SCIENCE FICTION – ROMAN
- PREMIUL LOCUS: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor; Tor UK) – la noi seria apare la Nemira
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . .

- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Voyager US)
- Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- We Are Satellites, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley; Ad Astra)
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
- Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; Fourth Estate)
FANTASY – ROMAN
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the pause-resisting conclusion to the Green Bone Saga. Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios. As the struggle over the control of jade grows ever larger and more deadly, the Kaul family, and the ancient ways of the Kekonese Green Bones, will never be the same. Battered by war and tragedy, the Kauls are plagued by resentments and old wounds as their adversaries are on the ascent and their country is riven by dangerous factions and foreign interference. The clan must discern allies from enemies, set aside bloody rivalries, and make terrible sacrifices…but even the unbreakable bonds of blood and loyalty may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Green Bone clans and the nation they are sworn to protect.

- Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
- Paladin’s Strength, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor; Tor UK)
- The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
- Soulstar, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
HORROR – ROMAN
- PREMIUL LOCUS: My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

- Revelator, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
- The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan)
- Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Later, Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
- Moon Lake, Joe R. Lansdale (Mulholland)
- A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)
- The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s)
- The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)
YOUNG ADULT – ROMAN
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it’s going to activate, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy, after all, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust, and her best friend Rachel, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.

- This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
- The Infinity Courts, Akemi Dawn Bowman (Simon Pulse)
- The Gilded Ones, Namina Forna (Delacorte; Usborne)
- A Dark and Starless Forest, Sarah Hollowell (Clarion)
- Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
- Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
- A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Terciel & Elinor, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Tegen; Hot Key)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
DEBUT – ROMAN
- PREMIUL LOCUS: A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and a familiar person from her past, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city—or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…

- The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga)
- The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon)
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom; Tor UK)
- Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Tor; Orbit UK)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
- The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- Wendy, Darling, A.C. Wise (Titan)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)
NUVELĂ
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) – la noi seria apare la Paladin
”No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.” When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people – who knew?). Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!

- A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear (Audible Originals 10/20; Asimov’s 9-10/21)
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
- Defekt, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
- Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- The Return of the Sorceress, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Subterranean)
- Remote Control, Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
- Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
- The Past is Red, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)
NUVELETĂ
- PREMIUL LOCUS: “That Story Isn’t the Story“, John Wiswell (Uncanny 11-12/21)

- “The Red Mother“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 6/23/21)
- “Mulberry and Owl“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 9-10/21)
- “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story”, Nalo Hopkinson (F&SF 11-12/21)
- “Skinder’s Veil”, Kelly Link (When Things Get Dark)
- “The Black Pages“, Nnedi Okorafor (Black Stars)
- “Bots of the Lost Ark“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 6/21)
- “L’Esprit de L’Escalier“, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com 8/25/21)
- “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 5-6/21)
- “Small Monsters“, E. Lily Yu (Tor.com 10/20/21)
POVESTIRE
- PREMIUL LOCUS: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)

- “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
- “Mr. Death“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/21)
- “Proof by Induction“, José Pablo Iriarte (Uncanny 5-6/21)
- “Let All the Children Boogie“, Sam J. Miller (Tor.com 1/6/21)
- “Crazy Beautiful”, Cat Rambo (F&SF 3-4/21)
- “Huginn and Muninn – and What Came After“, Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s 7-8/21)
- “An Arc of Electric Skin“, Wole Talabi (Asimov’s 9-10/21)
- “The Sin of America“, Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 3-4/21)
- “For Lack of a Bed“, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 4/21)
ANTOLOGIE
- PREMIUL LOCUS: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
Within these pages: A trans woman growing plums on a distant moon. Queer shape shifters falling in love despite brutal intolerance. Video game urban legends. Magic onions. Art history. Archaeology. The tropes of “classic” movies dashed and subverted. The fragile freedom found in online gaming. True crime podcasts. A non-binary house who refused to eat children.

- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
- When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
- Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
- Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
- Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. (Vintage)
- Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
COLECȚIE DE POVESTIRI
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.
A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse.
Two friends must embark on an Epic Quest To Capture The Weapon That Threatens The Galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant.

- Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Fairwood)
- Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho (Small Beer)
- Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
- The Best of Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean)
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
- Belladonna Nights and Other Stories, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean)
- Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson (Subterranean)
- The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
REVISTĂ
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Tor.com
- Analog
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- FIYAH
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Uncanny
EDITURĂ
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Tor
- Angry Robot
- Baen
- DAW
- Gollancz
- Neon Hemlock
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tordotcom
EDITOR
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Ellen Datlow
- Neil Clarke
- Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheree Renée Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Sheila Williams
ARTIST
- PREMIUL LOCUS: Charles Vess

- Tommy Arnold
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Rovina Cai
- Galen Dara
- Bob Eggleton
- Victo Ngai
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Michael Whelan
sursa: Locus