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Here is the 56th annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in 2025. You may come back to this page and add to or change your votes up until the ballot deadline: April 1, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

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Best Science Fiction Novel

RankTitle
Sunward, William Alexander (Saga)
Dark Diamond, Neal Asher (Pyr, Tor UK)
The King Must Die, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga)
The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
Landfall, James Bradley (Hodder & Stoughton)
Outlaw Planet, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic UK; Viking)
The Book of Guilt, Catherine Chidgey (John Murray; Cardinal)
Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)
When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
The Essence, Dave Hutchinson (NewCon)
The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (Pantheon; Bloomsbury Circus UK)
Transmentation | Transience, Darkly Lem (Blackstone )
All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)
Metallic Realms, Lincoln Michel (Atria)
Red Star Hustle, Sam J. Miller (Apprehension / Red Star Hustle)
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)
Esperance, Adam Oyebanji (DAW; Arcadia UK)
Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (Arcadia UK)
We Lived on the Horizon, Erika Swyler (Atria)
Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien (Norton; Granta UK)
A Philosophy of Thieves, Fran Wilde (Erewhon)
Hole in the Sky, Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday)
The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris)
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Best Fantasy Novel

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The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
A Granite Silence, Nina Allan (riverrun)
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
Angel Maker, Elizabeth Bear (Sobbing Squonk)
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Sovereign, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Works of Vermin, Hiron Ennes (Tor; Tor UK)
Dead Hand Rule, Max Gladstone (Tor)
The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
Secrets of the First School, T.L. Huchu (Tor; Tor UK)
Honeyeater, Kathleen Jennings (Tor)
Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay (Ace; Viking Canada; Hodderscape)
Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)
Snake-Eater, T. Kingfisher (47North; Titan UK)
Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
The Adventures of Mary Darling, Pat Murphy (Tachyon )
One Way Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor)
Waterblack, Alex Pheby (Tor; Galley Beggar UK)
Major Arcana, John Pistelli (Belt)
The Rose Field, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin and David Fickling UK)
Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon (Penguin; Jonathan Cape)
The Isle in the Silver Sea, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)
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Best Horror Novel

RankTitle
We Love You, Bunny, Mona Awad (Marysue Rucci; Scribner UK)
The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
Black Brane, Michael Cisco (Clash)
Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)
The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
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)
Animals, Geoff Ryman (NewCon)
The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan UK)
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
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Best First Novel

RankTitle
A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)
Acts of God, Kanan Gill (HarperCollins India 2024; Blackstone)
Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It)
When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK)
Dwelling, Emily Hunt Kivel (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
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)
Nothing in the Basement, Romie Stott (Dybbuk)
Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK)
Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye)
Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK)
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Best YA Novel

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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)
Needy Little Things, Channelle Desamours (Wednesday; Bloomsbury UK)
The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen)
Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton)
The Transition, Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte)
Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)
I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper)
The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel and Friends)
Night Swimming, Aaron Starmer (Penguin Workshop)
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
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Best Translated Novel

RankTitle
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 Village at the Edge of Noon, Darya Bobyleva, tr. Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (Angry Robot)
A Thousand Blues, Seon-Ran Cheon, tr. Chi-Young Kim (Doubleday UK)
The Midnight Shift, Seon-Ran Cheon, 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)
School of Shards, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, tr. Julia Meitov Hersey (Harper Voyager US)
The Place of Shells, Mai Ishizawa, tr. Polly Barton (New Directions; Sceptre UK)
We Computers, Hamid Ismailov, tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega (Yale UP)
Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor)
Artificial Truth, J.M. Lee, tr. Sean Lin Halbert (AmazonCrossing)
Sea Now, Eva Meijer,  tr. Anne Thompson Melo (Two Lines; Peirene UK)
Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK)
Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva,  tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent's Tail)
Into the Sun, C.F. Ramuz, tr. Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan (New Directions)
The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK)
Dead Souls, Han Song, tr. Michael Berry (AmazonCrossing)
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Best Novella

