Locus Awards 2017
Winners and nominees of the 2017 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Big Book of Science Fiction — Jeff VanderMeer(winner)
- 🏆The Big Book of Science Fiction — Ann VanderMeer(winner)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight (nominee)
- ✦ Children of Lovecraft (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦ Bridging Infinity (nominee)
- ✦ Clockwork Phoenix 5 (nominee)
- ✦ Now We Are Ten (nominee)
- ✦The Starlit Wood — Dominik Parisien (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Julian Mortimer Smith (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016(nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Paul Witcover (nominee)
- ✦ The Starlit Wood (nominee)
- ✦ Dreaming in the Dark (nominee)
- ✦ Tremontaine (nominee)
- ✦ Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten (nominee)
- ✦ Drowned Worlds (nominee)
- ✦ The Grimm Future (nominee)
- ✦ Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (nominee)
- ✦ Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History — Chesya Burke (nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Joel Derfner (nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Malinda Lo(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Nick Wolven (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Children of Lovecraft — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Seth Dickinson (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Dexter Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — S. L. Huang (nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Adam Johnson (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Ted Chiang (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦Tremontaine — Racheline Maltese (nominee)
- ✦Now We Are Ten — Ian Whates (nominee)
- ✦Dreaming in the Dark — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World — Jonathan Oliver (nominee)
- ✦Bridging Infinity — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Drowned Worlds — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Grimm Future — Erin Underwood (nominee)
- ✦Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology — Hope Nicholson (nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World — David Thomas Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History — Mikki Kendall (nominee)
- ✦Clockwork Phoenix 5 — Mike Allen (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦The Starlit Wood — Navah Wolfe (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 Julie Dillon (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆Ken Liu(winner)
- ✦The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories — Tina Connolly(nominee)
- ✦Project Elfhome — Wen Spencer (nominee)
- ✦A Natural History of Hell — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories — Joan Aiken (nominee)
- ✦Dreams of Distant Shores(nominee)
- ✦Early Days: More Tales from the Pulp Era — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Interior Darkness: Selected Stories — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Aquila Rift — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Ian McDonald — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Not So Much, Said the Cat — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦A Feast of Sorrows — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Sharp Ends — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Amaryllis and Other Stories — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦Swift to Chase — Laird Barron(nominee)
- ✦Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing — Lauren Beukes(nominee)
- ✦ Livia Llewellyn (nominee)
- ✦Greener Pastures — Michael Wehunt (nominee)
- ✦The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria — Carlos Hernandez (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
- ✦The Spider's War — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦The Regional Office is Under Attack! — Manuel Gonzales (nominee)
- ✦Nameless(nominee)
- ✦Heartless(nominee)
- ✦The Wall of Storms — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦City of Blades — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦Four Roads Cross — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦The Liberation — Ian Tregillis (nominee)
- ✦The Winged Histories — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦The Perdition Score — Richard Kadrey(nominee)
- ✦Cloudbound — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦The Obelisk Gate — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Kingfisher(nominee)
- ✦Summerlong — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦An Accident of Stars — Foz Meadows (nominee)
- ✦The Last Mortal Bond — Brian Staveley (nominee)
- ✦The Last Days of New Paris — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦Nameless — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦The Nightmare Stacks — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Medusa's Web — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Necessity — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦Will Do Magic for Small Change — Andrea Hairston (nominee)
- ✦Jade City — Fonda Lee(nominee)
- ✦A Shadow All of Light — Fred Chappell (nominee)
- ✦Breath of Earth(nominee)
- ✦The Gradual — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦Children of Earth and Sky — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
- ✦Masks and Shadows — Stephanie Burgis(nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Devil and the Bluebird — Jennifer Mason-Black (nominee)
- ✦Rescue Run — Jon Del Arroz (nominee)
- ✦A Fierce and Subtle Poison — Samantha Mabry (nominee)
- ✦The Girl from Everywhere — Heidi Heilig (nominee)
- ✦Nameless(nominee)
- ✦Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Roses and Rot — Kat Howard(nominee)
- ✦Infomocracy — Malka Older (nominee)
- ✦Borderline — Mishell Baker (nominee)
- ✦Too Like the Lightning — Ada Palmer (nominee)
- ✦Nameless — Gail Carriger(nominee)
- ✦The Star-Touched Queen — Roshani Chokshi(nominee)
- ✦Vigil — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Arabella of Mars — David D. Levine (nominee)
- ✦Waypoint Kangaroo — Curtis C. Chen (nominee)
- ✦Azanian Bridges — Nick Wood (nominee)
- ✦Everfair — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦The Reader(nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆The Fireman — Joe Hill(winner)
- ✦The Brotherhood of the Wheel — R. S. Belcher (nominee)
- ✦Certain Dark Things — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦The Fisherman — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦HexThomas Olde Heuvelt(nominee)
- ✦Good Girls — Glen Hirshberg (nominee)
- ✦Lovecraft Country — Matt Ruff(nominee)
- ✦Fellside — Mike Carey (nominee)
- ✦Disappearance at Devil's Rock — Paul G. Tremblay(nominee)
- ✦Mongrels — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Family Plot — Cherie Priest(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay(winner)
- ✦Prodigal — Gord Sellar (nominee)
- ✦Unauthorized Access — An Owomoyela (nominee)
- ✦Cold Comfort — Paul Doherty (nominee)
- ✦Foxfire, Foxfire — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦The Metal Demimonde — Nick Wolven (nominee)
- ✦The Art of Space Travel — Nina Allan (nominee)
- ✦Touring with the Alien — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
