Locus Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Berkeley CA :
May 30, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Sf Novel
- Winner: Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)
- Where the Axe is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
- When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
- Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)
- Picks and Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
- The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
- (tie): Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)
- (tie): Katabasis, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
- A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
- Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)
- The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
- The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
- Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
Horror Novel
- Winner: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK)
- King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK)
- The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
- Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)
- The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
- It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen)
- The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton UK)
- The Crimson Road, A. G. Slatter (Titan US & UK)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
- I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper)
- They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
- Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
- Costumes for Time Travelers, A. R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK)
- Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
- The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK)
- The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen)
- The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK)
- The Last of the Elvis Ninja Robots, Michael Stephens (Lil Blue Dot)
- Sky on Fire, E. K. Johnston (Dutton)
First Novel
- Winner: Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK)
- Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie)
- Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
- A Song of Legends Lost, M. H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)
- Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It)
- Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK)
- When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK)
- Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Jr. Reyes (Mariner; Footnote UK)
- North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object)
Translated Novel
- Winner: On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell, trans23 (New Directions; Faber & Faber)
- Red Sword, Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Honford Star)
- The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK)
- The Unworthy, Augustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK)
- Ice, Jacek Dukaj, translated by Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus)
- Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur (Tor)
- Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, translated by Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent's Tail)
- The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
- Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK)
- The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US)
Novella
- Winner: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
- Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
- What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
- Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)
- Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
- Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- Making History, K. J. Parker (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- Winner: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezeu (Clarkesworld Feb 2025)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
- “When He Calls Your Name”, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2025)
- “The Witch and the Wyrm”, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 26 Feb 2025)
- “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2025)
- “The Tin Man's Ghost”, Ray Nayler (Asimov's May/Jun 2025)
- “The Twenty-One Second God”, Peter Watts (Lightspeed Jun 2025)
- “Phantom View”, John Wiswell (Reactor 22 Oct 2025)
- “Barnacle”, Kate Elliott (Reactor 5 Nov 2025)
- “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”, A. C. Wise (Reactor 13 Jan 2025)
Short Story
- Winner: “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Apr 2025)
- “Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead”, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Oct 2025)
- “Woolly”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov's May/Jun 2025)
- “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov's Jul/Aug 2025)
- “Wire Mother”, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld Oct 2025)
- “Missing Helen”, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld Jul 2025)
- “Landline”, Kelly Robson (Reactor 5 Mar 2025)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 16 Jun 2025)
- “The Shape of Stones”, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 12 Mar 2025)
- “Secret Night”, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
Collection
- Winner: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
- The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
- Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)
- One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
- The Revelation Space Collection Volume 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
- A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood)
- Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
- Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Anthology
- Winner: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
- Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
- Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
- As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)
- The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America)
- Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
Non-fiction
- Winner: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)
- Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad)
- The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM)
- Octavia E. Butler: H Is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press)
- Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
- Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon)
- Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong'o (Universe of California Press)
- Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton)
- Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay)
- Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene)
Illustrated And Art Book
- Winner: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)
- Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK)
- Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds; art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls)
- Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean)
- The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (Beehive)
- Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (Free League Sweded as Swedish Machines; Saga)
- Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press)
- Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle)
- Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Clarkesworld
- Uncanny
- Reactor
- Strange Horizons
- Asimov's
- Lightspeed
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Fiyah
- khōréō
- F&SF
Publisher
- Winner: Orbit
- Tachyon
- Neon Hemlock
- Saga
- DAW
- Angry Robot
- Solaris
- Del Rey
- Gollancz
- Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
Artist
Special Award 2026: Supporting The Speculative Writing Community
- Winner: The Submission Grinder, David Steffen
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