2023 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Anthology

Africa Risen
(Winner)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

Trouble the Waters
(Finalist)
Sheree Renee Thomas

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six
(Finalist)
Neil Clarke

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Yu Chen

Someone in Time
(Finalist)
Nina Allan

Screams From the Dark
(Finalist)
Ellen Datlow

Tomorrow's Parties
(Finalist)
Jonathan Strahan

The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s
(Finalist)
Lisa Yaszek

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2022
(Finalist)
John Joseph Adams

The Best of World SF: Volume 2
(Finalist)
Lavie Tidhar

Collection

Boys, Beasts & Men
(Winner)
Sam J. Miller

The Best of Lucius Shepard, Volume Two
(Finalist)
Lucius Shepard

Dark Breakers
(Finalist)
C.S.E. Cooney

Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection
(Finalist)
James S.A. Corey

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
(Finalist)
Janelle Monae

Night Shift
(Finalist)
Eileen Gunn

Breakable Things
(Finalist)
Cassandra Khaw

Illuminations: Stories
(Finalist)
Alan Moore

Our Fruiting Bodies
(Finalist)
Nisi Shawl

Geometries of Belonging
(Finalist)
R.B. Lemberg

Fantasy Novel

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
(Winner)
R.F. Kuang

Fevered Star
(Finalist)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Spear
(Finalist)
Nicola Griffith

Nettle & Bone
(Finalist)
T. Kingfisher

Siren Queen
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

When Women Were Dragons
(Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

The Grief of Stones
(Finalist)
Katherine Addison

Nona the Ninth
(Finalist)
Tamsyn Muir

The Golden Enclaves
(Finalist)
Naomi Novik

The World We Make
(Finalist)
N.K. Jemisin

First Novel

The Mountain in the Sea
(Winner)
Ray Nayler

How High We Go in the Dark
(Finalist)
Sequoia Nagamatsu

The Bone Orchard
(Finalist)
Sara A. Mueller

Legends & Lattes
(Finalist)
Travis Baldree

The Hacienda
(Finalist)
Isabel Canas

The Ballad of Perilous Graves
(Finalist)
Alex Jennings

The Book Eaters
(Finalist)
Sunyi Dean

The Bruising of Qilwa
(Finalist)
Naseem Jamnia

The Unbalancing
(Finalist)
R.B. Lemberg

The Genesis of Misery
(Finalist)
Neon Yang

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

What Moves the Dead
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

Road of Bones
(Finalist)
Christopher Golden

Echo
(Finalist)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Gwendy's Final Task
(Finalist)
Stephen King; Richard Chizmar

Sundial
(Finalist)
Catriona Ward

The Fervor
(Finalist)
Alma Katsu

Just Like Home
(Finalist)
Sarah Gailey

The Pallbearers Club
(Finalist)
Paul Tremblay

The Devil Takes You Home
(Finalist)
Gabino Iglesias

No Gods For Drowning
(Finalist)
Hailey Piper

Saturnalia
(Finalist)
Stephanie Feldman

Novelette

If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
(Winner)
John Chu
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Difference Between Love and Time
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

A Dream of Electric Mothers
(Finalist)
Wole Talabi
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Falling Off the Edge of the World
(Finalist)
Suzanne Palmer
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Incident at Bear Creek Lodge
(Finalist)
Tananarive Due
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Sadness Box
(Finalist)
Suzanne Palmer
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Six Deaths of the Saint
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Solidity
(Finalist)
Greg Egan
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold
(Finalist)
S.B. Divya
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

In Mercy, Rain
(Finalist)
Seanan McGuire

Novella

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
(Winner)
Becky Chambers

Servant Mage
(Finalist)
Kate Elliott

Bishop’s Opening
(Finalist)
R.S.A. Garcia
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Ogres
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Mirror Mended
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow

Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard

High Times in the Low Parliament
(Finalist)
Kelly Robson

Even Though I Knew the End
(Finalist)
C.L. Polk

Into the Riverlands
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

Tread of Angels
(Finalist)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Science Fiction Novel

The Kaiju Preservation Society
(Winner)
John Scalzi

The Spare Man
(Finalist)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Goliath
(Finalist)
Tochi Onyebuchi

Sea of Tranquility
(Finalist)
Emily St. John Mandel

Sweep of Stars
(Finalist)
Maurice Broaddus

Eyes of the Void
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Red Scholar's Wake
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
(Finalist)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Eversion
(Finalist)
Alastair Reynolds

Neom
(Finalist)
Lavie Tidhar

Short Story

Rabbit Test
(Winner)
Samantha Mills
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Beginnings
(Finalist)
Kristina Ten
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Coward Who Stole God’s Name
(Finalist)
John Wiswell
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Dick Pig
(Finalist)
Ian Muneshwar
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Give Me English
(Finalist)
Ai Jiang
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Goldfish Man
(Finalist)
Maureen McHugh
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Inheritance
(Finalist)
Hannah Yang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Master of Ceremonies
(Finalist)
Frances Ogamba
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

A Monster in the Shape of a Boy
(Finalist)
Hannah Yang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

D.I.Y
(Finalist)
John Wiswell

Young Adult Novel

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

Unraveller
(Finalist)
Frances Hardinge

The Kindred
(Finalist)
Alechia Dow

Bitter
(Finalist)
Akwaeke Emezi

Lakelore
(Finalist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

An Arrow to the Moon
(Finalist)
Emily X.R. Pan

Ballad & Dagger
(Finalist)
Daniel Jose Older

Rust in the Root
(Finalist)
Justina Ireland

Bloodmarked
(Finalist)
Tracy Deonn

The Scratch Daughters
(Finalist)
Hannah Abigail Clarke / H.A. Clarke

Award Categories

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First Novel

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