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).

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In each category, enter ‘1’ in the Rank column for your first choice, ‘2’ for your second choice, ‘3’ for your third choice, ‘4’ for your fourth choice, and ‘5’ for your fifth choice. Do not vote for more than five items in each category.

Best SF Novel

Rank	Title
	Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)
	Emergence, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
	Chercher La Femme, L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct)
	Europe at Dawn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris UK)
	Shelter, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (Saga)
	The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
	If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)
	Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
	Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)
	The Overstory, Richard Powers (Norton; Heinemann)
	The Dreaming Stars, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
	An American Story, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
	Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
	By the Pricking of Her Thumb, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
	Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman (Europa)
	The Sky Is Yours, Chandler Klang Smith (Hogarth US)
	Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
	Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
	Irontown Blues, John Varley (Ace)
	The Wild Dead, Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams)
	The Accidental War, Walter Jon Williams (Harper Voyager)
	Condomnauts, Yoss (Restless)
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Best Fantasy Novel

Rank	Title
	Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
	Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
	The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)
	Temper, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US)
	Murmur, Will Eaves (CB; Bellevue Literary 2019)
	Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
	Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
	Red Waters Rising, Laura Anne Gilman (Saga)
	European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)
	The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
	The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)
	Latchkey, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Mythic Delirium)
	Fire Dance, Ilana C. Myer (Tor)
	Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
	Melmoth, Sarah Perry (Custom House; Serpent’s Tail)
	Summerland, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor; Gollancz)
	The Phoenix Empress, K Arsenault Rivera (Tor)
	Salvation’s Fire, Justina Robson (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi (Penguin; Oneworld)
	Dreadful Company, Vivian Shaw (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)
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Best Horror Novel

Rank	Title
	In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
	Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)
	The Book of Hidden Things, Francesco Dimitri (Titan US; Titan UK)
	We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
	The Immaculate Void, Brian Hodge (ChiZine)
	Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)
	Riddance, Shelley Jackson (Black Balloon)
	The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
	Providence, Caroline Kepnes (Lenny)
	The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
	The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)
	Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)
	The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
	Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)
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Best First Novel

Rank	Title
	Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
	Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)
	Mirage, Somaiya Daud (Flatiron; Hodder & Stoughton)
	The Breath of the Sun, Rachel Fellman (Aqueduct)
	I Am the River, T.E. Grau (Lethe)
	Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
	The Deep and Shining Dark, Juliet Kemp (Elsewhen)
	The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
	The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)
	Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
	The Robots of Gotham, Todd McAulty (John Joseph Adams)
	A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney (Imprint)
	Mem, Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed)
	Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
	Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
	Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg (One World; Atlantic UK)
	Baby Teeth, Zoje Stage (St. Martin’s; Bantam Press UK)
	Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
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Best YA Novel

Rank	Title
	Damsel, Elana K. Arnold (Balzer + Bray)
	The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)
	The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
	The Brilliant Death, Amy Rose Capetta (Viking)
	The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
	Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
	For a Muse of Fire, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow)
	Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
	Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
	Black Wings Beating, Alex London (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
	Blanca & Roja, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
	Bluecrowne, Kate Milford (Clarion)
	The Astonishing Color of After, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
	The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
	Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
	A Room Away From the Wolves, Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin)
	Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)
	Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)
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Best Novella

Rank	Title
	“Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling”, L.X. Beckett (F&SF 7-8/18)
	The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
	“Umbernight”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)
	Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
	Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)
	Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
	“Requiem”, Vandana Singh (Ambiguity Machines)
	The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)
	The Dragon’s Child, Janeen Webb (PS Australia)
	Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
	Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
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Best Novelette

