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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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The finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• 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)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• 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:

• 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)
• Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager 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:

• 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)
• What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• 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 Young Adult Book:

• 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)

Locus First Novel:

• 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 Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (Tor)

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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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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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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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2021 Locus Awards on Saturday during a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Connie Willis. The winners in the novel categories are:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• Machine by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (Tor)
• Agency by William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
• The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
• War of the Maps by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US & UK)
• The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• WINNER: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
• The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)

Locus Horror Novel:

• WINNER: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Devolution by Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century)
• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
• Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals)
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• The Deep by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
• The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
• Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)

Locus First Novel:

• WINNER: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK)
• Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne (Tor)
• The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
• Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
• The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
• The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
• A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
• Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
• Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
• A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

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!

What do you think of these picks? Did your favorites win? Did you notice that all 5 novel category winners are women? The WWEnd Award Winning Books by Women Authors list continues to grow by leaps and bounds!

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The finalists for the 2021 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• Machine by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (Tor)
• Agency by William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
• The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
• War of the Maps by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US & UK)
• The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)

Locus Horror Novel:

• Devolution by Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century)
• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
• Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals)
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• The Deep by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
• The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
• Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
• The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
• The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
• Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
• Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
• A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Locus First Novel:

• The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK)
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne (Tor)
• The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
• Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)

For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend. Our congratulations to all the nominees!

What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2020 Locus Awards on Saturday during a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Connie Willis and Daryl Gregory. The winners in the novel categories are:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
• Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• WINNER: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
• A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
• Jade War by Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
• Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick (Tor)
• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

Locus Horror Novel:

• WINNER: Black Leopard by Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
• Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
• Prisoner of Midnight by Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
• Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
• The Institute by Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju by Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
• The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
• The Toll by Cherie Priest (Tor)

Locus First Novel:

• WINNER: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Finder by Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
• The Wicked King by Holly Black (Little by Brown; Hot Key)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
• Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
• Angel Mage by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
• The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
• Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

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!

What do you think of these picks? Did your favorites win?

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The finalists for the 2020 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
• Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
• A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
• Jade War by Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
• Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick (Tor)
• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

Locus Horror Novel:

• Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
• Prisoner of Midnight by Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
• Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• Black Leopard by Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
• The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
• The Institute by Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju by Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
• The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
• The Toll by Cherie Priest (Tor)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
• The Wicked King by Holly Black (Little by Brown; Hot Key)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
• Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
• Angel Mage by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
• The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
• Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)

Locus First Novel:

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• Finder by Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
• Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend. Our congratulations to all the nominees!

What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?

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The winners for the 2019 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit)
• Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit)
• Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
• If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress (Tor)
• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
• Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• WINNER: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Ahab’s Return by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)
• Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
• European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss (Saga)
• Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
• Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
• The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
• The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (Tor)
• The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)

Locus First Novel:

• WINNER: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• Annex by Rich Larson (Orbit)
• Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
• Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken (Solaris)
• Semiosis by Sue Burke (Tor)
• Severance by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Witchmark by C. L. Polk (Tor.com)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• The Agony House by Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
• Cross Fire by Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, by Brown; Hot Key)
• The Gone Away Place by Christopher Barzak (Knopf)
• Half-Witch by John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
• Impostors by Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic)
• Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen (Philomel)
• Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (Random House)

See the complete list of winners and nominees for all categories over on Locus.

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners for the 2018 Locus Awards on Saturday during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA. The winners are:

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

• WINNER: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
• Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Provenance by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

Locus Fantasy Novel:

• WINNER: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley (Saga)
• The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
• The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
• Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
• Horizon by Fran Wilde (Tor)

Locus First Novel:

• WINNER: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Saga)
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
• The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
• Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
• Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
• Amatka by Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

Locus Young Adult Book:

• WINNER: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• Chalk by Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• Buried Heart by Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
• Frogkisser! by Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
• Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older (Levine)
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

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!

What do you think of these picks? Did your favorites win?

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