[Here are the ten finalists in some categories of the Locus Awards for 2026. Run by the Locus Magazine. With some usual suspects, but also authors I never heard of. Interestingly, Locus has a translation category!]
SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS
- The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear
- Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow
- Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman
- When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory
- All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu
- Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler
- Slow Gods, Claire North
- Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor
- The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi [yet another Old Man’s Wars?!]
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
FANTASY NOVELS
- The Devils, Joe Abercrombie
- The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison
- Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders
- A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow
- The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
- Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher
- Katabasis, R.F. Kuang [the only book I actually own!}
- The Incandescent, Emily Tesh
- Queen Demon, Martha Wells
FIRST NOVELS
- A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde
- Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian
- When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur
- Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan
- Luminous, Silvia Park
- Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr.
- North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford
- Blob, Maggie Su
- Song of Spores, Bogi Takács
- Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou
TRANSLATED NOVEL
- On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell
- The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses
- The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png
- Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur
- The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur
- Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips
- Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur
- Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery
- The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken
