Locus Awards 2025


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Sturgeon <— 2025 thread —> Astounding New Writer
— <— Locus Awards —> 2024
Where and When: Oakland CA : June 21, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Sf Novel
  1. Winner: The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash)
  2. Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
  3. The Mercy of Gods, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  4. Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
  5. Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK)
  6. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
  7. Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK)
  8. Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
  9. Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
  10. The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK)
Fantasy Novel
  1. Winner: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
  2. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
  3. The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  4. The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK)
  5. The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK)
  6. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga)
  7. Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  8. The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK)
  9. Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
  10. Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
Horror Novel
  1. Winner: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)
  2. The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
  3. Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK)
  4. Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
  5. House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK)
  6. Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK)
  7. Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
  8. The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
  9. Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
  10. The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK)
Young Adult Novel
  1. Winner: Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
  2. Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
  3. A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
  4. The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK)
  5. Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
  6. Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK)
  7. Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA)
  8. Blood Justice, Terry J. Brenton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK)
  9. Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhom)
  10. The Feast Makers, H. A. Clarke (Erewhom)
First Novel
  1. Winner: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
  2. The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
  3. The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK)
  4. The West Passage, Jared Pechacek (Tordotcom)
  5. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  6. Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhom)
  7. Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW)
  8. Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz)
  9. The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
  10. Lady Eve's Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK)
Novella
  1. Winner: What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
  2. The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
  3. The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
  4. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
  5. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
  6. Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
  7. The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
  8. Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom)
  9. She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
  10. Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
Novelette
  1. Winner: “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 9 Jun 2024)
  2. “A Stranger Knocks”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2024)
  3. “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2024)
  4. “The River Judge”, S. L. Huang (Reactor 6 mar 2024)
  5. “Loneliness Universe”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
  6. “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!”, TJ Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
  7. “I'm NOT Disappointed just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe”, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 20 Nov 2024)
  8. “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell”, Angela Liu (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2024)
  9. “Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
  10. “Joanna's Bodies”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 1 Jul 2024)
Short Story
  1. Winner: “Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Feb 2024)
  2. “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed May 2924)
  3. “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”, Nghi Vo (Uncanny Mar 2024)
  4. “Three Faces of a Beheading”, Arkady Martine (Uncanny May/Jun 2024)
  5. “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus”, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed Jan 2024)
  6. The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
  7. “The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
  8. “Autumn's Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
  9. “Parthenogenesis”, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 2 Oct 2024)
  10. “The V*mpire”, PH Lee (Reactor 23 Oct 2024)
Collection
  1. Winner: Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  2. Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
  3. Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)
  4. Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon)
  5. You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
  6. Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
  7. Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
  8. Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner)
  9. The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood)
  10. Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
Anthology
  1. Winner: The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)
  2. New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon)
  3. The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
  4. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway)
  5. Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press)
  6. The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press)
  7. Northern Nights, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
  8. We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press Teens)
  9. Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji, ed. (Comma)
  10. The Crawling Moon, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
Non-fiction
  1. Winner: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury Academic)
  2. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
  3. Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater)
  4. Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions)
  5. Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
  6. Laozi's Dao De Jing, Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025)
  7. Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever)
  8. The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
  9. This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths)
  10. A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl)
Illustrated And Art Book
  1. Winner: The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)
  2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, art by Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
  3. Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, art by Sakyu (Tuttle)
  4. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, art by Nico Delort (Scholastic)
  5. Frank Frazetta: An Artists' Tribute, Marisa Lewis, ed. (3dtotal)
  6. Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed)
  7. Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt)
  8. R.U.R.: The Karel Capek Classic, Katerina Cupová, translated by Julie Nováková (Rosarium)
  9. Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, Scott Dunbier, ed., art by Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery with IDW)
  10. Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, art by Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)
Editor
  1. Winner: Neil Clarke
  2. Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
  3. Ellen Datlow
  4. Jonathan Strahan
  5. dave ring
  6. E. Catherine Tobler
  7. Sheree Renée Thomas
  8. Diana Pho
  9. Wendy N. Wagner
  10. Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
Magazine
  1. Winner: Clarkesworld
  2. Uncanny
  3. Strange Horizons
  4. Reactor
  5. Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  6. Fiyah
  7. Asimov's
  8. Lightspeed
  9. The Deadlands
  10. khoréo
Publisher
  1. Winner: Subterranean Press
  2. Orbit
  3. Neon Hemlock
  4. DAW
  5. Tachyon
  6. Small Beer Press
  7. Gollancz
  8. Solaris
  9. Erewhon
  10. Angry Robot
Artist
  1. Winner: Charles Vess
  2. Rovina Cai
  3. Abigail Larson
  4. John Picacio
  5. Michael Whelan
  6. Julie Dillon
  7. Shaun Tan
  8. Brom
  9. Kathleen Jennings
  10. Alyssa Winans
Special Award 2025: Celebrating Excellence In Genre
  1. Winner: Ignyte Awards














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