Locus Awards 2022

Winners and nominees of the 2022 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Best Anthology

🏆We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 — C. L. Clark (winner)
🏆We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 — Charles Payseur (winner)
🏆 We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 (winner)
✦The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1 — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (nominee)
✦Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future — Gideon Lichfield (nominee)
✦ The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen (nominee)
✦ When Things Get Dark (nominee)
✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2 — Paula Guran (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021(nominee)
✦Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories — Susan Forest (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — KT Bryski (nominee)
✦ The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1 (nominee)
✦ Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction (nominee)
✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2 (nominee)
✦ Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (nominee)
✦ Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future (nominee)
✦ Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories (nominee)
✦ Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (nominee)
✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 (nominee)
✦ The Best of World SF: Volume 1 (nominee)
✦ Relics, Wrecks & Ruins (nominee)
✦ Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness (nominee)
✦ Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices (nominee)
✦ The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Karen Lord(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Ken Liu(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
✦The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦When Things Get Dark — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Kate Elliott(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Veronica Roth (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Meg Elison (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦The Best of World SF: Volume 1 — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Ted Kosmatka (nominee)
✦Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories — Lucas K. Law (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — Karin Lowachee (nominee)
✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)

Best Artist

🏆Charles Vess(winner)

Best Collection

🏆Even Greater Mistakes — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
✦Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories — Maria Haskins (nominee)
✦Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories — Nana Nkweti (nominee)
✦The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories — Charles Payseur (nominee)
✦Reconstruction — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
✦Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
✦The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories — Nina Allan (nominee)
✦Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
✦Spirits Abroad — Zen Cho(nominee)
✦Big Dark Hole — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
✦Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
✦The Complete Short Fiction of Peter Straub — Peter Straub(nominee)
✦The First Law of Thermodynamics Plus Someone Else's Problem Plus Who Owns Cyberpunk? and Much More — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
✦Belladonna Nights and Other Stories — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
✦Burning Girls and Other Stories — Veronica Schanoes (nominee)
✦The Best of Harry Turtledove — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
✦The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales — Angela Slatter(nominee)
✦The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell — Brian Evenson (nominee)
✦Everything in All the Wrong Order: The Best of Chaz Brenchley — Chaz Brenchley (nominee)
✦Alias Space and Other Stories — Kelly Robson (nominee)
✦Never Have I Ever — Isabel Yap (nominee)
✦The Best of Elizabeth Hand — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
✦The Truth and Other Stories — Stanisław Lem(nominee)
✦How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters — Erica L. Satifka (nominee)
✦The Best of Walter Jon Williams — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
✦The Ghost Sequences — A. C. Wise (nominee)

Best Fantasy Novel

🏆Jade Legacy — Fonda Lee(winner)
✦She Who Became the Sun — Shelley Parker-Chan (nominee)
✦The Mask of Mirrors — Alyc Helms (nominee)
✦Sistersong — Lucy Holland (nominee)
✦The Hidden Palace — Helene Wecker(nominee)
✦Light From Uncommon Stars — Ryka Aoki(nominee)
✦Black Water Sister — Zen Cho(nominee)
✦Honeycomb — Joanne Harris(nominee)
✦The Mask of Mirrors — Marie Brennan(nominee)
✦The Last Graduate — Naomi Novik(nominee)
✦The Memory Theater — Karin Tidbeck (nominee)
✦Cyber Mage — Saad Z. Hossain (nominee)
✦Blackthorn Winter — Liz Williams(nominee)
✦Peaces — Helen Oyeyemi(nominee)
✦The Witness for the Dead — Sarah Monette(nominee)
✦All the Murmuring Bones — Angela Slatter(nominee)
✦The Blacktongue Thief — Christopher Buehlman(nominee)
✦The Wisdom of Crowds — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
✦The Jasmine Throne — Tasha Suri(nominee)
✦Under the Whispering Door — TJ Klune(nominee)
✦The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina — Zoraida Córdova(nominee)
✦Soulstar — C. L. Polk (nominee)
✦A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
✦The Escapement — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
✦The Hood — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
✦The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie — M. Rickert (nominee)
✦Son of the Storm — Suyi Davies Okungbowa (nominee)
✦The Book of Form and Emptiness — Ruth Ozeki (nominee)
✦Paladin's Strength — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
✦Grave Reservations — Cherie Priest(nominee)
✦No Gods, No Monsters — Cadwell Turnbull(nominee)

