Locus Awards 2026
Winners and nominees of the 2026 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 We Will Rise Again (winner)
- 🏆We Will Rise Again — Karen Lord(winner)
- 🏆We Will Rise Again — Malka Older (winner)
- 🏆We Will Rise Again — Annalee Newitz(winner)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Olivie Blake(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Dominique Dickey (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Jennifer Hudak (nominee)
- ✦As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories — Terese Mason Pierre (nominee)
- ✦ Night & Day (nominee)
- ✦ Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (nominee)
- ✦ As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Vol. 1 (nominee)
- ✦ The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three (nominee)
- ✦ Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Black Fantastic (nominee)
- ✦Night & Day — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand — Christopher Golden(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Kij Johnson (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — S. L. Huang (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Nnedi Okorafor(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — TJ Klune(nominee)
- ✦Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity — Lee Mandelo (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — John Joseph Adams(nominee)
- ✦Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology — Craig Laurance Gidney (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Pemi Aguda (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Rachel Swirsky (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Susan Palwick (nominee)
- ✦The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand — Brian Keene(nominee)
- ✦The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Vol. 1 — Michael Kelly (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Everlasting — Alix E. Harrow(winner)
- ✦The Incandescent — Emily Tesh(nominee)
- ✦A Drop of Corruption — Robert Jackson Bennett (nominee)
- ✦The Raven Scholar — Antonia Hodgson (nominee)
- ✦The Tomb of Dragons — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Lessons in Magic and Disaster — Charlie Jane Anders (nominee)
- ✦The Devils — Joe Abercrombie(nominee)
- ✦Katabasis — R.F. Kuang(nominee)
- ✦Queen Demon — Martha Wells(nominee)
- ✦Hemlock & Silver — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou (winner)
- ✦Awake in the Floating City — Susanna Kwan (nominee)
- ✦Luminous(nominee)
- ✦Blob — Maggie Su (nominee)
- ✦When Devils Sing — Xan Kaur (nominee)
- ✦North Sun; or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther — Ethan Rutherford (nominee)
- ✦Archive of Unknown Universes — Ruben Reyes Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Red Rabbit Ghost(nominee)
- ✦A Song of Legends Lost(nominee)
- ✦Song of Spores — Bogi Takács (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones(winner)
- ✦The Possession of Alba Díaz — Isabel Cañas(nominee)
- ✦The Bewitching — Silvia Moreno-Garcia(nominee)
- ✦The Staircase in the Woods — Chuck Wendig(nominee)
- ✦King Sorrow — Joe Hill(nominee)
- ✦Never Flinch — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Crimson Road — Angela Slatter(nominee)
- ✦The Library at Hellebore — Cassandra Khaw(nominee)
- ✦Spread Me — Sarah Gailey(nominee)
- ✦It Was Her House First — Cherie Priest(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆We Begin Where Infinity Ends(winner)
- ✦The Red Mother — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Witch and the Wyrm — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Phantom View — John Wiswell(nominee)
- ✦Uncertain Sons(nominee)
- ✦Barnacle — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦The Millay Illusion(nominee)
- ✦When He Calls Your Name — Catherynne M. Valente(nominee)
- ✦Wolf Moon, Antler Moon — A. C. Wise (nominee)
- ✦The Twenty-One Second God — Peter Watts(nominee)
- ✦Sarcophagus — Ray Nayler (nominee)
- ✦The Tin Man's Ghost — Ray Nayler (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
- ✦A Mouthful of Dust — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦Murder by Memory(nominee)
- ✦Making History — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦The Orb of Cairado — Sarah Monette(nominee)
- ✦Lives of Bitter Rain — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz(nominee)
- ✦What Stalks the Deep — Ursula Vernon(nominee)
- ✦Psychopomp & Circumstance — Eden Royce (nominee)
- ✦Cinder House — Freya Marske(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor(winner)
- ✦Chill — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Folded Sky — Elizabeth Bear(nominee)
- ✦Picks and Shovels — Cory Doctorow(nominee)
- ✦Notes from a Regicide — Isaac R. Fellman (nominee)
- ✦All That We See or Seem — Ken Liu(nominee)
- ✦The Shattering Peace — John Scalzi(nominee)
- ✦When We Were Real — Daryl Gregory(nominee)
- ✦Shroud — Adrian Tchaikovsky(nominee)
- ✦Slow Gods — Catherine Webb (nominee)
- ✦Where the Axe Is Buried — Ray Nayler (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆In My Country(winner)
- ✦Wire Mother — Isabel J. Kim (nominee)
- ✦In the Halls of the Makeshift King — Tobias S. Buckell (nominee)
- ✦Missing Helen(nominee)
- ✦Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead — Sam J. Miller (nominee)
- ✦Secret Night(nominee)
- ✦Woolly — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦Landline — Kelly Robson (nominee)
- ✦The Shape of Stones — Hildur Knútsdóttir (nominee)
- ✦Because I Held His Name Like a Key — Aimee Ogden (nominee)
Best Translated Novel
- 🏆On the Calculation of Volume III — Solvej Balle (winner)
- ✦Ice — Jacek Dukaj (nominee)
- ✦Dengue Boy — Michel Nieva (nominee)
- ✦The Midnight Timetable — Bora Chung (nominee)
- ✦Red Sword — Bora Chung (nominee)
- ✦Vanishing World — Sayaka Murata (nominee)
- ✦Blood for the Undying Throne — Sung-Il Kim (nominee)
- ✦The Wax Child — Olga Ravn (nominee)
- ✦The Midnight Shift — Cheon Seonran (nominee)
- ✦The Unworthy — Agustina Bazterrica (nominee)
Best Young Adult Book
- 🏆Starstrike — Yoon Ha Lee(winner)
- ✦They Bloom at Night — Trang Thanh Tran (nominee)
- ✦I Am Not Jessica Chen — Ann Liang (nominee)
- ✦Make Me a Monster — Kalynn Bayron(nominee)
- ✦The Underwood Tapes(nominee)
- ✦Among Ghosts — Rachel Hartman (nominee)
- ✦The Executioners Three — Susan Dennard(nominee)
- ✦Sky on Fire(nominee)
- ✦The Singular Life of Aria Patel — Samira Ahmed (nominee)
- ✦Costumes for Time Travelers(nominee)
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