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