Locus Awards 2021
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June 26, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Eligibility Year: 2020
Sf Novel
- Winner: Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
- The Last Emperox, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
- Agency, William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
- Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Tor)
- Machine, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
- Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- War of the Maps, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
- The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit; Gollancz)
- The Midnight Bargain, C. L. Polk (Erewhom)
- The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
- Beowulf, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCS x FSG Originals)
- The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
- Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)
- Devolution, Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century)
- The Deep, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
- Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
- The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
- Legendborn, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Over the Woodward Wall, A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
- A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
- The Silvered Serpents, Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
- Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
- The Scapegracers, Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
- Shadowshaper Legacy, Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
First Novel
- Winner: Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
- The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit)
- The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
- Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor)
- Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)
- The Unspoken Name, A. K. Larkwood (Tor)
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
Novella
- Winner: Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey (Tordotcom)
- Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
- The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
- Seven of Infinities, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
- The Four Profound Weaves, R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Pill”, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
- “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 17 Jun 2020)
- “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2020)
- “A Whisper of Blue”, Ken Liu (The Book of Dragons)
- “If You Take My Meaning”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 11 Feb 2020)
- “Fairy Tales for Robots”, Sofia Samatar (Made to Order)
- “Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo”, Catherynne M. Valente (Strange Horizons 7 Sep 2020)
- “A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential”, JY Neon Yang (Clarkesworld May 2020)
- “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny May/Jun 2020)
- “City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 21 Oct 2020)
Short Story
- Winner: “Little Free Library”, Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com 8 Apr 2020)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 15 Jun 2020)
- “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know”, Ken Liu (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2020)
- “The Mermaid Astronaut”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 27 Feb 2020)
- “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”, Rae Carson (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2020)
- “The Sycamore and the Sybil”, Alix E. Harrow (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2020)
- “The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Tor.com 23 Jan 2020)
- “Dresses Like White Elephants”, Meg Elison (Uncanny May/Jun 2020)
- “In the Lands of the Spill”, Aliette de Bodard (Avatars Inc)
- “Wait for Night”, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 2 Sep 2020)
Collection
- Winner: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
- The Best of Elizabeth Bear, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
- Big Girl, Meg Elison (PM)
- The Midnight Circus, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)
- Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man)
- The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
- If It Bleeds, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette India)
- The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
- Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe (Lethe)
Anthology
- Winner: The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)
- Africanfuturism, Wole Talabi, ed. (Brittle Paper)
- Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, eds. (Aurelia Leo)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn't Die, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- Made to Order, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
- A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice Caldwell, ed. (Viking; Hot Key)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
Nonfiction
- Winner: The Magic of Terry Pratchett, Marc Burrows (White Owl)
- Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, Isiah Lavender III & Lisa Yaszek, eds. (Ohio State University Press)
- Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation, Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins & Jerry Määttä, eds. (University of Wales Press)
- Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre, Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon, eds. (University of Nebraska Press)
- The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume One: The 1930's, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, eds. (First Fandom Experience)
- Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, Sarah Cole (Columbia University Press)
- Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, Andrew Milner & J. R. Burgmann (Liverpool University Press)
- Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, Walter Koenig (Jacobs/Brown)
- Bradbury Beyond Apollo, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press)
- Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century, Maria Sachiko Cecire (University of Minnesota Press)
Art Book
- Winner: The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions, Piers Bizony (Motorbooks)
- The Hobbit Sketchbook, Alan Lee (HarperCollins UK 2019; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra, Adam Cesare, illustrated by Iris Compiet (Insight Editions)
- Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Katherine Chu & John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta, J. David Spurlock, illustrated by Frank Frazetta (Vanguard)
- A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition, George R. R. Martin, illustrated by Gary Gianni (Bantam)
- The Art of Frank Cho: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Frank Cho (Flesk)
- Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Jesse Kowalski, ed. (Norman Rockwell Museum/Abbeville)
- Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, Dian Hanson (Taschen)
- Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Brecht Evens (Beehive)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- Uncanny
- F&SF
- Fiyah
- Asimov's
- Clarkesworld
- Strange Horizons
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Lightspeed
- Analog
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Tordotcom
- Orbit
- Subterranean
- Small Beer
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Angry Robot
- Saga
- Del Rey
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