Locus Awards 2020

Winners and nominees of the 2020 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Best Anthology

🏆 New Suns (winner)
🏆New Suns — Nisi Shawl(winner)
✦The Big Book of Classic Fantasy — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Martin Cahill (nominee)
✦The Best of Uncanny — Michael Damian Thomas (nominee)
✦ Echoes (nominee)
✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven (nominee)
✦Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction — Sunyoung Park (nominee)
✦The Mythic Dream — Dominik Parisien (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Brenda Peynado (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — LaShawn M. Wanak (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Theodore McCombs (nominee)
✦ The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (nominee)
✦ The Best of Uncanny (nominee)
✦ Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction (nominee)
✦ Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology (nominee)
✦ The New Voices of Science Fiction (nominee)
✦ A People's Future of the United States (nominee)
✦ The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen (nominee)
✦ Mission Critical (nominee)
✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 (nominee)
✦ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (nominee)
✦ Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba (nominee)
✦ The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019(nominee)
✦Broken Stars — Ken Liu(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
✦Echoes — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Lesley Nneka Arimah (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
✦The Big Book of Classic Fantasy — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
✦Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology — Ann VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
✦The New Voices of Science Fiction — Hannu Rajaniemi (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Kelly Robson (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Nino Cipri(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nominee)
✦The New Voices of Science Fiction — Jacob Weisman (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
✦A People's Future of the United States — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
✦The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦Mission Critical — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 — Ada Hoffmann (nominee)
✦The Best of Uncanny — Lynne M. Thomas (nominee)
✦The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2019 — Rich Horton (nominee)
✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
✦The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
✦A People's Future of the United States — Victor LaValle(nominee)
✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2019 (nominee)
✦The Mythic Dream — Navah Wolfe (nominee)
✦Broken Stars — Xia Jia (nominee)

Best Artist

🏆 John Picacio (winner)

Best Collection

🏆Exhalation: Stories — Ted Chiang (winner)
✦Hexarchate Stories — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
✦... and Other Disasters — Malka Older (nominee)
✦Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea(nominee)
✦Big Cat & Other Stories — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
✦The Best of Greg Egan — Greg Egan(nominee)
✦Full Throttle — Joe Hill(nominee)
✦The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan — Caitlín R. Kiernan(nominee)
✦Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell(nominee)
✦Homesick — Nino Cipri(nominee)
✦Meet Me in the Future — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
✦Unforeseen — Molly Gloss (nominee)
✦Episodes: Short Stories — Christopher Priest(nominee)
✦Growing Things and Other Stories — Paul G. Tremblay(nominee)
✦And Go Like This — John Crowley (nominee)
✦All Worlds Are Real — Susan Palwick (nominee)
✦Snow White Learns Witchcraft — Theodora Goss(nominee)
✦The City and the Cygnets: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century — Michael Bishop (nominee)
✦The Best of R. A. Lafferty — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)

Best Fantasy Novel

🏆Middlegame — Seanan McGuire(winner)
✦The Red-Stained Wings — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦Dead Astronauts — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Starless Sea — Erin Morgenstern(nominee)
✦Unraveling — Karen Lord(nominee)
✦The Raven Tower — Ann Leckie(nominee)
✦Gods of Jade and Shadow — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
✦Air Logic — Laurie J. Marks (nominee)
✦Ninth House — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
✦The Dollmaker — Nina Allan (nominee)
✦The True Queen — Zen Cho(nominee)
✦Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City — Tom Holt(nominee)
✦Lent — Jo Walton(nominee)
✦The Iron Dragon's Mother — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
✦Gingerbread — Helen Oyeyemi(nominee)
✦The House of Sundering Flames — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦Jade War — Fonda Lee(nominee)
✦A Little Hatred — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
✦The Bird King — G. Willow Wilson (nominee)
✦Storm of Locusts — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
✦Ivory Apples — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
✦The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl — Theodora Goss(nominee)
✦A Brightness Long Ago — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)

