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Locus Awards 2025

Winners and nominees of the 2025 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Best Anthology

🏆 The Black Girl Survives in This One (winner)
✦ The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction (nominee)
✦ Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art (nominee)
✦ EGYPT + 100: Stories from a Century After Tahrir (nominee)
✦ New Adventures in Space Opera (nominee)
✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8 (nominee)
✦ Northern Nights (nominee)
✦ The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (nominee)
✦ We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (nominee)
✦ Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (nominee)
✦ Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror (nominee)
✦Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
✦EGYPT + 100: Stories from a Century After Tahrir — Ahmed Naji (nominee)
✦New Adventures in Space Opera — Jonathan Strahan (nominee)
✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8 — Neil Clarke (nominee)
✦Northern Nights — Michael Kelly (nominee)

Best Collection

🏆Lake of Souls — Ann Leckie(winner)
✦Convergence Problems — Wole Talabi (nominee)
✦Weird Black Girls(nominee)
✦Buried Deep — Naomi Novik(nominee)
✦Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
✦The History of the World Begins in Ice — Kate Elliott(nominee)
✦You Like It Darker — Stephen King(nominee)
✦Power to Yield and Other Stories — Bogi Takács (nominee)
✦Not a Speck of Light — Laird Barron(nominee)
✦Kindling — Kathleen Jennings (nominee)

Best Fantasy Novel

🏆A Sorceress Comes to Call — Ursula Vernon(winner)
✦The City in Glass — Nghi Vo(nominee)
✦The Siege of Burning Grass — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦Asunder(nominee)
✦Metal from Heaven(nominee)
✦The Tainted Cup — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
✦The Bright Sword — Lev Grossman(nominee)
✦I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
✦Somewhere Beyond the Sea — TJ Klune(nominee)
✦The Dead Cat Tail Assassins — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
✦Long Live Evil — Sarah Rees Brennan(nominee)

Best First Novel

🏆Someone You Can Build a Nest In — John Wiswell(winner)
✦Womb City — Tlotlo Tsamaase (nominee)
✦The Book of Love — Kelly Link(nominee)
✦The Ministry of Time — Kaliane Bradley (nominee)
✦The West Passage — Jared Pechaček (nominee)
✦The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands(nominee)
✦Sargassa(nominee)
✦Hammajang Luck(nominee)
✦The Spice Gate(nominee)
✦Lady Eve's Last Con — Rebecca Fraimow (nominee)

Best Horror Novel

🏆Bury Your Gays — Chuck Tingle(winner)
✦House of Bone and Rain — Gabino Iglesias (nominee)
✦Cuckoo — Gretchen Felker-Martin (nominee)
✦Forgotten Sisters — Cynthia Pelayo (nominee)
✦The Underhistory — Kaaron Warren (nominee)
✦Incidents Around the House — Josh Malerman(nominee)
✦The Wilding — Ian McDonald(nominee)
✦Model Home — Rivers Solomon(nominee)
✦Horror Movie — Paul G. Tremblay(nominee)
✦The Angel of Indian Lake — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)

Best Novelette

🏆By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars — Premee Mohamed (winner)
✦Encore — Wole Talabi (nominee)
✦Loneliness Universe — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
✦Joanna's Bodies — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
✦We Who Will Not Die — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
✦Another Girl Under the Iron Bell — Angela Liu (nominee)
✦The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea — Naomi Kritzer (nominee)
✦The River Judge — S. L. Huang (nominee)
✦I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA the Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
✦Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! — TJ Klune(nominee)
✦A Stranger Knocks — Tananarive Due(nominee)

Best Novella

🏆What Feasts at Night — Ursula Vernon(winner)
✦The Brides of High Hill — Nghi Vo(nominee)
✦The Butcher of the Forest — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦Fractal Karma — Arula Ratnakar (nominee)
✦Countess — Suzan Palumbo (nominee)
✦The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
✦Haunt Sweet Home(nominee)
✦Mislaid in Parts Half-Known — Seanan McGuire(nominee)
✦She Who Knows — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
✦Navigational Entanglements — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦The Tusks of Extinction — Ray Nayler (nominee)

Best Science Fiction Novel

🏆The Man Who Saw Seconds — Alexander Boldizar (winner)
✦Absolution — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
✦The Sentence — Gautam Bhatia (nominee)
✦The Bezzle — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
✦The Mercy of Gods — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
✦Rakesfall — Vajra Chandrasekera (nominee)
✦The Mercy of Gods — Ty Franck (nominee)
✦The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles — Malka Older (nominee)
✦Service Model — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
✦Alien Clay — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
✦The Mercy of Gods — James S. A. Corey(nominee)
✦Kinning — Nisi Shawl(nominee)
✦Space Oddity — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)

Best Short Story

🏆Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole — Isabel J. Kim (winner)
✦Agni — Nibedita Sen (nominee)
✦Stitched to Skin Like Family Is — Nghi Vo(nominee)
✦The Night Birds — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
✦Five Views of the Planet Tartarus — Rachael K. Jones (nominee)
✦The Spindle of Necessity — B. Pladek (nominee)
✦The Wood at Midwinter — Susanna Clarke(nominee)
✦Autumn's Red Bird — Aliette de Bodard(nominee)
✦Three Faces of a Beheading — Arkady Martine (nominee)
✦We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
✦Parthenogenesis — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)

Best Young Adult Book

🏆Moonstorm — Yoon Ha Lee(winner)
✦A Tempest of Tea — Hafsah Faizal (nominee)
✦The Maid and the Crocodile — Jordan Ifueko (nominee)
✦Fall of the Iron Gods — Olivia Chadha (nominee)
✦Compound Fracture — Andrew Joseph White(nominee)
✦Blood Justice — Terry J. Benton-Walker (nominee)
✦Sleep Like Death — Kalynn Bayron(nominee)
✦Rest in Peaches(nominee)
✦The Feast Makers(nominee)
✦Sheine Lende — Darcie Little Badger (nominee)

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