Locus Awards 2018
Sf Novel
Winner: The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canana; Fourth Estate)
Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Raven Strategem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
Fantasy Novel
Winner: The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com; Orbit UK)
Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)
The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com)
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; Riverrun)
The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
Horror Novel
Winner: The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
First Novel
Winner: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor)
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
The City of Brass, S. A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com)
Novella
Winner: All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com)
Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com)
“And Then There Were (N-One)”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2017)
Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com)
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)
Novelette
Winner: “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF Sep/Oct 2017)
“Children of Thorns, Children of Water”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017)
“Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 9 Mar 2017)
“Extracurricular Activities”, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 15 Feb 2017)
“The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
“The Lamentation of Their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 24 Aug 2017)
“The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
“Waiting on a Bright Moon”, JY Yang (Tor.com 12 Jul 2017)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's Sep/Oct 2017)
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017)
Short Story
Winner: “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 19 Jul 2017)
“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11 May 2017)
“Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
“Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
“Fandom for Robots”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2017)
“Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
“Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's May/Jun 2017)
“Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF Sep/Oct 2017)
“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM”, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Aug 2017)
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
Collection
Winner: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Anthology
Winner: The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin)
Non-fiction
Winner: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (Twelfth Planet)
Don't Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
