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.
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
The Man Who Saw Seconds
Alexander Boldizar
System Collapse
Martha Wells
The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
Network Effect
Martha Wells
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
Abaddon's Gate
James S. A. Corey
Redshirts
John Scalzi
Embassytown
China Miéville
Blackout/All Clear
Connie Willis
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
Accelerando
Charles Stross
The Baroque Cycle
Neal Stephenson
Ilium
Dan Simmons
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Passage
Connie Willis
The Telling
Ursula K. Le Guin
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
The Rise of Endymion
Dan Simmons
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Mirror Dance
Lois McMaster Bujold
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
The Uplift War
David Brin
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
The Postman
David Brin
The Integral Trees
Larry Niven
Startide Rising
David Brin
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
The Many-Colored Land
Julian May
The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
Titan
John Varley
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ringworld
Larry Niven
