Winners and nominees

After all the controversy Jane Rogers book The Testament of Jessie Lamb wins the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It's the only one that Christopher Priest liked. I wonder if that had influenced the decision somehow.

The nominees for 2012 Locus Awards were announced and it's the same old books every other award did this year. Only First Novel and YA categories seem kind of interesting (as in have books I would think about reading):

Science Fiction Novel
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Fantasy Novel
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

First Novel
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)

Young Adult Book
Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

( Rest of the categories )