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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Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
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The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
4 stars
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, covered by seas and settlements, mars has been dramatically terraformed …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
4 stars
In her first full-length novel since her critically acclaimed Doomsday Book, Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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the telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
5 stars
Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
5 stars
With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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Ilium by Dan Simmons
4 stars
From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner (as part of the Baroque Cycle)
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The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
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'Tis done.
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner (as part of the Baroque Cycle)
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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
4 stars
For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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5 stars
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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4 stars
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