Best First Novel

🏆A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark(winner)
✦The Chosen and the BeautifulNghi Vo(nominee)
✦Blood Like Magic — Liselle Sambury (nominee)
✦Iron Widow — Xiran Jay Zhao (nominee)
✦She Who Became the Sun — Shelley Parker-Chan (nominee)
✦Winter's Orbit — Everina Maxwell(nominee)
✦The Unbroken — C. L. Clark (nominee)
✦This Thing Between Us — Gus Moreno (nominee)
✦Unity — Elly Bangs (nominee)
✦A Girl Called Rumi — Ari Honarvar (nominee)
✦The Witch King — H. E. Edgmon (nominee)
✦Star Eater(nominee)
✦Bacchanal — Veronica G. Henry (nominee)
✦The Unraveling — Benjamin Rosenbaum (nominee)
✦On Fragile Waves — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
✦The All-Consuming World — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
✦Summer Sons — Lee Mandelo (nominee)
✦Mrs Death Misses Death — Salena Godden (nominee)
✦Root Magic — Eden Royce (nominee)
✦Wendy, Darling — A. C. Wise (nominee)
✦A Marvellous Light — Freya Marske(nominee)
✦Machinehood — S. B. Divya (nominee)

Best Horror Novel

🏆My Heart Is a Chainsaw — Stephen Graham Jones(winner)
✦The Death of Jane Lawrence — Caitlin Starling(nominee)
✦A Broken Darkness — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦The Bridge — J. S. Breukelaar (nominee)
✦The Book of Accidents — Chuck Wendig(nominee)
✦The Final Girl Support Group — Grady Hendrix(nominee)
✦Revelator — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
✦Later — Stephen King(nominee)
✦Billy Summers — Stephen King(nominee)
✦Sorrowland — Rivers Solomon(nominee)
✦Moon Lake — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
✦Good Neighbors — Sarah Langan (nominee)
✦Getaway — Zoje Stage (nominee)

Best Novelette

🏆That Story Isn't the Story — John Wiswell(winner)
✦The Red Mother — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦The Witch and the Wyrm — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦Dreamports — Tlotlo Tsamaase (nominee)
✦The Future Library — Peng Shepherd (nominee)
✦The Lay of Lilyfinger — G. V. Anderson (nominee)
✦Skinder's Veil — Kelly Link(nominee)
✦Now You See Me — Justin C. Key (nominee)
✦And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared — Chimedum Ohaegbu (nominee)
✦We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It — E. A. Petricone (nominee)
✦(emet) — Lauren Ring (nominee)
✦The Last Civilian — R. P. Sand (nominee)
✦The Demon Sage's Daughter — Varsha Dinesh (nominee)
✦Babylon System — Maurice Broaddus (nominee)
✦Three Tales from the Blue Library — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
✦Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. — Fran Wilde (nominee)
✦Broad Dutty Water — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
✦Stronger — Tom Holt(nominee)
✦The Ghost Birds — Karen Russell(nominee)
✦The Black Pages — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
✦Mulberry and Owl — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦The Only Living Girl on Earth — Charles Yu(nominee)
✦The Metric — David Moles (nominee)
✦Small Monsters — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
✦Laki — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
✦Bots of the Lost Ark — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
✦A Spell for Foolish Hearts — Isabel Yap (nominee)
✦For Sale by Owner — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
✦Colors of the Immortal Palette — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
✦The Music of the Siphorophenes — C. L. Polk (nominee)
✦I Being Young and Foolish — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
✦The Ash-Girl and the Salmon Prince — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
✦L'Esprit de L'Escalier — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
✦In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi — Molly Tanzer(nominee)
✦The Women Who Didn't Win Nobels, and How World Trees Are Not a Substitute — Octavia Cade (nominee)
✦Questions Asked in the Belly of the World — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)
✦Sarcophagus — Ray Nayler (nominee)
✦The Tin Man's Ghost — Ray Nayler (nominee)

Best Novella

🏆Fugitive Telemetry — Martha Wells(winner)
✦A Blessing of Unicorns — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
✦In the Watchful City — S. Qiouyi Lu (nominee)
✦The annual migration of clouds — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦And What Can We Offer You Tonight — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦The Giants of the Violet Sea — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
✦The Secret Skin — Wendy N. Wagner (nominee)
✦Flowers for the Sea — Zin E. Rocklyn (nominee)
✦And This Is How to Stay Alive — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
✦Submergence — Arula Ratnakar (nominee)
✦The Return of the Sorceress — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
✦A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers(nominee)
✦The Abomination — Nuzo Onoh (nominee)
✦The Dark Ride — John Kessel (nominee)
✦Sleep and the Soul — Greg Egan(nominee)
✦The Album of Dr. Moreau — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
✦Remote Control — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
✦Fireheart Tiger — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦A Canticle for Lost Girls — Isabel Yap (nominee)
✦Defekt — Nino Cipri(nominee)
✦Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma(nominee)
✦The Necessity of Stars — E. Catherine Tobler (nominee)
✦A Spindle Splintered — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
✦The Past Is Red — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
✦Comfort Me with Apples — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
✦A Rocket for Dimitrios — Ray Nayler (nominee)

Best Science Fiction Novel

🏆A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine (winner)
✦The House of Styx(nominee)
✦Hummingbird Salamander — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Horizon — Gautam Bhatia (nominee)
✦Iron Widow — Xiran Jay Zhao (nominee)
✦Leviathan Falls — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
✦Out Past the Stars — K B Wagers (nominee)
✦Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (nominee)
✦Leviathan Falls — Ty Franck (nominee)
✦The 22 Murders of Madison May — Max Barry(nominee)
✦The Actual Star — Monica Byrne(nominee)
✦The Galaxy, and the Ground Within — Becky Chambers(nominee)
✦Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro(nominee)
✦ Anthony Doerr (nominee)
✦We Are Satellites(nominee)
✦Perhaps the Stars — Ada Palmer (nominee)
✦Termination Shock — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
✦The Book of All Skies — Greg Egan(nominee)
✦Invisible Sun — Charles Stross(nominee)
✦Purgatory Mount — Adam Roberts (nominee)
✦Beyond the Hallowed Sky — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
✦Inhibitor Phase — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
✦Noor — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
✦Shards of Earth — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
✦You Sexy Thing — Cat Rambo (nominee)
✦Far from the Light of Heaven — Tade Thompson(nominee)
✦Doors of Sleep — Tim Pratt(nominee)
✦Leviathan Falls — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
✦Bewilderment — Richard Powers (nominee)
✦The Echo Wife — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
✦Firebreak(nominee)
✦Appleseed — Matt Bell (nominee)
✦The Second Shooter — Nick Mamatas(nominee)

Best Short Story

🏆Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather(winner)
✦The Bletted Woman — Rebecca Campbell (nominee)
✦When the Water Stops — Eugen Bacon (nominee)
✦For Lack of a Bed — John Wiswell(nominee)
✦We Are Not Phoenixes — John Wiswell(nominee)
✦Gordon B. White Is Creating Haunting Weird Horror — Gordon B. White (nominee)
✦An Arc of Electric Skin — Wole Talabi (nominee)
✦The Captain and the Quartermaster — C. L. Clark (nominee)
✦How the Girls Came Home — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
✦Homecoming Is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
✦The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han — Maria Dong (nominee)
✦Laughter Among the Trees — Suzan Palumbo (nominee)
✦Deep Music — Elly Bangs (nominee)
✦Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias — Elly Bangs (nominee)
✦Vampirito — K. Victoria Hernandez (nominee)
✦A Bird in the Window — Kate Francia (nominee)
✦Delete Your First Memory for Free — Kel Coleman (nominee)
✦I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself — Kel Coleman (nominee)
✦Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse — M. L. Krishnan (nominee)
✦Illusions of Freedom — Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (nominee)
✦A Princess of Mars: Svetlana Belkina and Tarkovsky's Lost Movie Aelita — Nina Allan (nominee)
✦#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi — Usman T. Malik (nominee)
✦A Dime — Robin Hobb(nominee)
✦Clap Back — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
✦Let All the Children Boogie — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
✦Immortal Coil — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
✦Huginn and Muninn—and What Came After — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
✦#Selfcare — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
✦Crazy Beautiful — Cat Rambo (nominee)
✦The Pizza Boy — Meg Elison (nominee)
✦The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries — Meg Elison (nominee)
✦Love, That Hungry Thing — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
✦Proof by Induction — José Pablo Iriarte (nominee)
✦If the Martians Have Magic — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
✦Mr. Death — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
✦Masquerade Season — Pemi Aguda (nominee)
✦Barefoot and Midnight — Sheree Thomas (nominee)
✦How to Break Into a Hotel Room — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
✦I Was a Teenage Space Jockey — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
✦The Wishing Pool — Tananarive Due(nominee)
✦We Travel the Spaceways — Victor LaValle(nominee)
✦The Sin of America — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
✦Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (nominee)
✦All Worlds Left Behind — Iona Datt Sharma (nominee)
✦RE: Bubble 476 — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)
✦The Shadow of His Wings — Ray Nayler (nominee)

Best Young Adult Book

🏆Victories Greater Than Death — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
✦The Gilded Ones — Namina Forna(nominee)
✦Redemptor — Jordan Ifueko (nominee)
✦Iron Widow — Xiran Jay Zhao (nominee)
✦This Is Not the Jess Show — Anna Carey (nominee)
✦The Infinity Courts — Akemi Dawn Bowman (nominee)
✦The City Beautiful — Aden Polydoros (nominee)
✦Rise of the Red Hand — Olivia Chadha (nominee)
✦All Our Hidden Gifts — Caroline O'Donoghue (nominee)
✦This Poison Heart — Kalynn Bayron(nominee)
✦A Dark and Starless Forest — Sarah Hollowell (nominee)
✦Yesterday Is History(nominee)
✦Summer in the City of Roses(nominee)
✦Chaos on CatNet — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
✦The Mirror Season — Anna-Marie McLemore(nominee)
✦Terciel & Elinor — Garth Nix(nominee)
✦Aetherbound(nominee)
✦White Smoke — Tiffany D. Jackson (nominee)
✦A Snake Falls to Earth — Darcie Little Badger (nominee)
✦The Raconteur's Commonplace Book — Kate Milford(nominee)
✦A Chorus Rises — Bethany C. Morrow (nominee)

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