2018 Locus Awards Finalists
Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 22-24, 2018; Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony. Additional weekend events include author readings with Connie Willis and Carrie Vaughn; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Daniel Abraham, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale thanks to University Book Store; and a lunch banquet with the annual Hawai'ian shirt contest, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
- Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)
FANTASY NOVEL
- The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
- City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
- Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
- The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
- The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
- The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
- Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)
HORROR NOVEL
- Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
- Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
- After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
- Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
- The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
- The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
- Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
- Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
- Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
YOUNG ADULT BOOK
- Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
- The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
- Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
- Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
- A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
- Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
- Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
- Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)
FIRST NOVEL
- The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
- The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
- Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
- Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
- The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
- Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
- Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)
NOVELLA
- In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
- Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
- Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
- "And Then There Were (N-One)", Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
- All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
NOVELETTE
- "Children of Thorns, Children of Water", Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
- "The Hermit of Houston", Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
- "Come See the Living Dryad", Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
- "The Worshipful Society of Glovers", Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
- "Extracurricular Activities", Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
- "The Hidden Girl", Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
- "The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids", Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
- "Wind Will Rove", Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's 9-10/17)
- "The Lamentation of Their Women", Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
- "Waiting on a Bright Moon", JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)
SHORT STORY
- "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue", Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
- "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance", Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
- "Persephone of the Crows", Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's 5-6/17)
- "Fire.", Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
- "Dear Sarah", Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
- "The Martian Obelisk", Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
- "Fandom for Robots", Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
- "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM", Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
- "Starlight Express", Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
- "Carnival Nine", Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)
ANTHOLOGY
- Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
- Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
- The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
- The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
- The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)
COLLECTION
- Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
- Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
- Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
- Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
- The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
MAGAZINE
- Analog
- Asimov's
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- File 770
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Tor.com
- Uncanny
PUBLISHER
- Angry Robot
- Baen
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Orbit
- Saga
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tachyon
- Tor
EDITOR
- John Joseph Adams
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Gardner Dozois
- C.C. Finlay
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
- Navah Wolfe
ARTIST
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Galen Dara
- Julie Dillon
- Bob Eggleton
- Gregory Manchess
- Victo Ngai
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
- Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
- In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
- The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
- Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
- Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
- Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
- Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
- Don't Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
- A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
- J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)
ART BOOK
- 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)
- Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
- Jeffrey Alan Love, Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
- Gregory Manchess, Above the Timberline (Saga)
- Syd Mead, The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
- Jean-Baptiste Monge, Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin's WAY)
- Wendy Pini, Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (Flesk)
- Omar Rayyan, Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
- James Wyatt, The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)
For more information about the Seattle event and for Locus Awards and Locus Workshop ticketing, please visit the 2018 Locus Awards Information page.
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