Locus Award Best Science Fiction Novel Winners — Complete List (1980–2026)

• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

  2026LocusSF Novel
• The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar

  2025LocusSF Novel

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  System Collapse by Martha Wells

  2024LocusSF Novel

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  The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

  2023LocusSF Novel

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  A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

  2022LocusSF Novel

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• Network Effect by Martha Wells

  2021LocusSF Novel

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  The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

  2020LocusSF Novel

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  The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

  2019LocusSF Novel

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  The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

  2018LocusSF Novel

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  Death's End by Liu Cixin

  2017LocusSF Novel

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• Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

  2016LocusSF Novel

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  Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

  2015LocusSF Novel

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  Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey

  2014LocusSF Novel

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• Redshirts by John Scalzi

  2013LocusSF Novel

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  Embassytown by China Miéville

  2012LocusSF Novel

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  Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

  2011LocusSF Novel

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  Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

  2010LocusSF Novel

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  Anathem by Neal Stephenson

  2009LocusSF Novel

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  The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

  2008LocusSF Novel

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  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

  2007LocusSF Novel

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  Accelerando by Charles Stross

  2006LocusSF Novel

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• The Baroque Cycle(i.e.Quicksilver;The Confusion;The System of the World) by Neal Stephenson

  2005LocusSF Novel
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  Ilium by Dan Simmons

  2004LocusSF Novel

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  The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

  2003LocusSF Novel

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  Passage by Connie Willis

  2002LocusSF Novel

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  The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin

  2001LocusSF Novel

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  Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

  2000LocusSF Novel

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  To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

  1999LocusSF Novel

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  The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

  1998LocusSF Novel

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  Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1997LocusSF Novel

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  The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

  1996LocusSF Novel

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  Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1995LocusSF Novel

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  Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  1994LocusSF Novel

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• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

  1993LocusSF Novel

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  Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  1992LocusSF Novel

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  The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

  1991LocusSF Novel

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  Hyperion by Dan Simmons

  1990LocusSF Novel

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  Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh

  1989LocusSF Novel

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  The Uplift War by David Brin

  1988LocusSF Novel

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  Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

  1987LocusSF Novel

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  The Postman by David Brin

  1986LocusSF Novel

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  The Integral Trees by Larry Niven

  1985LocusSF Novel

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  Startide Rising by David Brin

  1984LocusSF Novel

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  Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

  1983LocusSF Novel

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  The Many-Colored Land by Julian May

  1982LocusSF Novel

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  The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

  1981LocusSF Novel

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  Titan by John Varley

  1980LocusSF Novel

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