Na serveru Locus Online byl zveřejněn seznam doporučené četby pro ceny časopisu Locus. V půlce dubna bude uzavřeno hlasování, do kterého jsou přijímány jak klasické tištěné formuláře, tak i on-line dotazník přístupný na serveru Locus Online.

Specifikou Locusu je výrazná převaha „poučených“ čtenářů - ať již lidí věnujících se SF profesionálně či poloprofesionálně nejen jako spisovatelé, ale i jako knihkupci, editoři a tak podobně, nebo zkušených fanoušků. Tím se liší od cen Hugo - kde hlasují fanoušci, nadšení, ale ne vždy systematicky a dlouhodobě se věnující žánru, i od cen Nebula - tam hlasují pouze spisovatelé, navíc pouze ti sdružení v SFWA. Proto dále uvedený seznam je velmi reprezentativním výběrem prací i osobností loňského roku a určitě si zaslouží pozornost i českých nakladatelů, hledajících inspiraci pro své ediční plány.

Dodejme k výše uvedenému několik drobností. Cena Locus se uděluje od roku 1971 za nejlepší díla roku uplynulého.

Následující seznam doporučené četby byl poprvé publikován v únorovém vydání magazínu Locus a obsahuje ta nejlepší díla podle mínění editorů, redaktorů a recenzentů časopisu. Na jeho vzniku se podíleli: Charles N. Brown, Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Nick Gevers, Carolyn Cushman, Tim Pratt, Karen Haber a Rich Horton.

SF novels

• HARM, Brian W. Aldiss (Del Rey; Duckworth)
• The Sons of Heaven, Kage Baker (Tor)
• Conqueror, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
• Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Till Human Voices Wake Us, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
• Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
• The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• Mainspring, Jay Lake (Tor)
• The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK; Tor)
• Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
• Black Man, Richard Morgan (Gollancz; Del Rey as Thirteen)
• Shelter, Susan Palwick (Tor)
• Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires / Evil for Evil / The Escapement, K. J. Parker (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 6/08)
• Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra; HarperCollins UK)
• Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
• Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
• Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace)
• Ha'Penny, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Axis, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Fantasy novels

• A Betrayal in Winter, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
• Whiskey and Water, Elizabeth Bear (Roc)
• Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
• Endless Things, John Crowley (Small Beer; Overlook)
• Ink, Hal Duncan (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
• The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)
• The Spiral Labyrinth, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
• Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc)
• Daughter of Hounds, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Bone Song, John Meaney (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra 2008)
• The White Tyger, Paul Park (Tor)
• Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
• Blood Engines, T. A. Pratt (Bantam Spectra)
• The Secret History of Moscow, Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
• softspoken, Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)
• The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
• Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Titans of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)

First novels

• Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
• One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)
• The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe (Night Shade Books)
• City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (McElderry)
• Breakfast with the One You Love, Eliot Fintushel (Bantam Spectra)
• Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (HarperTeen; HarperCollins Children's UK)
• Maledicte, Lane Robins (Del Rey)
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
• Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt; Scholastic UK as Flora Segunda at Crackpot Hall)

YA

• The H-Bomb Girl, Stephen Baxter (Faber and Faber)
• Ironside, Holly Black (McElderry)
• Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey (Atheneum)
• Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
• Verdigris Deep, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; HarperCollins as Well Witched)
• The Dream Quake, Elizabeth Knox (Faber Children's Books; Farrar, Straus & Giroux as Dreamquake)
• Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier (Razorbill)
• Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt; Gollancz)
• Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (Hyperion)
• Extras, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Collections

• Gods and Pawns, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean Press)
• Overclocked, Cory Doctorow (Thunder's Mouth Press)
• Rynemonn, Terry Dowling (coeur de lion)
• Dangerous Space, Kelley Eskridge (Aqueduct Press)
• The Guild of Xenolinguists, Sheila Finch (Golden Gryphon Press)
• Portable Childhoods, Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
• Past Magic, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
• Getting to Know You, David Marusek (Subterranean)
• The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories, Bruce McAllister (Golden Gryphon Press)
• The Fate of Mice, Susan Palwick (Tachyon Publications)
• Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Tim Pratt (Night Shade Books)
• Dagger Key and Other Stories, Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)
• Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Press)
• The Nail and the Oracle: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume XI, Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams (North Atlantic Books)
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon Publications)
• The Jack Vance Treasury, Jack Vance, edited by Terry Dowling & Jonathan Strahan (Subterranean Press)
• Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005, Howard Waldrop (Old Earth Books)
• The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean Press)

Anthologies

original

• Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, Lou Anders, ed. (Pyr)
• Wizards, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Berkley)
• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
• Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
• Logorrhea, John Klima, ed. (Bantam Spectra)
• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, George Mann, ed. (Solaris)
• The Restless Dead, Deborah Noyes, ed. (Candlewick)
• At Ease with the Dead, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)
• Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)

reprint

• The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
• Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
• Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Alexander Levitsky, ed. (Overlook Press)
• The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (Del Rey)
• SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, eds. (Tor)
• The Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, Sheila Williams, ed. (Tachyon Publications)

bests of the year

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's Griffin)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
• Year's Best Fantasy 7, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)
• Year's Best SF 12, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)
• Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
• Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 Edition, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime Books)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• Best Short Novels: 2007, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (SFBC)