Rank	Title
	“The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1-2/18)
	“The Ghoul Goes West”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 1/17/18)
	“De MotherJumpers”, Celeste Rita Baker (Strange Horizons 10/15/18)
	“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
	“No Flight Without the Shatter”, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)
	The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
	“A World to Die For”, Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld 1/18)
	“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”, Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog 11/29/18)
	“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections”, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
	“Flint and Mirror”, John Crowley (The Book of Magic)
	“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
	“Joe Diabo’s Farewell”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
	“The Nearest”, Greg Egan (Tor.com 7/18/18)
	“Furious Girls”, Julianna Goodman (Fiyah Spring ’18)
	“Queen Lily”, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)
	“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)
	“When We Were Starless”, Simone Heller (Clarkesworld 10/18)
	“He Sings of Salt and Wormwood”, Brian Hodge (The Devil and the Deep)
	“The Privilege of the Happy Ending”, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/18)
	“M Is for Mars”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Houses Under the Sea)
	“Community Service”, Megan Lindholm (The Book of Magic)
	“Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)
	“The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril”, Scott Lynch (The Book of Magic)
	“Chasing the Start”, Evan Marcroft (Strange Horizons 7/9/18)
	“Triquetra”, Kirstyn McDermott (Tor.com 9/5/18)
	“The Spires”, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 3-4/18)
	“The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix (The Book of Magic)
	“Recoveries”, Susan Palwick (Tor.com 6/20/18)
	“The Return of the Pig”, K.J. Parker (The Book of Magic)
	“The Thought That Counts”, K.J. Parker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/26/18)
	“Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing”, Sarah Pinsker (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/1/18)
	“The Governor”, Tim Powers (The Book of Magic)
	“Foxy and Tiggs”, Justina Robson (Infinity’s End)
	“Intervention”, Kelly Robson (Infinity’s End)
	“A Study in Oils”, Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld 9/18)
	“Saudade”, Nelson Rolon (Fiyah Autumn ’18)
	“Orange World”, Karen Russell (New Yorker 6/4–11/18)
	“The Sweetness of Honey and Rot”, A. Merc Rustad (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/11/18)
	“The Tragedy of Zayred the Splendid”, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/4/18)
	“Son of the Sea”, Priya Sharma (All the Fabulous Beasts)
	“The Lighthouse Girl”, Bao Shu (Clarkesworld 1/18)
	“Widdam”, Vandana Singh (F&SF 1–2/18)
	“The Other Side of Otto Mountain”, Ivy Spadille (Fiyah Spring ’18)
	“The Crow Knight”, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/11/18)
	“Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana”, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 9/18)
	“The Huntsman and the Beast”, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 9–10/18)
	“Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good”, LaShawn M. Wanak (Fiyah Summer ’18)
	“How to Swallow the Moon”, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)
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Best Short Story

