2026 Locus Awards
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SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) amazon / bookshop
Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) amazon / bookshop
When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) amazon / bookshop
Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop
I don't think the Locus tends to predict the Hugos very well (especially since novels get split up four ways for the Locus) but this is interesting.
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) amazon / bookshop
I'm reading this right now and so far I don't see it, but okay.
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK) amazon / bookshop
The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK) amazon / bookshop
The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop
It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen) amazon / bookshop
The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK) amazon / bookshop
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H] amazon / bookshop
Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F] amazon / bookshop
Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton) [F] amazon / bookshop
I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F] amazon / bookshop
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F] amazon / bookshop
Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H] amazon / bookshop
When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H] amazon / bookshop
Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF] amazon / bookshop
TRANSLATED NOVEL
WINNER: On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H] amazon / bookshop
Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H] amazon / bookshop
Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F] amazon / bookshop
Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
NOVELLA
WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) amazon / bookshop
A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Very interesting!
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
“The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
“Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
“Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
“The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
“The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
“When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
“The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
“Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
“Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)
Also interesting.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
“Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
“In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
“Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
“The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
“Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
“Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
“Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
“Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
“Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
Hmm.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America) amazon / bookshop
Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) amazon / bookshop
The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) amazon
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) amazon / bookshop
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) amazon / bookshop
COLLECTION
WINNER: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man) amazon / bookshop
Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Clarkesworld
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
F&SF
Fiyah
khōréō
Lightspeed
Reactor
Strange Horizons
Uncanny Magazine
PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.)
WINNER: Orbit
Angry Robot
DAW
Del Rey
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
Saga
Solaris
Tachyon
EDITOR
WINNER: Neil Clarke
John Joseph Adams
Scott H. Andrews
Ellen Datlow
dave ring
Jonathan Strahan
Bogi Takács
Wendy N. Wagner
Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: John Picacio
Brom
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bob Eggleton
Kathleen Jennings
Alan Lee
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second) amazon / bookshop
The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) amazon / bookshop
Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls) amazon
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK) amazon / bookshop
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive) amazon
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle) amazon
Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US) amazon / bookshop
Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press) amazon / bookshop
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD) amazon / bookshop
The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM) amazon / bookshop
Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) amazon
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton) amazon / bookshop
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad) amazon / bookshop
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press) amazon / bookshop
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay) amazon / bookshop
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press) amazon / bookshop
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
WINNER: Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) amazon / bookshop
Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) amazon / bookshop
When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) amazon / bookshop
Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop
I don't think the Locus tends to predict the Hugos very well (especially since novels get split up four ways for the Locus) but this is interesting.
FANTASY NOVEL
WINNER: The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) amazon / bookshop
I'm reading this right now and so far I don't see it, but okay.
HORROR NOVEL
WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop
King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK) amazon / bookshop
The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK) amazon / bookshop
The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop
It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen) amazon / bookshop
The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK) amazon / bookshop
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
WINNER: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H] amazon / bookshop
Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F] amazon / bookshop
Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton) [F] amazon / bookshop
I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F] amazon / bookshop
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
FIRST NOVEL
WINNER: Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F] amazon / bookshop
Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H] amazon / bookshop
When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H] amazon / bookshop
Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF] amazon / bookshop
TRANSLATED NOVEL
WINNER: On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H] amazon / bookshop
The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H] amazon / bookshop
Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H] amazon / bookshop
Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F] amazon / bookshop
Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF] amazon / bookshop
Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF] amazon / bookshop
The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F] amazon / bookshop
NOVELLA
WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) amazon / bookshop
A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
Very interesting!
NOVELETTE
WINNER: “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
“The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
“Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
“Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
“The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
“The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
“When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
“The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
“Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
“Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)
Also interesting.
SHORT STORY
WINNER: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
“Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
“In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
“Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
“The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
“Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
“Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
“Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
“Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
“Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
Hmm.
ANTHOLOGY
WINNER: We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America) amazon / bookshop
Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) amazon / bookshop
The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery) amazon / bookshop
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) amazon
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) amazon / bookshop
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) amazon / bookshop
COLLECTION
WINNER: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man) amazon / bookshop
Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop
MAGAZINE
WINNER: Clarkesworld
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
F&SF
Fiyah
khōréō
Lightspeed
Reactor
Strange Horizons
Uncanny Magazine
PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.)
WINNER: Orbit
Angry Robot
DAW
Del Rey
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
Saga
Solaris
Tachyon
EDITOR
WINNER: Neil Clarke
John Joseph Adams
Scott H. Andrews
Ellen Datlow
dave ring
Jonathan Strahan
Bogi Takács
Wendy N. Wagner
Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
Sheila Williams
ARTIST
WINNER: John Picacio
Brom
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bob Eggleton
Kathleen Jennings
Alan Lee
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
WINNER: The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second) amazon / bookshop
The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) amazon / bookshop
Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls) amazon
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean) amazon / bookshop
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK) amazon / bookshop
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive) amazon
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle) amazon
Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US) amazon / bookshop
Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press) amazon / bookshop
NON-FICTION
WINNER: Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD) amazon / bookshop
The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM) amazon / bookshop
Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) amazon
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton) amazon / bookshop
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad) amazon / bookshop
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press) amazon / bookshop
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay) amazon / bookshop
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga) amazon / bookshop
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press) amazon / bookshop
