Locus Award - Science Fiction Novel (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2022

A Desolation Called Peace
(Winner)
Arkady Martine

The Echo Wife
(Finalist)
Sarah Gailey

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
(Finalist)
Becky Chambers

Klara and the Sun
(Finalist)
Kazuo Ishiguro

Hummingbird Salamander
(Finalist)
Jeff VanderMeer

We Are Satellites
(Finalist)
Sarah Pinsker

Shards of Earth
(Finalist)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Leviathan Falls
(Finalist)
James S.A. Corey

Noor
(Finalist)
Nnedi Okorafor

You Sexy Thing
(Finalist)
Cat Rambo

2021

Network Effect
(Winner)
Martha Wells

Agency
(Nominee)
William Gibson

War of the Maps
(Nominee)
Paul McAuley

The Last Emperox
(Nominee)
John Scalzi

Interlibrary Loan
(Nominee)
Gene Wolfe

The Relentless Moon
(Nominee)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Unconquerable Sun
(Nominee)
Kate Elliott

Attack Surface
(Nominee)
Cory Doctorow

Machine
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

The Ministry for the Future
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

2020

The City in the Middle of the Night
(Winner)
Charlie Jane Anders

Moon Rising
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Fleet of Knives
(Nominee)
Gareth L. Powell

Ancestral Night
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

The Light Brigade
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

The Rosewater Insurrection
(Nominee)
Tade Thompson

Empress of Forever
(Nominee)
Max Gladstone

Wanderers
(Nominee)
Chuck Wendig

The Future of Another Timeline
(Nominee)
Annalee Newitz

The Testaments
(Nominee)
Margaret Atwood

2019

The Calculating Stars
(Winner)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Elysium Fire
(Nominee)
Alastair Reynolds

Embers of War
(Nominee)
Gareth L. Powell

If Tomorrow Comes
(Nominee)
Nancy Kress

Blackfish City
(Nominee)
Sam J. Miller

Space Opera
(Nominee)
Catherynne M. Valente

Revenant Gun
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Record of a Spaceborn Few
(Nominee)
Becky Chambers

Red Moon
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Unholy Land
(Nominee)
Lavie Tidhar

2018

The Collapsing Empire
(Winner)
John Scalzi

The Stars Are Legion
(Nominee)
Kameron Hurley

New York 2140
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Seven Surrenders
(Nominee)
Ada Palmer

Walkaway
(Nominee)
Cory Doctorow

Wolf Moon
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Borne
(Nominee)
Jeff VanderMeer

Raven Stratagem
(Nominee)
Yoon Ha Lee

Provenance
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie

Persepolis Rising
(Nominee)
James S.A. Corey

2017

Death's End
(Winner)
Cixin Liu

Company Town
(Nominee)
Madeline Ashby

Visitor
(Nominee)
C.J. Cherryh

Central Station
(Nominee)
Lavie Tidhar

The Medusa Chronicles
(Nominee)
Stephen Baxter; Alastair Reynolds

The Underground Railroad
(Nominee)
Colson Whitehead

After Atlas
(Nominee)
Emma Newman

Babylon's Ashes
(Nominee)
James S.A. Corey

Last Year
(Nominee)
Robert Charles Wilson

Take Back the Sky
(Nominee)
Greg Bear

2016

Ancillary Mercy
(Winner)
Ann Leckie

Seveneves
(Nominee)
Neal Stephenson

The Water Knife
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Aurora
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

A Borrowed Man
(Nominee)
Gene Wolfe

2015

Annihilation
(Nominee)
Jeff VanderMeer

Lock in
(Nominee)
John Scalzi

Ancillary Sword
(Nominee)
Ann Leckie

The Peripheral
(Nominee)
William Gibson

The Three-Body Problem
(Nominee)
Cixin Liu

2014

Abaddon's Gate
(Winner)
James S.A. Corey

The Best of All Possible Worlds
(Nominee)
Karen Lord

Neptune's Brood
(Nominee)
Charles Stross

Maddaddam
(Nominee)
Margaret Atwood

Shaman
(Nominee)
Kim Stanley Robinson

2013

Redshirts
(Winner)
John Scalzi

Caliban's War
(Nominee)
James S.A. Corey

The Hydrogen Sonata
(Nominee)
Iain M. Banks

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
(Nominee)
Lois McMaster Bujold

2012

Leviathan Wakes
(Nominee)
James S.A. Corey

The Children of the Sky
(Nominee)
Vernor Vinge

2011

The Dervish House
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

Cryoburn
(Nominee)
Lois McMaster Bujold

2010

Boneshaker
(Winner)
Cherie Priest

2009

Anathem
(Winner)
Neal Stephenson

2008

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
(Winner)
Michael Chabon

Brasyl
(Nominee)
Ian McDonald

2007

Rainbows End
(Winner)
Vernor Vinge

Carnival
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Bear

2006

Accelerando
(Winner)
Charles Stross

2005

The System of the World
(Winner)
Neal Stephenson

2004

Ilium
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

2003

The Years of Rice and Salt
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

2002

Passage
(Winner)
Connie Willis

2001

The Telling
(Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

2000

Cryptonomicon
(Winner)
Neal Stephenson

1999

To Say Nothing of the Dog
(Winner)
Connie Willis

1998

The Rise of Endymion
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1997

Blue Mars
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

1996

The Diamond Age
(Winner)
Neal Stephenson

1995

Mirror Dance
(Winner)
Lois McMaster Bujold

1994

Green Mars
(Winner)
Kim Stanley Robinson

1993

Doomsday Book
(Winner)
Connie Willis

1992

Barrayar
(Winner)
Lois McMaster Bujold

1991

The Fall of Hyperion
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1990

Hyperion
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1989

Cyteen
(Winner)
C.J. Cherryh

1988

The Uplift War
(Winner)
David Brin

1987

Speaker for the Dead
(Winner)
Orson Scott Card

1986

The Postman
(Winner)
David Brin

1985

The Integral Trees
(Winner)
Larry Niven

1984

Startide Rising
(Winner)
David Brin

1983

Foundation's Edge
(Winner)
Isaac Asimov

1982

The Many-Colored Land
(Winner)
Julian May

1981

The Snow Queen
(Winner)
Joan D. Vinge

1980

Titan
(Winner)
John Varley

1979

Dreamsnake
(Winner)
Vonda N. McIntyre
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1978

Gateway
(Winner)
Frederik Pohl
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1977

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
(Winner)
Kate Wilhelm

1976

The Forever War
(Winner)
Joe Haldeman

1975

The Dispossessed
(Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

1974

Rendezvous with Rama
(Winner)
Arthur C. Clarke

1973

Gods Themselves
(Winner)
Isaac Asimov

1972

The Lathe of Heaven
(Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin
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1971

Ringworld
(Winner)
Larry Niven

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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