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The finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Translation State by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• System Collapse by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis (Del Rey)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
• Dead Country by Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
• The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
• City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
• Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Locus Horror Novel:

• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle (One World)
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
• Damned If You Do by Alex Brown (Page Street)
• A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
• Into the Light by Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

Locus First Novel:

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
• These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)

For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Our congratulations to all the nominees!

What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?

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