2024 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Anthology

Out There Screaming
(Winner)
Jordan Peele

New Suns 2
(Finalist)
Daniel H. Wilson

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
(Finalist)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

The Book of Witches
(Finalist)
Jonathan Strahan

Never Whistle at Night
(Finalist)
Shane Hawk

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
(Finalist)
John Joseph Adams

The Best of World SF ~ Vol 3: Volume 3
(Finalist)
Lavie Tidhar

Christmas and Other Horrors
(Finalist)
Ellen Datlow

Mothersound
(Finalist)
Wole Talabi

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7
(Finalist)
Neil Clarke

Collection

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
(Winner)
Kelly Link

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Tananarive Due

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Tobias S. Buckell

The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente

Lost Places: Stories
(Finalist)
Sarah Pinsker

No One Will Come Back For Us
(Finalist)
Premee Mohamed

The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two
(Finalist)
Michael Swanwick

Jackal, Jackal
(Finalist)
Tobi Ogundiran

Skin Thief
(Finalist)
Suzan Palumbo

Fantasy Novel

Witch King
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
(Finalist)
Heather Fawcett

The Keeper's Six
(Finalist)
Kate Elliott

Dead Country
(Finalist)
Max Gladstone

City of Last Chances
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

To Shape a Dragon's Breath
(Finalist)
Moniquill Blackgoose

The Water Outlaws
(Finalist)
S.L. Huang

He Who Drowned the World
(Finalist)
Shelley Parker-Chan

My Brother's Keeper
(Finalist)
Tim Powers

Paladin's Faith
(Finalist)
T. Kingfisher

First Novel

The Saint of Bright Doors
(Winner)
Vajra Chandrasekera

Godkiller
(Finalist)
Hannah Kaner

The Strange
(Finalist)
Nathan Ballingrud

The Marigold
(Finalist)
Andrew F. Sullivan

Some Desperate Glory
(Finalist)
Emily Tesh

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(Finalist)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Ink Blood Sister Scribe
(Finalist)
Emma Torzs

Threads That Bind
(Finalist)
Kika Hatzopoulou

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
(Finalist)
Wole Talabi

These Burning Stars
(Finalist)
Bethany Jacobs

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

A House With Good Bones
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

How to Sell a Haunted House
(Finalist)
Grady Hendrix

Don't Fear the Reaper
(Finalist)
Stephen Graham Jones

Lone Women
(Finalist)
Victor Lavalle

Silver Nitrate
(Finalist)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Vampires of El Norte
(Finalist)
Isabel Canas

Black River Orchard
(Finalist)
Chuck Wendig

A Haunting on the Hill
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Hand

The Reformatory
(Finalist)
Tananarive Due

Starling House
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow

Novelette

The Rainbow Bank
(Winner)
Uchechukwu Nwaka
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

At Every Door a Ghost
(Finalist)
Premee Mohamed
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

John Hollowback and the Witch
(Finalist)
Amal El-Mohtar
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

One Man's Treasure
(Finalist)
Sarah Pinsker
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Prince Hat Underground
(Finalist)
Kelly Link
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge
(Finalist)
Eugenia Triantafyllou
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata
(Finalist)
P. Djeli Clark
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Year Without Sunshine
(Finalist)
Naomi Kritzer
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

I AM AI
(Finalist)
Ai Jiang

On the Fox Roads
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

Novella

Thornhedge
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

Lost in the Moment and Found
(Finalist)
Seanan McGuire

Mammoths at the Gates
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Crane Husband
(Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

The Lies of the Ajungo
(Finalist)
Moses Ose Utomi

The Mimicking of Known Successes
(Finalist)
Malka Older

Linghun
(Finalist)
Ai Jiang

Rose/House
(Finalist)
Arkady Martine

The Salt Grows Heavy
(Finalist)
Cassandra Khaw

The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
(Finalist)
Indra Das

Science Fiction Novel

System Collapse
(Winner)
Martha Wells

The Terraformers
(Finalist)
Annalee Newitz

Furious Heaven
(Finalist)
Kate Elliott

Lords of Uncreation
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Red Team Blues
(Finalist)
Cory Doctorow

Translation State
(Finalist)
Ann Leckie

The Road to Roswell
(Finalist)
Connie Willis

Starter Villain
(Finalist)
John Scalzi

A Fire Born of Exile
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
(Finalist)
Samit Basu

Short Story

How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub
(Winner)
P. Djeli Clark
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Mausoleum's Children
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Reckless Eyeballing
(Finalist)
N.K. Jemisin
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

A Soul in the World
(Finalist)
Charlie Jane Anders
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Stones
(Finalist)
Nnedi Okorafor
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Suppertime
(Finalist)
Tananarive Due
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Sound of Children Screaming
(Finalist)
Rachael K. Jones

There's a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead
(Finalist)
Sarah Pinsker
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Those Hitchhiking Kids
(Finalist)
Darcie Little Badger
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Window Boy
(Finalist)
Thomas Ha
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Young Adult Novel

Promises Stronger Than Darkness
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath
(Finalist)
Garth Nix

Divine Rivals
(Finalist)
Rebecca Ross

Into the Light
(Finalist)
Mark Oshiro

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
(Finalist)
Lorraine Avila

The Library of Broken Worlds
(Finalist)
Alaya Dawn Johnson

A Song of Salvation
(Finalist)
Alechia Dow

Damned If You Do
(Finalist)
Alex Brown (1)

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
(Finalist)
Andrew Joseph White

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
(Finalist)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Award Categories

Anthology

Art Book

Collection

Fantasy Novel

First Novel

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Nonfiction

Novelette

Novella

Science Fiction Novel

Short Story

Young Adult Novel

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