The judging panel’s nominees for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2022 have been announced. The finalists will be revealed in July, and the winners announced in September.
FANTASY
- Lucy Holland, Sistersong
- Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, The House of Rust
- Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne
- C.L. Clark, The Unbroken
- Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
- Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
- A.C. Wise, Wendy, Darling
- Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights
- P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn
SCIENCE FICTION
- Tade Thompson, Far from the Light of Heaven
- Calvin Kalsuke, Several People are Typing
- Nicole Kornher-Stace, Firebreak
- Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
- Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth
- Brent A. Harris, Alyx: An AI’s Guide to Love and Murder
- Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Unravelling
- Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace
BLURRED BOUNDARIES
- Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
- K. Eason, Nightwatch on the Hinterlands
- Un-Su Kim, The Cabinet
- Monica Byrne, The Actual Star
- T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead
- E. Lily Yu, On Fragile Waves
- Rena Rossner, The Light of the Midnight Stars
- Rivers Solomon, Sorrowlands
- Marshall Ryan Maresca, The Velocity of Revolution
DEBUT
- Lorraine Wilson, This is Our Undoing
- Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman
- Elly Bangs, Unity
- Louise Carey, Inscape
- Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
- Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch’s Heart
- E.J. Beaton, The Councillor
YOUNG ADULT
- Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season
- Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones
- Lilliam Rivera, We Light Up the Sky
- Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow
SHORT STORY
- Ellen Kushner, Immortal Coil
- Malka Older, The Badger’s Digestion, or The First First-Hand Description of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher
- A.C. Wise, The Amazing Exploding Women of the 20th Century
- Isabel J. Kim, Homecoming Is Just Another Word For The Sublimation Of The Self
NOVELLA
- Shingai Njeri Kagunda, & This Is How We Stay Alive
- Yaroslav Barsukov, Tower of Mud and Straw
- Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
- Chris Willrich, A Manslaughter of Crows
- Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Well-Built
- Premee Mohamed, These Lifeless Things
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
- Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered
- Catherynne M. Valente, The Past is Red
- Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds
- Dilman Dila, The Future God of Love
- Aimee Ogden, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
GRAPHIC NOVEL
- Molly Knox-Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
- Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu, Shadow Life
- Rachel Smythe, Lore Olympus
- Wendy Xu, Tidesong
SERIES
- Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire
- C.L. Polk, The Kingston Cycle
- T. Frohock, Los Nefilim
- Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses
- James SA Corey, The Expanse
The book critics responsible for this set of honors are –
- Adri, from Nerds of a Feather
- Arina, from Queen’s Asylum
- C., from The Middle Shelf
- Debbie, @Owlphabetical
- Fabienne, from Libri Draconis and Grimdark Magazine
- Imyril, from There’s Always Room For One More
- Kris Vyas-Myall, from Cloaked Creators
- L.A. Young, from Aquavenatus and Fantasy-Faction
- Lisa, from Dear Geek Place
- Matt aka Womble, from Runalongtheshelves
- Robin Rose Graves, from The Book Wormhole
- Sia, from Every Book a Doorway
- Sun, from Twitter and Libri Draconis