Les résultats seront annoncés pendant le Science Fiction Awards Weekend qui se tiendra du 25 au 27 jiun 2010 à Seattle.
Cette année, les auteurs nominés pour les Locus sont sensiblement les mêmes que pour les Hugos: Cherie Priest, Robert Charles Wilson, China Miéville, Paolo Bacigalupi. Mais c'est Kage Baker qui est mise à l'honneur en étant nominée dans le meilleur roman SF, le meilleur roman jeunesse et la meilleure novella. Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald et Charles Stross sont nominés eux aussi dans deux catégories.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
FANTASY NOVEL
The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
Finch, Jeff Vandermeer (Underland)
FIRST NOVEL
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)
YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL
The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
Catching Fire, Collins Suzanne (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
NOVELLA
The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
"Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
"Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)
NOVELETTE
"By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
"It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
"First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
"Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
"The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
SHORT STORY
"The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
"An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)
"Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
"Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
"Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)
MAGAZINE
Analog
Asimov's
Clarkesworld
F&SF
Tor.com
PUBLISHER
Baen
Night Shade
Pyr
Subterranean
Tor
ANTHOLOGY
Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean)
Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
COLLECTION
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
EDITOR
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
David G. Hartwell
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
ARTIST
Stephan Martinière
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION/ART BOOK
Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)
This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, Charles Vess (Dark Horse)
Rappel des anciens vainqueurs (science fiction):
2009 Neal Stephenson Anathem
2007 Vernor Vinge Rainbows end
2006 Charles Stross Accelerando
2005 Neal Stephenson The baroque cycle
2004 Dan Simmons Ilium
2003 Kim Stanley Robinson Chroniques des Années Noires
2002 Connie Willis Passage
2001 Ursula K. Le Guin Le Dit d'Aka
2000 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
1999 Connie Willis Sans parler du chien
1998 Dan Simmons L'Eveil d'Endymion
1997 Kim Stanley Robinson Mars la bleue
1996 Neal Stephenson L'âge de diamant
1995 Loïs McMaster Bujold La danse du miroir
1994 Kim Stanley Robinson Mars la verte
1993 Connie Willis Le Grand Livre
1992 Loïs McMaster Bujold Barrayar
1991 Dan Simmons La Chute d'Hypérion
1990 Dan Simmons Hypérion
1989 Carolyn J. Cherryh Cyteen
1988 David Brin Elévation
1987 Orson Scott Card La voix des morts
1986 David Brin Le facteur
1985 Larry Niven The Integral Trees
1984 David Brin Marée Stellaire
1983 Isaac Asimov Fondation foudroyée
1982 Julian MAY Le pays multicolore
1981 Joan D. Vinge La Reine des neiges
1980 John Varley Titan
1979 Vonda N. McIntyre Le Serpent du rêve
1978 Frederik Pohl La Grande porte
1977 Kate Wilhelm Hier les oiseaux
1976 Joe Haldeman La guerre éternelle
1975 Ursula K. Le Guin Les dépossédés
1974 Arthur C. Clarke Rendez-vous avec Rama
1973 Isaac Asimov Les dieux eux-mêmes
1972 Ursula K. Le Guin L'autre côté du rêve
1971 Larry Niven L'Anneau-Monde