2020 Locus Recommended Reading List

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION

• Providence, Max Barry (Putnam; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Chosen Spirits, Samit Basu (Simon & Schuster India)
• Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica (Pushkin; Scribner)
• Machine, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Ghost Species, James Bradley (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Failed State, Christopher Brown (Harper Voyager US)
• The Book of Koli, M.R. Carey (Orbit US & UK)
• Bridge 108, Anne Charnock (47North)
• Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• City Under the Stars, Gardner Dozois & Michael Swanwick (Tordotcom)
• Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Tor)
• Agency, William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
• Anthropocene Rag, Alex Irvine (Tordotcom)
• The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
• The Eleventh Gate, Nancy Kress (Baen)
• The Arrest, Jonathan Lethem (Ecco; Atlantic UK)
• War of the Maps, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
• Pacific Storm, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
• Driving the Deep, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
• The Evidence, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• Bone Silence, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
• The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US & UK)
• The Last Emperox, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• Fleet Elements, Walter Jon Williams (Harper Voyager US)
• Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

NOVELS – FANTASY

• The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
• We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry (Pantheon) [moved from YA]
• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• The Book of Lamps and Banners, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
• The Harpy, Megan Hunter (Grove; Picador)
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
• Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
• Phoenix Extravagant, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller (Ecco)
• A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet (Norton)
• Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
• Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
• How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, K.J. Parker (Orbit US & UK)
• Mordew, Alex Pheby (Galley Beggar; Tor 2021)
• Stormsong, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
• Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)
• Creatures of Charm and Hunger, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus; Tor)
• Or What You Will, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Comet Weather, Liz Williams (NewCon)
• Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu (Pantheon)

NOVELS – HORROR

• Devolution, Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century) 
• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
• Empire of Wild, Cherie Dimaline (Random House Canada 2019; Morrow; Weidenfeld & Nicolson))
• Beowulf, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals)
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• Sisters, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape; Riverhead)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• The Deep, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
• The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
• Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas (Custom House; Tinder Press)
• Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS

• Red Hood, Elana K. Arnold (Balzer + Bray)
• Over the Woodward Wall, A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
• The Silvered Serpents, Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
• The Scapegracers, Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
• Legendborn, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Dark and Deepest Red, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
• A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
• Burn, Patrick Ness (Walker UK; HarperTeen)
• Shadowshaper Legacy, Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
• The Faithless Hawk, Margaret Owen (Holt)
• Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
• A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

FIRST NOVELS

• The Wall, Gautam Bhatia (HarperCollins India)
• Every Bone a Prayer, Ashley Blooms (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Twice-Drowned Saint, C.S.E. Cooney (A Sinister Quartet)
• The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson (Ace; Bantam Press UK)
• The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
• Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Stonefish, Scott R. Jones (Word Horde)
• The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK)
• Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo (Scribner UK; Liveright)
• Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor)
• Eartheater, Dolores Reyes (HarperVia)
• Little Eyes, Samanta Schweblin (Oneworld; Riverhead)
• The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK)
• Star Daughter, Shveta Thakrar (HarperTeen)
• Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
• Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)
• Love and Other Thought Experiments, Sophie Ward (Corsair)

COLLECTIONS

• Aftermath of an Industrial Accident: Stories, Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium)
• The Road to Woop Woop, Eugen Bacon (Meerkat)
• The Best of Elizabeth Bear, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
• Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow)
• Big Girl, Meg Elison (PM)
• The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, AJ Fitzwater (Queen of Swords)
• The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
• Songs for Dark Seasons, Lisa L Hannett (Ticonderoga)
• Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020, M. John Harrison (Comma)
• Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe (Lethe)
• If It Bleeds, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Velocities, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette India)
• Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, John Langan (Word Horde)
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
• The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners & Other Stories, Angela Slatter (PS)
• The Best of Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean)
• The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
• Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man)
• The Grand Tour, E. Catherine Tobler (Apex)
• Disease, Sarah Tolmie (Aqueduct)
• The Midnight Circus, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

