2020 Neukom Awards Shortlist
Finalists for the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Speculative Fiction have been announced:
Open Category
- The Divers’ Game, Jesse Ball (Ecco)
- Naamah, Sarah Blake (Riverhead)
- Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf)
- And Go Like This, John Crowley (Small Beer)
- The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc)
- Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Zero Bomb, M.T. Hill (Titan Books)
- War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Pigs, Johanna Stoberock (Red Hen)
- Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
Debut Category
- The Crying Machine, Greg Chivers (HarperVoyager)
- The Imaginary Corpse, Tyler Hayes (Angry Robot)
- Cold Storage, David Koepp (Ecco)
- Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
- We Set the Dark on Fire, Tehlor Kay Mejia (Katherine Tegen)
- Today I Am Carey, Martin L. Shoemaker (Baen)
- The Lesson, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
The award was established by the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College. Winners will be announced in the summer and receive a $5,000 honorarium. The shortlist was determined by Tarek El-Ariss, Jessica Flack Peter Orner, Dan Rockmore, and Eric Schaller. Winners will be judged by speculative fiction writer Sam J. Miller.
For more information, see the Neukom Institute website.
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