Locus award for best sf of 2008 -- shortlist published
The Locus Award shortlist has been posted -- this is the list of the best science fiction books and stories of the year, as chosen by the general public. I'm immensely gratified to say that I'm on the list three times, for my young adult novel Little Brother, my collaborative novella True Names (with Ben Rosenbaum), and my novelette The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away.
The whole list is a great jumping-off point for exploring the best written sf and fantasy of 2008!
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i know this is like shouting at an iceberg, but lord how i wish SF and Fantasy weren't lumped together all. the. time. It's a real pain in book stores, I'm looking for Hard SF and it's all buried in with books featuring wizards and swords and crap on the covers.
@#1: I agree. I have a big problem with genre creep. I don't dislike that fantasy stuff but it's not my thing. Why give them distinct categories just to lump them all together?