2024 Locus Awards Finalists | Worlds Without End Blog

The finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport A Fire Born of Exile Red Team Blues Furious Heaven Translation State The Terraformers Starter Villain Lords of Uncreation System Collapse The Road to Roswell

Locus Science Fiction Novel:

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
Translation State by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
System Collapse by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis (Del Rey)

To Shape a Dragon's Breath The Keeper's Six Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Dead Country The Water Outlaws Paladin's Faith He Who Drowned the World My Brother's Keeper City of Last Chances Witch King

Locus Fantasy Novel:

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
Dead Country by Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Vampires of El Norte The Reformatory A Haunting on the Hill Starling House How to Sell a Haunted House Don't Fear the Reaper A House With Good Bones Lone Women Silver Nitrate Black River Orchard

Locus Horror Novel:

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Lone Women by Victor LaValle (One World)
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

Promises Stronger Than Darkness The Making of Yolanda la Bruja Damned If You Do A Song of Salvation The Library of Broken Worlds The Sinister Booksellers of Bath Into the Light Divine Rivals The Siren, the Song, and the Spy The Spirt Bares Its Teeth

Locus Young Adult Book:

Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
The Making of Yolanda la Bruja by Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
Damned If You Do by Alex Brown (Page Street)
A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
Into the Light by Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

Chain-Gang All-Stars The Strange The Saint of Bright Doors Threads That Bind These Burning Stars Godkiller The Marigold Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon Some Desperate Glory Ink Blood Sister Scribe