The judging panel’s nominees for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2024 have been announced. 

FANTASY

• Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint Of Bright Doors (Tor / St Martin’s Press)
• Salman Rushdie, Victory City (Jonathan Cape)
• Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape A Dragon’s Breath (Del Rey)
• Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned The World (Pan Macmillan)
• Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters Of Esi (HarperCollins India)

SCIENCE FICTION

• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chaingang All-Stars (Pantheon / Harvill Secker)
• Naomi Alderman, The Future (Fourth Estate)
• Lavanya Lakshminarayan, The Ten Percent Thief (Solaris Books)
• C Pam Zhang, The Land Of Milk And Honey (Hutchinson Heinemann / Riverhead Books)
• Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot Of Shantiport (Tordotcom)
• Lauren Beukes, Bridge (Mulholland Books)

BLURRED BOUNDARIES

• E G Condé, Sordidez (Stelliform Press)
• Dere Segun Falowo, Caged Ocean Dub (Android Press)
• Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Penguin Books)
• Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche (Small Beer Press)

NOVELLA

• Andrew Knighton, Ashes Of The Ancestors (Luna Press)
• Xian Mao, Apollo Weeps (Aqueduct Press)
• Em X Liu, If Found Return To Hell (Solaris Books)
• Indra Das, The Last Dragoners Of Bowbazar (Subterranean Press)
• Iori Kusano, Hybrid Heart (Neon Hemlock)
• E Saxey, On The English Approach To The Study Of History (Giganotosaurus)

SHORT FICTION

• Jeannette Ng, The Girl With A City Inside Of Her (Uncanny Magazine)
• Kristina Ten, Approved Methods Of Love Divination In The First-Rate City Of Dushagorod (Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine)
• Tara Campbell, Welcome To Your Lifting (in Adventures In Bodily Autonomy, Aqueduct Press)
• Eugenia Triantafyllou, Always Be Returning (The Sunday Morning Transport)

The book critics responsible for these honors are:

• Adri, from Nerds of a Feather
• C., from The Middle Shelf
• Imyril, from There’s Always Room For One More 
• Gautam Bhatia from Strange Horizons magazine
• Kris Vyas-Myall, from Cloaked Creators
• Leigh — @leighowyn
• Robin Rose Graves, from The Book Wormhole
• Roseanna, from A Reader of Else
• Sara, from Fiction Fans Podcast