Locus Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Oakland CA :
June 22, 2024
Eligibility Year: 2023
Eligibility Year: 2023
Sf Novel
- Winner: System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)
- Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
- (tie): A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
- (tie): The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
- Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
- Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- Paladin's Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
- He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
- To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
- City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
- My Mother's Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
- The Keeper's Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
- Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
Horror Novel
- Winner: A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
- The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
- Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
- How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
- Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cańas (Berkley)
- A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
- Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
- The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
- The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
- The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
- Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street)
- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
- The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
- Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
- A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
First Novel
- Winner: The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
- Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
- Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)
- The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
- Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
- These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
Novella
- Winner: Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
- The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
- “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
- Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
- The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
- The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Rainbow Bank”, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus Aug 2023)
- I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2023)
- “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
- “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
- “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djčlí Clark (The Book of Witches)
- “On the Fox Roads”, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 31 Oct 2023)
- “One Man's Treasure”, Sarah Pinsker (Unanny Jan/Feb 2023)
- “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
- “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Unanny Sep/Oct 2023)
Short Story
- Winner: “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djčlí Clark (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2023)
- “A Soul in the World”, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2023)
- “Those Hitchhiking Kids”, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 2 Apr 2023)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Oct 2023)
- “Reckless Eyeballing”, N. K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming)
- “Stones”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld Sep 2023)
- “The Mausoleium's Chidren”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny May/Jun 2023)
- “There's a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead”, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands Jun 2023)
- “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Aug 2023)
- “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
Collection
- Winner: White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
- No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
- Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
- Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
- The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
- The Essential Peter S. Beable, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
- Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex)
- Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
- The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
Anthology
- Winner: Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
- The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
- Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
- New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
- (tie): The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R. F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- (tie): Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra)
- Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver)
- 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)
- 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK)
- A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing)
- Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
- Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
- Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent's Tail; Saga 2024)
- All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
- The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone)
Illustrated And Art Book
- Winner: The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian)
- The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen)
- Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics)
- Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams)
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
- Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R. R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic)
- The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published)
- Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
- The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Uncanny
- Clarkesworld
- Tor.com
- Asimov's
- FIYAH
- F&SF
- Strange Horizons
- khoréo
- Analog
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Publisher
- Winner: Tor
- Tordotcom
- Subterranean
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Neon Hemlock
- Gollancz
- DAW
- Tachyon
- Angry Robot
Artist
Special Award: Fostering Excellence In Craft & Career
- Winner: Jeanne Cavelos (and the Odyssey Writing Workshop)
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