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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:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• 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)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• 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)

Locus Horror Novel:

• 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)

Locus First Novel:

• 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)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• 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!

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