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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel's Reading List

Locus Magazine's annual reader-voted prize for Best Science Fiction Novel, awarded since 1980 — a barometer of what serious SF readers reward.

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel — Winners

Winners list scraped from Wikipedia Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Titan

John Varley · 1980 · Buy on Amazon

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge · 1981 · Buy on Amazon

The Many-Colored Land

Julian May · 1982 · Buy on Amazon

Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov · 1983 · Buy on Amazon

Startide Rising

David Brin · 1984 · Buy on Amazon

The Integral Trees

Larry Niven · 1985 · Buy on Amazon

The Postman

David Brin · 1986 · Buy on Amazon

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card · 1987 · Buy on Amazon

The Uplift War

David Brin · 1988 · Buy on Amazon

Cyteen

C. J. Cherryh · 1989 · Buy on Amazon

Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 1990 · Buy on Amazon

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 1991 · Buy on Amazon

Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1992 · Buy on Amazon

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis · 1993 · Buy on Amazon

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1994 · Buy on Amazon

Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1995 · Buy on Amazon

The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson · 1996 · Buy on Amazon

Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1997 · Buy on Amazon

The Rise of Endymion

Dan Simmons · 1998 · Buy on Amazon

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis · 1999 · Buy on Amazon

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson · 2000 · Buy on Amazon

The Telling

Ursula Le Guin · 2001 · Buy on Amazon

Passage

Connie Willis · 2002 · Buy on Amazon

The Years of Rice and Salt

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2003 · Buy on Amazon

Ilium

Dan Simmons · 2004 · Buy on Amazon

Accelerando

Charles Stross · 2006 · Buy on Amazon

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge · 2007 · Buy on Amazon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon · 2008 · Buy on Amazon

Anathem

Neal Stephenson · 2009 · Buy on Amazon

Boneshaker

Cherie Priest · 2010 · Buy on Amazon

Blackout/All Clear

Connie Willis · 2011 · Buy on Amazon

Embassytown

China Miéville · 2012 · Buy on Amazon

Redshirts

John Scalzi · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

Abaddon's Gate

James S. A. Corey · 2014 · Buy on Amazon

Ancillary Sword

Anne Leckie · 2015 · Buy on Amazon

Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie · 2016 · Buy on Amazon

Death's End

Liu Cixin · 2017 · Buy on Amazon

The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · 2018 · Buy on Amazon

The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

The City In The Middle Of The Night

Charlie Jane Anders · 2020 · Buy on Amazon

Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel

Martha Wells · 2021 · Buy on Amazon

A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady Martine · 2022 · Buy on Amazon

The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi · 2023 · Buy on Amazon

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