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2021 British Fantasy Awards Shortlists Announced
The British Fantasy Society has released the shortlists for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards.
2021 Robert Holdstock Award Shortlist (Fantasy):
- Threading the Labyrinth by Tiffani Angus (Unsung Stories)
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Dark River by Rym Kechacha (Unsung Stories)
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
- By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar (Tor)
2021 August Derleth Award Shortlist (Horror):
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Borough)
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Jo Fletcher)
- Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Titan)
Our congrats to all the nominees. Locus has the complete list of nominees in all categories.
What do you think of the lineups for these 2 awards?
2021 World Fantasy Award Finalists
The 2021 World Fantasy Awards finalists have been announced.
The finalists in the Best Novel category are:
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
World Fantasy Awards for Life Achievement have been awarded to: Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop
Our congrats to Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop and all the finalists! You can see the full list of finalists in all categories on the Locus website. The awards will be presented at the 2021 World Fantasy Convention, November 4-7, in Montreal, Quebec.
What do you think of this lineup?
The Kitschies: 2020 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2020 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
- WINNER: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes (Canongate)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury)
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
- WINNER: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Chatto & Windus)
- Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Hot Key Books)
- The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
- Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn (Canongate)
See Locus for the full details for all categories. Our congrats to Susanna Clarke and Micaiah Johnson and all the nominees.
2021 Prometheus Award Winner
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the winner of the 2021 Prometheus Award, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2020.
- WINNER: The Hook by Barry B. Longyear (Enchanteds)
- Who Can Own the Stars? by Mackey Chandler (self-published)
- Storm Between the Stars by Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven)
- Requiem by Marc Stiegler (LMBPN)
- Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor (Ethan Ellenberg)
Our congrats to Barry B. Longyear and all the noms!
2020 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of the 2020 Aurealis Award have been announced. The winners in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:
- WINNER: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
- WINNER: Repo Virtual by Corey J. White (Tordotcom)
- Ghost Species by James Bradley (Penguin Random House)
- Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
- Fauna by Donna Mazza (Allen & Unwin)
- The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall (Simon & Schuster Australia)
- WINNER: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
- Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke (Transworld)
- Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna (HarperCollins)
- The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte (Allen & Unwin)
- Conquist by Dirk Strasser (Chimaera)
- The Ninth Sorceress by Bonnie Wynne (Talem)
- WINNER: None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney (Allen & Unwin)
- Soul Survivor by Daniel de Lorne (Scarlo)
- An Enigma in Silver by Simon Haynes (Bowman)
- Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna (Harper Voyager)
- Gutterbreed by Marty Young (Eclectic Trio)
Locus has the details for the winners in all categories. Our congrats to all the winners and nominees.
2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. The noms in the novel category are:
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
- Sisters by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin)
- True Story by Kate Reed Petty (Viking)
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?
2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2021 has been announced:
- The Infinite by Patience Agbabi (Canongate)
- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Titan)
- Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (Head of Zeus)
- Edge of Heaven by R. B. Kelly (NewCon)
- The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
- Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (Orbit)
The winner will be presented with a check for £2,021.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend. For more information, see the Clark Award website.
So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?