Non-Fiction

• Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
• Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, S. T. Joshi (Greenwood Press)
• Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
• Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
• Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons, Robin Roberts (University Press of Mississippi)
• The Country You Have Never Seen, Joanna Russ (Liverpool University Press)
• Science Fact and Science Fiction, Brian Stableford (Routledge)
• Sides, Peter Straub (Cemetery Dance)
• Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction, Gary Westfahl (McFarland)
• Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe On Writing/Writers on Wolfe, Peter Wright, ed. (Liverpool University Press)
• The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Carl B. Yoke & Carol L. Robinson, eds. (The Edwin Mellen Press)

Art

• Yoshitaka Amano, Worlds of Amano (DH Press)
• Dreamscape: The Best of Imaginary Realism, Claus Brusen & Marcel Salome, eds. (Salbru)
• Emshwiller: Infinity X Two, Luis Ortiz (Nonstop Press)
• Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
• John Howe, Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes, retold by Nicky Raven (Candlewick)
• Fantasy Art Now: The Very Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art & Illustration, Martin McKenna, ed. (Collins Design)
• Audrey Niffenegger, The Adventuress (Abrams)
• Rafal Olbinski, Rafal Olbinski Women: Motifs and Variations (Hudson Hills Press)
• Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art, Sebastian Peake & Alison Eldred, edited by G. Peter Winnington (Peter Owen Publishers)
• Shaun Tan, The Arrival (Scholastic/Levine)

Novellas

• "Awakenings", Judith Berman (Black Gate Spring '07)
• "After the Siege", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix 1/07)
• The Lees of Laughter's End, Steven Erikson (PS Publishing)
• Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
• The Game, Diana Wynne Jones (Firebird)
• "The Fountain of Age", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 7/07)
• "The Master Miller's Tale", Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF 5/07)
• "Hormiga Canyon", Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling (Asimov's 8/07)
• "Recovering Apollo 8", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's 2/07)
• "Dagger Key", Lucius Shepard (Dagger Key and Other Stories)
• "Dead Money", Lucius Shepard (Asimov's 4-5/07)
• "Stars Seen Through Stone", Lucius Shepard (F&SF 7/07)
• "The Emperor and the Maula", Robert Silverberg (The New Space Opera)
• Of Love and Other Monsters, Vandana Singh (Aqueduct Press)
• "Muse of Fire", Dan Simmons (The New Space Opera)
• "Womb of Every World", Walter Jon Williams (Alien Crimes)
• "All Seated on the Ground", Connie Willis (Asimov's 12/07)
• "Memorare", Gene Wolfe (F&SF 4/07)

Novelettes

• "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics", Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea)
• "The Gray Boy's Work", M.T. Anderson (The Restless Dead)
• "Hellfire at Twilight", Kage Baker (Gods and Pawns)
• "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away", John Barnes (Jim Baen's Universe 8/07)
• "The Forest" Laird Barron (Inferno)
• "We Never Talk About My Brother", Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show 6/07)
• "Cryptic Coloration", Elizabeth Bear (Baen's Universe 6/07)
• "The Final Voyage of La Riaza", Jayme Lynn Blaschke (Interzone 6/07)
• "Dance of Shadows", Fred Chappell (F&SF 3/07)
• "The Diamond Shadow", Fred Chappell (F&SF 10-11/07)
• "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", Ted Chiang (Subterranean; F&SF 9/07)
• "Wikiworld", Paul Di Filippo (Fast Forward 1)
• "A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question", Andy Duncan (Wizards)
• "The Bone Man", Frederic S. Durbin (F&SF 12/07)
• "Dark Integers", Greg Egan (Asimov's 10-11/07)
• "Glory", Greg Egan (The New Space Opera)
• "Steve Fever", Greg Egan (MIT Technology Review 11-12/07)
• "An Eye for an Eye", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 6/07)
• "The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
• "Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon", Theodora Goss (Realms of Fantasy 6/07)
• "Winter's Wife", Elizabeth Hand (Wizards)
• "Wizard's Six", Alex Irvine (F&SF 6/07)
• "Brain Raid", Alexander Jablokov (F&SF 2/07)
• "Icarus Beach", C.W. Johnson (Analog 12/07)
• "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change", Kij Johnson (The Coyote Road)
• "Public Safety", Matthew Johnson (Asimov's 3/07)
• "Dividing the Sustain", James Patrick Kelly (The New Space Opera)
• "Don't Stop", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 10-11/07)
• "The Prophet of Flores", Ted Kosmatka (Asimov's 9/07)
• "Safeguard", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 1/07)
• "Crossing the Seven", Jay Lake (Logorrhea)
• "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack In the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers", John Langan (F&SF 9/07)
• "The Constable of Abal", Kelly Link (The Coyote Road)
• "Light", Kelly Link (Tin House Fall '07)
• "The Unrung Bells of the Marie Celeste", Richard A. Lovett (Analog 1-2/07)
• "The Wizard of West Orange", Steven Millhauser (Harper's 4/07)
• "Finisterra", David Moles (F&SF 12/07)
• "Holly and Iron", Garth Nix (Wizards)
• "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again", Garth Nix (Baen's Universe 4/07)
• "The Caldera of Good Fortune", Robert Reed (Asimov's 9/07)
• "Roxie", Robert Reed (Asimov's 7/07)
• "The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small", Chris Roberson (Asimov's 7/07)
• "Splinters of Glass", Mary Rosenblum (The New Space Opera)
• "Not of This Fold", William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century)
• "Against the Current", Robert Silverberg (F&SF 10-11/07)
• "Kiosk", Bruce Sterling (F&SF 1/07)
• "Trunk and Disorderly", Charles Stross (Asimov's 1/07)
• "The Skysailor's Tale", Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
• "Urdumheim", Michael Swanwick (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
• "Lt Privet's Love Song", Scott Thomas (The Solaris Book of New Fantasy)
• "Old Mr. Boudreaux", Lisa Tuttle (Subterranean 10/07)
• "Kaleidoscope", K. D. Wentworth (F&SF 5/07)
• "Send Them Flowers", Walter Jon Williams (The New Space Opera)
• "A Wizard of the Old School", Chris Willrich (F&SF 8/07)
• "The Magic Animal", Gene Wolfe (Wizards)

