The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The award for Best Science Fiction Novel was first presented in 1980.
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Public
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Phil in SF says: 1980 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1981 winner
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The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
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When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic …
Phil in SF says: 1982 winner
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Foundation's edge by Isaac Asimov
4 stars
Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. …
Phil in SF says: 1983 winner
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A crippled spaceship crewed by genetically engineered dolphins, a few humans, and a genetically engineered chimp hides on a mysterious …
Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
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For a long, long time the State used slower-than-light spacecraft to prepare star systems for colonization by Man. Normally the …
Phil in SF says: 1985 winner
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This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card
5 stars
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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The Uplift War is a continuation of the saga of the Five Galaxies. It is a story of courage in …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
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The Innermost nature of the human mind and heart becomes the key to an epic struggle for power...and a riveting …
Phil in SF says: 1989 winner
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On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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The fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
4 stars
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
5 stars
Cordelia Naismith, legendary ship commander in the Betan Expeditionary Force, a woman who beat the Barrayaran militarists at their own …
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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Doomsday book by Connie Willis
4 stars
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
Phil in SF says: 1993 winner
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Green mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …
Phil in SF says: 1994 winner