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2022 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. The noms in the novel category are:
- Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
- The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- Beulah by Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
- Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis)
- Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp)
The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology. You can see the complete list of noms in all categories at Locus.
Our congrats to all the nominees! What do you like from this list?
The Kitschies: 2022 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2022 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
- Winner: The Last Blade Priest by W.P. Wiles (Angry Robot)
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; translated by Megan McDowell (Granta)
- Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern (Picador)
- The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- Winner: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (Picador)
- When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton)
- Brother Alive by Zain Khalid ( Grove Press)
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara (Atlantic)
See Locus for the full details for all categories. Our congrats to Mariana Enriquez and Julia Armfield and all the nominees.
2023 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2023 Locus Awards on June 24, 2023, during the Locus Awards Weekend. The winners in the novel categories are:
- WINNER: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
- The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Neom by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
- WINNER: Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
- Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
- Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- WINNER: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
- Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
- Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
- No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper (Agora)
- The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
- Sundial by Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
- WINNER: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
- The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (Tor)
- WINNER: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
- Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- The Kindred by Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- Unraveller by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
- Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
- Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
- An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan (Little by Brown; Orion)
For the complete list of winners in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Our congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
2022 Bram Stoker Award Winner
The Horror Writers Association have announced the 2022 Bram Stoker Award winners. The winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel is:
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
Our congrats to Gabino Iglesias and all the nominees.
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Putnam)
- Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Daphne by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Sundial by Catriona Ward (Nightfire)
See the complete list of winners in all categories at Locus.
What do you think of this result?
2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2023 has been announced:
- Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
- Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
- The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)
The winner will be presented with a check for £2,023.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend on August 16, 2023. For more information, see the Clark Award website.
So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?
2022 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of the 2022 Aurealis Award have been announced. The winners in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:
- WINNER: 36 Streets by TR Napper (Titan)
- Hovering by Rhett Davis (Hachette AU)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Bootstrap by Georgina Young (Text)
- WINNER: The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
- The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery (Text)
- The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (Tor)
- Blitz by Daniel O’Malley (HarperCollins)
- Honour Among Ghosts by Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- WINNER: The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
- Scavengers by Robert Hood (Clan Destine)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
See the press release for details for the winners in all categories. Our congrats to all the winners and nominees.
2022 Kitschies Awards Shortlists
The shortlists for the 2022 Kitschies Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced! The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
RED
TENTACLE
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; translated by Megan McDowell (Granta)
- Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern (Picador)
- The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- The Last Blade Priest by W.P. Wiles (Angry Robot)
GOLDEN
TENTACLE
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (Picador)
- When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton)
- Brother Alive by Zain Khalid ( Grove Press)
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara (Atlantic)
Our congrats to all the nominees. What looks good to you from these lists? As usual, Locus Online has all the details.
2023 Mythopoeic Award Finalists
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2023 Mythopoeic Award. For Adult Literature they are:
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido)
- Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor Books)
- The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Orion; Morrow)
Our congrats to all the finalists. See Locus online for details on the other categories. Winners will be announced August 5-6, 2023 on Zoom and Discord.
2022 Nebula Award Winners!
The 2022 Nebula Awards were presented this weekend. The best novel winner is:
Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Our congrats to R.F. Kuang and all the nominees.
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Locus has the full list of winners in all categories.
2023 Aurora Awards Finalists
The 2023 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2022.” The nominees in the Best Novel category are:
- All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay, Penguin Canada
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
- The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
- The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books
The Aurora site has the list of finalists in all categories.
Our congrats to all the nominees. What do you think of this list? Anything there look good to you?
