SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Other Nominations:
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022)
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2021)
BSFA Award Nominee for Best Novel (2021)
Lambda Award Nominee for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction (2021) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2021)
Dragon Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2021)
About:
This is the second book in the Teixcalaan series that is part political drama and part murder mystery set in a galactic empire. The first, A Memory Called Peace, was also well received, winning the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2020.
Subgenre: Space Opera
FANTASY NOVEL - Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee
Other Nominations:
Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022)
About:
This is finale to the Green Bone Saga, this political fantasy follows clashing gangs in a the fictional kingdom of Kekon, where jade is synonymous with power. The first, Jade City, was also nominated for this award as was its sequel, Jade War.
Subgenre: Urban Fantasy
HORROR NOVEL - My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Other Nominations:
Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Novel (2021)
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2021)
About:
This is the first book in The Lake Witch Trilogy. It follows a Native American teen who is obsessed with slasher films, only to find herself in the center of one in her small town of Proofrock. Jones was previously nominated for this award for his 2020 novel The Only Good Indians.
Subgenre: Slasher
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL - Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
Other Nominations:
Nebula Award Nominee (Andre Norton Award) (2021)
Lodestar Award Nominee (2022)
About:
This is the first entry in the Unstoppable series. It follows Tina, a clone of an alien disguised as a human tasked with saving humanity should she be in need. This cover is absolutely gorgeous and is Anders third Locus award (All the Birds in the Sky & The City in the Middle of the Night) and fourth nomination (Six Months, Three Days).
Subgenre: Space Opera
Other Nominations:
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022)
Nebula Award for Best Novel (2021)
Compton Crook Award (2022)
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2021)
Dragon Award Nominee for Best Alternate History Novel (2021)
About:
This is the first full length novel in the Dead Djinn Universe with three novellas preceding it. Set in an alternative Cairo in 1912, it follows Fatma, an investigator of the supernatural, while she investigates a murder in a secret society centered around a famous historical figure who may or may not have returned.
Subgenre: Historical Fiction, Steampunk
NOVELLA - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Other Nominations:
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2021)
About:
As the sixth entry, and fifth novella, Wells has created a future where artificial intelligence has become so advanced that they can pass as human. In this entry, Murderbot finds a dead body and must assist the local authorities against her will. Told in the classic sarcasm of the The Murderbot Diaries, this is the fourth in the series to be nominated for this award and the third to win.
Subgenre: Space Opera, Mystery
OTHER WINNERS
- Novelette - “That Story Isn’t the Story“ by John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)
- Short Story - “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“ by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
- Anthology - We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds.
- Collection - Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders
- Magazine - Tor.com
- Publisher - Tor
- Editor - Ellen Datlow
- Artist - Charles Vess
- Non-Fiction - Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, eds.
- Illustrated & Art Book - The Art of Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess’s Stardust by Charles Vess
- Special Award 2022: Community Building & Career Development - The Codex Writers' Group
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