The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Authors Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi were Guests of Honor, with Featured Local Author Kemi Ashing-Giwa and Featured Local Artist Stephanie Law. Additional weekend events included readings and panels with leading authors, plus program items including a limited-seating workshop with Henry Lien and a catered reception.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash) amazon / bookshop

• Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom; Solaris) amazon / bookshop
• The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, Malka Older (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Kinning, Nisi Shawl (Tor) amazon / bookshop
• Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) amazon / bookshop
• Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• Space Oddity, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga; Corsair UK) amazon / bookshop
• Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate UK) amazon / bookshop

FANTASY NOVEL

• WINNER: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop

• I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga) amazon / bookshop
• The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
• Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop
• The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

HORROR NOVEL

• WINNER: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop

• Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Nightfire; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey) amazon / bookshop
• The Wilding, Ian McDonald (Gollancz) amazon
• Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer) amazon / bookshop
• Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD; Merky UK) amazon / bookshop
• Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Underhistory, Kaaron Warren (Viper UK) amazon / bookshop

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• WINNER: Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop

• Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) amazon / bookshop
• Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen; Hodderscape UK) amazon / bookshop
• Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA) amazon / bookshop
• Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) amazon / bookshop
• The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key UK) amazon / bookshop
• Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) amazon / bookshop
• Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen; Daphne Press UK) amazon / bookshop

FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK) amazon / bookshop

• The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) amazon / bookshop
• Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW) amazon / bookshop
• Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK) amazon / bookshop
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK) amazon / bookshop
• The West Passage, Jared Pecha?ek (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) amazon / bookshop
• Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon) amazon / bookshop
• Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz; Harper Voyager US 2025) amazon / bookshop

NOVELLA

• WINNER: What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire) amazon / bookshop

• Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) amazon / bookshop
• Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW) amazon / bookshop
• Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
• The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop

NOVELETTE

• WINNER: “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars“, Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)

• “A Stranger Knocks“, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe“, Daryl Gregory (Reactor 11/20/24)
• “The River Judge“, S.L. Huang (Reactor 3/6/24)
• “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!“, TJ Klune (In the Lives of Puppets)
• “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”, Naomi Kritzer (Asimov’s 9-10/24)
• “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell“, Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/24)
• “Encore”, Wole Talabi (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
• “Joanna’s Bodies“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 7/1/24)
• “Loneliness Universe“, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 5-6/24)

SHORT STORY

• WINNER: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole“, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

• The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• “Autumn’s Red Bird”, Aliette de Bodard (Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art)
• “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus“, Rachael K. Jones (Lightspeed 1/24)
• “Parthenogenesis“, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 10/2/24)
• “The V*mpire“, PH Lee (Reactor 10/23/24)
• “Three Faces of a Beheading“, Arkady Martine (Uncanny 5-6/24)
• “The Night Birds”, Premee Mohamed (Northern Nights)
• “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is“, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 3/24)
• “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 5/24)

ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron) amazon / bookshop

• The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press) amazon / bookshop
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 8, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade) amazon / bookshop
• We Mostly Come Out at Night, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press Teens) amazon / bookshop
• Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press) amazon / bookshop
• Northern Nights, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) amazon / bookshop
• Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji, ed. (Comma) amazon / bookshop
• The Crawling Moon, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock) amazon / bookshop
• New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway) amazon / bookshop

COLLECTION

• WINNER: Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) amazon / bookshop

• Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand) amazon / bookshop
• Weird Black Girls, Elwin Cotman (Scribner) amazon / bookshop
• The History of the World Begins in Ice, Kate Elliott (Fairwood) amazon / bookshop
• Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon) amazon / bookshop
• Kindling, Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer) amazon / bookshop
• You Like it Darker, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) amazon / bookshop
• Buried Deep and Other Stories, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK) amazon / bookshop
• Power to Yield and Other Stories, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) amazon / bookshop
• Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (DAW) amazon / bookshop

MAGAZINE

• WINNER: Clarkesworld

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Fiyah
• kh?ré?
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• The Deadlands
• Uncanny Magazine

PUBLISHER (Tor Publishing Group recused itself from this category.)

• WINNER: Subterranean Press

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Erewhon
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Small Beer Press
• Solaris
• Tachyon

EDITOR

• WINNER: Neil Clarke

• Ellen Datlow
• Diana Pho
• dave ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• E. Catherine Tobler
• Wendy N. Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap

ARTIST

• WINNER: Charles Vess

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Julie Dillon
• Kathleen Jennings
• Abigail Larson
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Michael Whelan
• Alyssa Winans

NON-FICTION

• WINNER: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic) amazon / bookshop

• This Is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths) amazon / bookshop
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press) amazon / bookshop
• The Book Blinders, John Clute (Norstrilia) amazon / bookshop
• Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, Stefan Ekman (Lever) amazon / bookshop
• Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon Greenaway (Repeater) amazon / bookshop
• Laozi’s Dao De Jing, Laozi & Ken Liu (Scribner; Apollo 2025) amazon / bookshop
• Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene) amazon
• A History of Fans and Fandom, Holly Swinyard (White Owl) amazon / bookshop
• Star Trek: Open a Channel, Nana Visitor (Insight Editions) amazon / bookshop

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• WINNER: The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, illustrated by Charles Vess (The Folio Society)
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, art by Nico Delort (Scholastic) amazon / bookshop
• R.U.R.: The Karel ?apek Classic, Kate?ina ?upová, translated by Julie Nováková (Rosarium) amazon / bookshop
• Hell, Ink & Water: The Art of Mike Mignola, Scott Dunbier, ed., art by Mike Mignola (Philippe Labaune Gallery with IDW) amazon / bookshop
• Supernatural Tales from Japan, Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki, art by Sakyu (Tuttle) amazon / bookshop
• Undying Tales: Mythologies of Species on the Verge of Extinction, Stephanie Law (Eye of Newt) amazon / bookshop
• Dungeons & Dragons: Worlds & Realms, Adam Lee (Ten Speed) amazon / bookshop
• Frank Frazetta: An Artists’ Tribute, Marisa Lewis, ed. (3dtotal) amazon / bookshop
• Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, art by Donato Giancola (Grim Oak)

About Locus Magazine

Locus magazine was founded in 1968 in New York by Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf as a one-page newszine to promote the “Boston in ’71” Worldcon bid. Two trial issues were sent to various fans and professionals to drum up subscriptions before issue #1 was mailed. Vanderwerf left after issue #4, and Meskys after #11, but Charles decided to keep the ‘zine going with the help of first wife Marsha Brown (who was co-editor from 1968-69), and later second wife Dena Brown (who co-edited from 1970-77). Issues were published once or twice a month, as the news merited.

Locus won the Best Fanzine Hugo eight times (starting in 1970), and the Best Semiprozine Hugo 22 times, for an astonishing total of 30 Hugo Awards — the most recent in 2012, after which the rules for the category were changed to make Locus ineligible for any Hugo category.

Charles Brown ran the magazine for over 40 years, until his death in 2009, when executive editor Liza Groen Trombi took the helm as editor-in-chief and publisher. The magazine is now published under the auspices of the non-profit Locus Science Fiction Foundation, which also administers the Locus Awards, manages the literary estate of R.A. Lafferty, runs workshops, and does other work to promote SF/F literature. Locus celebrates 50 years of publishing as of 2018.

[via LocusMag]