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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2024 Locus Awards on June 22, 2024, during the Locus Awards Weekend. The winners in the novel categories are:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: System Collapse by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Translation State by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis (Del Rey)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• WINNER: Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
• Dead Country by Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
• The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
• City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)

Locus Horror Novel:

• WINNER: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle (One World)
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

Locus First Novel:

• WINNER: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
• Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
• These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
• Damned If You Do by Alex Brown (Page Street)
• A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
• Into the Light by Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

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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