The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2023 Locus Awards on June 24, 2023, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Maggie Tokuda-Hall MCed the awards ceremony w…
I wouldn't know which work is best qualified to win as I haven't read them all. I do find this helpful for suggestions on what to read next.
I liked Kaiju Preservation Society and can highly recommended it as a relatively light and silly read.
Great article on Greg Egan, and yes, he is all that. The Orthogonal series is incredible, and melds absolutely rigorous SF set in a completely different physics from us, with the thrill of making sense of experimental results, working out the maths, and sorting out social problems that have analogues to our own. I can't recommend it enough.