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2022 Nebula Award Winners!
The 2022 Nebula Awards were presented this weekend. The best novel winner is:
Babel by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Our congrats to R.F. Kuang and all the nominees.
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Locus has the full list of winners in all categories.
2023 Aurora Awards Finalists
The 2023 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2022.” The nominees in the Best Novel category are:
- All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay, Penguin Canada
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
- The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
- The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed, Solaris Books
The Aurora site has the list of finalists in all categories.
Our congrats to all the nominees. What do you think of this list? Anything there look good to you?
2023 Locus Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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?
2022 BSFA Award Winner
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the winners of the BSFA Awards for works published in 2021.
In the Best Novel category the winner is City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor). Our congrats to Adrian Tchaikovsky and all the nominees:
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
- Stars and Bones by Gareth Powell (Titan)
- The This by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- The Coral Bones by E. J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
See the winners for all categories over on Locus. What do you think of this result?
2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner
The winner of the 2023 Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2022 in the U.S.A. is:
The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger (Tachyon)
Special Citation was awarded to The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson (Tordotcom)
The PKD Award was presented at Norwescon on April 9, 2023. Our congrats to the winners and all the nominees.
- Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform)
- Widowland by C.J. Carey (Sourcebooks Landmark)
- Ymir by Rich Larson (Orbit US)
- January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky (Tordotcom)
2023 Prometheus Award Finalists
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the 2023 Prometheus Award, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2022.
- Widowland by C.J. Carey (Quercus)
- Cloud-Castles by Dave Freer (Magic Isle)
- Captain Trader Helmsman Spy by Karl. K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven)
- A Beast Cannot Feign by Dr. Insensitive Jerk, AKA Gordon Hanka (self-published)
- Summer’s End by John Van Stry (Baen)
Our congrats to all the nominees. What looks good to you on this list?
2022 Aurealis Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The nominees in the SF, Fantasy, and Horror novel categories are:
- Hovering by Rhett Davis (Hachette AU)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- 36 Streets by TR Napper (Titan)
- Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Bootstrap by Georgina Young (Text)
- 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)
- The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
- Honour Among Ghosts by Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)
- Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
- Scavengers by Robert Hood (Clan Destine)
- The Stranger by Kathryn Hore (Allen & Unwin)
- The Stone Road by Trent Jamieson (Erewhon)
- The Path of Thorns by Angela Slatter (Titan)
See Locus for all the nominees in all categories.
Winners will be announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony in Melbourne or perhaps online.
2022 Nebula Award Nominees
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for the 2022 Nebula Award. The noms in the Novel category are:
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- Spear by Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- 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 Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Locus has the complete list of nominees in all categories. What looks good to you?
2022 BSFA Shortlist
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlist for the 2022 BSFA Awards.
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
- Stars and Bones by Gareth Powell (Titan)
- The This by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- The Coral Bones by E. J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
See Locus for the complete shortlists in all categories. The winners will be announced at Conversation, this year’s Eastercon, which runs April 7-10, 2023 at the Birmingham NEC Hilton.
2022 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot
The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. The finalists for Superior Achievement in a Novel are:
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Putnam)
- Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Daphne by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Sundial by Catriona Ward (Nightfire)
See Locus for the nominees in all categories. Our congrats to all the finalists.
