2010 Locus Award winners! - Boing Boing

The 2010 Locus awards are out. Nothing surprising, though I haven't read Boneshaker yet. Check out the bit of drama in the comments section of the Boing Boing post. First of all, I am also getting a bit tired of steampunk and zombies. Second, what is the problem with discussing this distressing trend where the nostalgic yearning for the "good old days" is turning to active disbelief in science (immunization shots, evolution, climate change).

I think if authors are addressing these issues its all to the good, but if a novel is just a bit of pulp pandering to this trend then it should be recognized as such. It certainly shouldn't be given an award.

2010 Locus Award winners! - Boing Boing:

Best SF Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Mieville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette: ''By Moonlight'', Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story: ''An Invocation of Incuriosity'', Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

afs97209 • #2 • 11:28 PM Saturday, Jun 26, 2010 • Reply

Bad enough that the right wingers fill the airwaves with anti-science propaganda, and we're stuck with religious propaganda in science classrooms. Now we're stuck with both fantasy and SF wings of this genre clogged full of "better, simpler, earlier" times.

You can't run to the SF aisle as a refuge from anti-science attitudes anymore. Look at the Locus Awards. Steampunk, swords and sorcery, apocalypse, literary fantasy, Victorian England. A space opera anthology is the closest we get to any message from any Locus Award winner that science is a positive force on society.

Antinous / Moderator replied to comment from afs97209 • #8 • 1:49 AM Sunday, Jun 27, 2010 • Reply

Your attempt to politicize the thread is out of order.