Locus Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: June 24, 2023
Where: Oakland CA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Where: Oakland CA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Sf Novel
- Winner: The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Red Scholar's Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
- The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
- Neom, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Babel, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The World We Make, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
- When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
- Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
Horror Novel
- Winner: What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
- Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
- No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
- The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
- Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
- Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin's; Titan UK)
- Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
- Gwendy's Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
- Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
- Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- The Scratch Daughters, H. A. Clarke (Erewhom)
- An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X. R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
- Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
- The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
First Novel
- Winner: The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
- How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
- The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)
- The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
- The Unbalancing, R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
Novella
- Winner: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
- High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
- Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
- Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- “Bishop's Opening”, R. S. A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Jan 2022)
- Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Novelette
- Winner: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2022)
- “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold”, S. B. Divya (Uncanny May/Jun 2022)
- “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
- “The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
- “The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
- “In Mercy, Rain”, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 18 Jul 2022)
- “The Sadness Box”, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld Jul 2022)
- “Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2022)
- “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
- “Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov's Nov/Dec 2022)
Short Story
- Winner: “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2022)
- “Master of Ceremonies”, Frances Ogamba (The Dark May 2022)
- “Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF May/Jun 2022)
- “D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 24 Aug 2022)
- “Inheritance”, Hannah Yang (Analog Sep/Oct 2022)
- “The Coward Who Stole Gold's Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny May/Jun 2022)
- “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex May 2022)
- (tie): “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Jan 2022)
- (tie): “The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2022)
- “Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy Apr 2022)
Collection
- Winner: Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
- Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe, et al (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
- Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
- Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
- Geometries of Belonging, R. B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
- The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
- (tie): Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies, John Langan (Word Horde)
- (tie): Dark Breakers, C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Anthology
- Winner: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
- The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
- Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
- Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
- Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)
- The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
- Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
- Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Scott Darieck (New York University Press)
- Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
- Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
- The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
- Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
- An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
- Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
Illustrated And Art Book
- Winner: Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, art by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
- Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)
- The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
- The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
- Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, art by Vic Terra (Rosarium)
- In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
- Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., art by Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
- Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, art by Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
- Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, art by Rowena (self-published)
Editor
Magazine
- Winner: Tor.com
- Uncanny
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- Asimov's
- FIYAH
- Strange Horizons
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Apex
- Lightspeed
Publisher/imprint
- Winner: Tor
- Tordotcom
- Subterranean
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Angry Robot
- Neon Hemlock
- Tachyon
- Gollancz
- Harper Voyager
Artist
Special Award: Developing Diversity In Genre Communities
- Winner: Carl Brandon Society
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