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2020 Science Fiction Fantasy Awards; so far

A lot of awards have gone online this season. The wins seem to have been a bit quieter than they normal would be, at least that's how feel.

A quick list of winners:

Philip K. Dick Winner:
Sooner of Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press)

British SF Association Award:
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit) for best Novel
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) shorter fiction

Nebula Awards:
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (Berkley) Novel
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) Novella

Locus Awards:
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor) SF Novel (3/2021 book club selection)
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com) Fantasy Novel
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead) Horror Novel
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com) First Novel (2/2021 book club selection)
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga) Novella (Books and Beer Book Club selection for 9/21/2020)
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Knopf) Collection

*see end of list to see complete Locus, I always think they have a great top 10 list for their 3 main awards.




Awards still to come, perhaps we will read the winner in the Hugo, as we 3 of the 6 books on our future reading list.

Hugo Awards Nominees:

Novel

Arthur C Clarke Awards Nominees:
Shortlist


Locus Award Nominees
:Sf Novel
  1. Winner: The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
  2. Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
  3. Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris)
  4. The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
  5. The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK) * book club selection for 1/2021
  6. Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
  7. The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit)
  8. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
  9. Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
  10. Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan)

Fantasy Novel
  1. Winner: Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
  2. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
  3. Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
  4. Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
  5. Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
  6. The Iron Dragon's Mother, Michael Swanwick (tor)
  7. Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron; Gollancz)
  8. Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
  9. A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley; Viking Canada; Hodder & Stoughton)
  10. The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday; Harvill Secker)
Horror Novel
  1. Winner: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
  2. The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
  3. The Institute, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
  4. Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
  5. The Toll, Cherie Priest (tor)
  6. Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiji, Kim Newman (Titan)
  7. The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager)
  8. Prisoner of Midnight, Barbara Hambly (Severn House)
  9. The Pursuit of William Abbey, Claire North (Orbit)
  10. Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky (Grand Central; Orion)
First Novel
  1. Winner: Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com)
  2. A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
  3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)
  4. Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
  5. A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
  6. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
  7. Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)
  8. The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
  9. Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor; Head of Zeus)
  10. Infinity Details, Tim Maughan (MCS x FSG Originals)

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