As I mentioned in an earlier post, the 2024 Locus Awards will be announced in Oakland, California, tomorrow, on June 22nd.

The list of nominees is huge and includes horror along with SF and fantasy, as well as a variety of categories. Even if I had started reading quite a while ago, I might not have read everything nominated, not even every novel–my main focus here. And I don’t usually read horror. But as it turns out, in my reading of every novel short-listed for the Nebula Awards, I have already read quite a few of the Locus nominees:

• Martha Wells, Witch King (also nominated for the Hugo Awards, coming up in August)
• S. L. Huang, The Water Bandits
• Ann Leckie, Translation State (another nominated for a Hugo)
• Annalee Newitz, The Terraformers
• Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors (another nominated for a Hugo; won the Nebula)
• Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon 

I’ll be looking forward to the results of the Locus judging!

I’ve also realized that the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Awards given to SF published in Great Britain will be announced on July 24th. As a reader of speculative fiction written in English, that’s a list I should be paying close attention to as well. Here’s the short-list:

• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
• Lavanya Lakshminarayan, The Ten Percent Thief
• Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
• Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea
• Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
• Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

I’d say I have the reading for the month all laid out for me! How about you?