The Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel is a literary award given annually by Locus Magazine as part of their Locus Awards.
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Public
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In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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The City & the City by China Miéville
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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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Kraken is a fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, George R. R. Martin, George R. R. Martin
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Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
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For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
5 stars
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
3 stars
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
The …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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5 stars
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
4 stars
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
4 stars
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
5 stars
"A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
4 stars
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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5 stars
The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and jade in the epic conclusion of the World Fantasy Award-winning series, …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
4 stars
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
