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Svake godine dodjeljuje se jedna od najprestižnijih žanrovskih književnih nagrada – Locus Award. Za sada su poznati finalisti, a dobitnici će biti objavljeni 21. lipnja na ceremoniji koja će se održati u Oaklandu, u Kaliforniji.
Lista finalista:
ZNANSTVENOFANTASTIČNI ROMAN
The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash)
Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom; Solaris)
The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK)
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK)
Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK)
FANTASY ROMAN
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga)
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK)
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK)
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK)
Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
HOROR ROMAN
Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK)
House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK)
The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK)
Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK)
KNJIGA ZA MLADE
Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK)
Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA)
Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon)
The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK)
Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK)
PRVI ROMAN
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK)
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW)
Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK)
The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US 2025)
NOVELA
Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom)
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
PRIČA
“A Stranger Knocks“, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 9-10/24)
“I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe“, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 11/20/24)
“The River Judge“, S.L. Huang (Reactor 3/6/24)
“Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!“, TJ Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s 9-10/24)
“Another Girl Under the Iron Bell“, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)
“Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
“Joanna’s Bodies“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
“Loneliness Universe“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)
KRATKA PRIČA
The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
“Autumn’s Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
“Five Views of the Planet Tartarus“, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
“Parthenogenesis“, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 10/2/24)
“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
“The V*mpire“, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
“Three Faces of a Beheading“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 5-6/24)
“The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
“Stitched to Skin Like Family Is“, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 3/24)
“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)
ANTOLOGIJA
The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, urednik Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, (The MIT Press)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, urednik Neil Clarke, (Night Shade)
We Mostly Come Out at Night, urednik Rob Costello, (Running Press Teens)
Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, urednik Indrapramit Das, (The MIT Press)
The Black Girl Survives in This One, urednici Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, (Flatiron)
Northern Nights, urednik Michael Kelly, (Undertow)
Egypt + 100, urednik Ahmed Naji, (Comma)
The Crawling Moon, urednik Dave Ring, (Neon Hemlock)
New Adventures in Space Opera, urednik Jonathan Strahan, (Tachyon)
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, urednik Sonia Sulaiman, (Roseway)
ZBIRKA
Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner)
The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood)
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon)
Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)
MAGAZIN
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
Fiyah
khōréō
Lightspeed
Reactor
Strange Horizons
The Deadlands
Uncanny Magazine
NAKLADNIK (Tor Publishing Group povukao se iz ove kategorije)
Angry Robot
DAW
Erewhon
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer Press
Solaris
Subterranean Press
Tachyon
UREDNIK/UREDNICA
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
Diana Pho
dave ring
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
E. Catherine Tobler
Wendy N. Wagner
Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
UMJETNIK/UMJETNICA
Brom
Rovina Cai
Julie Dillon
Kathleen Jennings
Abigail Larson
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
Alyssa Winans
PUBLICISTIKA/TEORIJA
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)
This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths)
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever)
Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater)
Laozi’s Dao De Jing, Laozi & Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025)
Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl)
Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions)
MONOGRAFIJA
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, art Tom Kidd (Suntup)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, illustrirao Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, art Nico Delort (Scholastic)
R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic, Kateřina Čupová, prevela Julie Nováková (Rosarium)
Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, urednik Scott Dunbier, art Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery with IDW)
Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, art Sakyu (Tuttle)
Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt)
Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed)
Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute, urednik Marisa Lewis, (3dtotal)
Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, art Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)
