Novels and Novellas, Winners and Nominees
Source: Locus Awards 2021
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Novels and Novellas, Winners and Nominees
Source: Locus Awards 2021
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Trilogy, Book 1)
4 stars
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
WINNER: Fantasy Novel
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
4 stars
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
WINNER: SF Novel
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #3)
5 stars
The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more …
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5 stars
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
WINNER: Horror Novel
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
5 stars
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her …
WINNER: Young Adult Book
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai
5 stars
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.
There are some …
WINNER: First Novel
5 stars
A dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror.
D. W. …
WINNER: Novella
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #3)
4 stars
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an …
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
4 stars
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
4 stars
A technothriller, the third book in the Little Brother series. Masha has to reckon with the fact that the surveillance …
Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (A Borrowed Man, #2)
Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there …
War of the Maps by Paul McAuley
On a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man - a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a …