2018 Kitschies Winners

Locus Magazine, Science Fiction FantasyWinners for the 2018 Kitschies, awarded to “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction,” have been announced.

The Red Tentacle (Novel)

  • WINNER: Circe, Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury)

The Golden Tentacle (Debut)

The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art)

  • Anonymous’s Slender Man, design by Mike Topping (Harper Voyager)
  • Simon Ings’s The Smoke, design by James Nunn (Titan)
  • Anna Mill & Luke Jones’s Square Eyes, design by Anna Mill & Luke Jones (Jonathan Cape)
  • Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan, design by Rafaela Romaya (Canongate)

Novel and debut winners were selected by judges Daniel Carpenter, Sharan Dhaliwal, Adam Roberts, Lucy Smee, and Matt Webb. Judges for art were Dapo Adeola, Maeve Rutten, and Lily Ash Sakula. Winners receive tentacle trophies and a total cash prize of £2,000, sponsored by Blackwell’s.

Awards were presented in a ceremony April 15, 2019 at The Star of Kings, London. For more, see the Kitschies website.


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