Locus Award - First Novel (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2022

A Master of Djinn
(Winner)
P. Djeli Clark

Winter's Orbit
(Finalist)
Everina Maxwell

Machinehood
(Finalist)
S.B. Divya

The Unbroken
(Finalist)
C.L. Clark

The Chosen and the Beautiful
(Finalist)
Nghi Vo

Wendy, Darling
(Finalist)
A.C. Wise

She Who Became the Sun
(Finalist)
Shelley Parker-Chan

The All-Consuming World
(Finalist)
Cassandra Khaw

Iron Widow
(Finalist)
Xiran Jay Zhao

A Marvellous Light
(Finalist)
Freya Marske

2021

Elatsoe
(Winner)
Darcie Little Badger

The Vanished Birds
(Nominee)
Simon Jimenez

The Unspoken Name
(Nominee)
A.K. Larkwood

Beneath The Rising
(Nominee)
Premee Mohamed

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
(Nominee)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Space Between Worlds
(Nominee)
Micaiah Johnson

Architects of Memory
(Nominee)
Karen Osborne

The Bone Shard Daughter
(Nominee)
Andrea Stewart

Cemetery Boys
(Nominee)
Aiden Thomas

Hench
(Nominee)
Natalie Zina Walschots

2020

Gideon the Ninth
(Winner)
Tamsyn Muir

Infinite Detail
(Nominee)
Tim Maughan

A Memory Called Empire
(Nominee)
Arkady Martine

Finder
(Nominee)
Suzanne Palmer

The Luminous Dead
(Nominee)
Caitlin Starling

Waste Tide
(Nominee)
Chen Qiufan

Magic for Liars
(Nominee)
Sarah Gailey

A Song for a New Day
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinsker

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
(Nominee)
Alix E. Harrow

The Water Dancer
(Nominee)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

2019

Trail of Lightning
(Winner)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Semiosis
(Nominee)
Sue Burke

Children of Blood and Bone
(Nominee)
Tomi Adeyemi

Armed in Her Fashion
(Nominee)
Kate Heartfield

The Poppy War
(Nominee)
R.F. Kuang

Witchmark
(Nominee)
C.L. Polk

Annex
(Nominee)
Rich Larson

Severance
(Nominee)
Ling Ma

The Quantum Magician
(Nominee)
Derek Kunsken

Empire of Sand
(Nominee)
Tasha Suri

2018

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
(Winner)
Theodora Goss

The Bear and the Nightingale
(Nominee)
Katherine Arden

Amberlough
(Nominee)
Lara Elena Donnelly

Lincoln in the Bardo
(Nominee)
George Saunders

Winter Tide
(Nominee)
Ruthanna Emrys

Amatka
(Nominee)
Karin Tidbeck

The Art of Starving
(Nominee)
Sam J. Miller

Autonomous
(Nominee)
Annalee Newitz

An Unkindness of Ghosts
(Nominee)
Rivers Solomon

The City of Brass
(Nominee)
S.A. Chakraborty

2017

Ninefox Gambit
(Winner)
Yoon Ha Lee

The Reader
(Nominee)
Traci Chee

The Girl from Everywhere
(Nominee)
Heidi Heilig

Roses and Rot
(Nominee)
Kat Howard

The Star-Touched Queen
(Nominee)
Roshani Chokshi

Infomocracy
(Nominee)
Malka Older

Vigil
(Nominee)
Angela Slatter

Waypoint Kangaroo
(Nominee)
Curtis C. Chen

Arabella of Mars
(Nominee)
David D. Levine

Everfair
(Nominee)
Nisi Shawl

2016

The Grace of Kings
(Winner)
Ken Liu

Signal to Noise
(Nominee)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
(Nominee)
Natasha Pulley

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
(Nominee)
Kai Ashante Wilson

