2018 Locus Awards Winners

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)

• Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
• The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
• Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
• Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
• Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)

HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

• Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
• Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
• After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
• Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
• The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
• Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
• Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
• Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
• Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• WINNER: Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)

• Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
• Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
• Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)

• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
• Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
• Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
• Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
• Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

NOVELLA

• WINNER: All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

• In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
• Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• “And Then There Were (N-One)“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• WINNER: “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)

• “Children of Thorns, Children of Water“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
• “Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
• “The Worshipful Society of Glovers“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
• “Extracurricular Activities“, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
• “The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
• “The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
• “Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
• “The Lamentation of Their Women“, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
• “Waiting on a Bright Moon“, JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

SHORT STORY

• WINNER: “The Martian Obelisk“, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)

• “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue“, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
• “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
• “Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
• “Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
• “Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
• “Fandom for Robots“, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience^TM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
• “Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
• “Carnival Nine“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)

• Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
• Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)

COLLECTION

• WINNER: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)

• Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
• Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
• Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
• Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

MAGAZINE

• WINNER: Tor.com

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File 770
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• WINNER: Tor

• Angry Robot
• Baen
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Saga
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• WINNER: Ellen Datlow

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Gardner Dozois
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams
• Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

• WINNER: Julie Dillon

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Gregory Manchess
• Victo Ngai
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• WINNER: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
• In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
• The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
• Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
• Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
• Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
• Don’t Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
• A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
• J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)

ART BOOK

• WINNER: The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)

• Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
• Jeffrey Alan Love, Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
• Gregory Manchess, Above the Timberline (Saga)
• Syd Mead, The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
• Jean-Baptiste Monge, Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin’s WAY)
• Wendy Pini, Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (Flesk)
• Omar Rayyan, Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
• James Wyatt, The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)

SPECIAL AWARD 2018: COMMUNITY BUILDING & INCLUSIVITY

• Winner: Clarion West

The Locus Awards are chosen by a survey of readers in an open online poll.