Book prize winners

Locus Award for Best Collection winners

14 winners and 61 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2020 Exhalation by Ted Chiang First edition: Knopf 2019
  2. 2019 How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2018
  3. 2017 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu First edition: Saga Press 2016
  4. 2016 Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman First edition: Headline Publishing Group 2015
  5. 2009 Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi First edition: Night Shade Books 2008
  6. 2007 Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman First edition: Headline Publishing Group 2006
  7. 2006 Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link First edition: Small Beer Press 2005
  8. 2004 Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harcourt 2003
  9. 2003 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang First edition not yet identified
  10. 1996 Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: HarperPrism 1995
  11. 1984 Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny First edition: Timescape Books 1983
  12. 1983 The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Underwood-Miller 1982
  13. 1982 Sandkings by George R. R. Martin First edition: Timescape Books/Pocket Books 1981
  14. 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harper & Row 1975

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 2025 You Like It Darker by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  2. 2021 If It Bleeds by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  3. 2019 Brief Cases by Jim Butcher First edition: Little, Brown 2018
  4. 2019 Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah First edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2018
  5. 2018 Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado First edition: Highbridge Co 2017
  6. 2018 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2017
  7. 2018 What It Means When A Man Falls from the Sky: The Most Acclaimed Short Story Collection of the Year by Lesley Nneka Arimah First edition: Riverhead Books 2017
  8. 2017 Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2016
  9. 2016 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin First edition not yet identified
  10. 2016 Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2015
  11. 2010 Wireless by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2009
  12. 2008 Overclocked by Cory Doctorow First edition: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007
  13. 2007 The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2006
  14. 2007 Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Night Shade Books 2006
  15. 2006 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill First edition not yet identified
  16. 2006 Across the Wall by Garth Nix First edition: Eos 2005
  17. 2006 Looking for Jake by China Miéville First edition not yet identified
  18. 2004 A Place So Foreign and 8 More by Cory Doctorow First edition: Four Walls Eight Windows 2003
  19. 2004 Bradbury Stories by Ray Bradbury First edition: William Morrow 2003
  20. 2004 Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer First edition not yet identified
  21. 2002 City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer First edition: Cosmos Books (NJ) 2001
  22. 2002 Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson First edition: Warner Books 2001
  23. 2000 Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  24. 1999 Luminous by Greg Egan First edition: Millennium 1998
  25. 1999 Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman First edition: Avon Books 1998
  26. 1998 Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne First edition: Mark V. Ziesing Books 1997
  27. 1998 Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter First edition: HarperCollins 1997
  28. 1997 Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling First edition: Ace Books 1996
  29. 1996 Axiomatic by Greg Egan First edition: Millennium 1995
  30. 1996 Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler First edition: Four Walls Eight Windows 1995
  31. 1995 A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: HarperPrism 1994
  32. 1995 Noctuary by Thomas Ligotti First edition not yet identified
  33. 1995 The Girl Who Heard Dragons by Anne McCaffrey First edition: Tor 1994
  34. 1994 Alone with the Horrors : The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell First edition: Arkham House 1993
  35. 1994 Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Doubleday 1971
  36. 1994 Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  37. 1994 The Chronicles of Pern by Anne McCaffrey First edition not yet identified
  38. 1991 Four Past Midnight by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  39. 1991 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. First edition: Arkham House 1990
  40. 1991 N-Space by Larry Niven First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 1990
  41. 1991 The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard First edition: Jonathan Cape 1970
  42. 1990 The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card First edition: Tor 1989
  43. 1989 The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber First edition: Morrow 1988
  44. 1989 The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury First edition not yet identified
  45. 1988 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick First edition: Underwood-Miller 1987
  46. 1987 Burning Chrome by William Gibson First edition not yet identified
  47. 1987 Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov First edition: Berkley 1986
  48. 1987 Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin First edition: Baen Books 1986
  49. 1986 Eye by Frank Herbert First edition: Berkley 1985
  50. 1984 The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Berkley 1983
  51. 1983 Different Seasons by Stephen King First edition: Viking 1982
  52. 1983 The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov First edition not yet identified
  53. 1981 The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny First edition: Pocket Books 1980
  54. 1981 The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury First edition not yet identified
  55. 1981 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by Christopher Tolkien First edition: Allen & Unwin 1980
  56. 1979 Night Shift by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  57. 1979 Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison First edition: Harper & Row 1977
  58. 1977 The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1976
  59. 1976 Buy Jupiter, and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov First edition: Doubleday 1975
  60. 1976 Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison First edition: Harper & Row 1975
  61. 1976 Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven First edition: Ballantine Books 1975

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