Locus Awards 2019
Winners and nominees of the 2019 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Book of Magic — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Book of Magic (winner)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Kathleen Kayembe (nominee)
- ✦ The Future Is Female! (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦ Infinity's End (nominee)
- ✦ Robots vs. Fairies (nominee)
- ✦Robots vs. Fairies — Dominik Parisien (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Gwendolyn Clare (nominee)
- ✦ Twelve Tomorrows (nominee)
- ✦Twelve Tomorrows — Wade Roush (nominee)
- ✦Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders — Susan Forest (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Kate Alice Marshall (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Rachael K. Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Charles Payseur (nominee)
- ✦ Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition (nominee)
- ✦ Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders (nominee)
- ✦ Welcome to Dystopia (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 (nominee)
- ✦ The Final Frontier (nominee)
- ✦ Mother of Invention (nominee)
- ✦ The Underwater Ballroom Society (nominee)
- ✦ A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018(nominee)
- ✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Welcome to Dystopia — Gordon Van Gelder (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction — Irene Gallo (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Infinity's End — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Lettie Prell (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 — Rich Horton (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2018 (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Final Frontier — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Mother of Invention — Tansy Rayner Roberts (nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Female! — Lisa Yaszek (nominee)
- ✦Robots vs. Fairies — Navah Wolfe (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (nominee)
- ✦Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders — Lucas K. Law (nominee)
- ✦The Underwater Ballroom Society — Stephanie Burgis(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Peter Watts(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 — Cadwell Turnbull(nominee)
- ✦A Thousand Beginnings and Endings — Ellen Oh (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆Charles Vess(winner)
Best Collection
- ✦All the Fabulous Beasts — Priya Sharma (nominee)
- ✦Brief Cases — Jim Butcher(nominee)
- ✦The Tangled Lands — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Fire & Blood — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦A Cathedral of Myth and Bone — Kat Howard(nominee)
- ✦How to Fracture a Fairy Tale — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦How Long 'Til Black Future Month? — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦The Tangled Lands — Paolo Bacigalupi(nominee)
- ✦Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories — Kelly Barnhill(nominee)
- ✦The Father of Lies — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Promise of Space and Other Stories — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Dinosaur Tourist — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Starlings — Jo Walton(nominee)
- ✦An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Friday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Inner City — Shaun Tan(nominee)
- ✦Forget the Sleepless Shores — Sonya Taaffe (nominee)
- ✦Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Blue — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales of Calamity, Pilgrimage, and Atonement — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik(winner)
- ✦Fire Dance — Ilana C. Myer (nominee)
- ✦Foundryside — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦The Monster Baru Cormorant — Seth Dickinson (nominee)
- ✦Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Red Waters Rising — Laura Anne Gilman(nominee)
- ✦Salvation's Fire — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦Summerland — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦The Phoenix Empress — K. Arsenault Rivera(nominee)
- ✦Deep Roots — Ruthanna Emrys (nominee)
- ✦Frankenstein in Baghdad — Ahmed Saadawi (nominee)
- ✦Dreadful Company — Vivian Shaw (nominee)
- ✦Temper — Nicky Drayden (nominee)
- ✦Latchkey(nominee)
- ✦The Mere Wife — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Melmoth — Sarah Perry (nominee)
- ✦European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Wonder Engine — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
- ✦Lies Sleeping — Ben Aaronovitch(nominee)
- ✦Creatures of Want and Ruin — Molly Tanzer(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Trail of Lightning — Rebecca Roanhorse(winner)
- ✦Confessions of the Fox — Jordy Rosenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Quantum Magician(nominee)
- ✦The Breath of the Sun — Isaac R. Fellman (nominee)
- ✦I Am the River — T. E. Grau (nominee)
- ✦The Deep and Shining Dark — Juliet Kemp (nominee)
- ✦Children of Blood and Bone — Tomi Adeyemi(nominee)
- ✦The Poppy War — R.F. Kuang(nominee)
- ✦Semiosis — Sue Burke (nominee)
- ✦Mirage — Somaiya Daud (nominee)
- ✦Empire of Sand — Tasha Suri(nominee)
- ✦Severance — Ling Ma (nominee)
- ✦The Robots of Gotham — Todd McAulty (nominee)
- ✦Armed in Her Fashion — Kate Heartfield (nominee)
- ✦The Robots of Gotham — John O'Neill (nominee)
- ✦Witchmark — C. L. Polk (nominee)
- ✦Annex(nominee)
- ✦MEM — Bethany C. Morrow (nominee)
- ✦A Blade So Black — L.L. McKinney (nominee)
- ✦Baby Teeth — Zoje Stage (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆The Cabin at the End of the World — Paul G. Tremblay(winner)
- ✦Coyote Songs — Gabino Iglesias (nominee)
- ✦Tide of Stone — Kaaron Warren (nominee)
- ✦The Hunger — Alma Katsu(nominee)
- ✦We Sold Our Souls — Grady Hendrix(nominee)
- ✦The Listener — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦In the Night Wood — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Providence — Caroline Kepnes(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Hidden Things — Francesco Dimitri (nominee)
- ✦The Outsider — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Riddance — Shelley Jackson (nominee)
- ✦Unlanguage — Michael Cisco (nominee)
- ✦Cross Her Heart — Sarah Pinborough (nominee)
- ✦The Immaculate Void — Brian Hodge (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Only Harmless Great Thing — Brooke Bolander(winner)
- ✦Okay, Glory — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦A Son of the Sea — Priya Sharma (nominee)
- ✦When We Were Starless — Simone Heller (nominee)
- ✦Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good — LaShawn M. Wanak (nominee)
- ✦A World to Die For — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Quality Time — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections — Tina Connolly(nominee)
- ✦The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril — Scott Lynch(nominee)
