novel by Year:
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Locus Recommended Fantasy:
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Locus Recommended Science Fiction:
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2009, 2001, 2000

Sci Fi Award Nominees
2020
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Science Fiction By Decade:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Science Fiction By Ratings:
More than 50000, 25000 to 49999, 10000 to 24999
1000 to 9999, 100 to 999, Less than 100

Fantasy By Ratings:
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1000 to 9999, 100 to 999, Less than 100
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message 1: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Philip K Dick nominees

Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper (Pyr)
After the Saucers Landed by Douglas Lain (Night Shade Books)
(R)evolution by PJ Manney (47North)
Apex by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot Books)
Windswept by Adam Rakunas (Angry Robot Books)
Archangel by Marguerite Reed (Arche Press)


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.sfwa.org/2016/02/2015-nebu...

Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)


message 3: by Mitchell (last edited Feb 25, 2016 12:13AM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.tor.com/2016/02/22/the-kit...

The Red Tentacle (Novel), judged by Sarah Lotz, James Smythe, Nikesh Shukla, Nazia Khatun, and Glen Mehn:

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken (Melville House)
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)


The Golden Tentacle (Debut), also judged by Sarah Lotz, James Smythe, Nikesh Shukla, Nazia Khatun, and Glen Mehn:

The Shore by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann)
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett (Chatto and Windus)
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (Harvill Secker)
The Night Clock by Paul Meloy (Solaris)
Making Wolf by Tade Thompson (Rosarium)


message 4: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.sfwa.org/2016/02/2015-nebu...

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

Seriously Wicked, Tina Connolly (Tor Teen)
Court of Fives, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK 5/14; Amulet)
Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Big Mouth House)
Zeroboxer, Fonda Lee (Flux)
Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
Bone Gap, Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)


message 5: by Mitchell (last edited Apr 15, 2016 12:12AM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.tor.com/2016/02/07/announc...

BSFA Best Novel

Dave Hutchinson, Europe at Midnight, Solaris
Chris Beckett, Mother of Eden, Corvus
Aliette de Bodard, The House of Shattered Wings, Gollancz
Ian McDonald, Luna: New Moon, Gollancz
Justina Robson, Glorious Angels, Gollancz

Winner
Aliette de Bodard, The House of Shattered Wings, Gollancz


message 6: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Not directly related but interesting to see the Eisner Nominations.

http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2016-...


message 7: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://lfs.org/releases.shtml

Prometheus Award Nominations

Best Novel Award

Golden Son, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Apex, Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
The Just City, Jo Walton (Tor)
A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/04/...


message 8: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman The 2016 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2015.”

Best Novel

Drowning in Amber, E.C. Bell (Tyche)
A Daughter of No Nation, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
Too Far Gone, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
Much Ado about Macbeth, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
Cursed: Black Swan, Ryan T. McFadden (Dragon Moon)
Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/04/...


message 9: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Apparently in addition to the 5 finalists for the Prometheus Awards, there were an additional number of nominees - I'm not thinking to add them to the list, but I figure they were worth sharing.

Fourteen novels were nominated for this year's Best Novel award. The other nominees:
Luna: New Moon, by Ian McDonald (TOR Books),
Squirrel Days, by Dustin Costa (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform),
The Turing Exception by William Hertling (Liquididea Press),
InterstellarNet: Enigma, by Edward M. Lerner (FoxAcre Press) ,
Annihilation Score by Charles Stross (Ace Books),
The Miskatonic Manuscript, by Vin Suprynowicz (Mountain Media),
The Testament of James by Vin Suprynowicz (Mountain Media),
Joe Steele, by Harry Turtledove (ROC) and
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky (http://hpmor.com/)


message 10: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-his...

Best Novel (3695 nominating ballots)

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher (Roc)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey)


message 11: by Mitchell (last edited Jul 10, 2016 05:33PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman Finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

http://io9.gizmodo.com/here-are-the-f...

The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit/Knopf)
Europe at Midnight, Dave Hutchinson (Rebellion)
Radiomen, Eleanor Lerman (The Permanent)
Luna: New Moon, Ian McDonald (Gollancz/Tor)
Galapagos Regained, James Morrow (St. Martin’s)
Going Dark, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island/Saga)
The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Where, Kit Reed (Tor)
The Thing Itself, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow/Harper Collins)


message 12: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman I'm considering the possibility of yet another award

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/02/...

2016 Compton Crook Award Finalists

— posted Tuesday 16 February 2016 @ 9:17 am PDT
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2016 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award:

5 to 1, Holly Bodger (Knopf)
Owl and the Japanese Circus, Kristie Charish (Gallery Canada)
I Will Love You Forever, Brian Groover (Taproot)
The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan (Crown)
The Thorn of Dentonhill, Marshall Ryan Maresca (DAW)
Beasts of Tabat, Cat Rambo (Wordfire)
Flex, Ferret Steinmetz (Angry Robot)
Enter the Janitor, Josh Vogt (Wordfire)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)


message 13: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman 2016 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/07/...

NOVELS:

The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Savages, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
The Chimes, Anna Smaill (Sceptre)
A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)


message 14: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Sidewise Awards Finalists

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/07/...

LONG FORM

The Big Lie, Julie Mayhew (Hot Key)
The British Lion, Tony Schumacher (Morrow)
Joe Steele, Harry Turtledove (Roc)


message 15: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman 2016 Locus Awards Winners

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/06/...

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Borzoi; Orbit UK)
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)
A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)


message 16: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman 2016 Locus Awards Winners

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/06/...

FANTASY NOVEL

FANTASY NOVEL

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard (Roc; Gollancz)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS; Open Road)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)


message 17: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman must have missed this one

https://www.clarkeaward.com/2016-shor...

30th ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2015 are:
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
The Book of Phoenix – Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)
Arcadia – Iain Pears (Faber & Faber)
Way Down Dark – J.P. Smythe (Hodder & Stoughton)
Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)


message 18: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://www.thesputnikawards.com/p/201...

The shortlist for the 2015/2016 Sputnik Award was:
Jim Butcher, The Cinder Spires (Roc)
Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
Berit Ellingsen, Not Dark Yet (Two Dollar Radio)
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit)
Emma Newman, Planetfall (Roc)
Peter Newman, The Vagrant (Harper Voyager)
Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey)
Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix (Hodder & Stoughton)
Adam Roberts, The Thing Itself (Gollancz)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora (Orbit)
Neal Stephenson, Seveneves (William Morrow)
Fran Wilde, Updraft (Tor Books)


message 19: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman new list created 2017 Sci Fi Award Nominees


message 20: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman http://lfs.org/releases/2017Prometheu...

The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced five finalists for the Best Novel category of the 37th annual Prometheus Awards

The Corporation Wars: Dissidence by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
The Corporation Wars: Insurgence, by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver (HarperCollins)
The Core of the Sun, by Johanna Sinisalo (translated by Lola Rogers) (Grove Press/Black Cat)
Blade of p’Na, by L. Neil Smith (Phoenix Pick)


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