Rank	Title
	“Down Where Sound Comes Blunt”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 3–4/18)
	“Waterbirds”, G.V. Anderson (Lightspeed 7/18)
	“Work Shadow/Shadow Work”, Madeline Ashby (Robots vs Fairies)
	“Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories)
	“A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds”, James Beamon (Lightspeed 7/18)
	“Gone to Earth”, Octavia Cade (Shimmer 5/18)
	“The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish”, Octavia Cade (Kaleidotrope Winter ’18)
	“We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice”, Octavia Cade (Strange Horizons 5/7/18)
	“Hide Me in the Shadow of Your Wings”, Christopher Caldwell (Strange Horizons 7/30/18)
	“An Incomplete Catalog of Miraculous Births, or Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita”, Rebecca Campbell (Shimmer 1/18)
	“The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes”, Siobhan Carroll (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/15/18)
	“Red Rain”, Adam-Troy Castro (Nightmare 6/18)
	“The Athuran Interpreter’s Flight”, Eleanna Castroianni (Strange Horizons 7/2/18)
	“By the Hand That Casts It”, Stephanie Charette (Shimmer 9/18)
	“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)
	“Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse”, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 1–2/18)
	“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)
	“Coyote Now Wears a Suit”, Ani Fox (Apex 9/18/18)
	“STET”, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)
	“And Yet”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 3–4/18)
	“The Hurrah (aka Corpse Scene)”, Orrin Grey (The Dark 6/18)
	“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
	“It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog”, Maria Haskins (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/13/18)
	“You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed 9/18)
	“Variations on a Theme from Turandot“, Ada Hoffmann (Strange Horizons 5/14/18)
	“Carborundorum /dev/null”, Annalee Flower Horne (Fireside 7/18)
	“The Unusual Customer”, Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Fireside 7/18)
	“Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
	“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
	“The Heart of Owl Abbas”, Kathleen Jennings (Tor.com 4/11/18)
	“Field Biology of the Wee Fairies”, Naomi Kritzer (Apex 9/4/18)
	“Meat and Salt and Sparks”, Rich Larson (Tor.com 6/6/18)
	“Firelight”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)
	“The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)
	“Flow”, Marissa Lingen (Fireside 3/18)
	“Cosmic Spring”, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 3/18)
	“Mother Tongues”, S. Qiouyi Lu (Asimov’s 1–2/18)
	“The Passenger”, Emily Lundgren (Shimmer 7/18)
	“A Brief and Fearful Star”, Carmen Maria Machado (Future Tense)
	“The Hydraulic Emperor”, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 1–2/18)
	“The Starfish Girl”, Maureen McHugh (Future Tense 7/23/18)
	“Dying Light”, Maria Romasco Moore (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 7/18)
	“A Slip in the Slice”, Heather Morris (Kaleidotrope Winter ’18)
	“Bride Before You”, Stephanie Malia Morris (Nightmare 5/18)
	“She Searches for God in the Storm Within”, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali (Sword and Sonnet)
	“The Ceremony”, Mari Ness (Fireside Quarterly 7/18)
	“The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, Annalee Newitz (Robots vs Fairies)
	“Blessings”, Naomi Novik (Uncanny 5–6/18)
	“The Steam-Powered Princess”, Aimee Ogden (Augur 6/18)
	“Mother of Invention”, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)
	“The Bodice, The Hem, The Woman, Death”, Karen Osborne (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/25/18)
	“The Court Magician”, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)
	“A Portrait of Salai”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Infinity’s End)
	“True Crime”, M. Rickert (Nightmare 9/18)
	“Snake Season”, Erin Roberts (The Dark 4/18)
	“Sour Milk Girls”, Erin Roberts (Clarkesworld 1/18)
	“What Gentle Women Dare”, Kelly Robson (Uncanny 5-6/18)
	“One If by Sea”, Eden Royce (Augur 11/18)
	“The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea”, Sara Saab (Shimmer 3/18)
	“Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 6/18)
	“On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog”, Adam R. Shannon (Apex 12/18)
	“You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can’t Help Me”, K.M. Szpara (Uncanny 7–8/18)
	“Teddy Bump”, Sheree Renee Thomas (Fiyah Summer ’18)
	“Yard Dog”, Tade Thompson (Fiyah Summer ’18)
	“The Buried Giant”, Lavie Tidhar (Robots vs Fairies)
	“From the Root”, Emma Törzs (Lightspeed 6/18)
	“A Fall Counts Anywhere”, Catherynne M. Valente (Robots vs Fairies)
	“Ghosts of Bari”, Wren Wallis (Shimmer 11/18)
	“Kindred”, Peter Watts (Infinity’s End)
	“The Pine Arch Collection”, Michael Wehunt (The Dark 5/18)
	“Ruby, Singing”, Fran Wilde (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/27/18)
	“Asphalt, River, Mother, Child”, Isabel Yap (Strange Horizons 10/8/18)
	“Music for the Underworld”, E. Lily Yu (Terraform 3/29/18)
	“Cast Off Tight”, Hal Y. Zhang (Fireside 6/18)
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Best Anthology

Rank	Title
	Future Fiction, Bill Campbell & Francesco Verso, eds. (Rosarium)
	The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
	Shades Within Us, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa)
	A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman, eds. (Greenwillow)
	Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
	Mother of Invention, Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
	Twelve Tomorrows, Wade Roush, ed. (MIT Press)
	Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)
	Welcome to Dystopia, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (OR)
	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
	The Final Frontier, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
	Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018, Paula Guran, ed. (Prime)
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018, Rich Horton, ed. (Prime)
	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
	The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
	Zion’s Fiction, Sheldon Teitelbaum & Emanuel Lottem, eds. (Mandel Vilar)
	The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
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Best Collection

Rank	Title
	Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner; riverrun)
	The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
	Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
	The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales, Michael Bishop (Kudzu Planet)
	All I Ever Dreamed, Michael Blumlein (Valancourt)
	Thoreau’s Microscope, Michael Blumlein (PM)
	Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)
	The End of All Our Exploring, F. Brett Cox (Fairwood)
	Ice and Other Stories, Candas Jane Dorsey (PS)
	An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)
	The Ones Who Are Waving, Glen Hirshberg (Cemetery Dance)
	A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, Kat Howard (Saga)
	How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
	The Promise of Space and Other Stories, James Patrick Kelly (Prime)
	The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
	Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
	Alien Virus Love Disaster, Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer)
	The Father of Lies, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
	DJStories, David J. Schow (Subterranean)
	All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)
	Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories, Vandana Singh (Small Beer)
	Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe (Lethe)
	Tales from the Inner City, Shaun Tan (Levine; Allen & Unwin Australia; Walker UK)
	The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
	Starlings, Jo Walton (Tachyon)
	How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)
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Best Non-fiction Book

