The finalists for the 2018 Locus Awards were announced. Lavie Tidhar’s  UNHOLY LAND, Peter Watts’ THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, Jo Walton’s STARLINGS (as well as An Informal
History of the Hugos), Jane Yolen’s HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE (as well as Mapping the Bones), and Tachyon Publications itself all received nominations. Many Tachyon authors, editors, and artists received notice including John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kress, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE FICTION
NOVEL

• Record of a
  Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder &
  Stoughton)
• The Calculating
  Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• If Tomorrow
  Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)
• Revenant Gun,
  Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Blackfish City,
  Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)
• Embers of War,
  Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)
• Elysium Fire,
  Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
• Red Moon, Kim
  Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• UNHOLY
  LAND, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
• Space Opera,
  Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Lies Sleeping,
  Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)
• Foundryside,
  Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
• The Monster Baru
  Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)
• Deep Roots,
  Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• Ahab’s Return,
  Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• European Travel
  for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)
• The Mere Wife,
  Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)
• The Wonder
  Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)
• Spinning Silver,
  Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Creatures of Want
  and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

• In the Night
  Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)
• Unlanguage,
  Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)
• We Sold Our
  Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• Coyote Songs,
  Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)
• The Hunger,
  Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
• The Outsider,
  Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Listener,
  Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)
• Cross Her Heart,
  Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)
• The Cabin at the
  End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
• Tide of Stone,
  Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• The Gone Away
  Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)
• The Cruel Prince,
  Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
• The Belles,
  Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)
• Tess of the Road,
  Rachel Hartman (Random House)
• Dread Nation,
  Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• Cross Fire,
  Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
• The Agony House,
  Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
• Half-Witch,
  John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)
• Impostors,
  Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)
• Mapping the
  Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

• Children of Blood
  and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)
• Semiosis, Sue
  Burke (Tor)
• Armed in Her
  Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
• The Poppy War,
  R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Quantum
  Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Annex, Rich
  Larson (Orbit US)
• Severance,
  Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
• Witchmark,
  C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)
• Trail of
  Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
• Empire of Sand,
  Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

• The Black God’s
  Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Tea Master
  and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• “Umbernight“,
  Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)
• Black
  Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Time Was, Ian
  McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)
• Gods, Monsters,
  and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)
• THE
  FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, Peter Watts (Tachyon)
• Artificial
  Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
• Rogue Protocol,
  Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Descent of
  Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “The Donner
  Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)
• “Okay, Glory”,
  Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
• “No Flight Without
  the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)
• The Only Harmless
  Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• “The Last Banquet
  of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)
• “An Agent of
  Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)
• “Queen Lily“,
  Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)
• “Nine Last Days on
  Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)
• “Quality Time”,
  Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)
• “How to Swallow
  the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORY

• “The Secret Lives
  of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí
  Clark (Fireside 2/18)
• “The Bookcase
  Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)
• “STET“, Sarah
  Gailey (Fireside 10/18)
• “A Witch’s Guide
  to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E.
  Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)
• “Cuisine des
  Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• “The Storyteller’s
  Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)
• “Firelight“,
  Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)
• “The Starship and
  the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  2/1/18)
• “Mother of
  Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)
• “The Court
  Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Best
  Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• The Book of
  Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Year’s Best
  Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois,
  ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Worlds Seen in
  Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Best
  American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin &
  John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Robots vs
  Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• The Best Science
  Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan
  Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Infinity’s End,
  Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Underwater
  Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds.
  (Five Fathoms)
• The Future Is
  Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

• The Tangled
  Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)
• Brief Cases,
  Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)
• An Agent of
  Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)
• How Long ’til
  Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Dinosaur
  Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• Fire & Blood,
  George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• All the Fabulous
  Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)
• The Future Is
  Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
• STARLINGS,
  Jo Walton (Tachyon)
• HOW
  TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless
  Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Fireside
• Lightspeed
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Angry Robot
• Baen
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Orbit
• Saga
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon
• Tor

EDITOR

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• C.C. Finlay
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas &
  Michael Damian Thomas
• Ann & Jeff
  VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams
• Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Leo & Diane
  Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• Victo Ngai
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Space Odyssey:
  Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece,
  Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)
• Sense of Wonder:
  Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)
• Strange Stars,
  Jason Heller (Melville House)
• Dreams Must
  Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin,
  Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)
• Ursula K. Le
  Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David
  Naimon (Tin House)
• Old Futures:
  Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU
  Press)
• Tolkien: Maker of
  Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)
• Astounding: John
  W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and
  the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)
• None of This Is
  Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson
  (University of Minnesota Press)
• An Informal
  History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards,
  1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

ART BOOK

• Yoshitaka Amano,
  Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy,
  Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)
• Spectrum 25: The
  Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• John Howe, A
  Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton
  Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)
• Jeffrey Alan Love,
  The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)
• Simon Stålenhag,
  The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)
• Shaun Tan, Cicada
  (Lothian; Levine ’19)
• Charles Vess, The
  Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le
  Guin (Saga)
• Michael Whelan,
  Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan
  (Baby Tattoo)
• Dungeons &
  Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle
  Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)
• Lisbeth Zwerger, The
  Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

For more info on THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on STARLINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story