Locus Awards 2018
Winners and nominees of the 2018 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Book of Swords — Daniel Abraham (winner)
- 🏆The Book of Swords — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦ Extrasolar (nominee)
- ✦ Infinity Wars (nominee)
- ✦ Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales (nominee)
- ✦Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures — Ed Finn (nominee)
- ✦ The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Subterranean (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (nominee)
- ✦ Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (nominee)
- ✦ Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Cosmic Powers (nominee)
- ✦ Infinite Stars (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven (nominee)
- ✦ Galactic Empires (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Bookburners (nominee)
- ✦Extrasolar — Nick Gevers (nominee)
- ✦Bookburners — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction — Bogi Takács (nominee)
- ✦The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories — Mahvesh Murad (nominee)
- ✦Cosmic Powers — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Infinity Wars — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2017 (nominee)
- ✦Galactic Empires — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ Shadows & Tall Trees 7 (nominee)
- ✦Shadows & Tall Trees 7 — Michael Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Subterranean — William Schafer (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 Julie Dillon (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Hainish Novels & Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Telling the Map — Christopher Rowe (nominee)
- ✦Tender — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Norse Mythology — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦The Emerald Circus — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦Tanith by Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Overneath — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Her Body and Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
- ✦Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Strange Weather — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦Dear Sweet Filthy World — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky — Lesley Nneka Arimah (nominee)
- ✦Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Six Months, Three Days, Five Others — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦Wicked Wonders — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦Fire. plus "The Saffron Gatherers" and "Beyond Belief: On Becoming a Writer" and "Flying Squirrels in the Rafters" Outspoken Interview and much more — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Concentration — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Totalitopia plus "This Is Our Town" and "Everything That Rises" and "Paul Park's Hidden Worlds" and "I Did Crash a Few Parties" Outspoken Interview and Much More — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories — William Browning Spencer (nominee)
- ✦The Refrigerator Monologues — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦So You Want to Be a Robot — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (nominee)
- ✦You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts — M. John Harrison (nominee)
- ✦The Man with the Speckled Eyes — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Stone Sky — N. K. Jemisin(winner)
- ✦The Stone in the Skull — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦City of Miracles — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦The Ruin of Angels — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦Blackthorne — Stina Leicht (nominee)
- ✦The Beautiful Ones — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦Horizon — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦An Unkindness of Magicians — Kat Howard(nominee)
- ✦A Tyranny of Queens — Foz Meadows (nominee)
- ✦The River Bank — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Exit West — Mohsin Hamid (nominee)
- ✦The Delirium Brief — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Heart of What Was Lost — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦Spoonbenders — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦The House of Binding Thorns — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Corpselight — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Jade City — Fonda Lee(nominee)
- ✦Quillifer — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Creatures of Will and Temper — Molly Tanzer(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter — Theodora Goss(winner)
- ✦An Excess Male — Maggie Shen King (nominee)
- ✦Wintersong — S. Jae-Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Guns Above — Robyn Bennis (nominee)
- ✦Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders(nominee)
- ✦Weave a Circle Round — Kari Maaren (nominee)
- ✦An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors — Curtis Craddock (nominee)
- ✦All Our Wrong Todays — Elan Mastai (nominee)
- ✦ Karin Tidbeck (nominee)
- ✦The Art of Starving — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Autonomous — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
- ✦Amberlough — Lara Elena Donnelly (nominee)
- ✦Lotus Blue — Catriona Sparks (nominee)
- ✦Tropic of Kansas(nominee)
- ✦The Bear and the Nightingale — Katherine Arden(nominee)
- ✦An Unkindness of Ghosts — Rivers Solomon(nominee)
- ✦The City of Brass — Shannon Ali Chakraborty(nominee)
- ✦The Tiger's Daughter — K. Arsenault Rivera(nominee)
- ✦Forest of a Thousand Lanterns — Julie C. Dao (nominee)
- ✦Winter Tide — Ruthanna Emrys (nominee)
- ✦Dreadnought(nominee)
- ✦The Prey of Gods — Nicky Drayden (nominee)
- ✦Barbary Station — R. E. Stearns (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆The Changeling — Victor LaValle(winner)
- ✦Under a Watchful Eye — Adam Nevill(nominee)
- ✦After the End of the World — Jonathan L. Howard(nominee)
- ✦Ill Will — Dan Chaon (nominee)
- ✦Mormama — Kit Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Dark Net — Benjamin Percy(nominee)
- ✦Food of the Gods — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦Universal Harvester — John Darnielle(nominee)
- ✦Red Snow — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Night Ocean — Paul La Farge (nominee)
- ✦Fever Dream — Samanta Schweblin (nominee)
- ✦Behind Her Eyes — Sarah Pinborough (nominee)
- ✦Ubo(nominee)
- ✦The Grip of It — Jac Jemc (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Hermit of Houston — Samuel R. Delany(winner)
- ✦Mercury — Priya Sharma (nominee)
- ✦The Mocking Tower — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Angel of the Blockade — Alex Acks (nominee)
- ✦Rain Ship — Chi Hui (nominee)
- ✦My English Name — R. S. Benedict (nominee)
- ✦The Hidden Girl — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦Crispin's Model — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦The Chameleon's Gloves — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Extracurricular Activities — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Smoke of Gold Is Glory — Scott Lynch(nominee)
- ✦The Moon Is Not a Battlefield — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
- ✦"I Am a Handsome Man," said Apollo Crow — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦Wind Will Rove(nominee)
- ✦The Resident — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
- ✦Uncanny Valley — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Night Passage — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Worshipful Society of Glovers — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦Children of Thorns, Children of Water — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Waiting On a Bright Moon — Neon Yang(nominee)
