The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2017 Locus Awards.

The awards will be presented at Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, June 23-25.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
• The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Saga)
• Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Visitor, C.J. Cherryh (DAW)
• Babylon’s Ashes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Death’s End, Cixin Liu (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)
• Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday; Fleet)
• Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

FANTASY NOVEL

• All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (NAL; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Wall of Storms, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
• The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)

HORROR NOVEL

• The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R.S. Belcher (Tor)
• Fellside, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Fireman, Joe Hill (Morrow)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)
• The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)
• Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Dunne)
• HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Family Plot, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper)
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo (Holt)
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond (Switch)
• Truthwitch, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Tor UK)
• Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh (Delacorte; Macmillan)
• Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Harper; Allen & Unwin; Hot Key)
• Revenger, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US ’17)
• This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Titan; Greenwillow)
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Reader, Traci Chee (Putnam)
• Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen (Dunne)
• The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
• The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)
• Roses and Rot, Kat Howard (Saga)
• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
• Infomocracy, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)
• Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)
• Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher

NOVELLA

• The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Census-taker, China Miéville (Del Rey; Picador)
• The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds (NewCon)
• The Dispatcher, John Scalzi (Audible; Subterranean 2017)
• Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling (Tachyon)
• A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• ‘‘The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com 7/27/16)
• “Pearl”, Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood)
• “Red as Blood and White as Bone”, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 5/4/16)
• “Foxfire, Foxfire”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/03/16)
• “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 9/16)
• “Spinning Silver”, Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood)
• “Those Shadows Laugh”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/16)
• “The Future is Blue”, Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)

SHORT STORY

• “The Story of Kao Yu“, Peter S. Beagle (Tor.com 12/7/16)
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies“, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
• “A Salvaging of Ghosts“, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Amal el-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
• “The City Born Great“, N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com 9/28/16)
• “Seven Birthdays”, Ken Liu (Bridging Infinity)
• “Afrofuturist 419“, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 11/16)
• “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee”, Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
• “That Game We Played During the War“, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com 3/16/16)
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers“, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/02/16)

ANTHOLOGY

• Children of Lovecraft, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29)
• Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Mikki Kendall & Chesya Burke, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, ed. (Serial Box; Saga ’17)
• Invisible Planets, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor; Head of Zeus)
• The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

COLLECTION

• Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
• Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct)
• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
• The Found and the Lost, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu (Saga; Head of Zeus)
• The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald (PS)
• Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)
• Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean; Gollancz)
• Not So Much, Said the Cat, Michael Swanwick (Tachyon)

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
• Donato Giancola
• Victo Ngai
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

• Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981-1990, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University)
• Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press)
• Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
• The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline)
• Time Travel: A History, James Gleick (Pantheon)
• The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor)
• Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition, Adam Roberts (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

ART BOOK

• Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations, Yoshitaka Amano (VIZ Media)
• Kinuko Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast, Mahlon F. Craft (Harper)
• Kinuko Y. Craft, Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book (Amber Lotus)
• Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
• Stephanie Law, Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes)
• Ralph McQuarrie, Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie (Abrams)
• Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined, Ron Miller (Smithsonian/Elephant Book Company)
• The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dermot Power, ed. (Harper Design; HarperCollins UK)
• Shaun Tan, The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Allen & Unwin 2015; Arthur A. Levine; Walker UK)
• Charles Vess, Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Faerie Magazine)