Best Novel
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books)A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US)
Death’s End, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus)
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books)
*The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer (Tor Books)
Best Novella
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com publishing)The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com publishing)
*Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing)
Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency)
A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com publishing)
This Census-Taker, China Miéville (Del Rey / Picador)
Best Novelette
Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, Stix Hiscock (self-published)“The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com , July 2016)
“The Jewel and Her Lapidary”, Fran Wilde (Tor.com publishing, May 2016) ⭐️
*“The Tomato Thief”, Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016)
“Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016)
“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)
Best Short Story
“The City Born Great”, N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September 2016)“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March 2016)
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine, November 2016)
*“Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)
“That Game We Played During the War”, Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, March 2016)
“An Unimaginable Light”, John C. Wright (God, Robot, Castalia House)
Best Related Work
The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (Tor Books)The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press)
Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)
The View From the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman (William Morrow / Harper Collins)
The Women of Harry Potter posts, by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com)
*Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
Best Graphic Story
Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel)*Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)
Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image)
Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (Image)
The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)
Best Series
The Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone (Tor Books)The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
The October Daye Books, Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair)
The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean)
The Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK)
*The Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)