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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2022 Locus Awards during a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Connie Willis. The winners in the novel categories are:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• 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)
• 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:

• WINNER: Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• 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)
• 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:

• WINNER: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• Revelator by Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (Berkley; 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 First Novel:

• WINNER: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (Orbit US; 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)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: 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)

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!

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