2020 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Anthology

The Mythic Dream
(Nominee)
Multiple Authors
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Broken Stars
(Nominee)
Ken Liu

A People's Future of the United States
(Nominee)
Victor Lavalle

The Very Best of the Best
(Nominee)
Gardner Dozois

New Suns
(Nominee)
Nisi Shawl

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 13
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
(Nominee)
Ann VanderMeer

Mission Critical
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Echoes
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

The Best of Uncanny
(Nominee)
Lynne M. Thomas

Collection

Exhalation: Stories
(Winner)
Ted Chiang

The Very Best of Caitlan R. Kiernan
(Nominee)
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Snow White Learns Witchcraft
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinsker

The Best of R. A. Lafferty
(Nominee)
R.A. Lafferty

Hexarchate Stories
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Meet Me in the Future: Stories
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

Full Throttle: Stories
(Nominee)
Joe Hill

Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

The Best of Greg Egan
(Nominee)
Greg Egan

Fantasy Novel

Middlegame
(Winner)
Seanan McGuire

Ninth House
(Nominee)
Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Tower
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie

Storm of Locusts
(Nominee)
Rebecca Roanhorse

A Brightness Long Ago
(Nominee)
Guy Gavriel Kay

Jade War
(Nominee)
Fonda Lee

The Iron Dragon's Mother
(Nominee)
Michael Swanwick

Gods of Jade and Shadow
(Nominee)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Starless Sea
(Nominee)
Erin Morgenstern

Dead Astronauts
(Nominee)
Jeff VanderMeer

First Novel

Gideon the Ninth
(Winner)
Tamsyn Muir

Infinite Detail
(Nominee)
Tim Maughan

A Memory Called Empire
(Nominee)
Arkady Martine

Finder
(Nominee)
Suzanne Palmer

The Luminous Dead
(Nominee)
Caitlin Starling

Waste Tide
(Nominee)
Chen Qiufan

Magic for Liars
(Nominee)
Sarah Gailey

A Song for a New Day
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinsker

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
(Nominee)
Alix E. Harrow

The Water Dancer
(Nominee)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(Nominee)
Marlon James

Prisoner of Midnight
(Nominee)
Barbara Hambly

The Grand Dark
(Nominee)
Richard Kadrey

The Toll
(Nominee)
Cherie Priest

The Institute
(Nominee)
Stephen King

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju
(Nominee)
Kim Newman

Curious Toys
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand

Imaginary Friend
(Nominee)
Stephen Chbosky

The Twisted Ones
(Nominee)
T. Kingfisher

The Pursuit of William Abbey
(Nominee)
Claire North

Novelette

Omphalos
(Winner)
Ted Chiang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

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
  • Buy Buy

Erase, Erase, Erase
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Justified
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Late Returns
(Nominee)
Joe Hill
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Phantoms of the Midway
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Novella

This Is How You Lose the Time War
(Winner)
Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

The Haunting of Tram Car 015
(Nominee)
P. Djeli Clark

Permafrost
(Nominee)
Alastair Reynolds

Desdemona and the Deep
(Nominee)
C.S.E. Cooney

The Ascent to Godhood
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
(Nominee)
Saad Z. Hossain

To Be Taught, If Fortunate
(Nominee)
Becky Chambers

The Deep
(Nominee)
Rivers Solomon

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
(Nominee)
Ted Chiang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

A Time to Reap
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Science Fiction Novel

The City in the Middle of the Night
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

Moon Rising
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Fleet of Knives
(Nominee)
Gareth L. Powell

Ancestral Night
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

The Light Brigade
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

The Rosewater Insurrection
(Nominee)
Tade Thompson

Empress of Forever
(Nominee)
Max Gladstone

Wanderers
(Nominee)
Chuck Wendig

The Future of Another Timeline
(Nominee)
Annalee Newitz

The Testaments
(Nominee)
Margaret Atwood

Short Story

The Bookstore at the End of America
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy
(Nominee)
Rebecca Roanhorse
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

A Catalog of Storms
(Nominee)
Fran Wilde
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Fisher-Bird
(Nominee)
T. Kingfisher
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex
(Nominee)
Tobias S. Buckell
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear
(Nominee)
Kelly Link
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married
(Nominee)
Fonda Lee
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning
(Nominee)
Ted Chiang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Lest We Forget
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Thoughts and Prayers
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Young Adult Novel

Dragon Pearl
(Winner)
Yoon Ha Lee

King of Scars
(Nominee)
Leigh Bardugo

Shadow Captain
(Nominee)
Alastair Reynolds

The Wicked King
(Nominee)
Holly Black

Destroy All Monsters
(Nominee)
Sam J. Miller

Pet
(Nominee)
Akwaeke Emezi

Angel Mage
(Nominee)
Garth Nix

The Secret Commonwealth
(Nominee)
Philip Pullman

War Girls
(Nominee)
Tochi Onyebuchi

Catfishing on CatNet
(Nominee)
Naomi Kritzer

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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