Locus Best Science Fiction Novel Award

Locus Award

View

Winners & Nominees

Winners

 

Related

Locus Best Fantasy Novel

 

2011 selection

Blackout

Oxford Time Travel #4

Hugo Best Novel 2011, Nebula Best Novel 2011, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2011

by Connie Willis

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees...


All Clear

Oxford Time Travel #5

Hugo Best Novel 2011, Nebula Best Novel 2011, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2011

by Connie Willis

Winner of the Nebula Award

Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors...


Sleepless

by Charlie Huston

What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts...


Directive 51

by John Barnes

The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "a master of the genre"

Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something...


Starbound

by Joe Haldeman

A New from the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award-winning author of Marsbound.

Carmen Dula and her husband have spent six years travelling to a distant solar system that is home to the enigmatic, powerful...


Chill

by Elizabeth Bear

Sometimes the greatest sin is survival.

 

The generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the...


Terminal World

by Alastair Reynolds

A brand-new novel from "the most exciting space opera writer working today" (Locus). In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint,...


Hull Zero Three

by Greg Bear, Oliver Latsch & Lionel Wigram

A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery.

Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in...


Feed

The NewFlesh Trilogy #1

by Mira Grant & Dave Coleman

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies...


The Passage

by Justin Cronin

This eBook edition includes:

 *   A  sneak preview of The Twelve, coming in 2012

 *   A  revealing interview with author Justin Cronin

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND...


Zero History

by William Gibson

The New York Times bestseller from "one of our most vital novelists". -Newsday

Hollis Henry, former rock singer turned journalist, has very reluctantly agreed to work for the secretive Belgian finance genius...


Surface Detail

by Iain M. Banks

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.

It begins with a murder.

And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.

Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked...


2008 selection

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Hugo Best Novel 2008, Nebula Best Novel 2008, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2008

by Michael Chabon

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling...


2006 selection

Accelerando

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2006

by Charles Stross

The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series...

2005 selection

The System of the World

The Baroque Cycle #3

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2005

by Neal Stephenson

'Tis done.

The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return...


The Confusion

The Baroque Cycle #2

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2005

by Neal Stephenson

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues...


Quicksilver

The Baroque Cycle #1

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2005

by Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with...


2004 selection

Ilium

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2004

by Dan Simmons

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role...


2003 selection

The Years of Rice and Salt

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2003

by Kim Stanley Robinson

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred...


2002 selection

Passage

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2002

by Connie Willis

One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless...


2000 selection

Cryptonomicon

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 2000

by Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling...


1999 selection

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Oxford Time Travel #3

Hugo Best Novel 1999, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1999

by Connie Willis

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel...

Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest.  He's been shuttling...


1998 selection

Rise of Endymion

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1998

by Dan Simmons

The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time

The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come...


1997 selection

Blue Mars

Mars Trilogy #3

Hugo Best Novel 1997, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1997

by Kim Stanley Robinson

The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is  threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge,...


1996 selection

The Diamond Age

Hugo Best Novel 1996, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1996

by Neal Stephenson

Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the

rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He's...


1994 selection

Green Mars

Mars Trilogy #2

Hugo Best Novel 1994, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1994

by Kim Stanley Robinson

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale...


1993 selection

The Doomsday Book

Oxford Time Travel #2

Hugo Best Novel 1993, Nebula Best Novel 1993, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1993

by Connie Willis

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman...


1991 selection

The Fall of Hyperion

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1991

by Dan Simmons

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.  On

the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening.  And...


1990 selection

Hyperion

Hugo Best Novel 1990, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1990

by Dan Simmons

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike.  There are those who worship it.  There are those who fear it.  And there are those who...


1986 selection

The Postman

Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1986

by David Brin

This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man...


1984 selection

Startide Rising

Hugo Best Novel 1984, Nebula Best Novel 1984, Locus Best Science Fiction Novel 1984

by David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of...


Best Novel

1981 selection

Timescape

Nebula Best Novel 1981, Locus Best Novel 1981

by Gregory Benford

The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard science, bold speculation, and human drama. In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperatey to communicate...


1980 selection

The Fountains of Paradise

Hugo Best Novel 1980, Nebula Best Novel 1980, Locus Best Novel 1980

by Arthur C. Clarke

This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve...


1975 selection

The Dispossessed

Hugo Best Novel 1975, Locus Best Novel 1975

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the...


1973 selection

The Gods Themselves

Hugo Best Novel 1973, Nebula Best Novel 1973, Locus Best Novel 1973

by Isaac Asimov

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know...