The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2024

I was delighted to be invited back to help judge the 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards (SCKA)! Some of my favorite reads last year came from the SCKA nominee list, so I'm excited to dig in to this year's nominees. To find out more about the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards and our nomination process, check out the website.

Without further ado, here's the shortlist for the 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards!

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)

Scifi

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)