2020 Locus Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2020 Locus Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced on June 27. 

These are the finalists for Science Fiction Novel:

• The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
• Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone (Tor)
• The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• Luna: Moon Rising, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Fleet of Knives, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US & UK)
• The Rosewater Insurrection/The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (Orbit US & UK)
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Solaris

Out of that list, the only one I've read is Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, which was excellent. I have bought the Bear and Gladstone books and will get to them eventually. 

It's a good year for Elizabeth Bear, who has nominations in the novel and all three short fiction categories and Ted Chiang, also nominated in all three fiction categories. Toronto author Guy Gavriel Kay is nominated in Fantasy Novel for A Brightness Long Ago.