Best First Novel

🏆Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir(winner)
✦The Luminous Dead — Caitlin Starling(nominee)
✦The Merciful Crow — Margaret Owen (nominee)
✦Wilder Girls — Rory Power (nominee)
✦Infinite Detail — Tim Maughan (nominee)
✦Opposite of Always — Justin A. Reynolds (nominee)
✦The Water Dancer — Ta-Nehisi Coates(nominee)
✦The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell (nominee)
✦A Song for a New Day(nominee)
✦The Migration(nominee)
✦Finder — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
✦A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine (nominee)
✦Magic for Liars — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
✦The Outside — Ada Hoffmann (nominee)
✦The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
✦Waste Tide — Chen Qiufan (nominee)
✦The Lesson — Cadwell Turnbull(nominee)

Best Horror Novel

🏆Black Leopard, Red Wolf — Marlon James(winner)
✦The Laws of the Skies — Grégoire Courtois (nominee)
✦A Sick Gray Laugh — Nicole Cushing (nominee)
✦The Invited — Jennifer McMahon(nominee)
✦My Heart Struck Sorrow — John Hornor Jacobs (nominee)
✦Imaginary Friend — Stephen Chbosky(nominee)
✦The Grand Dark — Richard Kadrey(nominee)
✦Prisoner of Midnight — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
✦The Institute — Stephen King(nominee)
✦The Pursuit of William Abbey — Catherine Webb (nominee)
✦Curious Toys — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
✦Daikaiju — Kim Newman(nominee)
✦The Twisted Ones — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
✦The Toll — Cherie Priest(nominee)

Best Novelette

🏆Omphalos — Ted Chiang (winner)
✦For He Can Creep — Siobhan Carroll (nominee)
✦Erase, Erase, Erase — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦A Strange Uncertain Light — G. V. Anderson (nominee)
✦While Dragons Claim the Sky — Jen Brown (nominee)
✦The Justified — Ann Leckie(nominee)
✦Kali_Na — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
✦Emergency Skin — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
✦About the O'Dells — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
✦The Narwhal(nominee)
✦The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye(nominee)
✦Phantoms of the Midway — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
✦Late Returns — Joe Hill(nominee)
✦Binti: Sacred Fire — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
✦Charlie Tells Another One — Andy Duncan (nominee)
✦His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light — Mimi Mondal (nominee)
✦Now Wait for This Week — Alice Sola Kim (nominee)
✦Nice Things — Ellen Klages (nominee)
✦How to Swallow the Moon — Isabel Yap (nominee)
✦The Sun from Both Sides(nominee)
✦The Archronology of Love — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
✦Contagion's Eve at the House Noctambulous(nominee)
✦I̶c̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶L̶e̶m̶o̶n̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶2̶5̶ȼ̶ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person — Paul G. Tremblay(nominee)
✦Anosognosia — John Crowley (nominee)
✦The Tree of Self-Knowledge — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
✦A Country Called Winter — Theodora Goss(nominee)
✦Reunion — Vandana Singh (nominee)
✦In This Moment, We Are Happy — Chen Qiufan (nominee)

Best Novella

🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Max Gladstone(winner)
🏆This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
✦Sisters of the Vast Black — Lina Rather (nominee)
✦A Time to Reap — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦Ormeshadow — Priya Sharma (nominee)
✦Unauthorized Bread — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
✦Radicalized — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
✦Miranda in Milan — Katharine Duckett (nominee)
✦The Work of Wolves — Tegan Moore (nominee)
✦Into Bones Like Oil — Kaaron Warren (nominee)
✦Vigilance — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
✦Glass Cannon — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
✦Longer — Michael Blumlein (nominee)
✦The Deep — Daveed Diggs(nominee)
✦The Fire Opal Mechanism — Fran Wilde (nominee)
✦To Be Taught, If Fortunate — Becky Chambers(nominee)
✦The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday — Saad Z. Hossain (nominee)
✦My Beautiful Life — Tom Holt(nominee)
✦Permafrost — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
✦Desdemona and the Deep — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
✦The Menace from Farside — Ian McDonald(nominee)
✦Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦The Ascent to Godhood — Neon Yang(nominee)
✦Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom — Ted Chiang (nominee)
✦The Butcher's Table(nominee)
✦The Deep — Rivers Solomon(nominee)
✦Waterlines — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
✦Alice Payne Rides — Kate Heartfield (nominee)
✦The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
✦New Atlantis — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
✦Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water — Vylar Kaftan (nominee)