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The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
The Iron Below Remembers, Sharang Biswas (Neon Hemlock)
The Adventure of the Demonic Ox, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum)
Redundancies and Potentials, Dominique Dickey (Neon Hemlock)
No Such Thing as Duty, Lara Elena Donnelly (Neon Hemlock)
The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
Murder on the Eris Express, Beth Goder (Analog)
What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
Apprehension, Mary Robinette Kowal (Apprehension/Red Star Hustle)
Quantum Ghosts, Nancy Kress (Asimov’s)
The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
The Dead Withheld, L.D. Lewis (Neon Hemlock)
Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
The Hidden God, T.R. Napper (Asimov's)
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
Those Uncaring Waves, Yukimi Ogawa (Clarkesworld)
Starstruck, Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp)
The Chronolithographer’s Assistant, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s)
Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom)
But Not Too Bold, Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)
The Dagger in Vichy, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
No One To Hold the Distant Dead, K.L. Schroeder (Psychopomp)
The Oblivion Bride, Caitlin Starling (Neon Hemlock)
Descent, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld)
Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
The Apologists, Tade Thompson (Clarkesworld)
A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Don't Sleep with the Dead, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame, Neon Yang (Tordotcom)
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Best Novelette

RankTitle
"Heart of Thunder", Raahem Alvi (Clarkesworld)
"The Witch and the Wyrm", Elizabeth Bear (Reactor)
"Garden of the Bloodpotter", Erin Brown (Psychopomp)
"With Only a Razor Between", Martin Cahill (Reactor)
"Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh", Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
"A Tide of Paper", Leah Cypess (Asimov's)
"Barnacle", Kate Elliott (Reactor)
"Last Train from Deadwall", André Geleynse (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
"Horror Vacui", A.V. Greene (GigaNotoSaurus)
"Uncertain Sons", Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
"Shadow Jack", CL Hellisen (GigaNotoSaurus)
"We Begin Where Infinity Ends", Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld)
"Shorted", Alex Irvine (Reactor)
"The Shadow on the Nest", Alaya Dawn Johnson (Uncanny)
"What I Saw Before the War", Alaya Dawn Johnson (Reactor)
"The Sack of Burley Cottage", Rich Larson (Reactor)
"Kaiju Agonistes", Scott Lynch (Uncanny)
"Beak", Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare)
"The Tin Man's Ghost", Ray Nayler (Asimov's)
"Never Eaten Vegetables", H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld)
"The Millay Illusion", Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny)
"The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone", Hailey Piper (Teenage Girls Can Be Demons)
"It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand", Lowry Poletti (Lightspeed)
"Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Reactor)
"We, the Fleet", Alex T. Singer (Clarkesworld)
"Tenth Contact", Bruce & Paul Di Filippo Sterling (Asimov's)
"After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens", Rachel Swirsky (Reactor)
"The City of Tears", Molly Tanzer (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
"The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe", Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld)
"Bunny Ears", Kristina Ten (Nightmare)
"Mindtrips", Tlotlo Tsamaase (Clarkesworld)
"When He Calls Your Name", Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny)
"The Twenty-One Second God", Peter Watts (Lightspeed)
"The Creator", Aliya Whiteley (NewCon Press)
"A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library", Chris Willrich (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
"Wolf Moon, Antler Moon", A.C. Wise (Reactor)
"Phantom View", John Wiswell (Reactor)
"Symbiotic", Carolyn Zhao (Clarkesworld)
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Best Short Story