Sorcerer to the Crown
(Nominee)
Zen Cho

2015

The Emperor's Blades
(Nominee)
Brian Staveley

A Darkling Sea
(Nominee)
James Cambias

The Memory Garden
(Nominee)
Mary Rickert

The Clockwork Dagger
(Nominee)
Beth Cato

Elysium
(Nominee)
Jennifer Marie Brissett

2014

Ancillary Justice
(Winner)
Ann Leckie

The Golem and the Jinni
(Nominee)
Helene Wecker

A Stranger in Olondria
(Nominee)
Sofia Samatar

The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
(Nominee)
Emily Croy Barker

The Golden City
(Nominee)
J. Kathleen Cheney

2013

Throne of the Crescent Moon
(Winner)
Saladin Ahmed

Seraphina
(Nominee)
Rachel Hartman

The Games
(Nominee)
Ted Kosmatka

Alif the Unseen
(Nominee)
G. Willow Wilson

2012

The Night Circus
(Winner)
Erin Morgenstern

God's War
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

Soft Apocalypse
(Nominee)
Will McIntosh

Mechanique
(Nominee)
Genevieve Valentine

Ready Player One
(Nominee)
Ernest Cline

2011

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
(Winner)
N.K. Jemisin

The Loving Dead
(Nominee)
Amelia Beamer

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
(Nominee)
Charles Yu

2009

Singularity's Ring
(Winner)
Paul Melko

2008

Heart-Shaped Box
(Winner)
Joe Hill

City of Bones
(Nominee)
Cassandra Clare

The Name of the Wind
(Nominee)
Patrick Rothfuss

One for Sorrow
(Nominee)
Christopher Barzak

2007

His Majesty's Dragon
(Winner)
Naomi Novik

Temeraire Volume 1-3 Box Set
(Winner)
Naomi Novik

The Green Glass Sea
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

2006

Hammered
(Winner)
Elizabeth Bear

Old Man's War
(Nominee)
John Scalzi

The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
(Nominee)
Tim Pratt

Vellum
(Nominee)
Hal Duncan

2005

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
(Winner)
Susanna Clarke

City of Pearl
(Nominee)
Karen Traviss

Trash, Sex, Magic
(Nominee)
Jennifer Stevenson

The Year of Our War
(Nominee)
Steph Swainston

2004

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
(Winner)
Cory Doctorow

2003

A Scattering of Jades
(Winner)
Alexander C. Irvine

2002

Kushiel's Dart
(Winner)
Jacqueline Carey

2001

Mars Crossing
(Winner)
Geoffrey A. Landis

2000

The Silk Code
(Winner)
Paul Levinson

1999

Brown Girl in the Ring
(Winner)
Nalo Hopkinson

1998

Great Wheel
(Winner)
Ian R. MacLeod

1997

Whiteout
(Winner)
Sage Walker

Reclamation
(Winner)
Sarah Zettel

1996

The Bohr Maker
(Winner)
Linda Nagata

1995

Gun, With Occasional Music
(Winner)
Jonathan Lethem

1994

Cold Allies
(Winner)
Patricia Anthony
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1993

China Mountain Zhang
(Winner)
Maureen F. McHugh

1992

The Cipher
(Winner)
Kathe Koja

1991

In the Country of the Blind
(Winner)
Michael Flynn

1990

Orbital Decay
(Winner)
Allen Steele

1989

Desolation Road
(Winner)
Ian McDonald

1988

War for the Oaks
(Winner)
Emma Bull

1987

The Hercules Text
(Winner)
Jack McDevitt

1986

Contact
(Winner)
Carl Sagan

1985

The Wild Shore
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

1984

Tea with the Black Dragon
(Winner)
R.A. MacAvoy

1983

Courtship Rite
(Winner)
Donald Kingsbury

1982

Starship and Haiku
(Winner)
Somtow Sucharitkul

1981

Dragon's Egg
(Winner)
Robert L. Forward

Award Categories

Anthology

Art Book

Collection

Fantasy Novel

First Novel

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Nonfiction

Novelette

Novella

Science Fiction Novel

Short Story

Young Adult Novel

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