Rank	Title
	Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)
	Consciousness and Science Fiction, Damien Broderick (Springer)
	Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature, Damien Broderick (McFarland)
	Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)
	Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analsyis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis with a New Introduction and Commentary, James Gunn (McFarland)
	Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)
	Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)
	Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)
	Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)
	The Bend at the End of the Road, Barry N. Malzberg (Fantastic)
	Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)
	Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)
	Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK 2017)
	None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)
	An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)
	A Conversation Larger than the Universe, Henry Wessells (The Grolier Club)
	Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Westfahl (University of Illinois Press)
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Best Art Book

Rank	Title
	Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)
	David B., Hâsib & the Queen of Serpents: A Tale of a Thousand and One Nights (Gallimard Jeunesse ’15; NBM)
	James Cawthorn, James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art, Maureen Cawthorn Bell (Jayde Design)
	J.A.W. Cooper, Pastoral (Flesk)
	Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
	Gary Gianni, The Illustrated Call of Cthulhu (Flesk)
	John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)
	Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)
	Infected by Art: Volume 6, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (ArtOrder)
	Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)
	William Stout, Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout, Ed Leimbacher (Insight Editions)
	Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)
	Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
	Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)
	Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)
	Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)
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Best Artist – Pro or Fan

Rank	Title
	Kei Acedera
	Yoshitaka Amano
	Anna & Elena Balbusso
	Chiara Bautista
	Julie Bell & Boris Vallejo
	Brom
	Jim Burns
	Rovina Cai
	Lauren K. Cannon
	Thomas Canty
	Vincent Chong
	Kinuko Y. Craft
	Galen Dara
	Mélanie Delon
	Vincent di Fate
	Julie Dillon
	Leo & Diane Dillon
	Larry Dixon
	Daniel Dos Santos
	Les Edwards
	Bob Eggleton
	Phil Foglio
	Jon Foster
	Brian & Wendy Froud
	Donato Giancola
	Rebecca Guay
	Dominic Harman
	John Harris
	Stephen Hickman
	Patrick J. Jones
	Michael Kaluta
	Paul Kidby
	Tom Kidd
	Michael Komarck
	Kekai Kotaki
	Abigail Larson
	Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
	Jody A. Lee
	Elizabeth Leggett
	Paul Lewin
	Todd Lockwood
	Jeffrey Alan Love
	Don Maitz
	Gregory Manchess
	Stephan Martiniere
	David Mattingly
	Chris McGrath
	Ian Miller
	Kurt Miller
	Erik Mohr
	Rowena Morrill
	Lee Moyer
	Victo Ngai
	Tran Nguyen
	Karla Ortiz
	John Jude Palencar
	Dave Palumbo
	John Picacio
	Omar Rayyan
	Greg Ruth
	Ruth Sanderson
	Dave Seeley
	Cynthia Sheppard
	Yuko Shimizu
	Steve Stone
	Sana Takeda
	Shaun Tan
	Charles Vess
	Taral Wayne
	Michael Whelan
	Frank Wu
	Stephen Youll
	Paul Young
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	John Joseph Adams
	Mike Allen
	Cory Allyn
	Scott H. Andrews
	Mike Ashley
	Sam Bellotto Jr.
	Steve Berman
	Jennifer Brehl
	Neil Clarke
	Andy Cox
	Peter Crowther
	Ellen Datlow
	Kate Dollarhyde & Jane Crowley
	Gardner Dozois
	Malcolm Edwards
	C.C. Finlay
	Jo Fletcher
	Marc Gascoigne
	Sheila Gilbert
	Diana Gill
	Liz Gorinsky
	Gavin Grant/Kelly Link
	Anne Groell
	Paula Guran
	Lee Harris
	Niall Harrison
	Katie Hoffman
	Tim Holman
	Rich Horton
	Brit Hvide
	Justina Ireland
	Stephen Jones
	Michael Kelly
	Alisa Krasnostein
	Yanni Kuznia
	Jeremy Lassen
	Shahid Mahmud
	Beth Meacham
	Jim Minz
	Betsy Mitchell
	Joe Monti
	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
	Tricia Narwani
	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
	Teresa Nielsen Hayden
	Tim O’Connell
	Jon Oliver
	Bella Pagan
	Julian Pavia
	Devi Pillai
	David Pomerico
	Erik Secker
	Trevor Quachri
	Gillian Redfearn
	Julia Rios
	Scott Roberts
	Brett Alexander Savory
	William Schafer
	Bryan Thomas Schmidt
	Rene Sears
	Jason Sizemore
	Rashida J. Smith
	Anne Sowards
	David Steffen
	Jonathan Strahan
	Patrick Swenson
	Simon Taylor
	Mark Teppo
	Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
	Juliet Ulman
	Gordon Van Gelder
	Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
	Zachary Wagman
	Sean Wallace
	Miriam Weinberg
	Jacob Weisman
	Toni Weisskopf
	Brian White
	Sheila Williams
	Navah Wolfe
	Betsy Wollheim
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Best Magazine or Fanzine

