The 2024 Locus Awards Finalists Are Here
Readers of science fiction and fantasy–or those curious to dive into the genres–it’s time to rejoice. The finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards are here.
Finalists below were selected based on public votes, which ran from February 1 to April 15, 2024. The winners in each of the categories will be announced June 22, at the Locus Awards Ceremony. Held in Nile Hall at Preservation Park in Oakland, California, the awards ceremony can be attended by anyone, and this year’s event will be hosted by MC Henry Lien and feature special guest Connie Willis. Tickets are available here .
Ten finalists are named in each category. Dive on into some of the categories below.
Science Fiction Novel
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
System Collapse by Martha Wells
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
Fantasy Novel
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Dead Country by Max Gladstone
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Witch King by Martha Wells
Horror Novel
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Young Adult Novel
Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders
The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila
Damned If You Do by Alex Brown
A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow
The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
Into the Light by Mark Oshiro
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
First Novel
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Collection
The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed
Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran
Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo
Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker
The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two by Michael Swanwick
The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One by Catherynne M. Valente
Non-Fiction
The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History by Jack Dann
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Kevin Jon Davies, ed.
Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir by M. John Harrison
All These Worlds by Niall Harrison
101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ex Marginalia : Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color by Chinelo Onwualu, ed.
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller by Maureen Kincaid Speller
Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God by Robert Charles Wilson
Being Michael Swanwick by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Check out the full list of categories and finalists on the Locus Magazine website .
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