Ian Brown won the Ontario government's $20,000 (US$19,307) Trillium
Book Award for his memoir, The Boy in the Moon. The National Post reported this is "the third
major prize the book has scooped up since it was published by Random
House Canada last year. Already this year it has won the $40,000 B.C.
National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the $25,000 Charles Taylor
Prize for Literary Non-Fiction." In the French-language category, Ryad
Assani-Razaki was honored for his
short story collection Deux Cercles
Karen Solie won the
$10,000 Trillium poetry prize for her third
collection, Pigeon, and Michèle Matteau took the
French-language poetry award for Passerelles.
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The
winners of the 2010 Locus Awards, voted on by Locus
magazine readers and
announced on Saturday at the annual Science Fiction Awards Weekend in
Seattle, Wash., were:
Best science fiction novel:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor)
Best fantasy
novel: The City & The City by China Miéville (Del
Rey)
Best first novel: The Windup Girl by
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Best young adult novel:
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
Best
novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
(Subterranean)
Best novelette: "By Moonlight" by
Peter S. Beagle in We Never Talk About My Brother
Best
short story: "An Invocation of Incuriosity" by Neil Gaiman in Songs
of the Dying Earth
Best magazine: F&SF
Best
publisher: Tor
Best anthology: The
New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
(Eos)
Best collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe
by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Best editor: Ellen Datlow
Best
artist: Michael Whelan
Best nonfiction/art book: Cheek
by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)