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"Magical Girl Antifa War Machine", Esther Alter (Escape Pod)
"Hot Teeth", Sylvie Althoff (Lesbians in Space)
"Chickenfoot Soup", Marika Bailey (Lightspeed)
"Secret Night", Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
"The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home", Renan Bernardo (Reactor)
"Toothpaste Feelings", Sharang Biswas (khōréō 5.3)
"The Night Market", Erin Brown (Skull & Laurel)
"In the Halls of the Makeshift King", Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov's)
"Last Meal Aboard the Awassa", Kel Coleman (Lightspeed)
"It Grows Back", Grant Collier (Cast of Wonders)
"When the Devil Comes From Babylon", Maya Deane (Amplitudes)
"The Peculiarities of Hunger", Woody Dismukes (khōréō 5.2)
"Drown-Haunted", Corey Farrenkopf (Flash Fiction Online)
"Arachnomorphosis", Beth Goder (Strange Horizons)
"Drosera regina", A.L. Goldfuss (Lightspeed)
"In My Country", Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
"Highway 1, Past Hope", Maria Haskins (The Deadlands)
"The Piano Player Has Eight Arms", Íde Hennessy (Reckoning)
"How to Cook with the Negative Space in Your Grandmother’s Recipes", Jennifer Hudak (Worlds of Possibility)
"The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn", Louise Hughes (Kaleidotrope)
"Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush", Ruth Joffre (PodCastle)
"Domestic Disputes", Naomi Kanakia (Lightspeed)
"Freediver", Isabel J. Kim (Reactor)
"Wire Mother", Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld)
"Standardized Test", Seoung Kim (Lightspeed)
"The Shape of Stones", Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor)
"The Last Lunar New Year", Derek Künsken (Clarkesworld)
"Other Wars Elsewhere", R.B. Lemberg (We Will Rise Again)
"The Memory Technician", Ian Li (Small Wonders)
"his love's ashes on his tongue", Monte Lin (The Deadlands)
"The Year the Sheep God Shattered", Marissa Lingen (Diabolical Plots)
"A Recipe for Immortality (Serves 2)", Shreejita Majumder (Tales & Feathers)
"The Ache of Hollow Places", Avra Margariti (Strange Horizons)
"The Heart Is Hungry Above All Things", Avra Margariti (Three-Lobed Burning Eye)
"The Library of the Apocalypse", Rati Mehrotra (Clarkesworld)
"Conversations With You", Teresa Milbrodt (Baffling)
"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead", Sam J. Miller (Nightmare)
"My Heart in a Snow Globe", Archita Mittra (PseudoPod)
"möbius loop", Samir Sirk Morató (khōréō 5.1)
"Full, Empty Houses", Plangdi Neple (Kaleidotrope)
"How To Rob A Bullion Van", Plangdi Neple (Baffling)
"Because I Held His Name Like a Key", Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons)
"Fear of the Dark", Benjamin Percy (Night & Day)
"Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness", B. Pladek (Lightspeed)
"Coda", Arula Ratnakar (Future Tense Fiction)
"Landline", Kelly Robson (Reactor)
"The Magnolia Returns", Eden Royce (PodCastle)
"Julius Cheeks: The Cook With No Voice", L.M. Spann (Fiyah)
"Four Questions with Something Like God", Carlie St. George (The Dark)
"Crisis Actors", Maddison Stoff & Corey Jae White (Strange Horizons)
"Mavka", A.D. Sui (PseudoPod)
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting", Bogi Takács (Lightspeed)
"Missing Helen", Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld)
"Prime Purpose", Steve Rasnic Tem (Analog)
"Head of the Household", Kristina Ten (F(r)iction)
"Slipcraft", Jarune Uwujaren (Fiyah)
"Woolly", Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s)
"Schadenfreude", Liza Wemakor (Fiyah)
"35 /F / Lane's Creek, Oklahoma", Hans Ege Wenger (Escape Pod)
"Things You Learn As a Werewolf (That Will Come In Handy Later)", Morgan Wilson (Baffling)
"Autogas Ferryman", Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare)
"Pandora’s Formula", Hannah Yang (Strange Horizons)
"The Octopus Dreams of Personhood", Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots)
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Best Anthology