- ✦The Jewel and Her Lapidary — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik(nominee)
- ✦Fifty Shades of Grays — Steven Barnes(nominee)
- ✦Cold Comfort — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Told by an Idiot — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Antediluvian Homesick Blues — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Number Nine Moon — Alex Irvine(nominee)
- ✦Pearl — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦The Great Detective — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦Checkerboard Planet — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦The Mind Is Its Own Place — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦A Dead Djinn in Cairo — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
- ✦The Visitor from Taured — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Jonas and the Fox(nominee)
- ✦The Night Cyclist — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦Red As Blood and White As Bone — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Blue — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Those Shadows Laugh — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦Project Empathy — Dominica Phetteplace (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Every Heart a Doorway — Seanan McGuire(winner)
- ✦The Charge and the Storm — An Owomoyela (nominee)
- ✦The Dispatcher — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Pirate Utopia — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦This Census-Taker — China Miéville(nominee)
- ✦The Devil You Know — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Iron Tactician — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Hammers on Bone — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦A Taste of Honey — Kai Ashante Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Vanishing Kind — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Lost Child of Lychford — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦The Ballad of Black Tom — Victor LaValle(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Death's End — Liu Cixin (winner)
- ✦Babylon's Ashes — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Icon — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦Babylon's Ashes — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦Into Everywhere — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦False Hearts — L. R. Lam(nominee)
- ✦Visitor — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Last Year — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦A Closed and Common Orbit — Becky Chambers(nominee)
- ✦The Core of the Sun — Johanna Sinisalo(nominee)
- ✦Europe in Winter — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦Company Town — Madeline Ashby (nominee)
- ✦Too Like the Lightning — Ada Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Medusa Chronicles — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Take Back the Sky — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Dissidence — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦The Medusa Chronicles — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦After Atlas — Emma Newman(nominee)
- ✦Faller — Will McIntosh (nominee)
- ✦Underground Airlines — Ben H. Winters(nominee)
- ✦The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead(nominee)
- ✦Occupy Me — Tricia Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦Rosewater — Tade Thompson(nominee)
- ✦Babylon's Ashes — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦Central Station — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Impersonations — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Alien Morning — Rick Wilber (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Seasons of Glass and Iron — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
- ✦Nesters — Siobhan Carroll (nominee)
- ✦The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh — Desirina Boskovich (nominee)
- ✦Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Seven Birthdays — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Shadow's Weave — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦La beauté sans vertu — Genevieve Valentine(nominee)
- ✦The Red Thread — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Elves of Antarctica — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Mutants Men Don't See — James Alan Gardner (nominee)
- ✦Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦The City Born Great — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Red Dirt Witch — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers(nominee)
- ✦Not Without Mercy — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Mika Model — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦The Story of Kao Yu — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Under One Roof(nominee)
- ✦Things with Beards — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies — Brooke Bolander(nominee)
- ✦My Body, Herself — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
- ✦Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Even the Crumbs Were Delicious — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Afrofuturist 419 — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10) — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦A Salvaging of Ghosts — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Left Behind — Cat Rambo (nominee)
- ✦Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦Rager in Space — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦That Game We Played During the War — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Ghost Pressure — Gemma Files(nominee)
- ✦Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦Drowned — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Terminal — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Webs — Mary Anne Mohanraj (nominee)
- ✦Vulcanization — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse — Xia Jia (nominee)
- ✦Ozymandias — Karin Lowachee (nominee)
- ✦The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory — Carlos Hernandez (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- ✦This Savage Song — V. E. Schwab(nominee)
- ✦Crooked Kingdom — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
- ✦Gemina — Jay Kristoff(nominee)
- ✦The Bronze Key — Cassandra Clare(nominee)
- ✦Gemina — Amie Kaufman(nominee)
- ✦Truthwitch — Susan Dennard(nominee)
- ✦The Bronze Key — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Poisoned Blade — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦The Swan Riders — Erin Bow(nominee)
- ✦The Girl Who Drank the Moon — Kelly Barnhill(nominee)
- ✦Revenger — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Burning Midnight — Will McIntosh (nominee)
- ✦When the Moon Was Ours — Anna-Marie McLemore(nominee)
- ✦The Rose & the Dagger — Renée Ahdieh(nominee)
- ✦Three Dark Crowns — Kendare Blake (nominee)
- ✦The Evil Wizard Smallbone — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦Goldenhand — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦And I Darken — Kiersten White(nominee)
- ✦Labyrinth Lost — Zoraida Córdova(nominee)
- ✦Double Down — Gwenda Bond (nominee)
- ✦Aerie — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Rocks Fall Everyone Dies — Lindsay Ribar (nominee)
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