2022 Dragon Awards Ballot

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• Goliath: A Novel, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
• You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor)
• Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)

Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)

• Age of Ash, Daniel Abraham (Orbit)
• Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• Book of Night, Holly Black (Tor)
• Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James (Riverhead)
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor)
• Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit)

Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel

• A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
• Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Harry N. Abrams)
• A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Akata Woman, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking for Young Readers)
• Gallant, V.E. Schwab (Greenwillow)
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen)

Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel

• The Shattered Skies, John Birmingham (Del Rey)
• Resolute, Jack Campbell (Ace)
• Backyard Starship, J.N. Chaney & Terry Maggert (Self published)
• Against All Odds, Jeffery H. Haskell (Aethon)
• Citadel, Marko Kloos (47North)
• A Call to Insurrection, David Weber, Timothy Zahn, & Thomas Pope (Baen)

Best Alternate History Novel

• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday)
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
• The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley, Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
• The King’s Daughter, Vonda N. McIntyre (Open Road Media)
• 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner, Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright (Baen)
• Invisible Sun, Charles Stross (Tor)

Best Media Tie-In Novel

• Halo: Divine Wind, Troy Denning (Gallery)
• Star Wars: The Fallen Star, Claudia Gray (Random House Worlds)
• Star Trek: Coda: Oblivion’s Gate, David Mack (Gallery)
• Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements, John Jackson Miller (Gallery)
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, Timothy Zahn (Random House Worlds)

Best Horror Novel

• Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
• The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery/Saga)
• The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)
• Hide, Kiersten White (Del Rey)

Best Comic Book

• King Conan, Jason Aaron & Mahmud Asrar (Marvel)
• Immortal X-Men, Kieron Gillen & Mark Brooks (Marvel)
• Step by Bloody Step, Simon Spurrier & Matías Bergara (Image)
• Nightwing, Tom Taylor & Bruno Redondo (DC)
• Twig, Skottie Young & Kyle Strahm (Image)
• Devil’s Reign, Chip Zdarsky & Marco Checchetto (Marvel)

Best Graphic Novel

• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Kelly Sue DeConnick & Phil Jimenez (DC)
• Dune: House Atreides Volume 2,  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, & Dev Pramanik (BOOM!)
• Geiger, Geoff Johns & Gary Frank (Image)
• Monstress, Volume 6: The Vow, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
• Bitter Root Volume 3, David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene,  & Sofie Dodgson (Image)

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series

• For All Mankind
• Halo
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Stranger Things
• The Boys
• The Expanse
• Wheel of Time

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie

• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• Dune
• Free Guy
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Adam Project

Finalists in various gaming-related categories were also announced. Winners will be announced on September 5, 2022 at Dragon Con in Atlanta GA.

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