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
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The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
4 stars
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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Titan by John Varley (Gaia, #1)
3 stars
In TITAN, Varley has embarked on a masterwork, the creation of Gaea, the Titan, an astronomically huge creature in orbit …
Phil in SF says: 1980 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1981 winner
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The Many-Colored Land by Julian May (The Saga of the Pliocene Exile, #1)
4 stars
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic …
Phil in SF says: 1982 winner
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Foundation's edge by Айзек Азимов (Foundation (6))
4 stars
Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. …
Phil in SF says: 1983 winner
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Startide Rising (Uplift Trilogy) by David Brin
4 stars
David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans …
Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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The integral trees by Larry Niven
4 stars
The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven (first published as a serial in …
Phil in SF says: 1985 winner
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3 stars
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Saga, #2)
4 stars
Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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4 stars
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1989 winner
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons (The Hyperion Cantos, #1)
On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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The fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
4 stars
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
4 stars
Sequel to "Shards of Honor". The two were later published together under the title "Cordelia's Honor".
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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Doomsday book by Connie Willis
4 stars
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
Phil in SF says: 1993 winner
