This year’s Locus Awards winners were announced last night. Thanks to Liz Argall for live tweeting the event. You can see the full list of finalists and winners here.

There are lots of great winners there, and quite a few interesting pointers for the Hugos. I’m particularly pleased to see Pat Cadigan win Novelette for “The Girl Thing Who Went Out For Sushi”, and I also note that there’s a lot of correlation between being a Guest of Honor at Finncon and winning a Locus Award. Pat was a GoH in 2010, and one of this year’s GoHs is Aliette de Bodard who won Short Story with “Immersion”. That, of course, is freely available online at Clarkesworld, though if you want to help Neil keep the magazine going you could always buy the issue. Next year’s GoHs include Elizabeth Bear, who won Collection for Shoggoths in Bloom, which is also in the bookstore.

You’ll note that all of those winners are women. Indeed, with Nancy Kress carrying off Novella for “After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall” all of the short fiction prizes went to women. In contrast all of the novel prizes went to men (Miéville, Ahmed, Stross, Scalzi). Editing prizes were 50:50 between Datlow and Strahan. I have no idea if this means anything, but it seemed weird.

Meanwhile, I must do more Hugo reading. After all, I’m on a panel about the awards at Finncon…