Locus Award - Novelette (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Red Mother
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Bear

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

Small Monsters
(Finalist)
E. Lily Yu

2021

The Pill
(Winner)
Meg Elison
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super
(Nominee)
A.T. Greenblatt
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Inaccessibility of Heaven
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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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 Buy

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

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

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

2020

Omphalos
(Winner)
Ted Chiang
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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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
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A Country Called Winter
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Erase, Erase, Erase
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Justified
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Late Returns
(Nominee)
Joe Hill
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Phantoms of the Midway
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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2019

The Only Harmless Great Thing
(Winner)
Brooke Bolander

The Donner Party
(Nominee)
Dale Bailey
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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How to Swallow the Moon
(Nominee)
Isabel Yap
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Okay, Glory
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Quality Time
(Nominee)
Ken Liu
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Buy Buy

Queen Lily
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
(Nominee)
Tina Connolly

No Flight Without the Shatter
(Nominee)
Brooke Bolander

Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
(Nominee)
Daryl Gregory

An Agent of Utopia
(Nominee)
Andy Duncan

2018

Extracurricular Activities
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Come See the Living Dryad
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

Waiting on a Bright Moon
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Lamentation of Their Women
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

2017

The Jewel and Her Lapidary
(Nominee)
Fran Wilde

Red as Blood and White as Bone
(Nominee)
Theodora Goss

The Art of Space Travel
(Nominee)
Nina Allan

1980

Sandkings
(Winner)
George R.R. Martin
  • / Science Fiction
  • Buy Buy

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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