As reported by the always-amazing SF Awards Watch, the winners of the 2010 Locus Awards:

• Science Fiction Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
• Fantasy Novel: Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
• First Novel: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
• YA Book: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
• Novelette: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)
• Short Story: “The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)
• Magazine: Asimov’s
• Publisher: Tor
• Anthology: Warriors, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)
• Collection: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)
• Editor: Ellen Datlow
• Artist: Shaun Tan
• Non-Fiction: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr., (Tor)
• Art Book: Spectrum 17, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)

My reactions, in order:

1. Yay Hundred Thousand Kingdoms!
2. Yay Shaun Tan! Yay Ellen Datlow! Both kind of predictable, but hard to argue with.
3. Wait, Blackout/All Clear won another award? Why? This means it’s going to win a Hugo too, doesn’t it. AUGH.
4. And I adore China, but Kraken is not his best work and certainly was not the best fantasy novel published in 2010. And Lifecycle left me completely cold. And “The Truth” is all right but I’m not sure why everyone’s so keen on it.
5. Has Orbit ever won a Best Publisher award? If not, I vow to live long enough to see it happen.