2022 Locus, Nebula, & Hugo lists

[Chris]

I'm using this topic to keep track of the three big awards for SFF novels published in 2021.

First up are the Locus Recommended Reading lists:
https://locusmag.com/2022/02/2021-rec...

I am putting only the most relevant novel lists here, but the link also has lists for horror, short fiction, and the other award categories.

Science Fiction Novels

The 22 Murders of Madison May, Max Barry
Appleseed, Matt Bell
The Horizon, Gautam Bhatia
The Actual Star, Monica Byrne
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
The Book of All Skies, Greg Egan
The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Firebreak, Nicole Kornher-Stace
The House of Styx, Derek Künsken
Beyond the Hallowed Sky, Ken MacLeod
The Second Shooter Nick Mamatas
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker
Bewilderment, Richard Powers
Doors of Sleep, Tim Pratt
You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
Inhibitor Phase, Alastair Reynolds
Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford
Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson
Invisible Sun, Charles Stross
Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Far from the Light of Heaven, Tade Thompson
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer
Out Past the Stars, K.B. Wagers


Fantasy Novels

The Wisdom of Crowds, Joe Abercrombie
The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison
The Good Neighbours, Nina Allan
Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki
The Blacktongue Thief, Christopher Buehlman
The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick
Black Water Sister, Zen Cho
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova
Honeycomb, Joanne M. Harris
Sistersong, Lucy Holland
Cyber Mage, Saad Z. Hossain
Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher
Build Your House Around My Body, Violet Kupersmith
Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee
The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik
Son of the Storm, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
Soulstar, C.L. Polk
Grave Reservations, Cherie Priest
The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie, M. Rickert
All the Murmuring Bones, A.G. Slatter
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri
The Memory Theater, Karin Tidbeck
The Escapement, Lavie Tidhar
The Hood, Lavie Tidhar
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull
The Angels of L19, Jonathan Walker
The Hidden Palace, Helene Wecker
Blackthorn Winter, Liz Williams

First Novels

Unity, Elly Bangs
The Unbroken, C.L. Clark
A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark
Machinehood, S.B. Divya
The Witch King, H.E. Edgmon
The Upper World, Femi Fadugba
Mrs Death Misses Death, Salena Godden
Star Eater, Kerstin Hall
Bacchanal, Veronica G. Henry
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar
The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw
Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo
A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell
This Thing Between Us, Gus Moreno
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
The Unraveling, Benjamin Rosenbaum
Root Magic, Eden Royce
Blood Like Magic, Liselle Sambury
This Weightless World, Adam Soto
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo
Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise
On Fragile Waves, E. Lily Yu

[Chris]

Nebula announced nominations for its awards: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...

Best Novel

The Unbroken, C.L. Clark
🏆 A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark
Machinehood, S.B. Divya
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
Plague Birds, Jason Sanford

Award winners were announced on May 21: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...

[Chris]

The Hugo nominations were announced: https://chicon.org/home/whats-happeni...

Best Novel

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark
🏆 A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Award winners were announced on September 4: https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-hi...

[Chris]

Locus Magazine announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2022/05/2022-loc...

Science Fiction Novel

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey
The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
🏆 A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker
You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer

Fantasy Novel

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki
The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison
Black Water Sister, Zen Cho
Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher
Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
🏆 Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee
The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik
Soulstar, C.L. Polk
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull

First Novel

The Unbroken, C.L. Clark
🏆 A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark
Machinehood, S.B. Divya
The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw
A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo
Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao

Locus Awards were given on June 25: https://locusmag.com/2022/06/2022-loc...

[Anna]

Thanks for doing this again, Chris! :)

[Grace]

Excellent! Time to go shopping. :)

[Chris]

Nebula announced its nominations: https://locusmag.com/2022/03/2021-neb...

I listed the Best Novel nominations in message 2.

[Hank]

Interesting that Plague Birds was not on the suggested reading list.

