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Monday, June 29, 2020

Using Awards Lists as a RA Tool: Locus Awards Edition

This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool. Click here for all posts in the series in reverse chronological order. Click here for the first post which outlines the details how to use awards lists as a RA tool.

Over the weekend, the Locus Awards were announced. These are of particular interest to library workers because they cover SF, Fantasy, and Horror. There are also categories for nonfiction, editor, magazine, and publishers, as well as many shorter fiction options to identify great up and coming writers. There are numerous resources embedded within this list of finalists and winners to educate yourself, enhance your collections, and help readers.

Please go here or see below for a list of winners and nominees. These are titles and authors you should be adding to your collections. 

Also remember this is a great time to make virtual and physical displays of the authors and editors who were nominated, and not just these specific titles.


Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. Now let's get some good reads into our patrons' hands.

2020 Locus Awards Winners

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners in each category of the 2020 Locus Awards. Winners were announced June 27, 2020 at the virtual Locus Awards Weekend; Connie Willis MCed the awards ceremony, available online, with co-presenter Daryl Gregory. Additional weekend events included readings and panels with leading authors.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

FANTASY NOVEL

  • WINNER: Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)

HORROR NOVEL

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

FIRST NOVEL

NOVELLA

NOVELETTE

SHORT STORY

ANTHOLOGY

COLLECTION

MAGAZINE

  • WINNER: Tor.com
  • Analog
  • Asimov’s
  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Clarkesworld
  • F&SF
  • File 770
  • Lightspeed
  • Strange Horizons
  • Uncanny

PUBLISHER

  • WINNER: Tor
  • Angry Robot
  • DAW
  • Gollancz
  • Harper Voyager
  • Orbit
  • Saga
  • Small Beer
  • Subterranean
  • Tachyon

EDITOR

  • WINNER: Ellen Datlow
  • John Joseph Adams
  • Neil Clarke
  • Gardner Dozois
  • C.C. Finlay
  • Jonathan Strahan
  • Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
  • Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
  • Sheila Williams
  • Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

  • WINNER: John Picacio
  • Kinuko Y. Craft
  • Galen Dara
  • Julie Dillon
  • Bob Eggleton
  • Donato Giancola
  • Kathleen Jennings
  • Shaun Tan
  • Charles Vess
  • Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

SPECIAL AWARD 2020: INCLUSIVITY AND REPRESENTATION EDUCATION


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