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 

    3 stars

    Phil in SF says:

    1980 winner

  2. The Snow Queen by  (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

    3 stars

    Arienrhod. As beautiful as she was ancient, she ruled Tiamat, whose twin suns circled the Stargate that linked her world …

    Phil in SF says:

    1981 winner

  3. The Many-Colored Land by  (The Saga of the Pliocene Exile, #1)

    No rating

    In the year 2034, Theo Guderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a …

    Phil in SF says:

    1982 winner

  4. Foundation's Edge by  (Foundation, #4)

    4 stars

    It is 498 years since the establishment of the First Foundation. The threat of the Mule has been rebuffed; on …

    Phil in SF says:

    1983 winner

  5. Startide Rising by  (Uplift, #2)

    4 stars

    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  (Integral Trees, #1)

    No rating

    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 

    4 stars

    Winner of the highest honors for his bestselling second novel, STARTIDE RISING, David Brin has rapidly established himself as one …

    Phil in SF says:

    1986 winner

  8. Speaker for the Dead by  (Ender's Game, #2)

    4 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  (Uplift, #3)

    5 stars

    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 

    4 stars

    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  (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

    4 stars

    On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man and the reach of twenty-eighth-century science, there …

    Phil in SF says:

    1990 winner

  12. The Fall of Hyperion by  (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

    4 stars

    In his stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Dan Simmons returns us to a far future brimming …

    Phil in SF says:

    1991 winner

  13. Barrayar by  (Cordelia Vorkosigan, #2)

    4 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 

    5 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  (Mars Trilogy, #2)

    4 stars

    Phil in SF says:

    1994 winner

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