2023 Locus, Nebula, & Hugo lists

[Chris]

This thread will keep track of relevant lists, nominations, and awards for the big three. First up is the Locus Recommended Reading List: https://locusmag.com/2023/02/2022-rec...

Science Fiction Novels

Mage of Fools, Eugen Bacon
The Thousand Earths, Stephen Baxter
Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys
The Paradox Hotel, Rob Hart
Cold Water, Dave Hutchinson
The Moonday Letters, Emmi Itäranta
Dark Factory, Kathe Koja
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
Ymir, Rich Larson
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
Beyond the Burn Line, Paul McAuley
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Needle, Linda Nagata
51, Patrick O’Leary
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
Prison of Sleep, Tim Pratt
Expect Me Tomorrow, Christopher Priest
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds
The This, Adam Roberts
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Neom, Lavie Tidhar
Fault Tolerance, Valerie Valdes
Wayward, Chuck Wendig
Imperium Restored, Walter Jon Williams

Fantasy Novels

Age of Ash, Daniel Abraham
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
The Origin of Storms, Elizabeth Bear
Book of Night, Holly Black
Saint Death’s Daughter, C.S.E. Cooney
Flint and Mirror, John Crowley
Aspects, John M. Ford
Last Exit, Max Gladstone
Spear, Nicola Griffith
Hokuloa Road, Elizabeth Hand
The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield
Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin
The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez
All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
Babel, R.F. Kuang
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
Malarkoi, Alex Pheby
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
The Path of Thorns, A.G. Slatter
The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
The Silverberg Business, Robert Freeman Wexler
Embertide, Liz Williams

First Novels

Patricia Wants to Cuddle, Samantha Allen
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
How To Succeed in Witchcraft, Aislinn Brophy
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas
Singer Distance, Ethan Chatagnier
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean
Wrath Goddess Sing, Maya Deane
Blood Scion, Deborah Falaye
Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings
The Moth Girl, Heather Kamins
When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg
Only a Monster, Vanessa Len
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
Bluebird, Ciel Pierlot
Burn Down, Rise Up, Vincent Tirado
The Immortal King Rao, Vauhini Vara
Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White
The Doloriad, Missouri Williams
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

[Chris]

Nebula Award nominations: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/58th-nebula-...

Best Novel

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
Spear, Nicola Griffith
Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher
🏆 Babel, R.F. Kuang
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler

Awards were announced on May 14: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/winners-58th...

[Chris]

Hugo finalists were announced: https://en.chengduworldcon.com/news3_...

Best Novel

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
🏆 Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal

Other awards will be noted at https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-hi...

[Chris]

Locus announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2023/04/2023-loc...

Science Fiction Novel

Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
🏆 The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Neom, Lavie Tidhar
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds

Fantasy Novel

The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
Spear, Nicola Griffith
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
🏆 Babel, R.F. Kuang
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo

First Novel

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean
The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
🏆 The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Locus Award winners were announced on June 24th: https://locusmag.com/2023/06/2023-loc...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Man, the fantasy list at least is kinda underwhelming! A lot of familiar faces there, and from the looks of it, some are not at their best here.

[Hank]

Chris, thank you as always for doing this. I never seem to catch the nominees anywhere else.

[Chris]

You're welcome!

I like to have it all in one place so those books will be on my radar.

[Chris]

Locus announced its finalists: https://locusmag.com/2023/04/2023-loc...

Message 4 now lists the books for the categories I'm following.

[Leonie]

If anyone wants to watch the Nebula Awards, SFWA is streaming them live on Facebook and Youtube.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/the-58th-neb...

[Sarah]

Leonie wrote: "If anyone wants to watch the Nebula Awards, SFWA is streaming them live on Facebook and Youtube.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/the-58th-neb..."

So cool! Thanks for posting this.

[Leonie]

Sarah wrote: "Leonie wrote: "If anyone wants to watch the Nebula Awards, SFWA is streaming them live on Facebook and Youtube.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/the-58th-neb..."

So cool! Thanks ..."

No worries!

[Chris]

The Nebula Awards were announced: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/winners-58th...

The Best Novel winner was Babel by R.F. Kuang.

[Chris]

The Locus Awards were announced: https://locusmag.com/2023/06/2023-loc...

Science Fiction Novel: The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi

Fantasy Novel: Babel, R.F. Kuang

First Novel: The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler

[Silvana]

I think Babel is going to win the Hugo for best novel.

[Chris]

The Hugo Award finalists were announced: https://en.chengduworldcon.com/news3_...

Message 3 above now lists the Best Novel nominees.

[Ellen]

Silvana wrote: "I think Babel is going to win the Hugo for best novel."

Surprising Babel didn't make it to the finals.

[Chris]

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher won the Hugo for Best Novel.

Other awards will be noted at https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-hi...

[Rick]

https://file770.com/2023-hugo-award-w... has the winner list (the Hugo site itself... does not for some reason)

[Rachel]

Super glad Adrian Tchaikovsky got a Hugo finally. Children of Time is certainly worthy

[Sean]

I looked through the Hugo finalists for best novel to see which, if any, I could recommend for the quality of prose, and unfortunately there were none. Spear and Goliath, both nominated for the Locus Awards, were far more stylishly written.

Just a note for any fellow speculative prose snobs out there. ;-)

[Chris]

Locus published some stats on Hugo Award voting: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/2023-hug...

The win by Nettle & Bone was a landslide.

[Cheryl L]

Chris wrote: "The win by Nettle & Bone was a landslide"

I clearly need to put Nettle and Bone high on my TBR then.