Locus Awards — Best First Novel

• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

  2025LocusFirst Novel
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  The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

  2024LocusFirst Novel
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  The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

  2023LocusFirst Novel
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  A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

  2022LocusFirst Novel
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  2021LocusFirst Novel
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  Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  2020LocusFirst Novel
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  Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

  2019LocusFirst Novel
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  The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

  2018LocusFirst Novel
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  Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

  2017LocusFirst Novel
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  The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

  2016LocusFirst Novel
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  The Memory Garden by M. Rickert

  2015LocusFirst Novel
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

  2014LocusFirst Novel
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  Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

  2013LocusFirst Novel
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  The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

  2012LocusFirst Novel
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  The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

  2011LocusFirst Novel
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  The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

  2010LocusFirst Novel
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  Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko

  2009LocusFirst Novel
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  Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

  2008LocusFirst Novel
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  Temeraire:His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

  2007LocusFirst Novel
• Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear

  2006LocusFirst Novel
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

  2005LocusFirst Novel
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  Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

  2004LocusFirst Novel
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  A Scattering of Jades by Alexander C. Irvine

  2003LocusFirst Novel
• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

  2002LocusFirst Novel
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  Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis

  2001LocusFirst Novel
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  The Silk Code by Paul Levinson

  2000LocusFirst Novel
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  Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

  1999LocusFirst Novel
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  The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod

  1998LocusFirst Novel
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  Sage Walker

  1997LocusFirst Novel
• Reclamation by Sarah Zettel

  1997LocusFirst Novel
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  The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata

  1996LocusFirst Novel
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  Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

  1995LocusFirst Novel
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  Cold Allies by Patricia Anthony

  1994LocusFirst Novel
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  China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

  1993LocusFirst Novel
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  The Cipher by Kathe Koja

  1992LocusFirst Novel
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  In the Country of the Blind by Michael F. Flynn

  1991LocusFirst Novel
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  Orbital Decay by Allen Steele

  1990LocusFirst Novel
• Desolation Road by Ian McDonald

  1989LocusFirst Novel
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  War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

  1988LocusFirst Novel
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  The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt

  1987LocusFirst Novel
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  Contact by Carl Sagan

  1986LocusFirst Novel
• The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1985LocusFirst Novel
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  Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy

  1984LocusFirst Novel
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  Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury

  1983LocusFirst Novel
• Starship & Haiku by Somtow Sucharitkul

  1982LocusFirst Novel
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  Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

  1981LocusFirst Novel