Winners of the 2025 Locus Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the winners of the 2025 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash) 

FANTASY NOVEL

• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)

HORROR NOVEL

• Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NOVELLA

• What Feasts at Night, T Kingfisher (Nightfire)

NOVELETTE

• "By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars", Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)

SHORT STORY

• "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)

COLLECTION

• Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

MAGAZINE

• Clarkesworld

PUBLISHER

• Subterranean Press

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke

ARTIST

• Charles Vess

NON-FICTION

• Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)

SPECIAL AWARD 2025: Celebrating Excellence in Genre

• Ignyte Awards