Short Stories

• "Clockmaker's Requiem", Barth Anderson (Clarkesworld 3/07)
• "The Ruby Incomparable", Kage Baker (Wizards)
• "Last Contact", Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
• "Barrens Dancing", Peter S. Beagle (Wizards)
• "The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French", Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One)
• "Orm the Beautiful", Elizabeth Bear (Clarkesworld 1/07)
• "Tideline", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 4-5/07)
• "Pirates of the Somali Coast", Terry Bisson (Subterranean 10/07)
• "The Coat of Stars", Holly Black (So Fey)
• "Paper Cuts Scissors", Holly Black (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
• "Among Strangers", Pat Cadigan (disLOCATIONS)
• "Café Culture", Jack Dann (Asimov's 1/07)
• "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse", Andy Duncan (Eclipse One)
• "The Dreaming Wind", Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road)
• "The Drowned Life", Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse One)
• "The Manticore Spell", Jeffrey Ford (Wizards)
• "Under the Bottom of the Lake", Jeffrey Ford (Subterranean 10/07)
• "Always", Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's 4-5/07)
• "Electric Rains", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eclipse One)
• "Catherine and the Satyr", Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 10/07)
• "Singing of Mount Abora", Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
• "Dead Horse Point", Daryl Gregory (Asimov's 8/07)
• "Unpossible", Daryl Gregory (F&SF 10-11/07)
• "Soul Case", Nalo Hopkinson (Foundation Summer '07)
• "Saving Tiamat", Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
• "The Tomb Wife", Gwyneth Jones (F&SF 8/07)
• "Graduation Afternoon", Stephen King (Postscripts Spring '07)
• "Save Me Plz", David Barr Kirtley (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
• "Mrs. Zeno's Paradox", Ellen Klages (Eclipse One)
• "Art of War", Nancy Kress (The New Space Opera)
• "By Fools Like Me", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 9/07)
• "C-Rock City", Jay Lake & Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
• "Jesus Christ, Reanimator", Ken MacLeod (Fast Forward 1)
• "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?", Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)
• "Osama Phone Home", David Marusek (MIT Technology Review 3-4/07)
• "Sanjeev and Robotwallah", Ian McDonald (Fast Forward 1)
• "Verthandi's Ring", Ian McDonald (The New Space Opera)
• "The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse One)
• "Fragrant Goddess", Paul Park (F&SF 10-11/07)
• "Three Days of Rain", Holly Phillips (Asimov's 6/07)
• "Artifice and Intelligence", Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 8/6/07)
• "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys", Robert Reed (F&SF 3/07)
• "Holiday", M. Rickert (Subterranean 10/07)
• "Memoir of a Deer Woman", M. Rickert (F&SF 3/07)
• "Molly and the Red Hat", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Interzone 10/07)
• "Stray", Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert (F&SF 12/07)
• "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System", William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century)
• "Strangers on a Bus", Jack Skillingstead (Asimov's 12/07)
• "A Trade in Serpents", Alan Smale (Realms of Fantasy 8/07)
• "Stone and the Librarian", William Browning Spencer (F&SF 2/07)
• "The Lustration", Bruce Sterling (Eclipse One)
• "A Plain Tale from Our Hills", Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Spring '07)
• "A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 4-5/07)
• "The Third Bear", Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld 4/07)
• "The Surgeon's Tale", Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo (Subterranean Winter '07)
• "The Great White Bed", Don Webb (F&SF 5/07)
• "Abigail and Chang", Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (Challenging Destiny 8/07)

(zdroj: Locus Online)