Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Public

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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.

  1. Titan by 

    No rating

    Phil in SF says:

    1980 winner

  2. The snow queen by 

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    492 pages ; 24 cm

    Phil in SF says:

    1981 winner

  3. The Many-Colored Land by 

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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

  4. Foundation's edge by 

    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

  5. Startide Rising by 

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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

  6. The Integral Trees by 

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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

  7. The postman by 

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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

  8. Speaker for the dead by 

    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

  9. The Uplift War by 

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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

  10. Cyteen by 

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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

  11. Hyperion by 

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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

  12. The fall of Hyperion by 

    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

  13. Barrayar by 

    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

  14. Doomsday book by 

    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

  15. Green mars by 

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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

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