Sabato 26 Giugno, durante la cerimonia del Locus Awards,
La Locus Science Fiction Foundation ha annunciato i vincitori dei Locus Awards 2021

Questi i vincitori e i finalisti nelle categorie per noi più importanti:

Romanzo di Fantascienza


Vincitore: Network Effect, Martha Wells
Machine, Elizabeth Bear
Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott
Agency, William Gibson
The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal
War of the Maps, Paul McAuley
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Last Emperox, John Scalzi
Interlibrary Loan, Gene Wolfe

Romanzo Fantasy


Vincitore: The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie
The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix
The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab


Romanzo Horror


Vincitore: Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Devolution, Max Brooks
Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth
Beowulf, Maria Dahvana Headley
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
The Deep, Alma Katsu
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada
Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay

Romanzo Young Adult


Vincitore: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher
Over the Woodward Wall, A. Deborah Baker
The Silvered Serpents, Roshani Chokshi
The Scapegracers, Hannah Abigail Clarke
Legendborn, Tracy Deonn
Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland
A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow
Shadowshaper Legacy, Daniel José Older
Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer

Opera Prima


Vincitore: Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez
The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood
Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed
Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne
The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart
Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots

Romanzo Breve


Vincitore: Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho
Finna, Nino Cipri
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Aliette de Bodard
Seven of Infinities, Aliette de Bodard
Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey
The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg
Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire
Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

Racconto Lungo


Vincitore: “The Pill“, Meg Elison
“If You Take My Meaning“, Charlie Jane Anders
“The Inaccessibility of Heaven“, Aliette de Bodard
“Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super“, A.T. Greenblatt
“A Whisper of Blue”, Ken Liu
“A City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat“, Usman T. Malik
“Two Truths and a Lie“, Sarah Pinsker
“Fairy Tales for Robots”, Sofia Samatar
“Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo“, Catherynne M. Valente
“A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential“, JY Neon Yang

Racconto


Vincitore: “Little Free Library“, Naomi Kritzer
“Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse“, Rae Carson
“In the Lands of the Spill“, Aliette de Bodard
“Dresses Like White Elephants“, Meg Elison
“The Sycamore and the Sybil“, Alix E. Harrow
“The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods“, Maria Dahvana Headley
“Wait for Night“, Stephen Graham Jones
“The Mermaid Astronaut“, Yoon Ha Lee
“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know“, Ken Liu
“Open House on Haunted Hill“, John Wiswell

Antologia


Vincitore: The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan
A Phoenix First Must Burn, Patrice Caldwell
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, Neil Clarke
Edited By, Ellen Datlow
An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, dave ring
Made to Order, Jonathan Strahan
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan
Africanfuturism, Wole Talabi
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer


Alcuni titoli tra i vincitori e i finalisti sono già stati annunciati o sono nel mirino di Mondadori e dovrebbero uscire in Oscar Fantastica:
i romanzi di Martha Wells, N.K. Jemisin, Joe Abercrombie, Tamsyn Muir e Silvia Moreno-Garcia.


Altri sono già usciti:  Agency per Mondadori, The Last Emperox per Fanucci e Piranesi per Fazi


Speriamo presto ti poter leggere in italiano anche il Romanzo di  Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface.

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