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Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural, Tilde Acuña, John Bengan et al eds. (Radix)
The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America)
Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney eds. (Essential Dreams)
These Bodies Ain't Broken, Madeline Dyer, ed. (Page Street)
The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
Will This Be a Problem, Somto Ihezue & Olivia Kidula, eds. (Shilitza)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox)
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Sixth Annual Collection, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox)
The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 5, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox)
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, Rakesh Khanna, ed. (Blaft)
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord & Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
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Best Collection

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Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
The Other Shore, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform)
Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
Haunted Ecologies and Other Stories, Corey Farrenkopf (JournalStone)
The House of Illusionists, Vanessa Fogg (Interstellar Flight )
Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon )
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow )
Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Histories Within Us, Matthew Kressel (Senses Five)
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids, Leyna Krow (Penguin)
Changelog, Rich Larson (Fairwood)
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon )
One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan UK)
The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
Masters of Science Fiction: Pamela Sargent, Pamela Sargent (Centipede)
Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, Kristina Ten (Stillhouse)
Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood)
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Best Non-Fiction Book

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The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM)
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact, Keith Cooper (Reaktion)
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)
Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer, Jaroslav Olsa (Space Cowboy)
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay)
The Ultimate Cosmos: How a 1933 Serial Novel Reshaped Science Fiction, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, eds. (First Fandom Experience)
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre, Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Ohio State University Press)
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
Reimagining Science Fiction, Gary Westfahl, ed. (McFarland)
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)
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Best Illustrated and Art Book

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The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown)
Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds. art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls)
The Art of Gervasio Gallardo, Gervasio Gallardo (Centipede)
Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, art by Justin Gerard, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds (Sky Turtle)
Bob Haberfield: The Man and His Art, Ben Haberfield, ed. art by Bob Haberfield (Jayde Design UK)
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean)
The Art of Kelogsloops: From Sketch to Finish, Kelogsloops (3dtotal)
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK)
The Verdant Companion, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (Llewellyn)
The Fantastic Art of Ron Turner, John Lawrence (Telos)
Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive)
Sentience, Vanessa Lemen (Spiridon Giannakis & Éditions Caurette)
The Last Battle at the End of the World, Jeffrey Alan Love (Flesk)
Graciela in the Abyss, Meg Medina, art by Anna & Elena Balbusso (Candlewick)
The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)
Illustrations & Illuminations: A Meditation on Thirty-Five Years of Illustration, Comics, and Pop Culture, James A. Owen (Coppervale)
Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (Free League Sweden; Saga US)
Infected by Art Volume 13, Todd Spoor & Bill Cox, eds. (Dynamite)
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)
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Best Artist — Pro or Fan

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Abigail Larson
Afua Richardson
Alan Lee
Alex Eckman-Lawn
Alyssa Winans
Android Jones
Anna & Elena Balbusso
Annie Stegg Gerard
Ashley Mackenzie
Audrey Benjaminsen
Bob Eggleton
Brian & Wendy Froud
Brom
Charles Chaisson
Charles Vess
Chiara Bautista
Chris Baker AKA Fangorn
Chris McGrath
Christina Mrozik
Cristina Bencina
Cynthia Sheppard
Daniel Dociu
Daniel Dos Santos
Dante Luiz
Dave Palumbo
Dave Seeley
David Mattingly
Dominic Harman
Don Maitz
Donato Giancola
Ed Binkley
Ejiwa Ebenebe
Eli Minaya
Elise Matthesen
Elizabeth Leggett
Enzhe Zhao
Eric Wilkerson
Erik Mohr
Fiona Staples
Francesca Myman
Frank Cho
Frank Wu
Galen Dara
Gary Gianni
Gary Villarreal
Geneva Bowers
Greg Ruth
Gregory Manchess
Ian Miller
Iris Compiet
J.A.W. Cooper
Jahbulani Ori
Jaime Jones
James Ng
Jeffrey Alan Love
Jeffrey Sturgeon
Jeremy Zerfoss
Jim Burns
Jim Tierney
Jody A. Lee
Joey Hi-Fi
John Harris
John Howe
John Jennings
John Jude Palencar
John Picacio
Jon Foster
Julie Bell & Boris Vallejo
Julie Dillon
Justin Gerard
Karla Ortiz
Kathleen Jennings
Kei Acedera
Kekai Kotaki
Kelly Chong
Kinuko Y. Craft
Kuri Huang
Kurt Miller
Larry Dixon
Lauren K. Cannon
Lauren Raye Snow
Lee Moyer
Les Edwards
Manzi Jackson
Marcela Bolívar
Marie Bergeron
Matt Dixon
Maurizio Manzieri
Mélanie Delon
Mia Sereno aka Likhain
Micaela Alcaino
Michael Kaluta
Michael Komarck
Michael Whelan
Nico Delort
Nilah Magruder
Odera Igbokwe
Omar Rayyan
Patrick Arrasmith
Patrick J. Jones
Paul Kidby
Paul Lewin
Paul Young
Phil Foglio
Raya Golden
Rebecca Guay
Reiko Murakami
Ron Cobb
Rovina Cai
Ruth Sanderson
Sana Takeda
Sara Felix
Serena Malyon
Shaun Tan
Sija Hong
Simon Stålenhag
Stephan Martinière
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Stephen Youll
Steve Stone
Tana Ford
Tehani Farr
Thomas Canty
Todd Lockwood
Tom Kidd
Tommy Arnold
Tony DiTerlizzi
Tran Nguyen
Tristan Elwell
Tyler Jacobson
Ulla Thynell
Vanessa Lemen
Victo Ngai
Vincent Chong
Vincent di Fate
Vincent Villafranca
Virginia Lee
Will Staehle
Winona Nelson
Yoann Lossel
Yoshitaka Amano
Yuko Shimizu
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Best Editor

RankEditor
Aleksandara Hill & Zhui Ning Chang
Alex Shvartsman
Ali Fisher
Allan Kaster
Amara Hoshijo
Anne Groell
Anne Sowards
Bella Pagan
Betsy Mitchell
Betsy Wollheim
Bill Campbell
Bogi Takács
Brit Hvide
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Carl Engle-Laird
Clara Madrigano
DaVaun Sanders
dave ring
David Pomerico
David Steffen
David Thomas Moore
Devi Pillai
Diana Gill
Diana Pho
Djibril Al-Ayad
Donna Scott
E. Catherine Tobler
Ellen Datlow
Erik Secker
Eugen Bacon
Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
Fred Coppersmith
Gautam Bhatia, et al
Gavin Grant & Kelly Link
Gillian Redfearn
Gordon Van Gelder
Griffin Barber
Jacob Weisman
Jared Shurin
Jaymee Goh
Jean Asselin
Jen Albert
Jennifer Brehl
Joe Monti
John Joseph Adams
Jonathan Strahan
Julia Rios
Julian Pavia
Juliet Ulman
Kelly Lonesome
LaShawn Wanak
Lavie Tidhar
Lee Harris
Lesley Conner
Lezli Robyn
Lindsey Hall
Marc Gascoigne
Mark Teppo
Maurice Broaddus
Michael Damian Thomas
Michael Kelly
Mike Allen
Mike Ashley
Milton Davis
Miriam Weinberg
Mur Lafferty & Valerie Valdes
Neil Clarke
Nivia Evans
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick Swenson
Paula Guran
Peter Crowther
Preston Grassmann
Priyanka Krishnan
Rashida J. Smith
Rene Sears
Rhiannon Rasmussen
Rob Carroll
Ruoxi Chen
Sarah Peed
Scott H. Andrews
Sean Wallace
Shahid Mahmud
Shawn M. Garrett & Alex Hofelich
Sheila Williams
Sheree Renée Thomas
Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Arley Sorg
Simon Taylor
Stephanie Stein
Stephen Jones
Steve Berman
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Terese Mason Pierre, Kerry C. Byrne, et al
Tim Holman
Tim O’Connell
Toni Weisskopf
Trevor Quachri
Tricia Narwani
Tricia Reeks
Valerie Valdes
Wanini Kimemiah & Devin Martin
Wendy N. Wagner
Zachary Wagman
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Best Magazine

