Get started ↓Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 2022 Locus Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.
Voted on by readers of Locus magazine, the Locus Award is a reliable guide to books readers loved. We include its science fiction novel and novella winners and finalists, plus labeled poll favorites from earlier years. Official award site ↗
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Novel · 2021
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2021
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
Novella · 2020
A woman disappears. Tiny unicorns complicate the investigation.
Novella · 2021
A tea monk meets a robot. The big question is what people actually need.
by Nino Cipri
Novella · 2021
Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later.
Novel · 2021
Hummingbird Salamander is a 2021 novel by American author Jeff VanderMeer. It is set in a near-future dystopia affected by climate change, and narrated by a corporate security consultant, "Jane Smith," who is drawn into a mystery incited by her receipt of a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species.
Novel · 2019
Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who…
Novel · 2021
The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A.
Novel · 2021
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is…
Novella · 2021
Remote Control is a 2021 science fiction novella by Nigerian American Nnedi Okorafor. It is Okorafor's first novella after the Binti Trilogy and is set in the same universe as Okorafor's Who Fears Death and The Book of Phoenix.
Novel · 2021
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'. Some escaped, but millions more died. So to protect its colonies, humanity shaped the minds of Idris and others into weapons and sent them into battle.
by Sarah Gailey
Novel · 2020
The Echo Wife is a 2021 science fiction thriller novel by Sarah Gailey, published by Tor Books. It follows Doctor Evelyn Caldwell, an accomplished scientist researching cloning, who has discovered that her husband, Nathan, has used her research to create Martine, a clone of Evelyn who is his ideal wife.
Novel · 2021
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable.
Novella · 2021
The Past Is Red is a 2021 fantasy novella by Catherynne M. Valente. It includes two parts; Part I, The Future Is Blue, was previously published as a novelette, winning the Theodore Sturgeon Award in 2017. Part II is an original work entitled The Past Is Red.
Novel · 2021
A brain implant becomes essential. One family refuses to agree.
by Cat Rambo
Novel · 2021
You Sexy Thing is a science fiction novel by American writer Cat Rambo, published on November 16, 2021 by Tor Books' imprint Starscape.
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