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2020 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2020 Locus Awards on Saturday during a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Connie Willis and Daryl Gregory. The winners in the novel categories are:
- WINNER: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
- Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone (Tor)
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
- The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)
- WINNER: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
- A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
- Jade War by Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
- Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
- The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick (Tor)
- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
- WINNER: Black Leopard by Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
- Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
- Prisoner of Midnight by Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
- Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
- The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
- The Institute by Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju by Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
- The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
- The Toll by Cherie Priest (Tor)
- WINNER: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
- Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Finder by Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
- WINNER: Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
- The Wicked King by Holly Black (Little by Brown; Hot Key)
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
- Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
- Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
- Angel Mage by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
- Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)
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!
What do you think of these picks? Did your favorites win?
2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2020 has been announced:
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth US & UK)
- The Last Astronaut by David Wellington (Hachette)
- Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
The winner will be presented with a check for £2,020.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend in September. For more information, see the Clark Award website.
So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?
2019 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. The noms in the novel category are:
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
- The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio)
- Goodnight Stranger by Miciah Bay Gault (Park Row)
- Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
- Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
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?
