Locus Award - Novelette (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2024

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

2023

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

2022

That Story Isn't the Story
(Winner)
John Wiswell
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

The Black Pages
(Finalist)
Nnedi Okorafor
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Bots of the Lost Ark
(Finalist)
Suzanne Palmer
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story
(Finalist)
Nalo Hopkinson
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Mulberry and Owl
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Skinder's Veil
(Finalist)
Kelly Link
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.
(Finalist)
Fran Wilde
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Red Mother
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Bear

L'Esprit de L'Escalier
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente

Small Monsters
(Finalist)
E. Lily Yu

2021

The Pill
(Winner)
Meg Elison
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super
(Nominee)
A.T. Greenblatt
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Inaccessibility of Heaven
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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If You Take My Meaning
(Nominee)
Charlie Jane Anders

Two Truths and a Lie
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinsker

A City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat
(Nominee)
Usman T. Malik
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Fairy Tales for Robots
(Nominee)
Sofia Samatar
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A Whisper of Blue
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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2020

Omphalos
(Winner)
Ted Chiang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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For He Can Creep
(Nominee)
Siobhan Carroll

Emergency Skin
(Nominee)
N.K. Jemisin

Binti: Sacred Fire
(Nominee)
Nnedi Okorafor
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinsker
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

A Country Called Winter
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Erase, Erase, Erase
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Justified
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Late Returns
(Nominee)
Joe Hill
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Phantoms of the Midway
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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2019

The Only Harmless Great Thing
(Winner)
Brooke Bolander

The Donner Party
(Nominee)
Dale Bailey
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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How to Swallow the Moon
(Nominee)
Isabel Yap
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Okay, Glory
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Quality Time
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Queen Lily
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
(Nominee)
Tina Connolly

No Flight Without the Shatter
(Nominee)
Brooke Bolander

Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
(Nominee)
Daryl Gregory

An Agent of Utopia
(Nominee)
Andy Duncan

2018

Extracurricular Activities
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Come See the Living Dryad
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

Waiting on a Bright Moon
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Lamentation of Their Women
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

2017

The Jewel and Her Lapidary
(Nominee)
Fran Wilde

Red as Blood and White as Bone
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

The Art of Space Travel
(Nominee)
Nina Allan

1980

Sandkings
(Winner)
George R.R. Martin
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

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