Finalistas premios Locus 2026

Aquí tenemos los finalistas de los premios Locus 2026, preparaos para un listado bastante extenso:

NOVELAS DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) 
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) 
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfel & Nicolson)
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) 
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) 
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) 
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) 

NOVELAS DE FANTASÍA

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) 
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) 
• The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) 
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) 
• Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) 
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) 
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) 

NOVELAS DE TERROR

• The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
• Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire) 
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK) 
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) 
• The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK) 
• Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK) 
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK) 
• It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen) 
• The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan US & UK) 
• The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

NOVELAS JUVENILES

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK)
• Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
• Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK)
• The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK)
• The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen)
• Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
• Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton)
• Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
• I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper)
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)

PRIMERAS NOVELAS

• A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)
• Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It)
• When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK)
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie)
• Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK)
• North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object)
• Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK)
• Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
• Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK)

NOVELA TRADUCIDA

• On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber)
• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK)
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US)
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star)
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin)
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus)
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor)
• Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK)
• Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail)
• The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK)

NOVELAS CORTAS

• The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean) 
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) 
• What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom) 
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) 
• Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) 
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom) 
• Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus) 
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) 
• Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom) 

RELATOS LARGOS

• “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
• “Barnacle“, Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
• “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends“, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
• “The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
• “The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
• “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
• “Phantom View“, John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)

RELATOS CORTOS

• “Secret Night“, Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
• “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “Wire Mother“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Shape of Stones“, Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
• “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead“, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key“, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Landline“, Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
• “Missing Helen“, Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly“, Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

ANTOLOGÍA

• The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America) 
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga) 
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams) 
• The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
• We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga) 
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon) 
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) 
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner) 
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) 

COLECCIÓN

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock) 
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man) 
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow) 
• Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) 
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon) 
• One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
• The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) 
• Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean) 
• A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood) 

MAGAZINE

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

EDITORIAL (Tor Publishing Group & Subterranean Press se han retirado de esta categoría. Tor UK es una división de Pan Macmillan, no de TPG.)

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Del Rey
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
• Saga
• Solaris
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• John Joseph Adams
• Scott H. Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• dave ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Bogi Takács
• Wendy N. Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
• Sheila Williams

ARTISTA

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Kathleen Jennings
• Alan Lee
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

LIBROS DE ARTE E ILUSTRADOS

• The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., arte de Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, arte de Rovina Cai (Subterranean) 
• Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK) 
• Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, arte de Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive)
• The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, arte de Tana Ford (First Second) 
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adaptado por Rebecca K. Reynolds, arte de Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle)
• Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US) 
• Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press) 

NO FICCIÓN

• The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM) 
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)
• Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) 
• Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton) 
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad) 
• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press) 
• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay) 
• Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
• Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon)
• Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press) 

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!