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The winners of the 2021 Aurealis Award have been announced. The winners in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)
• The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry (Hachette Australia)
• Stealing Time by Rebecca Bowyer (self-published)
• Papa Lucy & The Boneman by Jason Fischer (Outland Entertainment)
• Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
• Deepwater King by Claire McKenna (HarperCollins Publishers)

BEST FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: Dark Rise by C S Pacat (Allen & Unwin)
• Supermums: And So It Begins by Meg Grace (self-published)
• The Rose Daughter by Maria Lewis (Piatkus / Hachette / Little Brown)
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (Tor)
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (Mantle)
• All the Murmuring Bones by Angela Slatter (Titan Books)

BEST HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: Holly and the Nobodies by Ben Pienaar (HellBound Books)
• The Bridge by J S Breukelaar (Meerkat Press)
• Midnight in the Chapel of Love by Matthew R. Davis (JournalStone Publishing)
• Papa Lucy & The Boneman by Jason Fischer (Outland Entertainment)
• The Airways by Jennifer Mills (Picador Australia)

See the press release for details for the winners in all categories. Our congrats to all the winners and nominees.

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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2022 Mythopoeic Award. For Adult Literature they are:

• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen)
• Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor)

Our congrats to all the finalists. See Locus online for details on the other categories. Winners will be announced at Mythcon 52, July 29th – August 1st 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.

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The 2021 Nebula Awards were presented this weekend. The best novel winner is:

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)

Our congrats to P. Djèlí Clark and all the other nominees.

• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Machinehood by S.B. Divya (Saga)
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Plague Birds by Jason Sanford (Apex)

Locus has the full list of winners in all categories.

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The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Nommo Awards, given to speculative fiction works by African authors. The nominees in the Best Novel category are:

• The Madhouse by TJ Benson (Penguin South Africa)
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
• The Library of the Dead by T.L Huchu (Tor)
• Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• They Made Us Blood and Fury by Cheryl S. Ntumy (Self published)
• Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Locus has the full list of noms in all categories. Our congrats to all the nominees. What looks good to you on this list?

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The Horror Writers Association have announced the 2021 Bram Stoker Award winners. The winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel is:

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)

Our congrats to Stephen Graham Jones — who also won last year’s Stoker for The Only Good Indians  — and all the nominees.

• The Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro (Flame Tree)
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo (Agora)
• The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)

See the complete list of winners in all categories at Locus.

What do you think of this result?

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The finalists for the 2022 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
• Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
• You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo (Tor)
• Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
• Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
• Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
• Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• Soulstar by C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)

Locus Horror Novel:

• Revelator by Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• Billy Summers by Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Later by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
• Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
• A Broken Darkness by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
• The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
• The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
• This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
• A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
• Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
• Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)

Locus First Novel:

• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Machinehood by S.B. Divya (Saga)
• The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
• Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise (Titan)
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)

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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