2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Finalists
Each year, readers vote for the finalists of the Locus Awards which honor the best works of writing in science fiction, fantasy, and beyond. This year's sci-fi nominees include the prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, for his second installment in the Final Architecture series, and the critically adored Emily St. John Mandel's, Sea of Tranquility, which Barack Obama is a big fan of.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
John ScalziTHE WINNER! Amidst a pandemic-stricken NYC, Jamie Gray languishes as a food delivery driver until a chance encounter with an old acquaintance involved in a mysterious animal rights organization changes everything. Hint: the animals are not from this world.
John Scalzi & Chuck WendigPaperback, 2023
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Sweep of Stars
Maurice BroaddusIn a quest to forge their own utopia, the Muungano empire split from a war-torn Earth, forming a united coalition that spanned planets. But as their new society blossoms, old adversaries resurface, intent on destroying all that they've built.
John Scalzi & PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS is out *now*!Paperback, 2023
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The Red Scholar's Wake: A Xuya Universe Romance
Aliette de BodardWhen Xích Si, a resourceful tech scavenger, falls into the clutches of the notorious Red Banner pirates, she anticipates a brutal fate. Instead, their enigmatic leader, a sentient spacecraft called Rice Fish, proposes an extraordinary alliance: marriage.
Aliette de BodardPaperback, 2022
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The Spare Man
Mary Robinette KowalInventor and heiress Tesla Crane is enjoying a serene honeymoon aboard an interplanetary space liner when her spouse is wrongly accused of murder. She must use her wit, charm, and her loyal service dog to free her lover and catch the real killer.
John Scalzi & Kurt BusiekPaperback, 2022
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Sea of Tranquility
Emily St John MandelWritten during the dark days of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, this extraordinary novel unfolds across centuries and through space. The book takes us from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a moon colony 500 hundred years later, all the while strikingly capturing the essence of our present moment.
Stephen King & Daniel W. DreznerPaperback, 2023
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-GarciaThis reimagining of H.G. Wells' 19th century sci-fi classic, The Island of Doctor Moreau, follows the doctor's daughter as her sheltered life on the lush and isolated estate is thrown upside down by the arrival of the son of her father's wealthy patron.
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Goliath
Tochi OnyebuchiSet in the depleted Earth of the 2050s, Onyebuchi unfurls a vivid tapestry delving into race, class, and colonization. As the privileged class escapes to distant space colonies, leaving America's crumbling cities behind, the less fortunate masses salvage the remnants of a collapsing world.
No Comps & Marie Myung-Ok LeePaperback, 2023
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Eyes of the Void
Adrian TchaikovskyThe Architects, ancient devourers of worlds, return after 80 years of peace, unleashing chaos across the cosmos. With a small group of allies, our hero, Idris, embarks on a quest to uncover a weapon that could turn the tide.
alex (tired) & Adrian TchaikovskyPaperback, 2022
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Neom: A Novel from the World of Central Station
Lavie TidharTidhar invites readers to the futuristic utopia of Neom – a sprawling desert metropolis along the Red Sea that acts as a gateway connecting Earth to the stars. As life hums in the city, sentient robots roam the desert aimlessly and whispers of revolution float through the air.
Lavie Tidhar & Gary K WolfePaperback, 2022
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Eversion
Alastair ReynoldsIn Eversion, we journey through time to the sites of doomed adventures, from a shipwreck off the coast of Norway in the 1800s, to a futuristic spaceship intent on finding an alien artifact many centuries later. On each occasion, one man is the ever present, Dr. Silas Coade.
Lavie Tidhar & LibérationPaperback, 2022
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