On July 28, Electric Literature announced the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist. It’s an incredible, diverse list of socially far-reaching speculative fiction and we are thrilled and honoured to have Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons shortlisted.
Read the full list of finalists below.
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From Electric Literature, the complete list of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is (in alphabetical order):
- After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang (Stelliform Press)
- Appleseed by Matt Bell (Custom House)
- Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom Publishing)
- The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken (New Directions)
- The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (Graywolf Press)
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow)
- The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom Publishing)
- A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil (Soho Teen)