Le prix du vénérable magazine Locus vient de dévoiler ses sélections pour son édition 2025. Il est décerné depuis 1971 ce qui fait de lui l'un des prix les plus vieux de l'imaginaire.
Le verdict sera annoncé lors de la cérémonie le 21 juin prochain à Oakland, Californie.
FANTASY NOVEL
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons, Peter S. Beagle (Saga)
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey ; Hodderscape UK)
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking ; Del Rey UK)
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom)
A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor ; Titan UK)
Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor ; Tor UK)
The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed (Solaris UK)
'Long Live Evil'', Sarah Rees Brennan (Orbit US ; Orbit UK)
The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US ; Bloomsbury UK)
Blood Justice, Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Teen ; Hodderscape UK)
Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA)
Fall of the Iron Gods, Olivia Chadha (Erewhon)
The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
The Maid and the Crocodile, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet ; Hot Key UK)
Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte ; Solaris UK)
Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen ; Daphne Press UK)
FIRST NOVEL
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader; Sceptre UK)
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Sargassa, Sophie Burnham (DAW)
Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris UK)
The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra UK)
The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
The Spice Gate, Prashanth Srivatsa (Harper Voyager US ; Harper Voyager UK)
Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon)
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW ; Arcadia UK)
Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (Gollancz ; Harper Voyager US 2025)
NOVELLA
Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)
The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Countess, Suzan Palumbo (ECW)
Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom)
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
The Brides of High Hill, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
La chronique de 16h16 !