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May 8, 2019 05:27 am PDT

The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018

Locus Magazine has published its annual Locus Award finalists, a shortlist of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past calendar year. I rely on this list to find the books I've overlooked (so. many. books.). This year's looks like a bumper crop.

Now that the finalists have been announced, Locus subscribers and others can cast their votes; the awards will be presented in Seattle during a weekend-long event that runs June 28-30, MC'ed by Connie Willis.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)Ahabs Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara OConnor (Levine)Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)The Poppy War, R.F. Read the rest

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