Locus Awards

The Locus Awards winners will be announced May 30, 2026, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Hotel Shattuck in downtown Berkeley, California. Join MCs Sarah Gailey and Maggie Tokuda-Hall, plus guests of honor Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi Okorafor, and featured local artist Alyssa Winans, for an entertaining presentation of the awards, including a catered reception and awards banquet.

The top ten awards finalists in the SF/Fantasy novels category are:

SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) amazon / bookshop
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor) amazon / bookshop
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra) amazon / bookshop
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop

FANTASY NOVELS

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz) amazon / bookshop
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop
• Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) amazon / bookshop

See the full details at https://locusmag.com/2026/04/2026-top-ten-finalists-for-locus-awards/