Locus-palkintoehdokkaat 2020

Locus Science Fiction -yhdistys on julkaissut vuoden 2020 Locus-palkintojen ehdokkaat. Tässä osa ehdokkaista, loput voi katsoa linkin takaa. Voittajat ilmoitetaan virtuaaliseremoniassa 27.6.2020.

Science fiction -romaani

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
• Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear
• Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley
• Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald
• The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz
• Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig

Fantasia-romaani

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
• A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie
• Jade War, Fonda Lee
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
• Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick
• Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer

Kauhu-romaani

• Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky
• Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly
• Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
• The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey
• The Institute, Stephen King
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
• Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman
• The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North
• The Toll, Cherie Priest

YA-romaani

• King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo
• The Wicked King, Holly Black
• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi
• Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee
• Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller
• Angel Mage, Garth Nix
• War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman
• Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds

Esikoisromaani

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
• Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
• Finder, Suzanne Palmer
• A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker
• Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling

Pienoisromaani

• “A Time to Reap“, Elizabeth Bear
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark
• Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain
• Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
• The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang

Pitkänovelli

• “Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear
• “For He Can Creep“, Siobhan Carroll
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang
• “A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss
• “Late Returns”, Joe Hill
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin
• “The Justified”, Ann Leckie
• “Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire
• “Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor
• “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye“, Sarah Pinsker

Novelli

• “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders
• “Lest We Forget“, Elizabeth Bear
• “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell
• “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning“, Ted Chiang
• “Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher
• “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married“, Fonda Lee
• “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear“, Kelly Link
• “Thoughts and Prayers“, Ken Liu
• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse
• “A Catalog of Storms“, Fran Wilde

Antologia

• Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed.
• The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed.
• A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds.
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed.
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds.
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed.
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
• Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
• The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds.
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds.

Kokoelma

• Exhalation, Ted Chiang
• Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard
• The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss
• Full Throttle, Joe Hill
• Meet Me in the Future, Kameron Hurley
• The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty
• Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee
• Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker

Tietokirjallisuus

• Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Desirina Boskovich, ed.
• The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction, Damien Broderick
• Reading Backwards: Essays and Reviews, 2005-2018, John Crowley
• Joanna Russ, Gwyneth Jones
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
• Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Markley
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn
• Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Mallory O’Meara
• HG Wells: A Literary Life, Adam Roberts

Taidekirja

• The Illustrated World of Tolkien, David Day
• Julie Dillon, Daydreamer’s Journey
• Ed Emshwiller, Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller, Jesse Pires, ed.
• Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed.
• Donato Giancola, Middle-earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend
• Raya Golden, Starport, George R.R. Martin
• Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures, Mark A. Nelson
• Tran Nguyen, Ambedo: Tran Nguyen
• Yuko Shimizu, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
• Bill Sienkiewicz, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells