Se han dado a conocer los finalistas de los premios Locus 2024, son los siguientes:
NOVELA DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN
- The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
- A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
- Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
- Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
- Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
- System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)
NOVELA DE FANTASÍA
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
- Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
- The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
- Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
- My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
- City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
- Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
HORROR NOVEL
- Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
- The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
- A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
- Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
- How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
- Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
- A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
- Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
NOVELA JUVENIL
- Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
- Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street)
- A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
- The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
- Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
- The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
- The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
PRIMERA NOVELA
- Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
- The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
- The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
- These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
- The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
- Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)
NOVELA CORTA
- The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
- The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
- “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
- The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Rose/House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
- Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
- Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
RELATO LARGO
- “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches)
- “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
- I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
- “The Year Without Sunshine“, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
- “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
- “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
- “The Rainbow Bank“, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23)
- “One Man’s Treasure“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23)
- “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
- “On the Fox Roads“, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23)
RELATO CORTO
- “A Soul in the World“, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23)
- “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
- “The Mausoleum’s Children“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23)
- “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
- “Window Boy“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
- “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming“, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
- “Those Hitchhiking Kids“, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
- “Stones“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23)
- “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead“, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23)
ANTOLOGÍA
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
- Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
- The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
- Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
- New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK)
- The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra)
COLECCIÓN
- The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
- Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex)
- The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
- White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
- No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
- Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
- Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
- Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
- The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
- The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
MAGAZINE
- Analog
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- FIYAH
- khōréō
- Strange Horizons
- Tor.com
- Uncanny
PUBLISHER
- Angry Robot
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Neon Hemlock
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tachyon
- Tor
- Tordotcom
EDITOR
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheree Renée Thomas
- E. Catherine Tobler
- Ann VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
ARTIST
- Brom
- Rovina Cai
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Julie Dillon
- Bob Eggleton
- Abigail Larson
- John Picacio
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
- Alyssa Winans
NON-FICTION
- The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic)
- 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK)
- Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024)
- All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
- 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)
- Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver)
- Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
- A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing)
- Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone)
- Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
- The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adaptado por Al Feldstein, arte de Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics)
- The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (autopublicado)
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
- The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art de Frank Frazetta (Taschen)
- The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, arte de Tristan Roach (Megascope)
- Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, arte y adaptación de Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic)
- Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
- Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams)
- Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian)
¡Enhorabuena a los finalistas!