- ✦A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦We Who Live in the Heart — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦A Human Stain — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦A Series of Steaks — Vina Jie-Min Prasad (nominee)
- ✦The Secret Life of Bots — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Lamentation of Their Women — Kai Ashante Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Waterfalling — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Thule Stowaway — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Come See the Living Dryad — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦ZeroS — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆All Systems Red — Martha Wells(winner)
- ✦The Border State — Christopher Rowe (nominee)
- ✦The Adventure of the Incognita Countess — Cynthia Ward (nominee)
- ✦Prime Meridian — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦Lost in the Dark — John Langan (nominee)
- ✦Fallow — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦The Twilight Pariah — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Acadie — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦In Calabria — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦And Then There Were (N-One)(nominee)
- ✦Proof of Concept — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Mightier Than the Sword — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦Down Among the Sticks and Bones — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦The Process Is a Process All Its Own — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Binti: Home — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦Agents of Dreamland — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦The Black Tides of Heaven — Neon Yang(nominee)
- ✦The Red Threads of Fortune — Neon Yang(nominee)
- ✦Passing Strange — Ellen Klages (nominee)
- ✦A Song for Quiet — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦The Martian Job — Jaine Fenn (nominee)
- ✦River of Teeth — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
- ✦Mapping the Interior — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion — Margaret Killjoy(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Borne — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Walkaway — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Persepolis Rising — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦New York 2140 — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Six Wakes — Mur Lafferty(nominee)
- ✦Provenance — Ann Leckie(nominee)
- ✦Raven Stratagem — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Sourdough — Robin Sloan (nominee)
- ✦Persepolis Rising — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦The Rift — Nina Allan (nominee)
- ✦Austral — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Shattered Minds — L. R. Lam(nominee)
- ✦Gnomon — Nick Harkaway(nominee)
- ✦Tomorrow's Kin — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Null States — Malka Older (nominee)
- ✦Seven Surrenders — Ada Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Moon and the Other — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Massacre of Mankind — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Empire Games — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Real-Town Murders — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦The Berlin Project — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Emergence — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦The Last Good Man — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Luna: Wolf Moon — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Bannerless — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦The Wrong Stars — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦Persepolis Rising — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦The Stars are Legion — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
- ✦Win — Vera Nazarian (nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Shoggoths in Traffic — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦The Fortune of Sparrows — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
- ✦The Worldless — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
- ✦Dear Sarah — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Paradox — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦Witch Hazel — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Bodies Stacked Like Firewood — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Sidewalks — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Probably Still the Chosen One — Kelly Barnhill(nominee)
- ✦With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦Though She Be But Little — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
- ✦Persephone of the Crows — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦The Martian Obelisk — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Starlight Express — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Worrity, Worrity — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Run, Rabbit — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦The White-Throated Transmigrant — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦Mines — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Conversations with an Armory — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦I Have Been Drowned in Rain — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Fandom for Robots — Vina Jie-Min Prasad (nominee)
- ✦Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™ — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
- ✦These Deathless Bones — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦Fire. — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Carnival Nine — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦The Whalebone Parrot — Darcie Little Badger (nominee)
- ✦The Old Dispensation — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦An Evening with Severyn Grimes(nominee)
- ✦Queen of Dirt — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦This Is Our Town — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment — Eden Royce (nominee)
- ✦Nine-Tenths of the Law — Molly Tanzer(nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Akata Warrior — Nnedi Okorafor(winner)
- ✦The November Girl — Lydia Kang (nominee)
- ✦Want — Cindy Pon (nominee)
- ✦The Ship Beyond Time — Heidi Heilig (nominee)
- ✦La Belle Sauvage — Philip Pullman(nominee)
- ✦Shadowhouse Fall — Daniel José Older(nominee)
- ✦Tool of War — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Buried Heart — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦Jane, Unlimited — Kristin Cashore(nominee)
- ✦Wild Beauty — Anna-Marie McLemore(nominee)
- ✦Before the Devil Breaks You — Libba Bray(nominee)
- ✦A Skinful of Shadows — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦One Dark Throne — Kendare Blake (nominee)
- ✦Frogkisser! — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Now I Rise — Kiersten White(nominee)
- ✦The Silent Invasion — James Bradley (nominee)
- ✦Sovereign(nominee)
- ✦Ghosts of Greenglass House — Kate Milford(nominee)
- ✦Chalk — Paul Cornell(nominee)
- ✦In Other Lands — Sarah Rees Brennan(nominee)
- ✦Win — Vera Nazarian (nominee)
- ✦Black Light Express — Philip Reeve(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart — Stephanie Burgis(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆 Mimi Mondal (winner)
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