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This thread will keep track of relevant lists, nominations, and awards for the big three. First up is the Locus Recommended Reading List:

Science Fiction Novels

Conquest, Nina Allan
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu
Creation Node, Stephen Baxter
Bridge, Lauren Beukes
Prophet, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald
A Stranger in the Citadel, Tobias S. Buckell
Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey
A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard
Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow
Scale, Greg Egan
Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott
Hospital, Han Song
Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway
Biography of X, Catherine Lacey
Translation State, Ann Leckie
The Blue, Beautiful World, Karen Lord
In Ascension, Martin MacInnes
The Deluge, Stephen Markley
Hopeland, Ian McDonald
The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz
Descendant Machine, Gareth L. Powell
Airside, Christopher Priest
Him, Geoff Ryman
Starter Villain, John Scalzi
Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford
Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Circumference of the World, Lavie Tidhar
Where Peace Is Lost, Valerie Valdes
System Collapse, Martha Wells
The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis

Fantasy Novels

Blade of Dream, Daniel Abraham
Mr. Breakfast, Jonathan Carroll
The Art of Destiny, Wesley Chu
The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett
The Warden, Daniel M. Ford
Dead Country, Max Gladstone
A Midwinter’s Tail, Lili Hayward
The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang
The Pomegranate Gate, Ariel Kaplan
Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher
Dragonfall, L.R. Lam
Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter
Mad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore
He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan
My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers
City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky
House of Open Wounds, Adrian Tchaikovsky
We Are the Crisis, Cadwell Turnbull
Witch King, Martha Wells
Salt on the Midnight Fire, Liz Williams
After the Forest, Kell Woods

First Novels

The Thing in the Snow, Sean Adams
Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Splinter in the Sky, Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud
Blood Debts, Terry J. Benton-Walker
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
Flux, Jinwoo Chong
Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, Quinn Connor
Dazzling, Chikọdịl�� Emelụmad��
A Market of Dreams and Destiny, Trip Gailey
Shark Heart, Emily Habeck
Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou
These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs
Godkiller, Hannah Kaner
The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei
Extended Stay, Juan Martinez
The Shadow Sister, Lily Meade
Dry Land, B. Pladek
The Thick and the Lean, Chana Porter
The Legend of Charlie Fish, Josh Rountree
The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi
Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues, H.S. Valley
That Self-Same Metal, Brittany N. Williams

Nebula Award nominations were announced:

Best Novel

🏆 The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang
Translation State, Ann Leckie
The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi
Witch King, Martha Wells

Nebula Awards were given on June 8th:

Hugo Award nominations were announced:

Best Novel

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
🏆 Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
Starter Villain, John Scalzi
Translation State, Ann Leckie
Witch King, Martha Wells

Awards were given on August 11th:

The Locus Award finalists were announced:

Science Fiction Novel

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu
A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard
Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow
Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott
Translation State, Ann Leckie
The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz
Starter Villain, John Scalzi
Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky
🏆 System Collapse, Martha Wells
The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis

Fantasy Novel

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett
Dead Country, Max Gladstone
The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang
Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher
He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan
My Brother's Keeper, Tim Powers
City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky
🏆 Witch King, Martha Wells

First Novel

Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud
🏆 The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou
These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs
Godkiller, Hannah Kaner
The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi
Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs

The Locus Awards were presented on June 22:

Nominees for the the three major awards have all been announced. See posts 2, 3, and 4 for details.

Just about to finish my fifth out of the six Nebula nominees. I think I like Witch King and Shigidi the best

Currently popping the Hugo packet onto my Kindle. Looking forward to getting some extra reading done!

The Nebula Awards were presented:

The award for Best Novel went to The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera.

The Locus Awards were presented:

Science Fiction Novel: System Collapse by Martha Wells

Fantasy Novel: Witch King by Martha Wells

First Novel: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

The Hugo Awards were given:

Best Novel went to Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

There is a post on the DungeonCrawlerCarl subreddit titled JUSTICE FOR MONGO and that is when I realized the winners have been picked. I do agree though, Mongo deserved an award lol

But for real, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty was one of my favorite reads last year and so I feel like she got robbed...And I thought Thornhedge was just lovely and after that mess last year Kingfisher deserves another award!

Chris wrote: "The Hugo Awards were given:

Best Novel went to Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh."

The following nominees received enough votes to qualify for the final ballot, but declined nomination:

Best Novel �� System Collapse, by Martha Wells

wonder why?

CBRetriever wrote: "Chris wrote: "The Hugo Awards were given:

Best Novel went to Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh."

The following nomine..."

I remember reading somewhere that since the series won for best series she would decline any nominations for future books in Murderbot but would accept nominations for books outside of the series.

Ann-Marie wrote: "I remember reading somewhere that since the series won for best series she would decline any nominations for future books in Murderbot but would accept nominations for books outside of the series."

ah, makes sense then

I think the novel categories are not as strong as the novelette ones, I enjoyed so many of them.

Yeah Martha Wells has said that Murderbot has won enough awards and doesn’t want to be considered for the awards.