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2022 Locus winners
I feel like a Locus should be a cross between a lotus and a ficus. Which would look sort of like a magnolia? Anyways. here, or behind the cut.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
Hugo prediction data point number one, Martine beats Chambers. (Also I think I voted for Martine here, so yay.)
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
Hugo prediction data point number two, Lee beats Kingfisher and Polk, very interesting given my prediction of Kingfisher to win for Series. (I think I voted for Cho here.)
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
Later, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
The Infinity Courts, Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
And Anders beats Ifueko, Kritzer, Little Badger, and Zhao. But Novik isn't on here to compare, having gone into the Fantasy bucket instead.
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise (Titan)
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
I do kind of like in some ways that the different bucketing means we get a different set of contests here than in the Hugos.
NOVELLA
WINNER: Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Subterranean)
Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
Good old unstoppable juggernaut series.
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “That Story Isn’t the Story“, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)
“The Red Mother“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
“Mulberry and Owl“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 9-10/21)
“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
“Skinder’s Veil”, Kelly Link (When Things Get Dark)
“The Black Pages“, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
“Bots of the Lost Ark“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 6/21)
“L’Esprit de L’Escalier“, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com 8/25/21)
“Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/21)
“Small Monsters“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 10/20/21)
I think if Wiswell can beat Palmer, Valente, and Wilde, Ekpeki and Yoachim aren't going to be *more* of a challenge. Although I guess the Ekpeki story did win the Nebula. I think Palmer is probably the most likely challenge though.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
“If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
“Mr. Death“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
“Proof by Induction“, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
“Let All the Children Boogie“, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
“Crazy Beautiful”, Cat Rambo (F&SF 3-4/21)
“Huginn and Muninn – and What Came After“, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 7-8/21)
“An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
“The Sin of America“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 3-4/21)
“For Lack of a Bed“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)
Oh, "Unknown Number", such a beautiful wildcard.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
I should maybe at some point actually read this anthology.
COLLECTION
WINNER: Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Fairwood)
Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho (Small Beer)
Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
The Best of Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson (Subterranean)
The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
And Spirits Abroad, unless I figured out that I had already read everything in it, I can't remember now.
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Tor.com
Analog
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Uncanny
Sure.
PUBLISHER
WINNER: Tor
Angry Robot
Baen
DAW
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tordotcom
I get confused about what is Tor and what is Tordotcom and I bet I'm not the only one.
EDITOR
WINNER: Ellen Datlow
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: Charles Vess
Tommy Arnold
Kinuko Y. Craft
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bob Eggleton
Victo Ngai
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Michael Whelan
Has Michael Whelan *done* anything lately? I'm not trying to be a jerk, dude is obviously one of the titans of the etc, but I feel like he's not exactly the hot happening name in covers these days either?
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Mike Ashley (British Library Publishing)
After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
Roger Zelazny, F. Brett Cox (University of Illinois Press)
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age, Valerie Estelle Frankel (Lexington)
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw, Hua Li (University of Toronto Press)
Gothic: An Illustrated History, Roger Luckhurst (Thames and Hudson; Princeton University Press)
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess’s Stardust, Charles Vess (Titan)
Clockwork Curandera Volume 1: The Witch Owl Parliament, David Bowles, art by Raúl the Third (Tu Books)
Monstrous Mythologies, Michael Bukowski (Lethe)
Medusa, Jessie Burton, art by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge, Kevin Crossley-Holland, art by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Studio UK 2020; Candlewick Studio US as Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume One, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
1984: The Graphic Novel, George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Labyrinth, Simon Stålenhag (Fria Ligan Sweden 2020; Simon & Schuster UK 2021; Image Comics US 2021)
Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
Hugo prediction data point number one, Martine beats Chambers. (Also I think I voted for Martine here, so yay.)
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
Hugo prediction data point number two, Lee beats Kingfisher and Polk, very interesting given my prediction of Kingfisher to win for Series. (I think I voted for Cho here.)
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
Later, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
The Infinity Courts, Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
And Anders beats Ifueko, Kritzer, Little Badger, and Zhao. But Novik isn't on here to compare, having gone into the Fantasy bucket instead.
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise (Titan)
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
I do kind of like in some ways that the different bucketing means we get a different set of contests here than in the Hugos.
NOVELLA
WINNER: Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Subterranean)
Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
Good old unstoppable juggernaut series.
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “That Story Isn’t the Story“, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)
“The Red Mother“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
“Mulberry and Owl“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 9-10/21)
“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
“Skinder’s Veil”, Kelly Link (When Things Get Dark)
“The Black Pages“, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
“Bots of the Lost Ark“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 6/21)
“L’Esprit de L’Escalier“, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com 8/25/21)
“Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/21)
“Small Monsters“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 10/20/21)
I think if Wiswell can beat Palmer, Valente, and Wilde, Ekpeki and Yoachim aren't going to be *more* of a challenge. Although I guess the Ekpeki story did win the Nebula. I think Palmer is probably the most likely challenge though.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
“If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
“Mr. Death“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
“Proof by Induction“, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
“Let All the Children Boogie“, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
“Crazy Beautiful”, Cat Rambo (F&SF 3-4/21)
“Huginn and Muninn – and What Came After“, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 7-8/21)
“An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
“The Sin of America“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 3-4/21)
“For Lack of a Bed“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)
Oh, "Unknown Number", such a beautiful wildcard.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
I should maybe at some point actually read this anthology.
COLLECTION
WINNER: Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Fairwood)
Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho (Small Beer)
Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
The Best of Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson (Subterranean)
The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
And Spirits Abroad, unless I figured out that I had already read everything in it, I can't remember now.
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Tor.com
Analog
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Uncanny
Sure.
PUBLISHER
WINNER: Tor
Angry Robot
Baen
DAW
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tordotcom
I get confused about what is Tor and what is Tordotcom and I bet I'm not the only one.
EDITOR
WINNER: Ellen Datlow
Neil Clarke
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: Charles Vess
Tommy Arnold
Kinuko Y. Craft
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bob Eggleton
Victo Ngai
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Michael Whelan
Has Michael Whelan *done* anything lately? I'm not trying to be a jerk, dude is obviously one of the titans of the etc, but I feel like he's not exactly the hot happening name in covers these days either?
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds. (PM)
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Mike Ashley (British Library Publishing)
After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly (Liverpool University Press)
Roger Zelazny, F. Brett Cox (University of Illinois Press)
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age, Valerie Estelle Frankel (Lexington)
Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw, Hua Li (University of Toronto Press)
Gothic: An Illustrated History, Roger Luckhurst (Thames and Hudson; Princeton University Press)
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice, Angela Slatter (Brain Jar)
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess’s Stardust, Charles Vess (Titan)
Clockwork Curandera Volume 1: The Witch Owl Parliament, David Bowles, art by Raúl the Third (Tu Books)
Monstrous Mythologies, Michael Bukowski (Lethe)
Medusa, Jessie Burton, art by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge, Kevin Crossley-Holland, art by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Studio UK 2020; Candlewick Studio US as Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume One, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
After the Rain, Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
1984: The Graphic Novel, George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Labyrinth, Simon Stålenhag (Fria Ligan Sweden 2020; Simon & Schuster UK 2021; Image Comics US 2021)
Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)