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2022 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees
The nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced. The noms in the novel category are:
- Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
- The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- Beulah by Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
- Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis)
- Where I End by Sophie White (Tramp)
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?
The Kitschies: 2022 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2022 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
- Winner: The Last Blade Priest by W.P. Wiles (Angry Robot)
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; translated by Megan McDowell (Granta)
- Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern (Picador)
- The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- Winner: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (Picador)
- When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton)
- Brother Alive by Zain Khalid ( Grove Press)
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara (Atlantic)
See Locus for the full details for all categories. Our congrats to Mariana Enriquez and Julia Armfield and all the nominees.
2023 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2023 Locus Awards on June 24, 2023, during the Locus Awards Weekend. The winners in the novel categories are:
- WINNER: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
- The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Neom by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
- WINNER: Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
- Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
- Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- WINNER: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
- Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
- Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
- No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper (Agora)
- The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
- Sundial by Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
- WINNER: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
- The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (Tor)
- WINNER: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
- Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- The Kindred by Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- Unraveller by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
- Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
- Ballad & Dagger by Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
- An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan (Little by Brown; Orion)
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!
Ex Libris WWEnd: The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey and Cassandra Khaw
Bestselling authors Richard Kadrey and Cassandra Khaw have teamed up to deliver a dark new story with magic, monsters, and mayhem, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill.
Julie Crews is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-something who packs a lot of magic into her small body. She’s been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she’ll work the most gruesome gigs to claw her way to the top.
Julie is desperate for a quick career boost to break the dead-end grind, but her pleas draw the attention of an eldritch god who is hungry for revenge. Her power grab sets off a deadly chain of events that puts her closest friends—and the entire world—directly in the path of annihilation.
The first explosive adventure in the Carrion City Duology, The Dead Take the A Train fuses Khaw’s cosmic horror and Kadrey’s gritty fantasy into a full-throttle thrill ride straight into New York’s magical underbelly.
On sale October 3, 2023. Pre-order available now.
“An addictive, sprawling yarn. This city brims with underhanded dealings and odd magic, and every corner writhes with fresh horrors and delights.” ―Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Worm and His Kings
“Khaw and Kadrey raise eldritch gore to an art form…. Eye-searing horror that’s impossible to look away from, I already can’t wait for the next book.” ―Kat Howard, author of the Unseen World duology
Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in production as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include The Grand Dark, The Everything Box, King Bullet, and ButcherBird. In comics, he’s written for Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer.
Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer, and former scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Khaw’s work can be found in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw’s first original novella, Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist, and their novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, is published by Nightfire.
2022 Bram Stoker Award Winner
The Horror Writers Association have announced the 2022 Bram Stoker Award winners. The winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel is:
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
Our congrats to Gabino Iglesias and all the nominees.
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Putnam)
- Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Daphne by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Sundial by Catriona Ward (Nightfire)
See the complete list of winners in all categories at Locus.
What do you think of this result?
2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2023 has been announced:
- Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
- Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
- The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)
The winner will be presented with a check for £2,023.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend on August 16, 2023. For more information, see the Clark Award website.
So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?
2022 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of the 2022 Aurealis Award have been announced. The winners in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:
- WINNER: 36 Streets by TR Napper (Titan)
- Hovering by Rhett Davis (Hachette AU)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Bootstrap by Georgina Young (Text)
- WINNER: The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
- The Not So Chosen One by Kate Emery (Text)
- The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (Tor)
- Blitz by Daniel O’Malley (HarperCollins)
- Honour Among Ghosts by Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- WINNER: The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
- Scavengers by Robert Hood (Clan Destine)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
See the press release for details for the winners in all categories. Our congrats to all the winners and nominees.
