Locus Awards 2020
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June 27, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Eligibility Year: 2019
Sf Novel
- Winner: The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
- Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)
- The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
- The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit)
- The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
- Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
- The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
- Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
- The Iron Dragon's Mother, Michael Swanwick (tor)
- Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
- Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
- A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
Horror Novel
- Winner: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
- The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
- The Toll, Cherie Priest (tor)
- Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiji, Kim Newman (Titan)
- The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager)
- Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
- The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit)
- Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
Young Adult Book
- Winner: Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
- Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit; Gollancz)
- The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
- The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
- War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
- King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
- Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Made Me a World; Faber & Faber)
First Novel
- Winner: Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
- Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
- The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
- Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCS x FSG Originals)
Novella
- Winner: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djčlí Clark (Tor.com)
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes, with234 (Saga)
- Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com)
- “A Time to Reap”, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny Dec 2019)
- Desdemona and the Deep, C. S. E. Cooney (Tor.com)
- The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com)
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com)
Novelette
- Winner: “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- “Emergency Skin”, N. K. Jemisin (Forward)
- “Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
- “Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF Sep/Oct 2019)
- “Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 10 Jul 2019)
- “Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2019)
- “A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
- “The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People's Future of the United States)
- “It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning”, Ted Chiang (New York Times 27 May 2019)
- “Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
- “Lest We Forget”, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny May/Jun 2019)
- “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
- “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married”, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 27 Dec 2019)
- “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear”, Kelly Link (Tin House 2019)
- “Thoughts and Prayers”, Ken Liu (Future Tense 26 Jan 2019)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny Jan/Feb 2019)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
Collection
- Winner: Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf; Picador)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
- Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
- Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
- The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
- Meet Me in the Future, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
- The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R. A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
- The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
Anthology
- Winner: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
- The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- A People's Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
- The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
- The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
- Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
- Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- The Best Science Fiction & fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
- The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O'Meara (Hanover Square)
- The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)
- Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
- Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction, Desirina Boskovich, ed. (Abrams Image)
- Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor (Simon & Schuster/TED)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Markley (University of Illinois Press)
- Reading Backwards: Essays and Reviews, 2005-2018, John Crowley (Subterranean)
- The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
- HG Wells: A Literary Life, Adam Roberts (Palgrave)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
- Daydreamer's Journey, Julie Dillon (Julie Dillon)
- The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Yuko Shimizu (Beehive)
- Middle-earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend, Donato Giancola (Dark Horse)
- The Illustrated World of Tolkien, David Day (Thunder Bay; Pyramid)
- Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller, Jesse Pires, ed. (Anthology Editions)
- The Island of Doctor Moreau, Bill Sienkiewicz (Beehive) (by H.G. Wells)
- Ambedo: Tran Nguyen, Tran Nguyen (Flesk)
- Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures, Mark A. Nelson (Dover)
- Starport, Raya Golden (Bantam) (by George R. R. Martin)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- F&SF
- Asimov's
- Uncanny
- Clarkesworld
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Analog
- File 770
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Subterranean
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Saga
- Angry Robot
- Gollancz
- DAW
- Tachyon
- Harper
Artist
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