2023 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2023 Locus Awards on June 24, 2023, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Maggie Tokuda-Hall MCed the awards ceremony w…
I kind of fell off the boat for a bit with Scalzi's work, as I didn't like his most recent series (not due to his writing, the topic just didn't interest me, and I've never liked lawyer-ish stuff from any author), and being a series he released several books in it over several years.
I'm not a huge fan of Kaiju as a topic. You guys who've read this one that won the award, do you think it's strong enough for someone not particularly into Kaiju to like it?
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
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WINNER: The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Neom, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
FANTASY NOVEL
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WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)