Aseară, 27 iunie 2020, la Seattle a fost organizată sesiunea online de premiere LOCUS, găzduită de scriitoarea Connie Willis, care ne-a prezentat premiile LOCUS 2020 (le enumerăm doar pe cele literare):
ROMAN SCIENCE FICTION
- Câștigător: The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan) – apărut la Nemira, link aici
- The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
- Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
- The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
- Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
- The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
- Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
- The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
- Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)
ROMAN FANTASY
- Câștigător: Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
- Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
- A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit US & UK)
- Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit US & UK)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
- Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
- The Iron Dragon’s Mother, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
- Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
ROMAN HORROR
- Câștigător: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
- Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
- Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
- Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
- The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager US & UK)
- The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju, Kim Newman (Titan US & UK)
- The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit US & UK)
- The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)
ROMAN YA
- Câștigător: Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)
- King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint; Orion)
- The Wicked King, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)
- Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World; Faber & Faber)
- Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (TorTeen)
- Destroy All Monsters, Sam J. Miller (Harper Teen)
- Angel Mage, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
- The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Penguin UK & David Fickling)
- Shadow Captain, Alastair Reynolds (Orbit US; Gollancz)
DEBUT (ROMAN)
- Câștigător: Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
- Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan (MCD x FSG Originals)
- Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
- A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
- Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
- The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
NUVELĂ
- Câștigător: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- “A Time to Reap”, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 12/19)
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager; Hodder & Stoughton)
- “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
- Desdemona and the Deep, C.S.E. Cooney (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
- Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds (Tor.com Publishing)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
- The Ascent to Godhood, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
ANTOLOGIE
- Câștigător: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
- Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
- The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
- Mission Critical, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US & UK)
- The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)
- The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
COLECȚIE
- Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
- The Best of Greg Egan, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
- Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
- Full Throttle, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Meet Me in the Future, Kameron Hurley (Tachyon)
- The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon)
- The Best of R.A. Lafferty, R.A. Lafferty (Gollancz)
- Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US & UK)
- Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
NUVELETĂ
- Câștigător: “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation), apărut la Nemira, vezi rubrica COLECȚIE
- “Erase, Erase, Erase”, Elizabeth Bear (F&SF 9-10/19)
- “For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)
- “A Country Called Winter”, Theodora Goss (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
- “Late Returns”, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)
- “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
- “The Justified”, Ann Leckie (The Mythic Dream)
- “Phantoms of the Midway”, Seanan McGuire (The Mythic Dream)
- “Binti: Sacred Fire”, Nnedi Okorafor (Binti: The Complete Trilogy)
- “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)
POVESTIRE
- Câștigător: “The Bookstore at the End of America”, Charlie Jane Anders (A People’s Future of the United States)
- “Lest We Forget”, Elizabeth Bear (Uncanny 5-6/19)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex”, Tobias S. Buckell (New Suns)
- “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning”, Ted Chiang (New York Times 5/27/19)
- “Fisher-Bird”, T. Kingfisher (The Mythic Dream)
- “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married”, Fonda Lee (MIT Technology Review 12/27/19)
- “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear”, Kelly Link (Tin House ’19)
- “Thoughts and Prayers”, Ken Liu (Future Tense 1/26/19)
- “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
- “A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)
Revistă
- Câștigător: Tor.com
- Analog
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- File 770
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Uncanny
EDITURĂ
- Câștigător: Tor
- Angry Robot
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Harper Voyager
- Orbit
- Saga
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tachyon
EDITOR
- Câștigător: Ellen Datlow
- John Joseph Adams
- Neil Clarke
- Gardner Dozois
- C.C. Finlay
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
- Navah Wolfe
sursa: tor.com