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
Created by Phil in SF
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The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
The Innkeeper's Song is the story of young Tikat's search for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed. It …
Phil in SF says: 1994 winner
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Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop
For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
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Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card (Tales of Alvin Maker, #4)
Using the lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settle the North American continent, Card has …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
4 stars
From a master of contemporary fantasy comes a novel of imaginative power unlike any you've ever read before. In A …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers (Fault Lines, #3)
A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
4 stars
George R. R. Martin, a writer of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination, has created a landmark of fantasy fiction. In …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #3)
4 stars
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
Rarely has there been a tale as gripping, or one as likely to seize the minds and hearts of a …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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5 stars
The storm was coming....
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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The Scar by China Miéville (Bas-Lag, #2)
5 stars
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
3 stars
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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Iron Council by China Miéville (Bas-Lag, #3)
3 stars
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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4 stars
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modem age-complete with dark …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city's labyrinth of streets …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #36)
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner