Ya se han dado a conocer los finalistas de los premios Locus de este año, son los siguientes:
NOVELA DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN
- The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash)
- Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK)
- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
- Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK)
- Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK)
NOVELA DE FANTASÍA
- I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga)
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK)
- The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK)
- Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
- The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK)
- Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
NOVELA DE TERROR
- Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK)
- The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
- Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK)
- Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
- The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK)
NOVELA JUVENIL
- Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
- Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK)
- Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA)
- Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon)
- The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
- A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK)
- Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
- Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK)
PRIMERA NOVELA
- The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK)
- The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW)
- Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK)
- The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
- The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
- The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon)
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)
- Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US 2025)
NOVELA CORTA
- Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
- Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
- The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
- The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
- She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
- Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
- The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
RELATO LARGO
- “A Stranger Knocks“, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 9-10/24)
- “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe“, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 11/20/24)
- “The River Judge“, S.L. Huang (Reactor 3/6/24)
- “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!“, TJ Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
- “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s 9-10/24)
- “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell“, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
- “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)
- “Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “Joanna’s Bodies“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
- “Loneliness Universe“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)
RELATO CORTO
- The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- “Autumn’s Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus“, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
- “Parthenogenesis“, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 10/2/24)
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)
- “The V*mpire“, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
- “Three Faces of a Beheading“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 5-6/24)
- “The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
- “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is“, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 3/24)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)
ANTOLOGÍA
- The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
- We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press Teens)
- Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press)
- The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)
- Northern Nights, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji, ed. (Comma)
- The Crawling Moon, Dave Ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon)
- Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway)
COLECCIÓN
- Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
- Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner)
- The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood)
- Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon)
- Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer)
- You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
- Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
- Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW)
MAGAZINE
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- Fiyah
- khōréō
- Lightspeed
- Reactor
- Strange Horizons
- The Deadlands
- Uncanny Magazine
EDITORIAL
- Angry Robot
- DAW
- Erewhon
- Gollancz
- Neon Hemlock
- Orbit
- Small Beer Press
- Solaris
- Subterranean Press
- Tachyon
EDITOR
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Diana Pho
- dave ring
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheree Renée Thomas
- E. Catherine Tobler
- Wendy N. Wagner
- Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
ARTISTA
- Brom
- Rovina Cai
- Julie Dillon
- Kathleen Jennings
- Abigail Larson
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
- Alyssa Winans
NO FICCIÓN
- Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)
- This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths)
- Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press)
- The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia)
- Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever)
- Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater)
- Laozi’s Dao De Jing, Laozi & Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025)
- Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene)
- A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl)
- Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions)
LIBROS DE ARTE E ILUSTRADOS
- The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, arte de Tom Kidd (Suntup)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, ilustrado por Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, arte de Nico Delort (Scholastic)
- R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic, Kateřina Čupová, traducido por Julie Nováková (Rosarium)
- Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, Scott Dunbier, ed., arte de Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery con IDW)
- Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, arte de Sakyu (Tuttle)
- Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed)
- Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute, Marisa Lewis, ed. (3dtotal)
- Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, arte de Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!