This year’s judges were C. S. E. Cooney, Julie Crisp, C. C. Finlay, Richard Kadrey, and Misha Stone. The finalists and lifetime achievement recipients are as follows: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom/Orbit UK) The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (Inkyard Press) The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit US/Orbit UK) The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (Nightfire/Viper UK) Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire) And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock) Finches, A.M. Muffaz (Vernacular) “A Canticle for Lost Girls”, Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever) “The Demon Sage’s Daughter”, Varsha Dinesh(Strange Horizons 2/8/218) “If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21) “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3/3/21) “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21) “(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF 7-8/21) When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan) The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr) The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola) Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek) Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer) Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab) The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus) The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow) Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer) Odera Igbokwe Tran Nguyen Aleksandra Skiba Charles Vess Cam Collins & Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast) Irene Gallo, for Tor.com Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics) Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Terri Windling Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.