Rank	Title
	Abyss & Apex
	Amazing Stories
	Analog
	Andromeda Spaceways
	Ansible
	Apex
	Asimov’s
	Aurealis
	Beneath Ceaseless Skies
	Black Gate
	Black Static
	Bull Spec
	The Cascadia Subduction Zone
	Cemetery Dance
	Clarkesworld
	The Coode Street Podcast
	Daily SF
	Dark Discoveries
	The Dark Magazine
	Diabolical Plots
	Drabblecast
	Dreams & Nightmares
	Electric Spec
	Escape Pod
	Extrapolation
	Far Fetched Fables
	Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
	F&SF
	Fiction River
	File 770
	Fireside
	Fiyah!
	Foundation
	Galactic Suburbia
	Galaxy’s Edge
	Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
	GigaNotoSaurus
	Intergalactic Medicine Show
	Interzone
	Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
	Journey Planet
	Kaleidotrope
	Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
	Lightspeed
	Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
	Mithila
	Mythic Delirium
	Neo-Opsis
	New Myths
	The New York Review of SF
	Nightmare Magazine
	Omenana
	On Spec
	Perihelion
	Phantom Drift
	Podcastle
	Postscripts
	Pseudopod
	Science Fiction Studies
	SF Commentary
	SF Site
	SFRevu
	Shimmer
	Shoreline of Infinity
	Smith’s Monthly
	Space and Time
	Star*Line
	StarShipSofa
	Strange Horizons
	Tales to Terrify
	Terraform
	Tor.com
	Uncanny Magazine
	Vector
	Writing Excuses
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Best Book Publisher

Rank	Title
	Abbadon
	Abrams
	Ace
	Allen & Unwin
	Amazon/47North
	Angry Robot
	Apex Publications
	Aqueduct
	Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick
	Bad Moon Books
	Baen
	Del Rey
	Bantam
	Berkley
	Black Library
	Bloomsbury
	Candlewick
	Cemetery Dance
	Centipede Press
	Cheeky Frawg
	ChiZine
	Chomu Press
	Constable & Robinson
	Crown
	Dark Regions
	DAW
	Del Rey
	Doubleday
	Earthling
	Fairwood
	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
	Feiwel and Friends
	First Second
	Flesk
	Galaxy
	Gollancz
	Grand Central
	Hadley Rille
	Haffner Press
	Haikasoru
	Harper/Voyager
	Harper Collins Canada
	Harlequin/Luna
	Hodder & Stoughton
	Houghton Mifflin
	Imprint
	John Joseph Adams Books
	Knopf
	Lethe
	Library of America
	Little, Brown
	MCD
	Meerkat
	Morrow
	NESFA Press
	Night Shade Books
	One World
	Orbit
	Paizo/Planet Stories
	Pegasus
	Penguin
	PM Press
	Pocket
	Prime
	PS Publishing
	Pyr
	Quercus/Jo Fletcher
	Random House
	Resurrection House
	Roc
	Saga
	Severn House
	Simon & Schuster
	Skyhorse
	Small Beer Press
	Solaris
	Strange Chemistry
	St. Martin’s
	Subterranean Press
	Tachyon
	Titan
	Tor
	[Macmillan] Tor UK
	Twelfth Planet Press
	Viking
	Wesleyan University Press
	Wizards of the Coast
	Word Horde
	WordFire Press
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