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Congratulations to the top ten Locus Award finalists announced yesterday by The Locus Science Fiction Foundation. The finalists are the results of votes cast in the “February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an open public ballot.”
Winners will be announced June 25 during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend with Hugo and Nebula-winning author Connie Willis hosting the ceremony.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
- Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
- Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
- Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
FANTASY NOVEL
- Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
- Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
- Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
- Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
HORROR NOVEL
- Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
- The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
- Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Later, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
- Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
- A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
- The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
- The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
- This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
- The Infinity Courts, Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
- The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
- A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
- Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
- Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
- A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
FIRST NOVEL
- The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
- Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
- The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
- Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
- The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise (Titan)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
NOVELLA
- A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
- Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
- Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Subterranean)
- Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
- Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
- The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
- Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
NOVELETTE
- “The Red Mother“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
- “Mulberry and Owl“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 9-10/21)
- “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
- “Skindler’s Veil”, Kelly Link (When Things Get Dark)
- “The Black Pages“, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
- “Bots of the Lost Ark“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 6/21)
- “L’Esprit de L’Escalier“, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com 8/25/21)
- “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/21)
- “That Story Isn’t the Story“, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)
- “Small Monsters“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 10/20/21)
SHORT STORY
- “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
- “Mr. Death“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
- “Proof by Induction“, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
- “Let All the Children Boogie“, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
- “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
- “Crazy Beautiful”, Cat Rambo (F&SF 3-4/21)
- “Huginn and Muninn – and What Came After“, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 7-8/21)
- “An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
- “The Sin of America“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 3-4/21)
- “For Lack of a Bed“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)
ANTHOLOGY
- We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
- When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
- Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
- Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
- Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
- Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
COLLECTION
- Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Fairwood)
- Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho (Small Beer)
- Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Best of Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean)
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
- Belladonna Nights and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
- Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson (Subterranean)
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
MAGAZINE
- Analog
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- FIYAH
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Tor.com
- Uncanny
PUBLISHER
- Angry Robot
- Baen
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Neon Hemlock
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tor
- Tordotcom
EDITOR
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheree Renée Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
ARTIST
- Tommy Arnold
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- Bob Eggleton
- Victo Ngai
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
- Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Mike Ashley (British Library Publishing)
- After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
- Roger Zelazny, F. Brett Cox (University of Illinois Press)
- Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age, Valerie Estelle Frankel (Lexington)
- Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw, Hua Li (University of Toronto Press)
- Gothic: An Illustrated History, Roger Luckhurst (Thames and Hudson; Princeton University Press)
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
- Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
- You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
- The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
- Clockwork Curandera Volume 1: The Witch Owl Parliament, David Bowles, art by Raúl the Third (Tu Books)
- Monstrous Mythologies, Michael Bukowski (Lethe)
- Medusa, Jessie Burton, art by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
- Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge, Kevin Crossley-Holland, art by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Studio UK 2020; Candlewick Studio US as Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans)
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume One, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
- After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
- 1984: The Graphic Novel, George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Labyrinth, Simon Stålenhag (Fria Ligan Sweden 2020; Simon & Schuster UK 2021; Image Comics US 2021)
- Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)
- The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess’s Stardust, Charles Vess (Titan)