[Jacqueline]

Loving the administrators note at the end…

“Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novella finalist this year for Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot Diaries, Book 6, published by Tordotcom. Wells felt that the Murderbot Diaries series has already received incredible praise from her industry peers and wanted to open the floor to highlight other works within the community.”

[Silvana]

Jacqueline wrote: "Loving the administrators note at the end…

“Author Martha Wells graciously declined her nomination as a novella finalist this year for Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot Diaries, Book 6, published by T..."

awesome

[Beth]

John Scalzi and Ann Leckie have done the same thing in the past, in the even more prestigious gold-crown novel category*. It's an admirable, humble thing to leave the field open for voices that might otherwise have missed their chance.

*do not recall whether it was Hugo or Nebula or both, in either case.

[Bonnie]

Hi Chris, thanks for doing these lists

I noticed Invisible Sun is pointing to the wrong book above ^
Here is hardcover for Charles Stross' :

Invisible Sun

[ book:Invisible Sun|43263174 ]

BB.

[Chris]

Thanks, Bonnie. Fixed.

[Chris]

Hugo nominations were announced: https://chicon.org/home/whats-happeni...

I listed the Best Novel nominations in message 3.

[Rebecca]

Chris wrote: "Nebula announced nominations for its awards: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...

Best Novel

The Unbroken, C.L. Clark
A Master of Djinn,..."

Thanks for popping this list here - working my way through. I need to get on with reading as my TBR (like most of us) is way, way too long.

[Jacqueline]

I've been working my way through the Novelette and Short Story finalists. You can find most of them online and this weblink has where you can find them.

https://www.superpunch.net/2022/04/li...

[Chris]

Locus Magazine announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2022/05/2022-loc...

The lists for SF, Fantasy, and First Novels are in message 4 now.

[Chris]

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark won the Nebula Award for Best Novel.

All Nebula Awards are listed at https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announc...

[Jacqueline]

Yeah just saw that on Facebook. Bought it a couple of weeks ago.

[Chris]

The Locus Award winners were announced: https://locusmag.com/2022/06/2022-loc...

Best Science Fiction Novel: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine

Best Fantasy Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee

Best First Novel: A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark

[Nadine in California]

Chris wrote: "The Locus Award winners were announced: https://locusmag.com/2022/06/2022-loc...

Best Science Fiction Novel: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine

Best Fantasy ..."

I felt that the first book in Martine's series promised so much but ultimately became just a murder mystery. It felt like a waste of really great world building. I want to go back to that world though, so I will give Desolation a try and hope she realizes more of its potential.

I tried Master of Djinn on audio, and the narrator's accents felt very heavy handed - I kept thinking of Boris and Natasha in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. I love all his other books though, so I think need to start again with the print.

[Raucous]

Nadine in California wrote: "... I felt that the first book in Martine's series promised so much but ultimately became just a murder mystery. It felt like a waste of really great world building.
..."

I was so taken by the world building and the Byzantine politics in the first book that I didn't really pay much attention to the murder mystery aspect. Given my fascination with that world building the second book, which was (eventually) more plot heavy, was a bit of a disappointment.

I agree about the audio for A Master of Djinn. Perhaps I might have gotten used to it but I wasn't encouraged by the sample. Reading it is working better for me.

[Anna]

Hugo Awards 2022 livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdaDt...

(Sorry I forgot to post this earlier!)

edit: Starts in a couple of minutes :)

[Chris]

Hugo Best Novel went to A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.

All Hugo winners will be listed at https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-hi...

[Anna]

It's up! :)

https://www.thehugoawards.org/2022/09...

[Rachel]

Suzanne Palmers acceptance speech was fun.

[Anna]

The limerick/drafts bit?

[Silvana]

Watching the replay....

Happy that Shelley Parker-Chan won the Astounding Award and Sarah Pinsker for Best Short Story!

I need to read Far Sector and Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories