2024 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List…
We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them!
This list is compiled by the Locus editors and columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. This year we looked at 678 titles between short fiction and long fiction. Note: any one of our voting critics would have a different exact list – the list we end up with is our combined sum of opinions, assessed with a great affection and care for the field. We did not see everything that came out last year (though we tried!) and there will always be books that didn’t make it. It is especially hard for us to assess international books or books published in December that we didn’t see in time, or that none of us read, though as a group we read very widely. We do extend eligibility to the next year for some first-US editions, and allow for small-press and international constraints. No one in the group is allowed to vote for any titles they worked on or acquired.
The Locus recommending group this year included editor in chief Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; Locus reviewers Liz Bourke, Jake Casella Brookins, Alex Brown, Paul Di Filippo, Sean Dowie, Paula Guran, Niall Harrison, Rich Horton, Gabino Iglesias, Paul Kincaid, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Archita Mittra, Ian Mond, Colleen Mondor, Charles Payseur, Alexandra Pierce, Wole Talabi, Gary K. Wolfe, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro; staffers Bob Blough and Tim Pratt; anthologist and editor Ellen Datlow, and outside critics James Bradley, Cheryl Morgan, and Graham Sleight. Input for the non-fiction section also came from John Clute, Mark Kelly, and Farah Mendlesohn. The art book section had counsel from Arnie Fenner, Karen Haber, and Locus senior editor Francesca Myman. Short fiction recommendations added in anthologists and reviewers John Joseph Adams, Maria Haskins, Allan Kaster, Nisi Shawl, Bogi Takács, and A.C. Wise.
You can let us know what your favorites were by voting in the 2024 Poll & Survey. The Poll decides the winners of the Locus Awards, planned for June 2025, and is open to all to vote on. The Survey helps us be a better magazine. Thank you for participating!
NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION
The Book Censor’s Library, Bothayna Al-Essa (Restless Books) amazon / bookshop
- Private Rites, Julia Armfield (Fourth Estate UK; Flatiron) amazon / bookshop
- The Repeat Room, Jesse Ball (Catapult) amazon / bookshop
- Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) amazon / bookshop
- The Sentence, Gautam Bhatia (Westland IF) amazon
- The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash) amazon / bookshop
- City of Dancing Gargoyles, Tara Campbell (Santa Fe Writer’s Project) amazon / bookshop
Echo of Worlds, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- Exordia, Seth Dickinson (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
- Morphotrophic, Greg Egan (self-published) amazon
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Hiromi Kawakami (Soft Skull) amazon / bookshop
- Beyond the Light Horizon, Ken Macleod (Orbit UK; Pyr) amazon / bookshop
The Tongue Trade, Michael J. Martineck (Edge) amazon / bookshop
- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Playground, Richard Powers (Norton; Hutchinson Heinemann UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Knife and the Serpent, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot) amazon / bookshop
- Machine Vendetta, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
- Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts (Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
- Remember You Will Die, Eden Robins (Sourcebooks Landmark) amazon / bookshop
Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor) amazon / bookshop
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop
- Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
- Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK) amazon / bookshop
- Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK) amazon / bookshop
- Three Eight One, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
- We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris UK) amazon
- Juice, Tim Winton (Hamish Hamilton Australia) amazon
NOVELS – FANTASY
- The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden (Del Rey; Century UK) amazon / bookshop
- Navola, Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf; Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Viking UK) amazon / bookshop
- I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga) amazon / bookshop
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Last Hour Between Worlds, Melissa Caruso (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Metal from Heaven, August Clarke (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
- The Nightward, R.S.A. Garcia (Harper Voyager US) amazon / bookshop
- Wicked Problems, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
- Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Tapestry of Time, Kate Heartfield (Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
- Blackheart Man, Nalo Hopkinson (Saga) amazon / bookshop
- A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Book of Gold, Ruth Frances Long (Hodderscape UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Sky on Fire, Jenn Lyons (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry (Redhook; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Parliament, Aimee Pokwatka (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Briar Book of the Dead, A.G. Slatter (Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- Days of Shattered Faith, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
- The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
NOVELS – HORROR
- Remedy, J.S. Breukelaar (PS) amazon
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive, Craig DiLouie (Redhook) amazon / bookshop
- Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey) amazon / bookshop
- Small Town Horror, Ronald Malfi (Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz) amazon
- Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer) amazon / bookshop
- Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK) amazon / bookshop
- Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK) amazon / bookshop
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
- Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) amazon / bookshop
- Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK) amazon / bookshop
- Spells to Forget Us, Aislinn Brophy (Putnam) amazon / bookshop
- Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA) amazon / bookshop
Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
- The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
- A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) amazon / bookshop
- Castle of the Cursed, Romina Garber (Wednesday; Penguin UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK) amazon / bookshop
- Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
- Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) amazon / bookshop
- Otherworldly, F.T. Lukens (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK) amazon / bookshop
- Flawless Girls, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends) amazon / bookshop
- Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet, Molly Morris (Wednesday; Chicken House UK) amazon / bookshop
Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK) amazon / bookshop
FIRST NOVELS
- The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson (Quirk) amazon / bookshop
- The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
- The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown (Morrow; Bantam UK) amazon / bookshop
- Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW) amazon / bookshop
- A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
The Jaguar Mask, Michael J. Deluca (Stelliform) amazon / bookshop
- Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
- The Invisible Hotel, Yeji Y. Ham (Zando; Atlantic UK) amazon / bookshop
- Toward Eternity, Anton Hur (HarperVia) amazon / bookshop
- The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang (Morrow) amazon / bookshop
- Blood of the Old Kings, Sung-Il Kim, trans. Anton Hur (Tor) amazon / bookshop
- Road to Ruin, Hana Lee (Saga) amazon / bookshop
- The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
- In Universes, Emet North (Harper; Hutchinson Heinemann UK) amazon / bookshop
- The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- River Mumma, Zalika Reid-Benta (Penguin Canada 2023; Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
- The Garden of Delights, Amal Singh (Flame Tree UK) amazon / bookshop
The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
- Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop
- Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US 2025) amazon / bookshop
- Equimedian, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Hex) amazon / bookshop
COLLECTIONS
- Ghostroots, ‘Pemi Aguda (Norton) amazon / bookshop
Slow Burn, Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium) amazon / bookshop
- Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand) amazon / bookshop
- Tomorrowing, Terry Bisson (Duke University Press) amazon / bookshop
- Long: The Collected Novellas of Michael Blumlein, Michael Blumlein (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
- Short: The Collected Short Fiction of Michael Blumlein, Michael Blumlein (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
- She’s Always Hungry, Eliza Clark (Harper Perennial; Faber & Faber) amazon / bookshop
- Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner) amazon / bookshop
- The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop
- Greatest Hits, Harlan Ellison (Union Square & Co.) amazon / bookshop
Good Night, Sleep Tight, Brian Evenson (Coffee House) amazon / bookshop
- Pick Your Potion, Ephiny Gale (Foxgrove) amazon / bookshop
- Mouth, Puloma Ghosh (Astra House) amazon / bookshop
- Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
- Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer) amazon / bookshop
- You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) amazon / bookshop
- Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
- Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Ananda Lima (Tor) amazon / bookshop
- A Jura For Julia, Ken MacLeod (NewCon) amazon / bookshop
- Collecting Myself : The Uncollected Stories of Berry N. Malzberg, Barry N. Malzberg (Stark House) amazon / bookshop
- Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
- Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) amazon / bookshop
- Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW) amazon / bookshop
ANTHOLOGIES
ORIGINAL
- T
hrough the Night Like a Snake, Sarah Coolidge, ed. (Two Lines) amazon / bookshop
- We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press Teens) amazon / bookshop
- Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press) amazon / bookshop
- The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron) amazon / bookshop
- Northern Nights, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
- Death in the Mouth II, Sloane Leong & Cassie Hart, eds. (self-published)
Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji, ed. (Comma) amazon / bookshop
- The Crawling Moon, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
- Thyme Travellers, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway) amazon / bookshop
REPRINT
- The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press) amazon / bookshop
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade) amazon / bookshop
- The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade) amazon / bookshop
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Sixteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade) amazon / bookshop
- Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
- The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 5, Paula Guran (Pyr) amazon / bookshop
- The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 3, Paula Guran (Pyr) amazon / bookshop
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) amazon / bookshop
- The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox) amazon / bookshop
- The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 4, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox) amazon
New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
NON-FICTION
- Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing) amazon / bookshop
- Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic) amazon / bookshop
- The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species, Michael Bérubé (Columbia University Press) amazon / bookshop
This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths) amazon / bookshop
- Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press) amazon / bookshop
- The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia) amazon / bookshop
- Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever) amazon / bookshop
- Powsels and Thrums, Alan Garner (Fourth Estate) amazon / bookshop
- Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater) amazon / bookshop
Keith Roberts’s Pavane, Paul Kincaid (Palgrave Macmillan) amazon / bookshop
- Laozi’s Dao De Jing, Laozi & Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025) amazon / bookshop
- The Boom & the Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction, Guangzhao Lyu (Peter Lang) amazon / bookshop
- Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene) amazon
- The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter with Sam McDonald & John L. Coker III (First Fandom Experience)
- A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl) amazon / bookshop
- Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions) amazon / bookshop
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOKS
- The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)
- Dreams: The Art of Geneva Bowers, Geneva Bowers (self-published
)
- HoverGirls, Geneva Bowers (Bloomsbury) amazon / bookshop
- Loreland Bestiary, Hope Christofferson (Page Street) amazon / bookshop
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, illustrated by Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, art by Nico Delort (Scholastic) amazon / bookshop
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi & Lemony Snicket, art by Mike Mignola (Beehive)
- R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic, Kateřina Čupová, translated by Julie Nováková (Rosarium) amazon / bookshop
- Silk Cotton, Colleen Douglas, art by Jesus C. Gan (Rosarium) amazon / bookshop
- Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, Scott Dunbier, ed., art by Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery with IDW) amazon
/ bookshop
- Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, art by Sakyu (Tuttle) amazon / bookshop
- Devour, Jazmine Joyner, art by Anthony Pugh (Megascope) amazon / bookshop
- Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt) amazon / bookshop
- Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed) amazon / bookshop
- Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute, Marisa Lewis, ed. (3dtotal) amazon / bookshop
- Once Upon a Time in the Sketchbook, Iain McCaig (Design Studio Press) amazon / bookshop
- Infected by Art Volume 12, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (Dynamite)
- Futuria: Art of the Sci-Fi Age, Victionary, ed. (Victionary) amazon / bookshop
- Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, art by Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)
NOVELLAS
- Crypt of the Moon Spider, Nathan Ballingrud (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
- “Antyesti For a Dead Ganesa“, Ashok K. Banker (Lightspeed 11/24)
- A Voice Calling, Christopher Barzak (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
- Lovely Creatures, KT Bryski (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
- In the Shadow of the Ship, Aliette De Bodard (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
- Navigational Entanglements, Aliette De Bodard (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, Anne de Marcken (Giramondo) amazon / bookshop
- “Death and the Gorgon”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 1/24)
- A Mourning Coat, Alex Jeffers (Neon Hemlock) amazon
- What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
- The Transitive Properties of Cheese, Ann LeBlanc (Neon Hemlock) amazon
- Yoke of Stars, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
- The Woods All Black, Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- From These Dark Abodes, Lyndsie Manusos (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
- Woodworm, Layla Martinez (Two Lines; Harvill Secker UK) amazon / bookshop
- Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Finding Echoes, Foz Meadows (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
- The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Your Shadow Half Remains, Sunny Moraine (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
- The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- In the Shadow of the Fall, Tobi Ogundiran (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- She Who Knows: Firespitter, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) amazon / bookshop
- Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW) amazon / bookshop
- Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- “Fractal Karma“, Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld Oct 24)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
- The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, Izzy Wasserstein (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
- Small Gods of Calamity, Sam Kyung Yoo (Interstellar Flight) amazon / bookshop
NOVELETTES
- “And to Their Shining Palaces Go”, Betsy Aoki (Asimov’s 9-10/24)
- “The Man in the Moon Is a Lady”, Ian Baaske (Asimov’s 3-4/24)
- “Places You Have Never Been”, David Cleden (Analog 1-2/24)
- “The Best Version of Yourself“, Grant Collier (Clarkesworld 7/24)
- “The Angel Azrael and the Dead Man’s Hand“, Peter Darbyshire (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/25/24)
- “Those Who Smuggle Themselves Into Slivermoon“, Varsha Dinesh (Strange Horizons 5/6/24)
- “A Stranger Knocks“, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 9-10/24)
- “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe“, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 11/20/24)
- “The River Judge“, S.L. Huang (Reactor 3/6/24)
- “Stars Don’t Dream“, Chi Hui, trans. John Chu (Clarkesworld 1/24)
- “Fat Kids“, Alex Jennings (Bourbon Penn 8/24)
- “A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock“, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Clarkesworld 3/24)
- “We Who Will Not Die“, Shingai Kagunda (Psychopomp 9/30/24)
- “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!“, T.J. Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
- “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s 9-10/24)
- “Udo Gehler and the Virgin Bitch of the Resistance“, Andrea Kriz (Lightspeed 6/24)
- “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell“, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
- “How to Care for Your Domestic God”, Clara Madrigano (F&SF Winter ’24)
- “Turtles to the Sea”, Sandra McDonald (Asimov’s 3-4/24)
- “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)
- “Yarns”, Susan Palwick (Asimov’s 7-8/24)
- “Shadow Films“, Ben Peek (Lightspeed 1/24)
- “BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE“, Lowry Poletti (Strange Horizons 8/19/24)
- “An Isle in a Sea of Ghosts“, J.A. Prentice (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/8/24)
- “Blackjack“, Veronica Schanoes (Reactor 4/10/24)
- “I Love the Very Flesh Off You”, Robert Shearman (Skin)
- “Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World“, Vandana Singh (Lightspeed 4/24)
- “Also, the Cat“, Rachel Swirsky (Reactor 1/10/24)
- “Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal“, Lavie Tidhar (Reactor 4/17/24)
