Locus-palkintoehdokkaat 2018

Locus Science Fiction -säätiön vuoden 2018 Locus-palkintoehdokkaat on julkaistu. Ehdokkaat nimetään lehden lukijakunnan äänestystulosten perusteella. Tämän linkin kautta näkee kaikki kategoriat, tässä alla listattuna osa. Voittajat julkistetaan kesäkuun 22.-24. aikana.

Science Fiction -romaani

• Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey
• Walkaway, Cory Doctorow
• The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley
• Provenance, Ann Leckie
• Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee
• Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald
• Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer
• New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
• Borne, Jeff VanderMeer

Fantasia-romaani

• The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear
• City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley
• The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard
• The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone
• Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
• The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (arvostelu)
• Jade City, Fonda Lee
• The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross
• Horizon, Fran Wilde

Esikoiskirja

• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (arvostelu)
• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty
• Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly
• Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss
• The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller
• Autonomous, Annalee Newitz
• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
• An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
• Amatka, Karin Tidbeck

Nuorille aikuisille suunnattu kirja

• Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi
• In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan
• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis
• Chalk, Paul Cornell
• Buried Heart, Kate Elliott
• A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge
• Frogkisser!, Garth Nix
• Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor
• Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman

Pienoisromaani

• In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle
• River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey
• Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire
• Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor
• “And Then There Were (N-One)“, Sarah Pinsker
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (arvostelu)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang
• The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang

Pitkä novelli

• “Children of Thorns, Children of Water“, Aliette de Bodard
• “The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany
• “Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss
• “The Worshipful Society of Glovers“, Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Extracurricular Activities“, Yoon Ha Lee
• “The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu
• “The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire
• “Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker
• “The Lamentation of Their Women“, Kai Ashante Wilson
• “Waiting on a Bright Moon“, JY Yang

Novelli

• “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue“, Charlie Jane Anders
• “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell
• “Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler
• “Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand
• “Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress
• “The Martian Obelisk“, Linda Nagata
• “Fandom for Robots“, Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“, Rebecca Roanhorse
• “Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick
• “Carnival Nine“, Caroline M. Yoachim

Antologia

• Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed.
• Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed.
• The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed.
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.
• Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed.
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds.
• The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed.
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
• Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
• Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed.

Kokoelma

• Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
• Strange Weather, Joe Hill
• Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages
• Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer
• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
• Tender, Sofia Samatar
• The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente

Ei-fiktiivinen teos

• Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke
• In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany
• The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon
• Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn
• Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (arvostelu)
• Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds.
• Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson
• Don’t Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi
• A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff
• J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson

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