2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)

FANTASY NOVEL

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
• Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
• The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
• City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

HORROR NOVEL

• Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
• Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street)
• A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
• Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
• Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

FIRST NOVEL

• Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
• These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)

NOVELLA

• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
• “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
• Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

• “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• “The Year Without Sunshine“, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
• “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
• “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
• “The Rainbow Bank“, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23)
• “One Man’s Treasure“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• “On the Fox Roads“, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23)

SHORT STORY

• “A Soul in the World“, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23)
• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “The Mausoleum’s Children“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23)
• “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
• “Window Boy“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
• “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming“, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
• “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
• “Stones“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23)
• “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead“, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
• Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
• New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK)
• The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
• The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra)

COLLECTION

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex)
• The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
• White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
• No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
• Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
• The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

MAGAZINE

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

PUBLISHER

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

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• E. Catherine Tobler
• Ann VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams

ARTIST

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• Abigail Larson
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan
• Alyssa Winans

NON-FICTION

• The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic)
• 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK)
• Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024)
• All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)
• Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver)
• Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing)
• Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone)
• Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics)
• The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published)
• Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen)
• The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope)
• Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic)
• Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
• Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams)
• Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian)

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