ANTHOLOGIES

• The Decameron Project, Anonymous, ed. (The New York Times)
• A Sinister Quartet, Mike Allen & C.S.E. Cooney & Amanda J. McGee & Jessica P. Wick, eds. (Mythic Delirium)
• A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice Caldwell, ed. (Viking; Hot Key)
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction, Sarah Coolidge, ed. (Two Lines)
• Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
• Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Anchor)
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Diana Gabaldon & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 1, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, eds. (Aurelia Leo)
• SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire, Nicole Givens Kurtz, ed. (Mocha Memoirs)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omninum Gatherum)
• Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
• Avatar अवतार: Indian Science Fiction, Tarun K. Saint & Francesco Verso, eds. (Future Science Fiction)
• Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
• Made to Order, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
• Africanfuturism, Wole Talabi, ed. (Brittle Paper)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
• Avatars Inc, Ann VanderMeer, ed. (Xprize)
• London Centric: Tales of Future London, Ian Whates, ed. (NewCon)
• Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, Sheila Williams, ed. (The MIT Press)

NON-FICTION

• Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation, Katherine E. Bishop & David Higgins & Jerry Määttä, eds. (University of Wales Press)
• Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996, Algis Budrys (Ansible)
• The Magic of Terry Pratchett, Marc Burrows (White Owl)
• Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century, Maria Sachiko Cecire (University of Minnesota Press)
• Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, Sarah Cole (Columbia University Press)
• The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained, Colin Dickey (Viking)
• The Star Wars Archives: 1999–2005, Paul Duncan (Taschen)
• Bradbury Beyond Apollo, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Illinois Press)
• Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre, Kerry Fine & Michael K. Johnson & Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon, eds. (University of Nebraska Press)
• Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, Walter Koenig (Jacobs/Brown)
• Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, Isiah Lavender III & Lisa Yaszek, eds. (Ohio State University Press)
• Writer: Volume 4, Richard A. Lupoff (Surinam Turtle Press)
• Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, Andrew Milner & J.R. Burgmann (Liverpool University Press)
• Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature’s Most Chilling Genre, Jess Nevins (Praeger)
• The Earliest Bradbury, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, eds. (First Fandom Experience)
• The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume One: The 1930’s, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, eds. (First Fandom Experience)
• The Monster Theory Reader, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed. (University of Minnesota Press)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOKS

• Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, art by Brecht Evens (Beehive)
• The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions, Piers Bizony (Motorbooks)
• The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish, art by Rebekka Dunlap (Beehive)
• The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra, Adam Cesare, art by Iris Compiet (Insight Editions)
• The Art of Frank Cho: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Frank Cho (Flesk)
• Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Katherine Chu & John Fleskes, eds. (Flesk)
• Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, Dian Hanson (Taschen)
• Monstrous Tales: Stories of Strange Creatures and Fearsome Beasts from around the World, Sija Hong (Chronicle)
• Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Jesse Kowalski, ed. (Norman Rockwell Museum/Abbeville)
• The Hobbit Sketchbook, Alan Lee (HarperCollins UK 2019; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Leonardo 2, Stéphane Levallois (NBM/Louvre éditions)
• The Mountain of Smoke: A Jeffrey Alan Love Sketchbook, Jeffrey Alan Love (Flesk)
• A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition, George R.R. Martin, art by Gary Gianni (Bantam)
• Beneath The Waves, Jon Schindehette, ed. (ArtOrder)
• Infected by Art: Volume 8, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox & Jon Schindehette, eds. (ArtOrder)
• Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta, J. David Spurlock, art by Frank Frazetta (Vanguard)
• The Return of Hyper Comics, Steve Stiles (Thintwhistle)
• Villarrte, Gary Villarreal (self-published)

NOVELLAS

• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom)
• Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
• Seven of Infinities, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald (Dominion)
• Dispersion, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
• Out of Body, Jeffrey Ford (Tordotcom)
• Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey (Tordotcom)
• Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom)
• Sea Change, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
• Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
• Prosper’s Demon, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom)
• Yellow Jessamine, Caitlin Starling (Neon Hemlock)
• Drowned Country, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom)
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTES

