2021 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Collection

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
(Winner)
Ken Liu

Fantasy Novel

The City We Became
(Winner)
N.K. Jemisin

First Novel

Elatsoe
(Winner)
Darcie Little Badger

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Mexican Gothic
(Winner)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Novelette

The Pill
(Winner)
Meg Elison
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Novella

Ring Shout
(Winner)
P. Djeli Clark

Science Fiction Novel

Network Effect
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Short Story

Little Free Library
(Winner)
Naomi Kritzer

Young Adult Novel

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

Anthology

Made To Order: Robots and Revolution
(Nominee)
John Chu

A Phoenix First Must Burn
(Nominee)
Patrice Caldwell

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
(Nominee)
Jeffrey S. VanderMeer

The Book of Dragons
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Dominion
(Nominee)
Zelda Knight

Edited By
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Glitter + Ashes
(Nominee)
Dave Ring

The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 5
(Nominee)
Neil Clarke

Africanfuturism
(Nominee)
Wole Talabi
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Collection

The Best of Elizabeth Bear
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
(Nominee)
Julian K. Jarboe

If It Bleeds
(Nominee)
Stephen King

The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus
(Nominee)
Michael Swanwick

Big Girl
(Nominee)
Meg Elison

Nine Bar Blues
(Nominee)
Sheree Renee Thomas

The Midnight Circus
(Nominee)
Jane Yolen

Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future
(Nominee)
Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The Best of Jeffrey Ford
(Nominee)
Jeffrey Ford
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Fantasy Novel

The Angel of the Crows
(Nominee)
Katherine Addison

Harrow the Ninth
(Nominee)
Tamsyn Muir

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
(Nominee)
Garth Nix

Piranesi
(Nominee)
Susanna Clarke

The Trouble With Peace
(Nominee)
Joe Abercrombie

Black Sun
(Nominee)
Rebecca Roanhorse

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
(Nominee)
V.E. Schwab

The Midnight Bargain
(Nominee)
C.L. Polk

The Once and Future Witches
(Nominee)
Alix E. Harrow

First Novel

The Vanished Birds
(Nominee)
Simon Jimenez

The Unspoken Name
(Nominee)
A.K. Larkwood

Beneath The Rising
(Nominee)
Premee Mohamed

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
(Nominee)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Space Between Worlds
(Nominee)
Micaiah Johnson

Architects of Memory
(Nominee)
Karen Osborne

The Bone Shard Daughter
(Nominee)
Andrea Stewart

Cemetery Boys
(Nominee)
Aiden Thomas

Hench
(Nominee)
Natalie Zina Walschots

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Beowulf
(Nominee)
Maria Dahvana Headley

The Deep
(Nominee)
Alma Katsu

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
(Nominee)
Grady Hendrix

Devolution
(Nominee)
Max Brooks

The Only Good Indians
(Nominee)
Stephen Graham Jones

Survivor Song
(Nominee)
Paul Tremblay

The Hole
(Nominee)
Hiroko Oyamada

The Hollow Places
(Nominee)
T. Kingfisher

Plain Bad Heroines
(Nominee)
Emily M. Danforth

Novelette

Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super
(Nominee)
A.T. Greenblatt
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

The Inaccessibility of Heaven
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

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
  • Buy

Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Fairy Tales for Robots
(Nominee)
Sofia Samatar
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

A Whisper of Blue
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Novella

Come Tumbling Down
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

Riot Baby
(Nominee)
Tochi Onyebuchi

Finna
(Nominee)
Nino Cipri

Upright Women Wanted
(Nominee)
Sarah Gailey

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
(Nominee)
Nghi Vo

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
(Nominee)
Zen Cho

Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

The Four Profound Weaves
(Nominee)
R.B. Lemberg

Seven of Infinities
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

Science Fiction Novel

Agency
(Nominee)
William Gibson

War of the Maps
(Nominee)
Paul McAuley

The Last Emperox
(Nominee)
John Scalzi

Interlibrary Loan
(Nominee)
Gene Wolfe

The Relentless Moon
(Nominee)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Unconquerable Sun
(Nominee)
Kate Elliott

Attack Surface
(Nominee)
Cory Doctorow

Machine
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

The Ministry for the Future
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Short Story

Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse
(Nominee)
Rae Carson
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

The Mermaid Astronaut
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Open House on Haunted Hill
(Nominee)
John Wiswell
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Wait for Night
(Nominee)
Stephen Graham Jones

50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Dresses Like White Elephants
(Nominee)
Meg Elison
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods
(Nominee)
Maria Dahvana Headley
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

In the Lands of the Spill
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

The Sycamore and the Sybil
(Nominee)
Alix E. Harrow
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy

Young Adult Novel

Race to the Sun
(Nominee)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Shadowshaper Legacy
(Nominee)
Daniel Jose Older

Deathless Divide
(Nominee)
Justina Ireland

A Song Below Water
(Nominee)
Bethany C. Morrow

A Peculiar Peril
(Nominee)
Jeff VanderMeer

Legendborn
(Nominee)
Tracy Deonn

The Scapegracers
(Nominee)
Hannah Abigail Clarke / H.A. Clarke

The Silvered Serpents
(Nominee)
Roshani Chokshi

Over the Woodward Wall
(Nominee)
A. Deborah Baker

Award Categories

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Art Book

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First Novel

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Novella

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Short Story

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