Book prize

Locus Award for Best Novel winners

9 winners and 42 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.

All prizes
Won

Winners

  1. The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Harcourt 2000
  2. 1979 Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre First edition not yet identified
  3. 1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm First edition: Harper & Row 1976
  4. 1976 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman First edition: St. Martin's Press 1974
  5. 1975 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition not yet identified
  6. 1974 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Gollancz 1973
  7. 1973 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov First edition not yet identified
  8. 1972 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Scribner 1971
  9. 1971 Ringworld by Larry Niven First edition not yet identified
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 1979 Colony by Ben Bova First edition: Pocket Books 1978
  2. 1979 Gloriana, Or, the Unfulfill'd Queen by Michael Moorcock First edition not yet identified
  3. 1979 Kalki by Gore Vidal First edition not yet identified
  4. 1979 Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz First edition: Ballantine Books 1978
  5. 1979 The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition not yet identified
  6. 1979 The Stand by Stephen King First edition: Doubleday 1978
  7. 1979 Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr. First edition not yet identified
  8. 1977 A World Out of Time by Larry Niven First edition: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
  9. 1977 Children of Dune by Frank Herbert First edition not yet identified
  10. 1977 Man Plus by Frederik Pohl First edition not yet identified
  11. 1977 The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson First edition: Ballantine Books 1976
  12. 1977 Triton by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Bantam Books 1976
  13. 1976 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany First edition: Bantam Books 1975
  14. 1976 Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny First edition: Harper & Row 1976
  15. 1976 Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke First edition: Gollancz 1975
  16. 1976 Norstrilia by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger First edition: Ballantine Books 1975
  17. 1976 Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny First edition not yet identified
  18. 1976 The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester First edition: distributed by Putnam 1975
  19. 1976 The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner First edition: Dent 1975
  20. 1975 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick First edition not yet identified
  21. 1975 Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster First edition not yet identified
  22. 1975 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip First edition: Atheneum 1974
  23. 1975 The Inverted World by Christopher Priest First edition: Faber & Faber 1974
  24. 1975 The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven First edition: Simon & Schuster 1974
  25. 1974 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon First edition not yet identified
  26. 1974 Protector by Larry Niven First edition: Ballantine Books 1973
  27. 1974 The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold First edition not yet identified
  28. 1974 To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny First edition: New American Library of Canada 1973
  29. 1973 The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg First edition not yet identified
  30. 1973 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe First edition: Scribner 1972
  31. 1973 The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny First edition: Doubleday 1972
  32. 1973 The Listeners by James Gunn First edition: Scribner 1972
  33. 1973 The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner First edition: Harper & Row 1972
  34. 1972 A Time Of Changes by Robert Silverberg First edition: Doubleday 1971
  35. 1972 Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey First edition: Ballantine Books 1971
  36. 1972 The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1971
  37. 1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1971
  38. 1971 Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg First edition not yet identified
  39. 1971 I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1970
  40. 1971 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny First edition: Doubleday 1970
  41. 1971 Tau Zero by Poul Anderson First edition: GuildAmerica Books 1970
  42. 1971 Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg First edition: Scribner 1970

Prize records from Wikidata (CC0). Only books in our catalogue are listed.

We use Google Analytics cookies to count visits and see which pages help collectors. You can opt out at any time. Privacy