Locus Awards 2024
Winners and nominees of the 2024 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (winner)
- 🏆Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — Jordan Peele (winner)
- 🏆Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — John Joseph Adams(winner)
- ✦Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction — Margret Helgadottir (nominee)
- ✦Worlds of Possibility — Valerie Valdes (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 — Eugen Bacon (nominee)
- ✦Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology — Wole Talabi (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume 2 — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 4 — Paula Guran (nominee)
- ✦Life Beyond Us — Julie Nováková (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Isabel Cañas(nominee)
- ✦ Life Beyond Us (nominee)
- ✦Life Beyond Us — Susan Forest (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Kristina Ten (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Samantha Mills (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Linda Raquel Nieves Peréz (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Maria Dong (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — KT Bryski (nominee)
- ✦ Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Never Whistle at Night (nominee)
- ✦Never Whistle at Night — Shane Hawk(nominee)
- ✦Never Whistle at Night — Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.(nominee)
- ✦ Communications Breakdown (nominee)
- ✦ The Book of Witches (nominee)
- ✦ Christmas and Other Horrors (nominee)
- ✦ Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 4 (nominee)
- ✦ The Big Book of Cyberpunk (nominee)
- ✦ Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions (nominee)
- ✦ Rosalind's Siblings (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of World SF: Volume 3 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 (nominee)
- ✦ New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (nominee)
- ✦ Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention (nominee)
- ✦ Best of British Science Fiction 2022 (nominee)
- ✦ Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023(nominee)
- ✦Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions — Kiini Ibura Salaam (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Christmas and Other Horrors — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Kim Fu(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Malka Older (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — S. L. Huang (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — R.F. Kuang(nominee)
- ✦Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions — Khadijah Queen (nominee)
- ✦Rosalind's Siblings — Bogi Takács (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Communications Breakdown — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Witches — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
- ✦The Best of World SF: Volume 3 — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
- ✦New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Susan Palwick (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Chris Willrich (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Life Beyond Us — Lucas K. Law (nominee)
- ✦Worlds of Possibility — Julia Rios (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 John Picacio (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆White Cat, Black Dog — Kelly Link(winner)
- ✦No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
- ✦Skin Thief — Suzan Palumbo (nominee)
- ✦Uranians — Theodore McCombs (nominee)
- ✦Jackal, Jackal — Tobi Ogundiran (nominee)
- ✦Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Where Rivers Go to Die — Dilma Dila (nominee)
- ✦The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Way Home — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Lost Places(nominee)
- ✦The Privilege of the Happy Ending — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Under My Skin — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Wolfe at the Door — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Michael Swanwick: Volume Two — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦Jewel Box — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Ragged Maps — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Monstrous Alterations — Christopher Barzak(nominee)
- ✦The Wishing Pool and Other Stories — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦The Collected Enchantments — Theodora Goss(nominee)
- ✦H'ard Starts: The Early Waldrop — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Catherynne M. Valente: Volume One — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories — Octavia Cade (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Witch King — Martha Wells(winner)
- ✦He Who Drowned the World — Shelley Parker-Chan (nominee)
- ✦Blade of Dream — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries — Heather Fawcett (nominee)
- ✦The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera (nominee)
- ✦Mad Sisters of Es — Tashan Mehta (nominee)
- ✦The Pomegranate Gate — Ariel Kaplan (nominee)
- ✦The Warden — Daniel M. Ford (nominee)
- ✦After the Forest — Kell Woods (nominee)
- ✦To Shape a Dragon's Breath — Moniquill Blackgoose (nominee)
- ✦Dead Country — Max Gladstone(nominee)
