Category: Steampunk Awards

Locus Award Nominations Include Steampunk

Locus Magazine announced the finalists for the 2011 Locus Awards and several steampunk (and steampunk-adjacent) works have made the lists.

No steampunk titles were finalists in the Best SF and Best Fantasy categories, but Mary Robinette Kowal’s Regency fantasy Shades of Milk and Honey was nominated for Best First Novel. Scott Westerfeld’s Behemoth is up for Best Young Adult Novel, but it faces stiff competition from Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss is up for Best Novelette.

Also notable are Kraken by China Miéville, which isn’t steampunk, but is awesome nonetheless and Bone and Jewel Creatures by Elizabeth Bear, who has been accused of writing both steampunk and bustlepunk.

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Mark Hodder’s Jack wins Philip K. Dick Award

This past weekend at Norwescon, the Philip K. Dick Award was given the Mark Hodder’s steampunk novel The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack.

The Philip K. Dick Award is given each year for excellence in a novel first published in paperback. Now, Philip K. Dick may not be a writer most people think of when they think of steampunk, but there is a definite association. Among other interesting accomplishments during his writing career, Dick helped shepherd along three young writers named Tim Powers, James P. Blaylock, and K. W. Jeter. A few years later, Jeter would coin the term “steampunk” to describe the books he and his friends were writing.

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Steampunk in the Nebulas (Again)

SFWA has announced the 2010 Nebula Award nominees and once again there is a steampunk presence in the novel categories.

Nominated for the Best Novel Nebula, there is M. K. Hobson’s weird west novel Native Star, which was the Book of the Day here at the start of the month. Hobson is facing touch competition, including Mary Robinette Kowal’s Regency fantasy Shades of Milk and Honey and perennial Nebula favorite Connie Willis’ $52 two-part novel Blackout / All Clear.

While I can’t claim to have read all the short form nominees, I don’t see any steampunk representation there. If I am wrong, please let me know.

The Andre Norton Award is for best young adult SFF novel and again we find steampunk making forays with Scott Westerfeld’s Behemoth nominated. Stiff competition here as well, of course, with Paolo Bacigalupi (flush with victory since The Windup Girl wone every award it was eligible for), Terry Pratchett (perhaps a sentimental favorite due to his medical condition), and Suzanne Collins (whose Mockingjay enjoyed a mammoth 1.2 million copy first printing).

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