Green Room · selections
23 books recognised by this prize; those with a page and an offer in your market are below · About the prize.
English-language · US offers
Alix E. Harrow
An Arthurian time-travel romance about a legendary swordswoman and the historian charged with shaping her legend, by the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Suits readers who want myth, love and ambition in one expansive story.
Robert Jackson Bennett
A murder mystery set in an empire shielded from sea-leviathans by living bio-engineered defences, told through a brilliant, reclusive investigator and her memory-gifted assistant. A good pick for readers who like a Holmes-and-Watson puzzle inside inventive fantasy worldbuilding.
Seanan McGuire
Lyrical prose
N.K. Jemisin
First of the Broken Earth trilogy, set on a continent wracked by catastrophic seismic upheavals called Seasons, where people who command earthquakes are feared and exploited. For readers who want ambitious, intricate epic fantasy.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Vivid alien ecology
Nghi Vo
Eerie Gothic atmosphere
Kaliane Bradley
A fit for readers who enjoy playful genre-blending romance and speculative fiction alongside thoughtful engagement with history and colonialism.
Kelly Robson
A fit for readers drawn to ecological science fiction, richly developed settings, and stories that juxtapose distant historical and imagined future perspectives; the opening may feel deliberate rather than fast-paced.
Naomi Novik
A standalone fairy-tale fantasy in which a village girl is taken by a reclusive wizard to guard against a malevolent forest. Suits readers who like folklore-flavoured magic with a strong, tense plot.