- “The Quietude”, Lavie Tidhar (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “Joanna’s Bodies“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
- “Loneliness Universe“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)
- “This Good Lesson Keep”, James Van Pelt (Asimov’s 7-8/24)
- “Himalia“, Carrie Vaughn (Clarkesworld 6/24)
- “Nine Billion Turing Tests“, Chris Willrich (Reactor 2/21/24)
SHORT STORIES
- “Down Under”, Jumaana Abdu (Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction)
- “The Wonders of the World”, ‘Pemi Aguda (Ghostroots: Stories)
- “In Thin Air“, Phoenix Alexander (The Dark 5/24)
- “Slickerthin”, Phoenix Alexander (F&SF Summer ’24)
- “Rachel Is at a Protest“, Esther Alter (The Deadlands Summer ’24)
- “The Diamond Factory”, Phoebe Barton (F&SF Winter ’24)
- “Happily Ever After Comes Round“, Sarah Rees Brennan (Uncanny 5-6/24)
- “Just You and Me, Now“, KT Bryski (Apex 2/6/24)
- “Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies“, Isabel Cañas (The Deadlands Summer ’24)
- “To Eat Your Own Head”, Nkone Chaka (Asimov’s 1-2/24)
- “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, 6“, F.E. Choe (Clarkesworld 3/24)
- “Ruminants“, Kay Chronister (The Dark 10/24)
- The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- “Judas Iscariot Didn’t Kill Himself: A Story in Fragments”, James S.A. Corey (The Last Dangerous Visions)
- “Spread the Word“, Delilah S. Dawson (Apex 1/2/24)
- “Autumn’s Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “The Last Lucid Day“, Dominique Dickey (Lightspeed 7/24)
- “doorbell dot mov“, Jennifer R. Donohue (The Deadlands Spring ’24)
- “Callie’s World“, Meg Elison (Fusion Fragment 8/24)
- “Heathman Ldg“, Brian Evenson (Bourbon Penn 3/24)
- “like blood on the mouths of death“, Victor Forna (Nightmare 5/24)
- “The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle“, L.M. Guay (khōréō 3.4)
- “The Sort“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/24)
- “Godskin“, CL Hellisen (Strange Horizons 3/4/24)
- “Country Birds“, Kij Johnson (Sunday Morning Transport 2/11/24)
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus“, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
- “Parthenogenesis“, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 10/2/24)
- “Let the Star Explode“, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Lightspeed 3/24)
- “World-weariness”, Naomi Kanakia (We Mostly Come Out at Night)
- “The Rerebirth of Slick“, Stephen Kearse (The Deadlands Summer ’24)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
- “The Alice Run“, Nancy Kress (Reactor 8/7/24)
- “All Her Rows of Teeth“, Jordan Kurella (Three-Lobed Burning Eye 7/24)
- “Breathing Constellations“, Rich Larson (Reactor 6/5/24)
- “Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth“, Ann LeBlanc (Three-Lobed Burning Eye 3/24)
- “The V*mpire“, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
- “No Future but Infinity Itself”, Sloane Leong (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “A Saint Between the Teeth“, Sloane Leong (Lightspeed 1/24)
- “A Cure for Solastalgia“, E.M. Linden (Strange Horizons 1/1/24)
- “You Will Be You Again“, Angela Liu (IZ Digital 4/24)
- “The Carcosa Pattern”, Conrad Loyer (Fiyah Fall ’24)
- “Cicadas, and Their Skins“, Avra Margariti (Strange Horizons 7/29/24)
- “Three Faces of a Beheading“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 5-6/24)
- “Because Flora Had Existed. And I Had Loved Her“, Anna Martino (Samovar 10/28/24)
- “Inside the House of Wisdom“, Tamara Masri (Lightspeed 12/24)
- “There’s Nothing in the Attic”, Faith Merino (Asimov’s 3-4/24)
- “Boys Who Run with the Boars”, Sam J. Miller (We Mostly Come Out at Night)
- “Notes on Genocidal Interchronological Incursion 57.7.3 (f.k.a. Friends)“, Sam J. Miller (Baffling 4/24)
- “The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
- “Fuck Them Kids”, Tatiana Obey (Fiyah Fall ’24)
- “Nothing of Value“, Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld 1/24)
- “The Spindle of Necessity“, B. Pladek (Strange Horizons 5/20/24)
- “Way Up in de Middle of de Air”, Jamie Roballo (Fiyah Summer ’24)
- “Median“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/13/24)
- “Agni“, Nibedita Sen (The Sunday Morning Transport 01/07/24)
- “The Empty Ones“, Vivian Shaw (The Deadlands Autumn ’24)
- “Over a Long Time Ago“, Nisi Shawl (Lightspeed 5/24)
- “The Gulmohar of Mehranpur“, Amal Singh (Reactor 8/21/24)
- “Shepherd Not Sheep“, Simon Strantzas (Bourbon Penn 3/24)
- “One Becomes Two“, A.D. Sui (Augur 7.3)
- “Our Very Best Selves!“, Fatima Taqvi (Nightmare 3/24)
- “Tell the King“, Natalia Theodoridou (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/22/24)
- “The Handmaiden-Alchemist”, Marie Vibbert (Analog 1-2/24)
- “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is“, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 3/24)
- “D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion)”, N. Romaine White (Fiyah Winter ’24)
- “Our Chatbots Said I Love You, Shall We Meet?“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Clarkesworld 6/24)
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