2025 Locus Awards

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I honestly can't remember if I remembered to vote in these this year or not - I think I did? Anyways, here's the Locus winners, below or here.



SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
• WINNER: The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash)
• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom; Solaris)
• The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK)
• The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
• Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
• Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
• Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK)
• Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK)
 
Never heard of this, so that's interesting.

FANTASY NOVEL
• WINNER: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga)
• The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK)
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK)
• Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
• The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK)
• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

HORROR NOVEL
• WINNER: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK)
• The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
• Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
• Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK)
• Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)   
• The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
• WINNER: Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
• Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK)
• Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA)
• Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon)
• The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
• A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK)
• Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK)

Nice to see it win here since it got withdrawn for the Hugo.

FIRST NOVEL
• WINNER: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
• The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK)
• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW)
• Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK)
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
• The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
• The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon)
• Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US 2025)

NOVELLA
• WINNER: What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
• Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
• Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE
• WINNER: “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6924)
• “A Stranger Knocks“, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 9-1024)
• “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe“, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 112024)
• “The River Judge“, S.L. Huang (Reactor 3624)
• “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!“, TJ Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s 9-1024)
• “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell“, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-1024)
• “Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
• “Joanna’s Bodies“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7124)
• “Loneliness Universe“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-624)

SHORT STORY
• WINNER: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 224)
• The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• “Autumn’s Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus“, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 124)
• “Parthenogenesis“, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 10224)
• “The V*mpire“, PH Lee (Reactor 102324)
• “Three Faces of a Beheading“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 5-624)
• “The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is“, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 324)
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 524)

ANTHOLOGY
• WINNER: The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)
• The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press)
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press Teens)
• Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press)
• Northern Nights, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji, ed. (Comma)
• The Crawling Moon, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
• New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon)
• Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway)

COLLECTION
• WINNER: Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
• Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner)
• The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood)
• Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon)
• Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
• You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
• Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
• Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)

MAGAZINE
• WINNER: Clarkesworld
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• The Deadlands
• Uncanny Magazine

PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group recused itself from this category.)
• WINNER: Subterranean Press
• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Erewhon
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Small Beer Press
• Solaris
• Tachyon

EDITOR
• WINNER: Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Diana Pho
• dave ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• E. Catherine Tobler
• Wendy N. Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap

ARTIST
• WINNER: Charles Vess
• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Julie Dillon
• Kathleen Jennings
• Abigail Larson
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Michael Whelan
• Alyssa Winans

NON-FICTION
• WINNER: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)
• This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths)
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
• The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
• Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever)
• Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater)
• Laozi’s Dao De Jing, Laozi & Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025)
• Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
• A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl)
• Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
• WINNER: The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, illustrated by Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, art by Nico Delort (Scholastic)
• R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic, Kateřina Čupová, translated by Julie Nováková (Rosarium)
• Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, Scott Dunbier, ed., art by Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery with IDW)
• Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, art by Sakyu (Tuttle)
• Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed)
• Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute, Marisa Lewis, ed. (3dtotal)
• Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, art by Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)
 
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