Inverzija Science fiction and fantasy news website
Svake godine dodjeljuje se jedna od najprestižnijih žanrovskih književnih nagrada – Locus Award. Za sada su poznati finalisti, a dobitnici će biti objavljeni 30. svibnja na ceremoniji koja će se održati u Berkeleyju, u Kaliforniji.
ZNANSTVENOFANTASTIČNI ROMAN
The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)
When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)
Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfel & Nicolson)
Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
FANTASY ROMAN
The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)
Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)
HOROR ROMAN
The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)
King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK)
The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK)
It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen)
The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK)
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
KNJIGA ZA MLADE
The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK)
Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK)
The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK)
The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen)
Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton)
Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper)
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
PRVI ROMAN
A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)
Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It)
When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK)
Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK)
Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie)
Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK)
North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object)
Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK)
Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK)
PREVEDENI ROMAN
On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, preveli Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber)
The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, prevela Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK)
The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, preveo Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US)
Red Sword, Bora Chung, preveo Anton Hur (Honford Star)
The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, preveo Anton Hur (Algonquin)
Ice, Jacek Dukaj, prevela Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus)
Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, preveo Anton Hur (Tor)
Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, prevela Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK)
Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, preveo Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail)
The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, preveo Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK)
NOVELA
The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom)
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)
PRIČA
“The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
“Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
“Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
“We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
“The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
“The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
“When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
“The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
“Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
“Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)
KRATKA PRIČA
“Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
“In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
“In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
“Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
“The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
“Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
“Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
“Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
“Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
“Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
ANTOLOGIJA
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, uredio André M. Carrington
Night & Day, uredila Ellen Datlow
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, uredili Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett i Craig Laurance Gidney
The End of the World As We Know It, uredili Christopher Golden & Brian Keene
We Will Rise Again uredili Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz i Malka Older
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, uredio Lee Mandelo
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Vol. 1, uredio Michael Kelly
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Vol. 3, uredio Stephen Kotowych
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, uredili Nnedi Okorafor i John Joseph Adams
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, uredila Terese Mason Pierre
ZBIRKA
Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell
Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller
Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha
Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip
One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed
The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds
Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde
MAGAZIN
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
Fiyah
khōréō
Lightspeed
Reactor
Strange Horizons
Uncanny Magazine
NAKLADNIK (Tor Publishing Group i Subterranean Press povukli su se iz ove kategorije)
Angry Robot
DAW
Del Rey
Gollancz
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
Saga
Solaris
Tachyon
UREDNIK/UREDNICA
John Joseph Adams
Scott H. Andrews
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
dave ring
Jonathan Strahan
Bogi Takács
Wendy N. Wagner
Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
Sheila Williams
UMJETNIK/UMJETNICA
Brom
Rovina Cai
Galen Dara
Bob Eggleton
Kathleen Jennings
Alan Lee
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
PUBLICISTIKA/TEORIJA
The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo i John Picacio
Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, uredili Sara Frazetta i Arnie Fenner, art Frank Frazetta
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art Rovina Cai
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art Tana Ford
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, Rebecca K. Reynolds, art Justin Gerard
Sunset at Zero Point / Swedish Machines, Simon Stålenhag
Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell
Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder i David M. Brinley
MONOGRAFIJA
The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson
Enshittification, Cory Doctorow
Colourfields, Paul Kincaid
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky
Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang
