2015 Locus Award Finalist

Before the rundowns, Locus Awards are an annual set of literary award by the science fiction and fantasy focused magazine, Locus. The award winner are selected by poll of magazine reader. The awards already inaugurated in 1971 for publication year 1970. It's original purpose was to influence the Hugo Awards.

So, here are the 2015 Locus Award Finalist:

Science Fiction Novel

The Peripheral by William Gibson

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Lock In by John Scalzi

Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Fantasy Novel

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Steles of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Young Adult Book

Half A King by Joe Abercrombie

The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi

Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger

Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald

Clariel by Garth Nix

First Novel

Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias

The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato

The Memory Garden by Mary Rickert

The Emperor's Blade by Brian Staveley

Novella

The Man Who Sold The Moon by Cory Doctorow

We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress

The Regular by Ken Liu

The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss

Novellete

Tough Time All Over by Joe Abercrombie

The Hand Is Quicker by Elizabeth Bear

Memorials by Aliette de Bodard

The Jar of Water by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Year and A Day in Old Theradane by Scott Lynch

Short Story

Covenant by Elizabeth Bear

The Dust Queen by Aliette de Bodard

The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar

In Babelsberg by Alastair Reynolds

Ogres of East Africa by Sofia Samatar