2021 Locus Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2021 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- Machine by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (Tor)
- Agency by William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
- The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
- War of the Maps by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US & UK)
- The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)
- Devolution by Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century)
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
- Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals)
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
- The Deep by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
- Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)
- Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
- The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
- The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
- Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
- Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
- A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK)
- Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne (Tor)
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK)
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)
For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend. Our congratulations to all the nominees!
What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?
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