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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Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Miles Vorkosigan, #6)
3 stars
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
Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of SHanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, #3)
4 stars
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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The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XIV …
Phil in SF says: 1998 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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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
5 stars
With this extrordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #7)
5 stars
Sutty, an Observer for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to Aka, a world in the grip of a materialistic …
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
4 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 (Ilium, #1)
3 stars
From the multiple award-winning author of the Hyperion Cantos — one of the most acclaimed and popular series in contemporary …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
5 stars
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 Confusion by Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
5 stars
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner (as part of the Baroque Cycle)
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The System of the World by Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
5 stars
'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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4 stars
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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4 stars
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
