FANTASY NOVEL

• The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
• Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
• The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
• The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
• Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
• Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Locus announced their Top Ten Finalists last night. Spear is a finalist in the Fantasy Novel category. I am smiling.

If you go read the whole Locus Award Top Ten Finalists list you’ll see that fellow Ray Bradbury nominees Ray Nayler and Alex Jennings are finalists for First Novel and Horror respectively, and fellow Nebula finalists Ray Nayler (again!) and Travis Baldtree (First Novel) and T. Kingfisher, Tamsyn Muir and R.F. Kuang (Fantasy Novel) are there, as are two writers who blurbed Spear, John Scalzi (Science Fiction Novel) and Alix E. Harrow (Novella and Novelette).

Winners will be announced June 24 in Oakland.