Locus Award

The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel is voted on each year by readers of Locus magazine. The Locus Awards often anticipate Hugo and Nebula winners du…

Science fiction novels published in the previous year; reader poll of Locus subscribers.

2026

• Death of the Author — winner

2025

• The Man Who Saw Seconds — winner

2024

• System Collapse — winner

2023

• The Kaiju Preservation Society — winner

2022

• A Desolation Called Peace — winner

2021

• Network Effect — winner

2020

• The City in the Middle of the Night — winner

2019

• The Calculating Stars — winner

2018

• The Collapsing Empire — winner

2016

• Ancillary Mercy — winner

2015

• Ancillary Sword — winner

2014

• Abaddon's Gate — winner

2013

• Redshirts — winner

2012

• Embassytown — winner

2010

• Boneshaker — winner

2009

• Anathem — winner

2008

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union — winner

2007

• Rainbows End — winner

2006

• Accelerando — winner

2005

• The System of the World — winner

2004

• Ilium — winner

2003

• The Years of Rice and Salt — winner

2002

• Passage — winner

2001

• The Telling — winner

2000

• Cryptonomicon — winner

1999

• To Say Nothing of the Dog — winner

1998

• The Rise of Endymion — winner

1997

• Blue Mars — winner

1996

• The Diamond Age — winner

1995

• Mirror Dance — winner

1994

• Green Mars — winner

1993

• Doomsday Book — winner

1992

• Barrayar — winner

1991

• The Fall of Hyperion — winner

1990

• Hyperion — winner

1989

• Cyteen — winner

1988

• The Uplift War — winner

1987

• Speaker for the Dead — winner

1986

• The Postman — winner

1985

• The Integral Trees — winner

1984

• Startide Rising — winner

1983

• Foundation's Edge — winner

1982

• The Many-Colored Land — winner

1981

• The Snow Queen — winner

1980

• Titan — winner