2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
• Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
• A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
• Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
• You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
• Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
• Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
• Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
• Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
• Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)

HORROR NOVEL

• Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
• Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Later, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
• Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
• A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
• The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
• This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• The Infinity Courts, Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
• The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
• A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
• Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
• Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
• A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
• The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
• A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
• Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise (Titan)
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)

NOVELLA

• A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
• Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
• The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Subterranean)
• Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
• Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
• The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
• Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

• “The Red Mother“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
• “Mulberry and Owl“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 9-10/21)
• “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
• “Skinder’s Veil”, Kelly Link (When Things Get Dark)
• “The Black Pages“, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
• “Bots of the Lost Ark“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 6/21)
• “L’Esprit de L’Escalier“, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com 8/25/21)
• “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/21)
• “That Story Isn’t the Story“, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)
• “Small Monsters“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 10/20/21)

SHORT STORY

• “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
• “Mr. Death“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
• “Proof by Induction“, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
• “Let All the Children Boogie“, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
• “Crazy Beautiful”, Cat Rambo (F&SF 3-4/21)
• “Huginn and Muninn – and What Came After“, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 7-8/21)
• “An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
• “The Sin of America“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 3-4/21)
• “For Lack of a Bed“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)

ANTHOLOGY

• We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
• Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
• Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
• The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)

COLLECTION

• Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Fairwood)
• Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho (Small Beer)
• Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• The Best of Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean)
• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
• Belladonna Nights and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
• Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson (Subterranean)
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• FIYAH
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Angry Robot
• Baen
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tor
• Tordotcom

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams

ARTIST

• Tommy Arnold
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Victo Ngai
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Mike Ashley (British Library Publishing)
• After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
• Roger Zelazny, F. Brett Cox (University of Illinois Press)
• Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age, Valerie Estelle Frankel (Lexington)
• Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw, Hua Li (University of Toronto Press)
• Gothic: An Illustrated History, Roger Luckhurst (Thames and Hudson; Princeton University Press)
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
• Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
• You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
• The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, Claire Tomalin (Penguin)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• Clockwork Curandera Volume 1: The Witch Owl Parliament, David Bowles, art by Raúl the Third (Tu Books)
• Monstrous Mythologies, Michael Bukowski (Lethe)
• Medusa, Jessie Burton, art by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
• Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge, Kevin Crossley-Holland, art by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Studio UK 2020; Candlewick Studio US as Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans)
• Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume One, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
• After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• 1984: The Graphic Novel, George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Labyrinth, Simon Stålenhag (Fria Ligan Sweden 2020; Simon & Schuster UK 2021; Image Comics US 2021)
• Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)
• The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess’s Stardust, Charles Vess (Titan)

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