Locus Award

The Locus Award is an annual award since 1971 by the American magazine Locus literary prize for science fiction and fantasy ( partly Dark Fantasy and Horror). The Locus Award is next to the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award as one of the most important awards for SF and fantasy literature. It is awarded for the first time published in the previous year in America on English works.

The award of the prize is based on a reader survey. In the meantime you can also participate online. Originally intended to make recommendations and suggestions for the upcoming award of Hugo's, participation in the Locus Awards was often higher than that of Hugo and Nebula together.

For a few years ( mid April ) are first given the top five in each category announced at the end of the selection phase. The actual award ceremony and announcement of the winners takes place around mid-June at a banquet. The exact placement of all nominees will be published in subsequent issues of the magazine Locus. Online they are Information published at the beginning of the following year in the pages of Locus Online.

When Locus Award is used the year at the awards ceremony, in which the prize was awarded.

Categories

The Locus Award is being awarded in the following categories:

• SF novel
• Fantasy novel
• YA
• First novel
• Short novel
• Story
• Short story
• Collection
• Anthology

• Non-fiction book
• Art book
• Magazine
• Publisher
• Publishing house

As with many of the older prices todays valid botanical classification into novel, novella, short story and short story has prevailed until the end of the seventies as a standard.

Type and number of questions to choose from categories depends both on the reader wishes from, on the other hand but also on the number of candidates. In the fiction categories 15 and 30 works have been nominated per category usually between.

Roman ( Novel)

This category includes plants with a length of 40,000 or more words.

YA (Young Adult Book)

First awarded in 2003.

First novel ( First Novel )

Approved is the first published last year in America English novel in the field of fiction.

First awarded in 1981.

Short novel ( Novella )

This category includes plants with a length of 17500-40000 words.

First awarded in 1973.

Narrative ( Novelette )

The category includes plants with a length 7500-17500 words.

From 1975 to 1977, then awarded since 1979.

Short Story (Short Story / Short Fiction )

The category includes plants with a length of up to 7500 words.

Initially, the prize in the category was awarded " Short Fiction ", from 1975 to 1977 and then since 1979 in the category " Short Story ".

Collection ( Collection)

This category includes collections of shorter works (usually anything below novel) by an author in a book.

First awarded in 1975.

Anthology ( Anthology )

This category includes collections of shorter works (usually anything below novel), several authors in a book.

In 1971, there was a category " Anthology / Collection ", where the winning drive in the year was an anthology and is therefore listed here. In the years 1972-1975 there was the now-defunct category "Original Anthology " and " Reprint Anthology / Collection", the winners of which are not listed here. In the current form, the category has been available since 1976 ( except 1978).