The finalists for the 2018 Locus Awards were announced. Peter S. Beagle’s IN CALABRIA and THE OVERNEATH, Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS (as well as her Passing Strange) and Tachyon Publications itself all received nominations. Many Tachyon authors, editors, and artists received notice including John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Cory Doctorow, Kate Elliott, Karen Joy Fowler, Daryl Gregory, Kameron Hurley, 
Caitlín
R. Kiernan, Nancy Kress, John Picacio, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, Michael Whelan, and Sheila Williams.

Congratulations to all the finalists.

SCIENCE
FICTION NOVEL

• Persepolis
  Rising,
  James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Walkaway,
  Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The
  Stars Are Legion,
  Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Provenance,
  Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Raven
  Stratagem,
  Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Luna:
  Wolf Moon,
  Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• Seven
  Surrenders,
  Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• New
  York 2140,
  Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The
  Collapsing Empire,
  John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
• Borne,
  Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

FANTASY
NOVEL

• The
  Stone in the Skull,
  Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
• City
  of Miracles,
  Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• Ka:
  Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr,
  John Crowley (Saga)
• The
  House of Binding Thorns,
  Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
• The
  Ruin of Angels,
  Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
• Spoonbenders,
  Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
• The
  Stone Sky,
  N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Jade
  City,
  Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The
  Delirium Brief,
  Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
• Horizon,
  Fran Wilde (Tor)

HORROR
NOVEL

• Ill
  Will,
  Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
• Universal
  Harvester,
  John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
• After
  the End of the World,
  Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
• Food
  of the Gods,
  Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
• The
  Night Ocean,
  Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
• The
  Changeling,
  Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• Red
  Snow,
  Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
• Behind
  Her Eyes,
  Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
• Mormama,
  Kit Reed (Tor)
• Ubo,
  Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

YOUNG
ADULT BOOK

• Tool
  of War,
  Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• In
  Other Lands,
  Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
• The
  Dragon with a Chocolate Heart,
  Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• Chalk,
  Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• Buried
  Heart,
  Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• A
  Skinful of Shadows,
  Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
• Frogkisser!,
  Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
• Akata
  Warrior,
  Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Shadowhouse
  Fall,
  Daniel José Older (Levine)
• The
  Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage,
  Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

FIRST
NOVEL

• The
  Bear and the Nightingale,
  Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
• The
  City of Brass,
  S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
• Amberlough,
  Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
• Winter
  Tide,
  Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• The
  Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter,
  Theodora Goss (Saga)
• The
  Art of Starving,
  Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
• Autonomous,
  Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
• Lincoln
  in the Bardo,
  George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
• An
  Unkindness of Ghosts,
  Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
• Amatka,
  Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

NOVELLA

• IN CALABRIA,
  Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• River
  of Teeth,
  Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
• Agents
  of Dreamland,
  Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Passing
  Strange,
  Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• Down
  Among the Sticks and Bones,
  Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Binti:
  Home,
  Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• “And
  Then There Were (N-One)“,
  Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
• All
  Systems Red,
  Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
• The
  Black Tides of Heaven,
  JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
• The
  Red Threads of Fortune,
  JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “Children
  of Thorns, Children of Water“,
  Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
• “The
  Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
• “Come
  See the Living Dryad“,
  Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
• “The
  Worshipful Society of Glovers“,
  Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
• “Extracurricular
  Activities“,
  Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
• “The
  Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The
  Book of Swords)
• “The
  Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black
  Feathers)
• “Wind
  Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
• “The
  Lamentation of Their Women“,
  Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
• “Waiting
  on a Bright Moon“,
  JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

SHORT
STORY

• “Don’t
  Press Charges and I Won’t Sue“,
  Charlie Jane Anders (Global
  Dystopias)
• “Zen
  and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic
  Powers)
• “Persephone
  of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
• “Fire.”,
  Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
• “Dear
  Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity
  Wars)
• “The
  Martian Obelisk“,
  Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
• “Fandom
  for Robots“,
  Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
• “Welcome
  to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“,
  Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
• “Starlight
  Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
• “Carnival
  Nine“,
  Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath
  Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

ANTHOLOGY

• Cosmic
  Powers,
  John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
• Black
  Feathers,
  Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• The
  Book of Swords,
  Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
• The
  Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection,
  Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Bookburners,
  Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
• The
  Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories,
  Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The
  Best of Subterranean,
  William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
• The
  Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year,
  Volume Eleven,
  Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Infinity
  Wars,
  Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
• Transcendent
  2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction,
  Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)

COLLECTION

• Six
  Months,
  Three Days, Five Others,
  Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
• THE OVERNEATH,
  Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Norse
  Mythology,
  Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
• Strange
  Weather,
  Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• WICKED WONDERS,
  Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
• Cat
  Pictures Please and Other Stories,
  Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
• Ursula
  K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories,
  Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
• Her
  Body and Other Parties,
  Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
• Tender,
  Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The
  Refrigerator Monologues,
  Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath
  Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• File
  770
• 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
• Bob
  Eggleton
• Gregory
  Manchess
• Victo
  Ngai
• John
  Picacio
• Shaun
  Tan
• Charles
  Vess
• Michael
  Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Sleeping
  with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and
  Fantasy,
  Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
• In
  Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany,
  Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
• The
  Invention of Angela Carter,
  Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
• Star-Begotten:
  A Life Lived in Science Fiction,
  James Gunn (McFarland)
• Iain
  M. Banks,
  Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
• Luminescent
  Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler,
  Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
• Not
  So Good a Gay Man,
  Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
• Don’t
  Live for Your Obituary,
  John Scalzi (Subterranean)
• A
  Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison,
  Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
• J.G.
  Ballard,
  D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)

ART
BOOK

• The
  Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History,
  Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
• Spectrum
  24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art,
  John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Paul
  Kidby, Terry
  Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
• Jeffrey
  Alan Love, Norse
  Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki,
  Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
• Gregory
  Manchess, Above
  the Timberline (Saga)
• Syd
  Mead, The
  Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist,
  Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
• Jean-Baptiste
  Monge, Celtic
  Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin’s
  WAY)
• Wendy
  Pini, Line
  of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini,
  Richard Pini (Flesk)
• Omar
  Rayyan, Goblin
  Market,
  Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
• James
  Wyatt, The
  Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on THE OVERNEATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story