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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 5:00 p.m.: Readings with & Sofia Samatar. ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK 6:00 p.m.: Readings with Meg Elison & Naomi Kritzer. • Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, art by Brecht Evens (Beehive) THURSDAY, JUNE 24 • The Art of NASA: The Illustrations that Sold the Missions, Piers Bizony (Motorbooks) 4:00 p.m.: Readings with R.B. Lemberg & Tim Pratt. • The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of 5:00 p.m.: Readings with A.T. Greenblatt & Usman T. Malik. Thra, Adam Cesare, art by Iris Compiet (Insight Editions) 6:00 p.m.: Readings with Catherynne M. Valente & John Wiswell. • The Art of : A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Frank Cho (Flesk) • Spectrum 27: The Best in Contemporary , Katherine Chu & John Fleskes, eds. (Flesk) FRIDAY, JUNE 25 • Masterpieces of Art, Dian Hanson (Taschen) 4:00 p.m.: Readings with Charlie Jane Anders & Aliette de Bodard. • Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration, Jesse Kowalski, ed. ( Museum/Abbeville) 5:00 p.m.: Readings with Stephen Graham Jones & . • The Hobbit Sketchbook, (HarperCollins UK 2019; Houghton 6:00 p.m.: Online Hangout. Mifflin Harcourt) • : The Illustrated Edition, George R.R. Martin, art by SATURDAY, JUNE 26 (Bantam) • Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta, J. David Spurlock, art by 10:00 a.m.: “Origin Stories: From First Draft to First Novel Publication” panel (Vanguard) with Maggie Tokuda-Hall (m), Premee Mohamed, Andrea Stewart, and Natalie Zina Walschots. 11:00 a.m.: “Speculative Mood: Making Short Fiction Shine” panel with Neil NON-FICTION Clarke, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight, and dave ring. • Plants in : Speculative Vegetation, Katherine E. Bishop & 12:00 p.m.: “Narratives in Action: Plot Traditions and the Best Way to Break David Higgins & Jerry Määttä, eds. (University of Wales Press) Them” panel with C.L. Polk (m), , Sarah Gailey, and Tochi Onyebuchi. • The Magic of , Marc Burrows (White Owl) • Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s in the Twentieth 1:00 p.m.: “Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction” panel with Cory Century, Maria Sachiko Cecire (University of Minnesota Press) Doctorow (m), Paul McAuley, Karen Osborne, and Wole Talabi. • Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, Sarah Cole (Columbia University Press) 2:00 p.m.: “Donut Salon: Story, Inspiration, and Resilience”, a conversation with • Bradbury Beyond Apollo, Jonathan R. Eller (University of Press) Sarah Pinsker, Connie Willis, and Gary K. Wolfe (bring your own donuts). • Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, , Kerry Fine & Michael K. Johnson & Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon, eds. (University of Nebraska Press) 3:00 p.m.: Locus Awards Ceremony with MC Connie Willis. • Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, Walter Koenig (Jacobs/Brown) • Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, Isiah Lavender III & EVENTS ARE LISTED IN PACIFIC TIME. ATTENDEE PORTAL FOR EVENT ACCESS: Lisa Yaszek, eds. (Ohio State University Press) • Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, Andrew LOCUSMAG.COM/LOCUS-AWARDS-ONLINE-2021/ Milner & J.R. Burgmann (Liverpool University Press) PASSWORD IS EMAILED AFTER SIGN UP • The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume One: The 1930’s, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, eds. (First Fandom Experience) QUESTIONS? EMAIL [email protected] ARTIST • Kinuko Y. Craft • Galen Dara • Julie Dillon • Bob Eggleton • • Kathleen Jennings • • • •

EDITOR • • • • C.C. Finlay • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Diana M. Pho • • Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas • Ann & Jeff VanderMeer • Sheila Williams

PUBLISHER • Angry Robot • DAW • Del Rey • Gollancz • Orbit • Saga • Small Beer • Subterranean • Tor • Tordotcom

MAGAZINE • Analog • Asimov’s • Beneath Ceaseless Skies • Clarkesworld • F&SF • FIYAH • Lightspeed • • Tor.com • Uncanny COLLECTION • The Best of , Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean) • Big Girl, Meg Elison (PM) • The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS) • Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe (Lethe) • If It Bleeds, (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) • Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette India) • The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, (Saga; Head of Zeus) • The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus, (Subterranean) • Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man) • The Midnight Circus, (Tachyon)

ANTHOLOGY • A Phoenix First Must , Patrice Caldwell, ed. (Viking; Hot Key) • The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade) • Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean) • Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, eds. (Aurelia Leo) • Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock) • The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US) • Made to Order, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris) • The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Saga) • Africanfuturism, Wole Talabi, ed. (Brittle Paper) • The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)

SHORT STORY • “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”, Rae Carson (Uncanny 1-2/20) • “In the Lands of the Spill”, Aliette de Bodard (Avatars Inc) • “Dresses Like White Elephants”, Meg Elison (Uncanny 5-6/20) • “The Sycamore and the Sybil”, Alix E. Harrow (Uncanny 3-4/20) • “The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Tor.com 1/23/20) • “Wait for Night”, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/02/20) • “Little Free Library”, Naomi Kritzer (Tor.com 4/8/20) • “The Mermaid Astronaut”, (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/27/20) • “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know”, Ken Liu (Uncanny 11-12/20) • “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)

NOVELETTE • “If You Take My Meaning”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 2/11/20) • “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 07-08/20) • “The Pill”, Meg Elison (Big Girl) • “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super”, A.T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 05-06/20) • “A Whisper of Blue”, Ken Liu (The Book of Dragons) • “A City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 10/21/20) • “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com 6/17/20) • “Fairy Tales for Robots”, Sofia Samatar (Made to Order) • “Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo”, Catherynne M. Valente (Strange Horizons 9/7/20) • “A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential”, JY Neon Yang (Clarkesworld 5/20)

NOVELLA • The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom) • Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom) • Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom) • Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky) • Seven of Infinities, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean) • Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey (Tordotcom) • The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon) • Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom) • Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom) • The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

FIRST NOVEL • The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; ) • The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton) • The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK) • Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) • Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) • Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor) • The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK) • Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads) • The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK) • Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow) YOUNG ADULT NOVEL • Over the Woodward Wall, A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom) • The Silvered Serpents, Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday) • The Scapegracers, Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon) • Legendborn, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK) • Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan) • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll) • A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen) • Shadowshaper Legacy, Daniel José Older (Scholastic) • Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents) • A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

HORROR NOVEL • Devolution, Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century) • Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Morrow) • , Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals) • The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix (Quirk) • The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan) • The Deep, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK) • The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Saga) • Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher) • The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions) • Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan) FANTASY NOVEL • The Trouble with Peace, Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz) • The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris) • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) • The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit) • The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK) • Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) • The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz) • The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon) • Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris) • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL • Machine, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) • Attack Surface, (Tor; Ad Astra) • Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott (Tor) • Agency, (Berkley; Viking UK) • The Relentless Moon, (Tor; Solaris) • War of the Maps, Paul McAuley (Gollancz) • The Ministry for the Future, (Orbit US & UK) • The Last Emperox, (Tor; Tor UK) • Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) • Interlibrary Loan, (Tor) ABOUT THE LOCUS AWARDS The Locus Awards were founded by Charles N. Brown in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature and works. The awards are presented to winners of Locus magazine’s annual readers’ poll, at a banquet emceed by Connie Willis. Unlike any other genre award, the Locus Awards explicitly honor publishers of winning works with certificates. Program cover art by Shaun Tan.