Nel mondo della fantascienza dopo Hugo e Nebula il terzo premio più prestigioso è il Locus, assegnato ogni anno dalla fondazione che pubblica l'omonima rivista.

La Locus Science Fiction Foundation ha annunciato i vincitori di ogni categoria dei Locus Awards 2025 il 21 giugno 2025, durante il Locus Awards Weekend. Gli autori Sarah Gailey e Tochi Onyebuchi erano gli ospiti d'onore, insieme all'autrice locale Kemi Ashing-Giwa e all'artista locale Stephanie Law. Durante il week-end ci sono state anche letture e tavole rotonde con autori famosi, oltre a un workshop con posti limitati con Henry Lien e un rinfresco.

Premi Locus 2025

Romanzo di fantascienza

Vincitore: Alexander Boldizar, The Man Who Saw Seconds

Finalisti:

  • Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall
  • James S.A. Corey, The Mercy of Gods
  • Cory Doctorow, The Bezzle
  • Malka Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
  • Nisi Shawl, Kinning
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model
  • Catherynne M. Valente, Space Oddity
  • Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution

Romanzo fantasy

Vincitore: T. Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call

Finalisti:

  • Peter S. Beagle, I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
  • Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
  • P. Djèlí Clark, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
  • Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
  • Kerstin Hall, Asunder
  • TJ Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea
  • Premee Mohamed, The Siege of Burning Grass
  • Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil
  • Nghi Vo, The City in Glass

Romanzo horror

Vincitore: Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Finalisti:

  • Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo
  • Gabino Iglesias, House of Bone and Rain
  • Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake
  • Josh Malerman, Incidents Around the House
  • Ian McDonald, The Wilding
  • Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters
  • Rivers Solomon, Model Home
  • Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie
  • Kaaron Warren, The Underhistory

Romanzo young adult

Vincitore: Yoon Ha Lee, Moonstorm

Finalisti:

  • Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death
  • Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Justice
  • Alex Brown, Rest in Peaches
  • Olivia Chadha, Fall of the Iron Gods
  • H.A. Clarke, The Feast Makers
  • Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea
  • Jordan Ifueko, The Maid and the Crocodile
  • Darcie Little Badger, Sheine Lende
  • Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

Opera prima

Vincitore: John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Finalisti:

  • Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
  • Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands
  • Sophie Burnham, Sargassa
  • Rebecca Fraimow, Lady Eve’s Last Con
  • Kelly Link, The Book of Love
  • Jared Pechaček, The West Passage
  • Prashanth Srivatsa, The Spice Gate
  • Tlotlo Tsamaase, Womb City
  • Makana Yamamoto, Hammajang Luck

Romanzo breve

Vincitore: T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night

Finalisti:

  • Aliette de Bodard, Navigational Entanglements
  • Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
  • Premee Mohamed, The Butcher of the Forest
  • Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
  • Nnedi Okorafor, She Who Knows
  • Suzan Palumbo, Countess
  • Sarah Pinsker, Haunt Sweet Home
  • Sofia Samatar, The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
  • Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill

Racconto lungo

Vincitore: Premee Mohamed, By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars

Finalisti:

  • Tananarive Due, A Stranger Knocks
  • Daryl Gregory, I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe
  • S.L. Huang, The River Judge
  • TJ Klune, Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
  • Naomi Kritzer, The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea
  • Angela Liu, Another Girl Under the Iron Bell
  • Wole Talabi, Encore
  • Eugenia Triantafyllou, Joanna’s Bodies
  • Eugenia Triantafyllou, Loneliness Universe

Racconto

Vincitore: Isabel J. Kim, Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole

Finalisti:

  • Susanna Clarke, The Wood at Midwinter
  • Aliette de Bodard, Autumn’s Red Bird
  • Rachael K. Jones, Five Views of the Planet Tartarus
  • Stephen Graham Jones, Parthenogenesis
  • PH Lee, The V*mpire
  • Arkady Martine, Three Faces of a Beheading
  • Premee Mohamed, The Night Birds
  • Nghi Vo, Stitched to Skin Like Family Is
  • Caroline M. Yoachim, We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read

Antologia

Vincitore: The Black Girl Survives in This One a cura di Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Finalisti:

  • The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction a cura di Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8 a cura di Neil Clarke
  • We Mostly Come Out at Night a cura di Rob Costello
  • Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art a cura di Indrapramit Das
  • Northern Nights a cura di Michael Kelly
  • Egypt + 100 a cura di Ahmed Naji
  • The Crawling Moon a cura di dave ring
  • New Adventures in Space Opera a cura di Jonathan Strahan
  • Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction a cura di Sonia Sulaiman

Antologia personale

Vincitore: Ann Leckie, Lake of Souls

Finalisti:

  • Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light
  • Elwin Cotman, Weird Black Girls
  • Kate Elliott, The History of the World Begins in Ice
  • Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
  • Kathleen Jennings, Kindling
  • Stephen King, You Like it Darker
  • Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories
  • Bogi Takács, Power to Yield and Other Stories
  • Wole Talabi, Convergence Problems

Rivista

Vincitore: Clarkesworld

Finalisti:

  • Asimov’s
  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Fiyah
  • khōréō
  • Lightspeed
  • Reactor
  • Strange Horizons
  • The Deadlands
  • Uncanny Magazine

Editore

Vincitore: Subterranean Press

Finalisti:

  • Angry Robot
  • DAW
  • Erewhon
  • Gollancz
  • Neon Hemlock
  • Orbit
  • Small Beer Press
  • Solaris
  • Tachyon

Curatore

Vincitore: Neil Clarke

Finalisti:

  • Ellen Datlow
  • Diana Pho
  • dave ring
  • Jonathan Strahan
  • Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
  • Sheree Renée Thomas
  • E. Catherine Tobler
  • Wendy N. Wagner
  • Fran Wilde & Julian Yap

Artista

Vincitore: Charles Vess

Finalisti:

  • Brom
  • Rovina Cai
  • Julie Dillon
  • Kathleen Jennings
  • Abigail Larson
  • John Picacio
  • Shaun Tan
  • Michael Whelan
  • Alyssa Winans

Saggio

Vincitore: ed., Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon

Finalisti:

  • Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro, This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook
  • Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
  • John Clute, The Book Blinders
  • Stefan Ekman, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic
  • Jon Greenaway, Capitalism: A Horror Story
  • Laozi & Ken Liu, Laozi’s Dao De Jing
  • Abigail Nussbaum, Track Changes
  • Holly Swinyard, A History of Fans and Fandom
  • Nana Visitor, Star Trek: Open a Channel

Libro illustrato

Vincitore: Peter S. Beagle, disegni di Tom Kidd, The Last Unicorn

Finalisti:

  • Susanna Clarke, illustrato da Charles Vess, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Suzanne Collins, disegni di Nico Delort, The Hunger Games
  • Kateřina Čupová, tradotto da Julie Nováková, R.U.R.: The Karel Čapek Classic
  • Mike Mignola, a cura di Scott Dunbier Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola
  • Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, disegni di by Sakyu, Supernatural Tales from Japan
  • Stephanie Law, Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction
  • Adam Lee, Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms
  • Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute a cura di Marisa Lewis
  • Tad Williams, disegni di Donato Giancola, Stone of Farewell

Premio speciale per l'eccellenza nel genere

Vincitore: Ignyte Awards