2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist Public

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  1. Audition by 

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    A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley …

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  2. Sunward by 

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    Captain Tova Lir chose a life as a courier rather than get involved in her family’s illustrious business in politics. …

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  3. Call and Response by 

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    In these deftly written stories of the fantastic, Christopher Caldwell unravels the complicities of personhood and gender, slavery and war.

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  4. The Midnight Timetable by 

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    Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one …

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  5. The Works of Vermin by 

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    He was sent to kill a pest. Instead, he found a monster.

    Enter the decadent, deadly city of Tiliard, …

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  6. Notes from a Regicide by 

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    Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking science-fiction story of trans self-discovery from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.

    When your …

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  7. Mad Sisters of Esi by 

    Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy about the …

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  8. One Message Remains by 

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  9. Slow Gods by 

    My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.

    Slow Gods is the galaxy-spanning …

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