2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an open public ballot. Congratulations to all of the finalists!

The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 22, 2024, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in ...Read More

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2022 Prix Imaginales Winners

Winners have been announced for the 2022 Prix Imaginales, honoring the best works of fantasy published in France.

French Novel

  • WINNER: Capitale du sud, tome 1, Le Sang de la cité, Guillaume Chamanadjian  (Editions Aux forges, Vulcain) 
  • Montės, Isabelle Bauthian (Editions Actusf)
  • La Descente ou la chute, Basile Cendre (Les Moutons Électriques)
  • A cause de l’éternité, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (Editions Grasset et Fasquelle)
  • L’Empire s’effondre tome 1, Sébastien
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2022 Prix Imaginales Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the 2022 Prix Imaginales, honoring the best works of fantasy published in France.

French Novel

  • Montės, Isabelle Bauthian (Editions Actusf)
  • La Descente ou la chute, Basile Cendre (Les Moutons Électriques)
  • Capitale du sud, tome 1, Le Sang de la cité, Guillaume Chamanadjian  (Editions Aux forges, Vulcain)
  • A cause de l’éternité, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (Editions Grasset et Fasquelle)
  • L’Empire s’effondre tome 1, Sébastien Coville
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2019 Locus Poll and Survey

Here is the online version of the 49th annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in 2018. Thank you for participating! In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth).

We have seeded the ballot with options based on our 2018 Recommended Reading List; this greatly facilitates tallying of results. As always, you are welcome to use the ...Read More

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2018 Locus Poll and Survey

Here is the online version of the 48th annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in 2017. Thank you for participating! In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth).

We have seeded the ballot with options based on our 2017 Recommended Reading List; this greatly facilitates tallying of results. As always, you are welcome to use ...Read More

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2016 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners

Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced August 20, 2016 at MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City MO, August 17-21, 2016.

Best Novel (3,695 nominating ballots)

  • The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US)
  • The Aeronaut’s Windlass, Jim Butcher (Roc)
  • Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit
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2016 Hugo and Campbell Awards Finalists, Revised

The Hugo Awards ballot entries for best short story and best fanzine were revised May 6, 2016 due to nominees Thomas A. Mays and Black Gate withdrawing from consideration. They were replaced by “Cat Pictures Please”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld, 1/15) and Lady Business.

The revised Hugo Awards Ballot and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer are below, as announced by MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction ...Read More

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2016 Hugo and Campbell Awards Finalists

Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by MidAmericon II, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Kansas City MO, August 17-21, 2016.

Best Novel (3,695 nominating ballots)

  • The Aeronaut’s Windlass, Jim Butcher (Roc)
  • The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US)
  • Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  • Uprooted, Naomi
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Imagine 2200 Short Story Winners

 

Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200 Short Story Contest. The contest aimed “to envision a clean, just future… [and] create stories of life in that future.” The theme was “Climate fiction for future ancestors.” Winners are:

    • First Place: “Afterglow”, Lindsey Brodeck
  • Second Place: “The Cloud Weaver’s Song”, Saul Tanpepper
  • Third Place: “Tidings”, Rich Larson

Other finalists were:

  • “When It’s Time to Harvest”, Renan
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2020 Locus Recommended Reading List

Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!

Published in Locus magazine’s February 2021 issue, the list is a consensus by the Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and critics of genre fiction and non-fiction — editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; Locus reviewers Liz Bourke, Alex Brown, Karen Burnham, Katharine Coldiron, Paul Di Filippo, Amy Goldschlager, Paula Guran, Rich Horton, Maya James, John Langan, Russell ...Read More

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Index to Reviews

Review submission guidelines

A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z

Aakhus, Patricia

  • The Voyage of Mael Duin’s Curragh (Dec 1989, Carolyn Cushman)

Aamodt, Donald

  • A Name
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