Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novella
Locus Award for Best Novella Public
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"Missile Gap" is a 2006 English language science fiction novella, originally published in the anthology One Million A.D. by British …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
4 stars
What’s the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, “Many people think that a very abstract …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
Who knows why the Tesslies attacked in 2014, devastated the environment, nearly destroyed humanity, and imprisoned twenty-six survivors in a …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
4 stars
From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress
Aliens have landed in New York. A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
4 stars
From the author of the Revelation Space series. The end of a war between hundreds of worlds is imminent. On …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
4 stars
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
4 stars
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
4 stars
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
4 stars
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
4 stars
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
Phil in SF says: 2022 WINNER
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
4 stars
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