• “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar”, Nadia Afifi (F&SF 11-12/20)
• “If You Take My Meaning“, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 2/11/20)
• “Tunnels”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov’s 5-6/20)
• “Lucky’s Dragon”, Kelly Barnhill (The Book of Dragons)
• “The Ordeal“, M. Bennardo (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/6/20)
• “Where the River Turns to Concrete”, Brooke Bolander (The Book of Dragons)
• “An Important Failure“, Rebecca Campbell (Clarkesworld 8/20)
• “The Inaccessibility of Heaven“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 07-08/20)
• “The Satellite Charmer”, Mame Bougouma Diene (Dominion)
• “The Black-Eyed Goddess of Apple Trees and Farmer’s Wives“, Erin Eisenhour (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/16/20)
• “The Pill“, Meg Elison (Big Girl)
• “Convergence in Chorus Architecture”, Dare Segun Falowo (Dominion)
• “The Transition of Osoosi“, Ozzie M. Gartrell (Fiyah Winter ’20)
• “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super“, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 05-06/20)
• “One Hand in the Coffin“, Justin C. Key (Strange Horizons 1/20/20)
• “How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar“, Rich Larson (Tor.com 01/15/20)
• “To Balance the Weight of Khalem“, R.B. Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/26/20)
• “A Whisper of Blue”, Ken Liu (The Book of Dragons)
• “Lost in Darkness and Distance“, Clara Madrigano (Clarkesworld 11/20)
• “A City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat“, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 10/21/20)
• “Folie à deux, or The Ticking Hourglass”, Usman T. Malik (Final Cuts)
• “How to Burn Down the Hinterlands”, Lyndsie Manusos (F&SF 11-12/20)
• “Yellow and the Perception of Reality“, Maureen McHugh (Tor.com 7/22/20)
• “A Mastery of German”, Marian Denise Moore (Dominion)
• “Real Animals“, Em North (Lightspeed 6/20)
• “Two Truths and a Lie“, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20)
• “Girls with Needles and Frost“, Jenny Rae Rappaport (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/22/20)
• “Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City“, Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld 9/20)
• “The Little Witch“, M. Rickert (Tor.com 10/28/20)
• “As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood“, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/9/20)
• “Fairy Tales for Robots”, Sofia Samatar (Made to Order)
• “Head Static”, Sheree Renée Thomas (Nine Bar Blues)
• “Madame and the Map: A Journey in Five Movements”, Sheree Renée Thomas (Nine Bar Blues)
• “Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo“, Catherynne M. Valente (Strange Horizons 9/7/20)
• “To Sail the Black“, A.C. Wise (Clarkesworld 11/20)
• “A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential“, JY Neon Yang (Clarkesworld 5/20)