- ✦If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again — Zen Cho(nominee)
- ✦Community Service — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Ghoul Goes West — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦The Donner Party — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing(nominee)
- ✦No Flight Without the Shatter — Brooke Bolander(nominee)
- ✦The Privilege of the Happy Ending — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Nearest — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Thought That Counts — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Return of the Pig — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Governor — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Nine Last Days on Planet Earth — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦M Is for Mars — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Foxy and Tiggs — Justina Robson (nominee)
- ✦An Agent of Utopia — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦Joe Diabo's Farewell — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦The Staff in the Stone — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦The Huntsman and the Beast — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Intervention — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦How to Swallow the Moon — Isabel Yap (nominee)
- ✦Triquetra — Kirstyn McDermott (nominee)
- ✦Flint and Mirror — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Recoveries — Susan Palwick (nominee)
- ✦Queen Lily — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦Widdam — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦The Sweetness of Honey and Rot — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Artificial Condition — Martha Wells(winner)
- ✦Umbernight — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦Black Helicopters — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
- ✦Time Was — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling — A. M. Dellamonica (nominee)
- ✦The Tea Master and the Detective — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦The Descent of Monsters — Neon Yang(nominee)
- ✦Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦The Dragon's Child — Janeen Webb (nominee)
- ✦The Black God’s Drums — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
- ✦Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells(nominee)
- ✦Requiem — Vandana Singh (nominee)
- ✦The Freeze-Frame Revolution — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Red Moon — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Sky Is Yours — Chandler Klang Smith (nominee)
- ✦Revenant Gun — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Emergence — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦If Tomorrow Comes — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Record of a Spaceborn Few — Becky Chambers(nominee)
- ✦Shelter — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦Europe at Dawn — Dave Hutchinson (nominee)
- ✦Blackfish City — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Pride and Prometheus — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦By the Pricking of Her Thumb — Adam Roberts (nominee)
- ✦Elysium Fire — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦Irontown Blues — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Wild Dead — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Embers of War — Gareth L. Powell (nominee)
- ✦The Dreaming Stars — Tim Pratt(nominee)
- ✦The Overstory — Richard Powers (nominee)
- ✦Theory of Bastards — Audrey Schulman (nominee)
- ✦Chercher La Femme — L. Timmel Duchamp (nominee)
- ✦Unholy Land — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦An American Story — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Accidental War — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Space Opera — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington — P. Djèlí Clark(winner)
- ✦The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes — Siobhan Carroll (nominee)
- ✦Mother Tongues — S. Qiouyi Lu (nominee)
- ✦Down Where Sound Comes Blunt — G. V. Anderson (nominee)
- ✦Waterbirds — G. V. Anderson (nominee)
- ✦Cosmic Spring — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Starship and the Temple Cat — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦Firelight — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Ruby, Singing — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦Blessings — Naomi Novik(nominee)
- ✦The Storyteller's Replacement — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Cuisine des Mémoires — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Field Biology of the Wee Fairies — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦The Bookcase Expedition — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Work Shadow/Shadow Work — Madeline Ashby (nominee)
- ✦The Court Magician(nominee)
- ✦"The Starfish Girl" — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Mother of Invention — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Blue Fairy's Manifesto — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
- ✦A Portrait of Salai — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
- ✦What Gentle Women Dare — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦Yard Dog — Tade Thompson(nominee)
- ✦The Hydraulic Emperor — Arkady Martine (nominee)
- ✦STET — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
- ✦You Can Make a Dinosaur, But You Can't Help Me — K. M. Szpara (nominee)
- ✦The Buried Giant — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Meat and Salt and Sparks(nominee)
- ✦You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I'll Pretend Like I Never Met You — Maria Dahvana Headley (nominee)
- ✦Flow — Marissa Lingen (nominee)
- ✦A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
- ✦The Heart of Owl Abbas — Kathleen Jennings (nominee)
- ✦A Fall Counts Anywhere — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Kindred — Peter Watts(nominee)
- ✦And Yet — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Dread Nation — Justina Ireland(winner)
- ✦Black Wings Beating — C. Alexander London (nominee)
- ✦Half-Witch(nominee)
- ✦For a Muse of Fire — Heidi Heilig (nominee)
- ✦Impostors — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Mapping the Bones — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Tess of the Road — Rachel Hartman (nominee)
- ✦The Cruel Prince — Holly Black(nominee)
- ✦Damsel — Elana Arnold(nominee)
- ✦Blanca & Roja — Anna-Marie McLemore(nominee)
- ✦Cross Fire — Fonda Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Astonishing Color of After — Emily X.R. Pan (nominee)
- ✦The Brilliant Death(nominee)
- ✦Bluecrowne — Kate Milford(nominee)
- ✦The Gone Away Place — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦A Room Away From the Wolves — Nova Ren Suma (nominee)
- ✦The Agony House — Cherie Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Belles — Dhonielle Clayton (nominee)
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