RankMagazine
A Meal of Thorns
Abyss & Apex
Amazing Stories
Analog
Ancillary Review of Books
Andromeda Spaceways
Ansible
Apex
Asimov’s
Augur
Aurealis
Baffling
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Beyond the Trope
Black Nerd Problems
Bourbon Penn
Breaking the Glass Slipper
Cast of Wonders
Clarkesworld
Coode St. Podcast
Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
Diabolical Plots
Drabblecast
Dreams & Nightmares
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones
Electric Spec
Escape Pod
Extrapolation
F&SF
Factor Four
File 770
Fiyah
Functional Nerds
Fusion Fragment
Galactic Journey
Galaxy’s Edge
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
GigaNotoSaurus
Grimdark
Heartlines
Hexagon
Hugo Girl!
Interzone
Journey Planet
Kaleidotrope
khōréō
Lady Business
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
Lightspeed
Mysterion
nerds of a feather
NewMyths
Nightlight
Nightmare Magazine
Octothorpe
Omenana
On Spec
Our Opinions Are Correct
PodCastle
PseudoPod
Pulp Literature
Quick Sip Reviews
Reactor
Reckoning
Science Fiction Studies
SF Commentary
SFRevu
Shoreline of Infinity
Skull & Laurel
Small Wonders
Solarpunk
Space & Time
Star*Line
StarShipSofa
Strange Horizons
Sunday Morning Transport
Tales & Feathers
Tales to Terrify
The Dark Magazine
The Deadlands
The Full Lid
The Future Fire
The Skiffy and Fanty Show
Three-Lobed Burning Eye
Uncanny Magazine
Underland Arcana
Unofficial Hugo Bookclub Blog
Vector
Weird Horror
Weird Tales
Worldbuilding for Masochists
Worlds of Possibility
Writing Excuses
Zero Gravity News
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Best Publisher

RankPublisher
Abrams
Ace
Aconyte
Allen & Unwin
Amazon/47North
Angry Robot
Apex Publications
Aqueduct
Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick/Caezik SF & F
Bad Moon Books
Baen
Bantam
Berkley
Black Library
Blackstone
Bloomsbury
CamCat
Candlewick
Cemetery Dance
Centipede Press
Chomu Press
Constable & Robinson
Crown
Dark Regions
DAW
Del Rey
Doubleday
Earthling
Erewhon
Fairwood
Fantastic Books
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Feiwel and Friends
First Second
Flame Tree Press
Flesk
Galaxy
Gollancz
Grand Central
Hadley Rille
Haffner Press
Haikasoru
Harper Voyager
HarperCollins Canada
Head of Zeus/Ad Astra
Hodder & Stoughton
Houghton Mifflin
Imprint
Knopf
Lethe
Library of America
Little, Brown
MCD
Meerkat
Morrow
Neon Hemlock
NESFA Press
Night Shade Books
One World
Orbit
Paizo/Planet Stories
Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
Pegasus
Penguin
PM Press
Pocket
Prime
PS Publishing
Pyr
Quercus/Jo Fletcher
Quirk
Random House
Resurrection House
Rosarium
Saga
Scholastic
Severn House
Shortwave
Simon & Schuster
Skyhorse
Small Beer Press
Solaris
St. Martin’s
Stark House
Stelliform
Strange Chemistry
Subterranean Press
Tachyon
Tin House
Titan
Twelfth Planet Press
Viking
Wesleyan University Press
Wizards of the Coast
Word Horde
WordFire Press
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