- ✦Dragonfall — L. R. Lam(nominee)
- ✦I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home — Lorrie Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Art of Destiny — Wesley Chu(nominee)
- ✦The Keeper's Six — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦My Brother's Keeper — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦The Water Outlaws — S. L. Huang (nominee)
- ✦Salt on the Midnight Fire — Liz Williams(nominee)
- ✦City of Last Chances — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦House of Open Wounds — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi — Shannon Ali Chakraborty(nominee)
- ✦Mr. Breakfast — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Paladin's Faith — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
- ✦We Are the Crisis — Cadwell Turnbull(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera (winner)
- ✦Dazzling — Chikodili Emelumadu (nominee)
- ✦Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — Wole Talabi (nominee)
- ✦That Self-Same Metal — Brittany N. Williams (nominee)
- ✦Some Desperate GloryEmily Tesh(nominee)
- ✦These Burning Stars — Bethany Jacobs (nominee)
- ✦The Marigold — Andrew F. Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦Blood Debts — Terry J. Benton-Walker (nominee)
- ✦Shark Heart — Emily Habeck (nominee)
- ✦Threads that bind — Kika Hatzopoulou (nominee)
- ✦Ink Blood Sister Scribe — Emma Törzs (nominee)
- ✦Godkiller — Hannah Kaner(nominee)
- ✦The Splinter in the Sky — Kemi Ashing-Giwa (nominee)
- ✦The Deep Sky — Yume Kitasei (nominee)
- ✦Dry Land — B. Pladek (nominee)
- ✦The Legend of Charlie Fish — Josh Rountree (nominee)
- ✦Flux — Jinwoo Chong (nominee)
- ✦Extended Stay — Juan Martínez (nominee)
- ✦Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves — Quinn Connor (nominee)
- ✦The Thing in the Snow — Sean Adams (nominee)
- ✦A Market of Dreams and Destiny — Trip Galey (nominee)
- ✦The Strange(nominee)
- ✦Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆A House with Good Bones — Ursula Vernon(winner)
- ✦Vampires of El Norte — Isabel Cañas(nominee)
- ✦Mothtown — Caroline Hardaker (nominee)
- ✦Silver Nitrate — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦Black River Orchard — Chuck Wendig(nominee)
- ✦How to Sell a Haunted House — Grady Hendrix(nominee)
- ✦A Haunting on the Hill — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Starling House — Alix E. Harrow(nominee)
- ✦Don't Fear the Reaper — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Reformatory — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦Lone Women — Victor LaValle(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Rainbow Bank — Uchechukwu Nwaka (winner)
- ✦On the Fox Roads — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦Deep Blue Jump — Dean Whitlock (nominee)
- ✦Saturday's Song — Wole Talabi (nominee)
- ✦At Every Door a Ghost — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
- ✦Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦I Am AI — Ai Jiang (nominee)
- ✦Prince Hat Underground — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair (Part 1 of 2) — Renan Bernardo (nominee)
- ✦My Neighbor Mothman — Cynthia Zhang (nominee)
- ✦Spell for Grief and Longing — Eboni J. Dunbar (nominee)
- ✦An Ode to Stardust — R. P. Sand (nominee)
- ✦How To Travel Safely in Faerieland — Vanessa Fogg (nominee)
- ✦The Witch Is Not the Monster — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Passing of the Dragon — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦John Hollowback and the Witch — Amal El-Mohtar(nominee)
- ✦The Year Without Sunshine — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
- ✦Science Facts!(nominee)
- ✦One Man's Treasure(nominee)
- ✦Planetstuck — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦SuperMAX — Daniel H. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦The Unpastured Sea — Gregory Feeley (nominee)
- ✦The Luck Thief — Tade Thompson(nominee)
- ✦Ivy, Angelica, Bay — C. L. Polk (nominee)
- ✦What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
- ✦Contracting Iris — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Thornhedge — Ursula Vernon(winner)
- ✦Mammoths at the Gates — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦The Navigating Fox — Christopher Rowe (nominee)
- ✦A Feast for Flies — Leigh Harlen (nominee)
- ✦The Lies of the Ajungo — Moses Ose Utomi (nominee)
- ✦Linghun — Ai Jiang (nominee)
- ✦Green Fuse Burning — Tiffany Morris (nominee)
- ✦Pluralities — Avi Silver (nominee)
- ✦The Many Different Kinds of Love — David Jeffrey (nominee)
- ✦Hybrid Heart — Iori Kusano (nominee)
- ✦Blade and Bone — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦The Tinker and the Timestream — Carolyn Ives Gilman (nominee)
- ✦The Book of Gems — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
- ✦The Mimicking of Known Successes — Malka Older (nominee)
- ✦The Crane Husband — Kelly Barnhill(nominee)
- ✦Lost in the Moment and Found — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
- ✦After Many a Summer — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦To Sail Beyond the Botnet — Suzanne Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Salt Grows Heavy — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦Rose/House — Arkady Martine (nominee)
- ✦Feed Them Silence — Lee Mandelo (nominee)
- ✦OKPsyche — Anya Johanna DeNiro (nominee)
- ✦The Many Different Kinds of Love — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦The Ghosts of Mars — Dominica Phetteplace (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆System Collapse — Martha Wells(winner)
- ✦Where Peace Is Lost — Valerie Valdes (nominee)
- ✦Red Team Blues — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦In Ascension — Martin MacInnes (nominee)
- ✦Some Desperate GloryEmily Tesh(nominee)
- ✦Prophet — Sin Blaché (nominee)
- ✦A Stranger in the Citadel — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦The Blue, Beautiful World — Karen Lord(nominee)
- ✦Translation State — Ann Leckie(nominee)
- ✦Conquest — Nina Allan (nominee)
- ✦Prophet — Helen Macdonald (nominee)
- ✦Titanium Noir — Nick Harkaway(nominee)
- ✦Biography of X — Catherine Lacey (nominee)
- ✦The Road to Roswell — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Furious Heaven — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦Starter Villain — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦Creation Node — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Scale — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Hopeland — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Lords of Uncreation — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦A Fire Born of Exile — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦The Terraformers — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
- ✦Cahokia Jazz — Francis Spufford (nominee)
- ✦Descendant Machine — Gareth L. Powell (nominee)
- ✦Infinity Gate — Mike Carey (nominee)
- ✦Bridge — Lauren Beukes(nominee)
- ✦The Circumference of the World — Lavie Tidhar(nominee)
- ✦Airside — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport(nominee)
- ✦Him — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub — P. Djèlí Clark(winner)
- ✦Always Be Returning — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦Salt Water — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦Undog — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦An Infestation of Blue — Wendy N. Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Secondhand Music — Aleksandra Hill (nominee)
- ✦All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10 — Isabel Cañas(nominee)
- ✦Day Ten Thousand — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦Zeta-Epsilon — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦The Sound of Children Screaming — Rachael K. Jones (nominee)
- ✦There Are Only Two Chairs, and the Skin Is Draped Over the Other — Alexia Antoniou (nominee)
- ✦Kwong's Bath — Angela Liu (nominee)
- ✦Pinocchio Photography — Angela Liu (nominee)
- ✦Brincando Charcos (Jumping Puddles) — Ben Francisco (nominee)
- ✦Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe — Beston Barnett (nominee)
- ✦Miz Boudreaux's Last Ride — Christopher Caldwell (nominee)
- ✦A Name Is a Plea and a Prophecy — Gabrielle Emem Harry (nominee)
- ✦Umeboshi — Rebecca Nakaba (nominee)
- ✦Fandom for Witches — Ruoxi Chen (nominee)
- ✦How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga — S. M. Hallow (nominee)
- ✦For However Long(nominee)
- ✦Window Boy(nominee)
- ✦Counting Casualties — Yoon Ha Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets — Fran Wilde (nominee)
- ✦Reckless Eyeballing — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦There's a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead(nominee)
- ✦If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦OCASTA — Daniel H. Wilson (nominee)
- ✦What It Means to Be a Car — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Stones — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Mausoleum's Children — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
- ✦After the Animal Flesh Beings — Brian Evenson (nominee)
- ✦A Soul in the World — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦The River and the World Remade — E. Lily Yu (nominee)
- ✦Origin Story — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
- ✦Jamais Vue — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
- ✦Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200(nominee)
- ✦The Sweet in the Empty — Tade Thompson(nominee)
- ✦The Farmer's Wife and the Faerie Queen — K. Tempest Bradford (nominee)
- ✦Those Hitchhiking Kids — Darcie Little Badger (nominee)
- ✦Homewrecker — E. Catherine Tobler (nominee)
- ✦Suppertime — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦The Dark House — A. C. Wise (nominee)
- ✦Waystation City — A. T. Greenblatt (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Promises Stronger Than Darkness — Charlie Jane Anders (winner)
- ✦Spell Bound — F.T. Lukens (nominee)
- ✦The Siren, the Song, and the Spy — Maggie Tokuda-Hall (nominee)
- ✦The Making of Yolanda la Bruja — Lorraine Avila (nominee)
- ✦Zhara — S. Jae-Jones (nominee)
- ✦Into the Light — Mark Oshiro(nominee)
- ✦The Spirit Bares Its Teeth — Andrew Joseph White(nominee)
- ✦Godly Heathens — H. E. Edgmon (nominee)
- ✦A Song of Salvation(nominee)
- ✦Damned If You Do(nominee)
- ✦Where Echoes Die(nominee)
- ✦The Library of Broken Worlds — Alaya Dawn Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Sinister Booksellers of Bath — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦Divine Rivals — Rebecca Ross (nominee)
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