2022 Locus Award (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

Anthology

We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020
(Winner)
C.L. Clark
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

The Best of World SF: Volume 1
(Finalist)
Lavie Tidhar
  • / Science Fiction

The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 2
(Finalist)
Jonathan Strahan
  • / Science Fiction

Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
(Finalist)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Sword Stone Table
(Finalist)
Swapna Krishna

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
(Finalist)
Alex Hernandez

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021
(Finalist)
John Joseph Adams

When Things Get Dark
(Finalist)
Ellen Datlow
in When Things Get Dark

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
(Finalist)
Ellen Datlow

Unfettered Hexes
(Finalist)
Dave Ring

Collection

Even Greater Mistakes: Stories
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

Spirits Abroad
(Finalist)
Zen Cho

Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan
(Finalist)
Usman T. Malik
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

The Best of Elizabeth Hand
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Hand

Never Have I Ever: Stories
(Finalist)
Isabel Yap

Alias Space and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Kelly Robson

Big Dark Hole: Stories
(Finalist)
Jeffrey Ford

The Ghost Sequences
(Finalist)
A.C. Wise

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Alastair Reynolds

Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Tobias S. Buckell

Fantasy Novel

Jade Legacy
(Winner)
Fonda Lee

Paladin's Strength
(Finalist)
T. Kingfisher

Soulstar
(Finalist)
C.L. Polk

Black Water Sister
(Finalist)
Zen Cho

The Jasmine Throne
(Finalist)
Tasha Suri

The Witness for the Dead
(Finalist)
Katherine Addison

No Gods, No Monsters
(Finalist)
Cadwell Turnbull

Under the Whispering Door
(Finalist)
T.J. Klune

The Last Graduate
(Finalist)
Naomi Novik

Light From Uncommon Stars
(Finalist)
Ryka Aoki

First Novel

A Master of Djinn
(Winner)
P. Djeli Clark

Winter's Orbit
(Finalist)
Everina Maxwell

Machinehood
(Finalist)
S.B. Divya

The Unbroken
(Finalist)
C.L. Clark

The Chosen and the Beautiful
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

Wendy, Darling
(Finalist)
A.C. Wise

She Who Became the Sun
(Finalist)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The All-Consuming World
(Finalist)
Cassandra Khaw

Iron Widow
(Finalist)
Xiran Jay Zhao

A Marvellous Light
(Finalist)
Freya Marske

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
(Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones

Later
(Finalist)
Stephen King

A Broken Darkness
(Finalist)
Premee Mohamed

Sorrowland
(Finalist)
Rivers Solomon

Moon Lake
(Finalist)
Joe R. Lansdale

The Book of Accidents
(Finalist)
Chuck Wendig

The Final Girl Support Group
(Finalist)
Grady Hendrix

Billy Summers
(Finalist)
Stephen King

Revelator
(Finalist)
Daryl Gregory

The Death of Jane Lawrence
(Finalist)
Caitlin Starling

Novelette

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Red Mother
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Bear

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

Small Monsters
(Finalist)
E. Lily Yu

Novella

Fugitive Telemetry
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Remote Control
(Finalist)
Nnedi Okorafor

A Blessing of Unicorns
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Fireheart Tiger
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard

Defekt
(Finalist)
Nino Cipri

The Past Is Red
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
(Finalist)
Becky Chambers

The Return of the Sorceress
(Finalist)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Spindle Splintered
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow

Comfort Me With Apples
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente

Science Fiction Novel

A Desolation Called Peace
(Winner)
Arkady Martine

The Echo Wife
(Finalist)
Sarah Gailey

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
(Finalist)
Becky Chambers

Klara and the Sun
(Finalist)
Kazuo Ishiguro

Hummingbird Salamander
(Finalist)
Jeff VanderMeer

We Are Satellites
(Finalist)
Sarah Pinsker

Shards of Earth
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Leviathan Falls
(Finalist)
James S.A. Corey

Noor
(Finalist)
Nnedi Okorafor

You Sexy Thing
(Finalist)
Cat Rambo

Short Story

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather
(Winner)
Sarah Pinsker
  • / Science Fiction

Let All the Children Boogie
(Finalist)
Sam J. Miller

An Arc of Electric Skin
(Finalist)
Wole Talabi
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Crazy Beautiful
(Finalist)
Cat Rambo
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

For Lack of a Bed
(Finalist)
John Wiswell
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Huginn and Muninn -- and What Came After
(Finalist)
Michael Swanwick
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

If the Martians Have Magic
(Finalist)
P. Djeli Clark
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Mr. Death
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow
  • / Science Fiction

Proof by Induction
(Finalist)
Jose Pablo Iriarte
  • / Science Fiction

The Sin of America
(Finalist)
Catherynne M. Valente
  • / Science Fiction

Young Adult Novel

Victories Greater Than Death
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

The Gilded Ones
(Finalist)
Namina Forna

The Infinity Courts
(Finalist)
Akemi Dawn Bowman

Chaos on CatNet
(Finalist)
Naomi Kritzer

This Poison Heart
(Finalist)
Kalynn Bayron

Redemptor
(Finalist)
Jordan Ifueko

A Dark and Starless Forest
(Finalist)
Sarah Hollowell

Iron Widow
(Finalist)
Xiran Jay Zhao

A Snake Falls to Earth
(Finalist)
Darcie Little Badger

Terciel and Elinor
(Finalist)
Garth Nix

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