SHORT STORIES

• “Hearts in the Hard Ground“, G.V. Anderson (Tor.com 9/9/20)
• “Glass Bottle Dancer“, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed 4/20)
• “Sela, Thief“, Zabe Bent (Breathe Fiyah 10/19/20)
• “The Night Soil Salvagers“, Gregory Norman Bossert (Tor.com 6/24/20)
• “The Bone Stag Walks“, KT Bryski (Lightspeed 8/20)
• “Scar Tissue“, Tobias S. Buckell (Slate Future Tense 5/30/2020)
• “Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead“, Octavia Cade (The Dark 4/20)
• “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse“, Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “An Incomplete Account of the Case of the Bird-Talker of Yaros“, Eleanna Castroianni (Fireside 8/20)
• “Weaving in the Bamboo“, Eliza Chan (Translunar Travelers Lounge 8/20)
• “The Translator, at Low Tide“, Vajra Chandrasekera (Clarkesworld 5/20)
• “Forgive Me, My Love, for the Ice and the Sea“, C.L. Clark (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/30/20)
• “Call Them Children“, Wenmimareba Klobah Collins (The Dark 9/20)
• “In the Lands of the Spill“, Aliette de Bodard (Avatars Inc)
• “Dégustation“, Ashley Deng (Nightmare 6/20)
• “A Voyage to Queensthroat“, Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange Horizons 8/10/20)
• “The Front Line“, WC Dunlap (Breathe Fiyah 10/19/20)
• “Dresses Like White Elephants“, Meg Elison (Uncanny 5-6/20)
• “Familiar Face“, Meg Elison (Nightmare 1/20)
• “Deep in the Drift, Spinning“, Lisa L. Hannett (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/10/20)
• “The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly“, Alix E. Harrow (Fireside 7/20)
• “The Sycamore and the Sybil“, Alix E. Harrow (Uncanny 3-4/20)
• “Six Dreams About the Train“, Maria Haskins (Flash Fiction Online 7/20)
• “The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods“, Maria Dahvana Headley (Tor.com 1/23/20)
• “Across the Ice“, Ada Hoffman (Strange Horizons 2/3/20)
• “The Cat Lady and the Petitioner“, Jennifer Hudak (Translunar Travelers Lounge 8/20)
• “Cycle of the eternal witness“, Adelehin Ijasan (Omenana 8/20)
• “Rat and Finch Are Friends“, Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons 3/2/20)
• “To Look Forward“, Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Fantasy 11/20)
• “Wait for Night“, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/02/20)
• “And This is How to Stay Alive“, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Fantasy 11/20)
• “Your Rover Is Here“, LP Kindred (Fiyah Spring 2020)
• “Little Free Library“, Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com 4/8/20)
• “The Mermaid Astronaut“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/27/20)
• “Unlike Most Tides“, Darcie Little Badger (Drabblecast 5/3/20)
• “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know“, Ken Liu (Uncanny 11-12/20)
• “Driving with Ghosts“, Clara Madrigano (The Dark #60, 5/20)
• “The Wandering City“, Usman T. Malik (Us in Flux 7/9/20)
• “Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality“, Rati Mehrotra (Lightspeed 11/2020)
• “Slipping the Leash“, Dan Micklethwaite (PodCastle 8/4/20)
• “Kiki Hernández Beats the Devil”, Samantha Mills (Translunar Travelers Lounge 2/20)
• “Note to Self“, Sunny Moraine (Lightspeed 9/20)
• “The Ruby of the Summer King“, Mari Ness (Uncanny 7-8/20)
• “Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth with Moon-Painted Wings“, Aimee Ogden (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/26/20)
• “How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary“, Tochi Onyebuchi (Slate Future Tense 8/29/20)
• “The Beginning“, Radha Zutshi Opubor (Omenana 8/20)
• “Tara’s Mother’s Skin“, Suzan Palumbo (PseudoPod 8/21/20)
• “A Guide for Working Breeds”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Made to Order)
• “Body, Remember“, Nicasio Andres Reed (Fireside 11/20)
• “Mandragora“, Nibedita Sen (Fireside 3/20)
• “Heard, Half-Heard, in the Stillness“, Iona Datt Sharma (Anathema 8/20)
• “AirBody“, Sameem Siddiqui (Clarkesworld 4/20)
• “Monsters Never Leave You“, Carlie St. George (Strange Horizons 6/29/20)
• “Spider Season, Fire Season“, Carlie St. George (Nightmare 7/20)
• “We’re Here, We’re Here“, K.M. Szpara (Tor.com 6/10/20)
• “Tea with the Earl of Twilight“, Sonya Taaffe (Nightmare 9/20)
• “Portrait of a Pinup Boy at the End of the World“, Andrea Tang (Kaleidotrope Autumn 2020)
• “The Nine Scents of Sorrow“, Jordan Taylor (Uncanny 7-8/20)
• “Tiger of the New Moon“, Allison Thai (Anathema 8/20)
• “Georgie in the Sun“, Natalia Theodoridou (Uncanny 3-4/20)
• “Ancestries”, Sheree Renée Thomas (Nine Bar Blues)
• “The Mystical Art of Codeswitching“, Sydnee Thompson (Breathe Fiyah 10/19/20)
• “Thirty-Three“, Tade Thompson (Avatars Inc)
• “Juvenilia“, Lavie Tidhar (Uncanny 9-10/20)
• “High in the Clean Blue Air“, Emma Törzs (Uncanny 5-6/20)
• “My Country Is a Ghost“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “The River of Night“, Tlotlo Tsamaase (The Dark 11/20)
• “An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands“, Fran Wilde (Tor.com 4/22/20)
• “Open House on Haunted Hill“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)

This list appears in the February 2021 issue of Locus. Thank you for reporting any typos or broken links to locus@locusmag.com. Vote now for your favorites at the Locus Poll & Survey!

[Corrections: Mike Allen was listed as Mike Ashley incorrectly on The Sinister Quartet. We Ride Upon Sticks was moved from YA to Fantasy.]