Il 30 maggio 2026, durante il Bay Area Book Festival, sono stati annunciati i vincitori di ciascuna categoria dei Locus Awards 2026. Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones e Nnedi Okorafor erano gli ospiti d’onore, insieme all’artista locale Alyssa Winans. Tra gli altri eventi del fine settimana figuravano letture, tavole rotonde con autori di spicco e un ricevimento.

Premi Locus 2026

Romanzo di fantascienza

Vincitore: Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author

  • Elizabeth Bear, The Folded Sky
  • Cory Doctorow, Picks & Shovels
  • Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide
  • Daryl Gregory, When We Were Real
  • Ken Liu, All That We See or Seem
  • Ray Nayler, Where the Axe Is Buried
  • Claire North, Slow Gods
  • John Scalzi, The Shattering Peace
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud

Romanzo fantasy

Vincitore: Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

  • Joe Abercrombie, The Devils
  • Katherine Addison, The Tomb of Dragons
  • Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster
  • Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption
  • Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar
  • T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver
  • R.F. Kuang, Katabasis
  • Emily Tesh, The Incandescent
  • Martha Wells, Queen Demon

Romanzo horror

Vincitore: Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  • Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Díaz
  • Sarah Gailey, Spread Me
  • Joe Hill, King Sorrow
  • Cassandra Khaw, The Library at Hellebore
  • Stephen King, Never Flinch
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching
  • Cherie Priest, It Was Her House First
  • A.G. Slatter, The Crimson Road
  • Chuck Wendig, The Staircase in the Woods

Romanzo young adult

Vincitore: Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee [SF]

  • Samira Ahmed, The Singular Life of Aria Patel [SF]
  • Kalynn Bayron, Make Me a Monster [H]
  • A.R. Capetta, Costumes for Time Travelers [F]
  • Susan Dennard, The Executioners Three [H]
  • Amanda DeWitt, The Underwood Tapes [H]
  • Rachel Hartman, Among Ghosts [F]
  • E.K. Johnston, Sky on Fire [F]
  • Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen [F]
  • Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night [H]

Opera prima

Vincitore: Natalia Theodoridou, Sour Cherry [F]

  • M.H. Ayinde, A Song of Legends Lost [F]
  • Jen Julian, Red Rabbit Ghost [H]
  • Xan Kaur, When Devils Sing [H]
  • Susanna Kwan, Awake in the Floating City [SF]
  • Silvia Park, Luminous [SF]
  • Ruben Reyes Jr., Archive of Unknown Universes [SF]
  • Ethan Rutherford, North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther [H]
  • Maggie Su, Blob [F]
  • Bogi Takács, Song of Spores [SF]

Romanzo tradotto

Vincitore: Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III tr. Sophia Hersi Smith e Jennifer Russell [SF]

  • Agustina Bazterrica, The Unworthy, tr. Sarah Moses [H]
  • Cheon Seon-Ran, The Midnight Shift, tr. Gene Png [H]
  • Bora Chung, Red Sword, tr. Anton Hur [SF]
  • Bora Chung, The Midnight Timetable, tr. Anton Hur [H]
  • Jacek Dukaj, Ice, tr. Ursula Phillips [SF]
  • Sung-il Kim, Blood for the Undying Throne, tr. Anton Hur [F]
  • Sayaka Murata, Vanishing World, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori [SF]
  • Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy, tr. Rahul Bery [SF]
  • Olga Ravn, The Wax Child, tr. Martin Aitken [F]

Romanzo breve

Vincitore: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar

  • Katherine Addison, The Orb of Cairado
  • T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep
  • Freya Marske, Cinder House
  • Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle
  • K.J. Parker, Making History
  • Eden Royce, Psychopomp & Circumstance
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lives of Bitter Rain
  • Nghi Vo, A Mouthful of Dust
  • Olivia Waite, Murder by Memory

Racconto lungo

Vincitore: Somto Ihezue, We Begin Where Infinity Ends

    “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear “Barnacle“, Kate Elliott “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha “The Tin Man’s Ghost“, Ray Nayler “The Millay Illusion“, Sarah Pinsker “When He Calls Your Name“, Catherynne M. Valente “The Twenty-One Second God“, Peter Watts “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon“, A.C. Wise “Phantom View“, John Wiswell

Racconto

Vincitore: “In My Country“, Thomas Ha

  • Nathan Ballingrud, Secret Night
  • Tobias S. Buckell, In the Halls of the Makeshift King
  • Isabel J. Kim, Wire Mother
  • Hildur Knútsdóttir, The Shape of Stones
  • Sam J. Miller, Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead
  • Aimee Ogden, Because I Held His Name Like a Key
  • Kelly Robson, Landline
  • Tia Tashiro, Missing Helen
  • Carrie Vaughn, Woolly

Antologia

Vincitore: We Will Rise Again, a cura di Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz e Malka Older

  • The Black Fantastic, a cura di André M. Carrington
  • Night & Day, a cura di Ellen Datlow
  • Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, a cura di Carina Bissett e Craig Laurance Gidney
  • The End of the World As We Know It, a cura di Christopher Golden e Brian Keene
  • Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, a cura di Lee Mandelo
  • The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, a cura di Michael Kelly
  • Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, a cura di Stephen Kotowych
  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, a cura di Nnedi Okorafor e John Joseph Adams
  • As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, a cura di Terese Mason Pierre

Raccolta

Vincitore: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha

  • Christopher Caldwell, Call and Response
  • Carol Emshwiller, Moon Songs
  • Theodora Goss, Letters from an Imaginary Country
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan, Bright Dead Star
  • Patricia A. McKillip, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip
  • Premee Mohamed, One Message Remains
  • Alastair Reynolds, The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 e 2
  • Lucius Shepard, Crows and Silences
  • Fran Wilde, A Catalog of Storms

Rivista

Vincitore: Clarkesworld

  • Asimov’s
  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • F&SF
  • Fiyah
  • khōréō
  • Lightspeed
  • Reactor
  • Strange Horizons
  • Uncanny Magazine

Editore

Vincitore: Orbit

(Tor USA e Subterranean Press si sono ritirati)

  • Angry Robot
  • DAW
  • Del Rey
  • Gollancz
  • Neon Hemlock
  • Pan Macmillan/Tor UK
  • Saga
  • Solaris
  • Tachyon

Curatore

Vincitore: Neil Clarke

  • John Joseph Adams
  • Scott H. Andrews
  • Ellen Datlow
  • dave ring
  • Jonathan Strahan
  • Bogi Takács
  • Wendy N. Wagner
  • Fran Wilde e Julian Yap
  • Sheila Williams

Artista

Vincitore: John Picacio

  • Brom
  • Rovina Cai
  • Galen Dara
  • Bob Eggleton
  • Kathleen Jennings
  • Alan Lee
  • Shaun Tan
  • Charles Vess
  • Michael Whelan

Opera illustrata

Vincitore: Nnedi Okorafor, The Space Cat, illustrazioni di Tana Ford

  • Leigh Bardugo e John Picacio, The Invisible Parade
  • Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, a cura di Sara Frazetta e Arnie Fenner
    • , illustrazioni di Frank Frazetta
  • Alix E. Harrow, Starling House, illustrazioni di Rovina Cai
  • Paul Kidby, Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
  • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, illustrazioni di Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
  • Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adattato da Rebecca K. Reynolds, illustrazioni di Justin Gerard
  • Simon Stålenhag, Sunset at Zero Point
  • Ulla Thynell, Faraway Dreaming
  • Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, a cura di Amanda T. Zehnder e David M. Brinley

Saggistica

Vincitore: Cory Doctorow, Enshittification

  • Terry Bisson, The Outspoken and the Incendiary
  • Paul Kincaid, Colourfields
  • Henry Lien, Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
  • Susana M. Morris, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
  • Tavia Nyong’o, Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World
  • Tochi Onyebuchi, Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
  • Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, a cura di Becky Siegel Spratford
  • Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, a cura di Richard Wolinsky
  • Chi-ming Yang, Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse

Premio speciale 2026

Vincitore: David Steffen e Volunteers, The Submission Grinder