The Locus Awards, awarded by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, have recognised some of the biggest names in the business.
Past winners include Le Guin, Gaiman and Asimov, among a whole of other household names. The awards cover all the major categories with the standard speculative fiction award staples of Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Fantasy Novel the most prestigious, but also cover all aspects of SFF literature. An example of this is the most decorated winner of the whole Locus award history is Gardner Dozois, with an astounding 35 Locus Award wins, all of them in editing categories.
The finalists are chosen by an online poll, and the results of the main categories can be seen below:
Science Fiction Novel
- Company Town – Madeline Ashby
- The Medusa Chronicles – Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
- Take Back the Sky – Greg Bear
- Visitor – C.J. Cherryh
- Babylon’s Ashes – James S.A. Corey
- Death’s End – Cixin Liu
- After Atlas – Emma Newman
- Central Station – Lavie Tidhar
- The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
- Last Year – Robert Charles Wilson
Fantasy Novel
All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders- Summerlong – Peter S. Beagle
- City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin
- Children of Earth and Sky – Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Wall of Storms – Ken Liu
- The Last Days of New Paris – China Miéville
- The Winged Histories – Sofia Samatar
- The Nightmare Stacks – Charles Stross
- Necessity – Jo Walton
Horror Novel
The Brotherhood of the Wheel – R.S. Belcher- Fellside – M.R. Carey
- The Fireman – Joe Hill
- Mongrels – Stephen Graham Jones
- The Fisherman – John Langan
- Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- HEX – Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- The Family Plot – Cherie Priest
- Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
- Disappearance at Devil’s Rock – Paul Tremblay
The full list of categories for the Locus Awards also includes awards for:
First Novel
Young Adult Book
Novella
Novellete
Short Story
Anthology
Collection
Magazine
Publisher
Editor
Artist
Non-Fiction
Art Book
The Award Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle in June.
You can find the full listings of finalists on the Locus Awards website, here.
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