Locus Awards 2018
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
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June 23, 2018
Eligibility Year: 2017
Eligibility Year: 2017
Sf Novel
- Winner: The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
- Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Raven Strategem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canana; Fourth Estate)
- Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; Riverrun)
- The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
- The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com; Orbit UK)
- Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
- The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
- City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
- Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
- Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
- Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
- The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
- Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
- After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
- Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)
- Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
- In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
- Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
- The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury)
- A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
- Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
First Novel
- Winner: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
- Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor)
- The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
- The City of Brass, S. A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
- Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
- Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
- The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
- Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)
Novella
- Winner: All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com)
- Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
- River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)
- The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com)
- “And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2017)
- In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com)
- Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF Sep/Oct 2017)
- “Children of Thorns, Children of Water”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017)
- “Extracurricular Activities”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 15 Feb 2017)
- “The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017)
- “Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2017)
- “The Lamentation of Their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 24 Aug 2017)
- “Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 9 Mar 2017)
- “Waiting on a Bright Moon”, JY Yang (Tor.com 12 Jul 2017)
- “The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
- “The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 19 Jul 2017)
- “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Aug 2017)
- “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
- “Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
- “Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2017)
- “Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF Sep/Oct 2017)
- “Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's May/Jun 2017)
- “Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
- “Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
- “Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11 May 2017)
Collection
- Winner: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
- Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
- The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
- The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
- Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Anthology
- Winner: The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
- Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
- Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)
- Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
- Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (Twelfth Planet)
- Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
- Don't Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
- Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
- In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
- Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
- A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
- J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)
- The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
- Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
Art Book
- Winner: The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
- Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium, Paul Kidby (Gollancz)
- Above the Timberline, Gregory Manchess (Saga)
- Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti, illustrated by Omar Rayyan (Donald M. Grant)
- Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love (Candlewick Studio)
- The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Syd Mead (Titan)
- Line of Beauty: the Art of Wendy Pini, Wendy Pini (Flesk)
- The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh, James Wyatt (Viz)
- Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom, Jean-Baptiste Monge (Goblin's Way)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- F&SF
- Uncanny
- Asimov's
- Clarkesworld
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Analog
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- File 770
Publisher
- Winner: Tor
- Orbit
- Subterranean
- Saga
- Angry Robot
- Small Beer
- DAW
- Tachyon
- Gollancz
- Baen
Artist
Special Award 2018: Community Building & Inclusivity
- Winner: Clarion West
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