The 2008 Locus Award Finalists have been announced. The Locus science fiction and fantasy awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazine’s annual readers’ poll, which was established in the early ’70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. Over the decades the Locus Awards have often drawn more voters than the Hugos and Nebulas combined.
I’m a little behind in my SF reading and so I’m afraid many of the finalists are unfamiliar to me, but the one I have read and greatly enjoyed was The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, a finalist for Best First Novel.
