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Zelu, a disabled Nigerian-American writer, has just lost her teaching job when she writes a science fiction novel about robots in a world after humans, and it becomes a huge success. As her fame grows she loses control of her own story, and the novel within the novel begins to mirror her life.

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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (Winners)
The Locus Awards are voted on each year by the readers of Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field. Locus gave a single Best Novel award from 1971 until it was split into science fiction and fantasy in 1978, and this list follows the science fiction line from Larry Niven’s Ringworld through Ursula K. Le Guin, Dan Simmons and Connie Willis to Ann Leckie, Martha Wells and John Scalzi. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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