Get started ↓Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 2025 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 · 2024
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a 2024 science fiction thriller novel by the Slovak-Canadian writer Alexander Boldizar, published by CLASH Books. It won the 2025 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Novel · 2024
Absolution is a 2024 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, and the fourth entry in the Southern Reach Series. It is both a prequel and sequel to the Southern Reach Series.
Novel · 2024
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close.
Novella · 2024
An officer faces treason charges. Her loyalties begin to change.
by Nisi Shawl
Novel · 2024
Empathy spreads across the world. Everfair faces struggles of its own.
Novella · 2024
Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compelling tale of love, duty, and found-family in an exciting new space opera that brings xianxia-style martial arts to the stars.
Novel · 2024
Two souls share a violent history. Death cannot separate their stories.
Novel · 2024
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault - that is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.
Novella · 2024 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
She Who Knows is a 2024 novella by Nnedi Okorafor. It takes place in the universe of Who Fears Death and tells the story of Najeeba, mother of that novel’s protagonist, Onyesonwu. She Who Knows is the first novella in a planned trilogy. It was followed by One Way Witch in 2025.
Novel · 2024
Earth's musicians tour the galaxy. Celebrity becomes a diplomatic problem.
Novel · 2024
The bezzle is a term originally coined by John Kenneth Galbraith for a long-term pattern of bad faith in which the mark does not realize at the time that they have been a victim, and may even feel that they have gained in the short term, until being disillusioned later on.
by Malka Older
Novel · 2024
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles is a 2024 science fiction mystery novella by Malka Older. It is the sequel to 2023's The Mimicking of Known Successes. It follows Mossa and Pleiti as they investigate several disappearances from Valdegeld University.
Novel · 2024
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end. The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy.
Novella · 2024
A prisoner receives a scholarship. Freedom has hidden conditions.
by Ray Nayler
Novella · 2024
The mammoths return to life. Their human enemies remain.
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