Le prix Locus 2023 a publié la liste de ses finalistes. Sélectionnés par des votes effectués par suffrage ouvert du 1er février au 15 avril, ils sont répartis sur 16 catégories : Roman de science-fiction, roman de fantasy, roman d'horreur, roman Young Adult, premier roman, roman court, novelette, nouvelle, anthologie, collection, magazine, maison d'édition, éditeur, artiste, non-fiction et ouvrage d'art ou illustré. Parmi les 10 finalistes de chaque catégorie, un vainqueur sera annoncé lors de la cérémonie du prix Locus, le 24 juin 2023. Voici les listes !
Roman de science-fiction
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 ; à venir chez Payot & Rivages en France)
La fille du docteur Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Bragelonne)
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
La Société de préservation des Kaïjus, John Scalzi (l'Atalante)
Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
Neom, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
Roman de fantasy
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)
Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager 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)
Roman d'horreur
Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
Gwendy’s Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
Roman Young Adult
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
Premier roman
Légendes & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Ynnis éditions)
The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)
Roman court
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
“Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Novelette
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
“Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
“Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 9-10/22)
“The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
“In Mercy, Rain“, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 7/18/22)
“Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 11-12/22)
“The Sadness Box“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 7/22)
“A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
“The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
Nouvelle
“Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
“The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny 3-4/22)
“Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
“Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
“Master of Ceremonies“, Frances Ogamba (The Dark 5/22)
“Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy 4/22)
“The Coward Who Stole God’s Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 5-6/22)
“D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)
“Inheritance “, Hannah Yang (Analog 9-10/22)
“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex 5/22)
Anthologie
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
Collection
Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe et al. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
Magazine
Apex
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
FIYAH
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny
Maison d'édition
Angry Robot
Gollancz
Harper Voyager
Neon Hemlock
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tor
Tordotcom
Editeur
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Wendy N. Wagner
Sheila Williams
Artiste
Tommy Arnold
Rovina Cai
Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan
Non-fiction
The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Darieck Scott (New York University Press)
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)
Ouvrage d'art ou illustré
Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., illustré par Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, illsutré par Rowena (self-published)
The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, illustré par Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, illustré par Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, illustré par Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, illustré par Vic Terra (Rosarium)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, illustré par Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)
