Locus Award - Novella (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2024

Thornhedge
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

Lost in the Moment and Found
(Finalist)
Seanan McGuire

Mammoths at the Gates
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo
  • / Science Fiction

The Crane Husband
(Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

The Lies of the Ajungo
(Finalist)
Moses Ose Utomi

The Mimicking of Known Successes
(Finalist)
Malka Older

Linghun
(Finalist)
Ai Jiang

Rose/House
(Finalist)
Arkady Martine

The Salt Grows Heavy
(Finalist)
Cassandra Khaw

The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
(Finalist)
Indra Das

2023

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
(Winner)
Becky Chambers

Servant Mage
(Finalist)
Kate Elliott

Bishop's Opening
(Finalist)
R.S.A. Garcia
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Ogres
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Mirror Mended
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow

Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances
(Finalist)
Aliette De Bodard

High Times in the Low Parliament
(Finalist)
Kelly Robson

Even Though I Knew the End
(Finalist)
C.L. Polk

Into the Riverlands
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

Tread of Angels
(Finalist)
Rebecca Roanhorse

2022

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

2021

Ring Shout
(Winner)
P. Djeli Clark

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

2020

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

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

2019

Artificial Condition
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Umbernight
(Nominee)
Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy

Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach
(Nominee)
Kelly Robson

The Tea Master and the Detective
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

Time Was
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Black Helicopters
(Nominee)
Caitlin R. Kiernan

The Freeze-Frame Revolution
(Nominee)
Peter Watts

The Black God's Drums
(Nominee)
P. Djeli Clark

The Descent of Monsters
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

Rogue Protocol
(Nominee)
Martha Wells

2018

All Systems Red
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Passing Strange
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

Home
(Nominee)
Nnedi Okorafor

In Calabria
(Nominee)
Peter S. Beagle

Agents of Dreamland
(Nominee)
Caitlin R. Kiernan

River of Teeth
(Nominee)
Sarah Gailey

Down Among the Sticks and Bones
(Nominee)
Seanan McGuire

The Black Tides of Heaven
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune
(Nominee)
J.Y. Yang

2017

Every Heart a Doorway
(Winner)
Seanan McGuire

The Iron Tactician
(Nominee)
Alastair Reynolds
  • / Science Fiction

This Census-Taker
(Nominee)
China Mieville

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
(Nominee)
Kij Johnson

Hammers on Bone
(Nominee)
Cassandra Khaw

A Taste of Honey
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

The Lost Child of Lychford
(Nominee)
Paul Cornell

Pirate Utopia
(Nominee)
Bruce Sterling

The Dispatcher
(Nominee)
John Scalzi

2016

Slow Bullets
(Winner)
Alastair Reynolds

Binti
(Nominee)
Nnedi Okorafor

Penric's Demon
(Nominee)
Lois McMaster Bujold

The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
(Nominee)
Greg Egan

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
(Nominee)
Aliette De Bodard

2015

We Are All Completely Fine
(Nominee)
Daryl Gregory

Yesterday's Kin
(Nominee)
Nancy Kress

2013

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
(Winner)
Nancy Kress

The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella
(Nominee)
Jay Lake

2009

Pretty Monsters
(Winner)
Kelly Link

2007

Missile Gap
(Winner)
Charles Stross

The Empire of Ice Cream: Stories
(Nominee)
Jeffrey Ford

2006

Magic for Beginners: Stories
(Winner)
Kelly Link

Burn
(Nominee)
James Patrick Kelly

1997

Bellwether
(Winner)
Connie Willis

1996

Remake
(Winner)
Connie Willis

1994

Mefisto in Onyx
(Winner)
Harlan Ellison
  • / Science Fiction

1991

A Short, Sharp Shock
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

1988

The Secret Sharer
(Winner)
Robert Silverberg
  • / Science Fiction

1982

Blue Champagne
(Winner)
John Varley
  • / Science Fiction

1981

Nightflyers
(Winner)
George R.R. Martin
  • / Science Fiction

1979

The Persistence of Vision
(Winner)
John Varley
  • / Science Fiction

1975

Born With the Dead
(Winner)
Robert Silverberg
  • / Science Fiction

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