Locus Awards 2023
Winners and nominees of the 2023 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Africa Risen — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (winner)
- 🏆 Africa Risen (winner)
- 🏆Africa Risen — Zelda Knight (winner)
- 🏆Africa Risen — Sheree Thomas (winner)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — C. L. Clark (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Peng Shepherd (nominee)
- ✦ The Future Is Female! Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories — Regina Kanyu Wang (nominee)
- ✦ Screams from the Dark (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Maria Dong (nominee)
- ✦ Someone in Time (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Justin C. Key (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Kel Coleman (nominee)
- ✦ Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue (nominee)
- ✦ The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of World SF: Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Fargo Tbakhi (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022(nominee)
- ✦Screams from the Dark — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Karen Russell(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Meg Elison (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Someone in Time — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — José Pablo Iriarte (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
- ✦The Best of World SF: Volume 2 — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Aimee Ogden (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue — Sheree Thomas (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Future Is Female! Volume 2 — Lisa Yaszek (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆Charles Vess(winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆Boys, Beasts & Men — Sam J. Miller (winner)
- ✦Memory's Legion — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Memory's Legion — Ty Franck (nominee)
- ✦Illuminations — Alan Moore(nominee)
- ✦The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Lucius Shepard: Volume Two — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Dark Breakers — C. S. E. Cooney (nominee)
- ✦Night Shift Plus Ursula and the Author Plus Promised Lands and Much More — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
- ✦Geometries of Belonging — R. B. Lemberg (nominee)
- ✦Breakable Things — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦Memory's Legion — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
- ✦Our Fruiting Bodies — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Babel — R.F. Kuang(winner)
- ✦Siren Queen — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦The Golden Enclaves — Naomi Novik(nominee)
- ✦The World We Make — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦When Women Were Dragons — Kelly Barnhill(nominee)
- ✦Spear — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦The Grief of Stones — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Fevered Star — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
- ✦Nona the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir(nominee)
- ✦Nettle & Bone — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler (winner)
- ✦How High We Go in the Dark — Sequoia Nagamatsu (nominee)
- ✦The Ballad of Perilous Graves — Alex Jennings (nominee)
- ✦Legends & Lattes — Travis Baldree(nominee)
- ✦The Book Eaters — Sunyi Dean(nominee)
- ✦The Hacienda — Isabel Cañas(nominee)
- ✦The Bone Orchard — Sara A. Mueller (nominee)
- ✦The Bruising of Qilwa — Naseem Jamnia (nominee)
- ✦The Genesis of Misery — Neon Yang(nominee)
- ✦The Unbalancing — R. B. Lemberg (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆What Moves the Dead — Ursula Vernon(winner)
- ✦The Devil Takes You Home — Gabino Iglesias (nominee)
- ✦No Gods For Drowning — Hailey Piper (nominee)
- ✦Saturnalia — Stephanie Feldman (nominee)
- ✦Echo — Thomas Olde Heuvelt(nominee)
- ✦The Fervor — Alma Katsu(nominee)
- ✦Road of Bones — Christopher Golden(nominee)
- ✦Gwendy's Final Task — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Just Like Home — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
- ✦The Pallbearers Club — Paul G. Tremblay(nominee)
- ✦Gwendy's Final Task — Richard Chizmar(nominee)
- ✦Sundial — Catriona Ward (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You — John Chu (winner)
- ✦A Dream of Electric Mothers — Wole Talabi (nominee)
- ✦Solidity — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦In Mercy, Rain — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦The Sadness Box — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Six Deaths of the Saint — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
- ✦Incident at Bear Creek Lodge — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦The Difference Between Love and Time — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold — S. B. Divya (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆A Prayer for the Crown-Shy — Becky Chambers(winner)
- ✦Into the Riverlands — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦Servant Mage — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦Ogres — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦High Times in the Low Parliament — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦Tread of Angels — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
- ✦Bishop's Opening(nominee)
- ✦Even Though I Knew the End — C. L. Polk (nominee)
- ✦A Mirror Mended — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Kaiju Preservation Society — John Scalzi(winner)
- ✦Sweep of Stars — Maurice Broaddus (nominee)
- ✦The Daughter of Doctor Moreau — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦Sea of Tranquility — Emily St. John Mandel(nominee)
- ✦Eversion — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦The Spare Man — Mary Robinette Kowal(nominee)
- ✦Eyes of the Void — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦The Red Scholar's Wake — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦Goliath — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
- ✦Neom — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Rabbit Test — Samantha Mills (winner)
- ✦Master of Ceremonies — Frances Ogamba (nominee)
- ✦Dick Pig — Ian Muneshwar (nominee)
- ✦D.I.Y — John Wiswell(nominee)
- ✦The Coward Who Stole God's Name — John Wiswell(nominee)
- ✦Give Me English — Ai Jiang (nominee)
- ✦Beginnings — Kristina Ten (nominee)
- ✦A Monster in the Shape of a Boy — Hannah Yang (nominee)
- ✦Inheritance — Hannah Yang (nominee)
- ✦The Goldfish Man — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
- ✦Bloodmarked — Tracy Deonn (nominee)
- ✦The Kindred(nominee)
- ✦The Scratch Daughters(nominee)
- ✦Ballad & Dagger — Daniel José Older(nominee)
- ✦Lakelore — Anna-Marie McLemore(nominee)
- ✦Unraveller — Frances Hardinge(nominee)
- ✦Bitter — Akwaeke Emezi(nominee)
- ✦An Arrow to the Moon — Emily X.R. Pan (nominee)
- ✦Rust in the Root — Justina Ireland(nominee)
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