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
Created by Phil in SF
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Phil in SF says: 1980 winner
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The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (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
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The Many-Colored Land by Julian May (The Saga of the Pliocene Exile, #1)
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
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Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (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
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Startide Rising by David Brin (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
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The Integral Trees by Larry Niven (Integral Trees, #1)
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
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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
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (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
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The Uplift War by David Brin (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
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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
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons (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
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The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (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
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Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (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
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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
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Phil in SF says: 1994 winner