Best Science Fiction Novel

✦Ancestral Night — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦Empress of Forever — Max Gladstone(nominee)
✦The Testaments — Margaret Atwood(nominee)
✦The Silver Wind — Nina Allan (nominee)
✦Wanderers — Chuck Wendig(nominee)
✦Frankissstein — Jeanette Winterson(nominee)
✦Fall; or, Dodge in Hell — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
✦Perihelion Summer — Greg Egan(nominee)
✦Stealing Worlds — Karl Schroeder (nominee)
✦Atlas Alone — Emma Newman(nominee)
✦The Memory Police — Yoko Ogawa (nominee)
✦Luna: Moon Rising — Ian McDonald(nominee)
✦Gamechanger — A. M. Dellamonica (nominee)
✦The Future of Another Timeline — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
✦Golden State — Ben H. Winters(nominee)
✦The City in the Middle of the Night — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
✦Rule of Capture(nominee)
✦The Book of Flora — Meg Elison (nominee)
✦Fleet of Knives — Gareth L. Powell (nominee)
✦The Rosewater Insurrection — Tade Thompson(nominee)
✦The Rosewater Redemption — Tade Thompson(nominee)
✦A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine (nominee)
✦The Forbidden Stars — Tim Pratt(nominee)
✦The Light Brigade — Kameron Hurley(nominee)
✦Escaping Exodus — Nicky Drayden (nominee)
✦Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir(nominee)
✦Million Mile Road Trip — Rudy Rucker (nominee)

Best Short Story

🏆The Bookstore at the End of America — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
✦Advice for Your First Time at the Faerie Market — Nibedita Sen (nominee)
✦Lest We Forget — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power — Karen Osborne (nominee)
✦The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear — Kelly Link(nominee)
✦Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan — Christopher Caldwell (nominee)
✦The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
✦Thoughts and Prayers — Ken Liu(nominee)
✦On the Lonely Shore — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
✦Beyond the El — John Chu (nominee)
✦A Catalog of Storms — Fran Wilde (nominee)
✦The Shadow We Cast Through Time — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
✦Repatriation — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
✦Shucked — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
✦A Bird, a Song, a Revolution — Brooke Bolander(nominee)
✦The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself — Carmen Maria Machado(nominee)
✦Under the Hill — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
✦As the Last I May Know — S. L. Huang (nominee)
✦It's 2059, and the Rich Kids are Still Winning — Ted Chiang (nominee)
✦I (28M) Created a Deepfake Girlfriend and Now My Parents Think We're Getting Married — Fonda Lee(nominee)
✦Blood Is Another Word for Hunger — Rivers Solomon(nominee)
✦A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
✦58 Rules to Ensure Your Husband Loves You Forever — Rafeeat Aliyu (nominee)
✦Labbatu Takes Command of the Flagship Heaven Dwells Within — Arkady Martine (nominee)
✦Do Not Look Back, My Lion — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
✦Fisher-Bird — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
✦Give the Family My Love — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)

Best Young Adult Book

🏆Dragon Pearl — Yoon Ha Lee(winner)
✦King of Scars — Leigh Bardugo(nominee)
✦The Secret Commonwealth — Philip Pullman(nominee)
✦Catfishing on CatNet — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
✦The Wicked King — Holly Black(nominee)
✦Destroy All Monsters — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
✦Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All — Laura Ruby (nominee)
✦Shadow Captain — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
✦The Gilded Wolves — Roshani Chokshi(nominee)
✦Pet — Akwaeke Emezi(nominee)
✦Angel Mage — Garth Nix(nominee)
✦War Girls — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
✦Song of the Crimson Flower — Julie C. Dao (nominee)
✦Internment — Samira Ahmed (nominee)

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