Locus Award for Best Novelette

The Locus Award for Best Novelette, first presented in 1975, is one of a series of Locus Awards given annually by Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.

Winners

Award winners[1]
Year Novelette Author Publisher Ref.
1975 Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13'' W Harlan Ellison
1976 The New Atlantis Ursula K. Le Guin
1977 The Bicentennial Man Isaac Asimov
1978 — (No award given) — —
1979 The Barbie Murders John Varley [2]
1980 Sandkings George R. R. Martin [3]
1981 The Brave Little Toaster Thomas M. Disch [4]
1982 Guardians George R. R. Martin [5]
1983 Djinn, No Chaser Harlan Ellison [6]
1984 The Monkey Treatment George R. R. Martin [7]
1985 Bloodchild Octavia Butler [8]
1986 Paladin of the Lost Hour Harlan Ellison [9]
1987 Thor Meets Captain America David Brin [10]
1988 Rachel in Love Pat Murphy [11]
1989 Harlan Ellison [12]
1990 Dogwalker Orson Scott Card [13]
1991 Entropy's Bed at Midnight Dan Simmons [14]
1992 All Dracula's Children Dan Simmons [15]
1993 Danny Goes to Mars Pamela Sargent [16]
1994 Death in Bangkok Dan Simmons [17]
1995 The Martian Child David Gerrold [18]
1996 When the Old Gods Die Mike Resnick [19]
1997 Mountain Ways Ursula K. Le Guin [20]
1998 Newsletter Connie Willis [21]
1999 The Planck Dive Greg Egan [22]
Taklamakan Bruce Sterling
2000 Huddle Stephen Baxter [23]
Border Guards Greg Egan
2001 The Birthday of the World Ursula K. Le Guin [24]
2002 Hell Is the Absence of God Ted Chiang [25]
2003 The Wild Girls Ursula K. Le Guin [26]
2004 A Study in Emerald Neil Gaiman [27]
2005 The Faery Handbag Kelly Link [28]
Reports of Certain Events in London China Miéville
2006 I, Robot Cory Doctorow [29]
2007 When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Cory Doctorow [30]
2008 The Witch's Headstone Neil Gaiman [31]
2009 Pump Six Paolo Bacigalupi [32][33]
2010 By Moonlight Peter S. Beagle [34][35]
2011 The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains Neil Gaiman [36][37]
2012 White Lines on a Green Field Catherynne M. Valente [38]
2013 The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi Pat Cadigan [39][40]
2014 The Sleeper and the Spindle Neil Gaiman [41][42]
2015 Tough Times All Over Joe Abercrombie [43]
2016 Black Dog Neil Gaiman [44][45]
2017 You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay Alyssa Wong [46]
2018 The Hermit of Houston Samuel R. Delany [47]
2019 The Only Harmless Great Thing Brooke Bolander [48][49]
2020 Omphalos Ted Chiang [50]
2021 The Pill Meg Elison Big Girl Plus..., PM Press [51][52]
2022 That Story Isn't the Story John Wiswell Uncanny (#43) (Nov/Dec 2021) [53][54]
2023 If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You John Chu Uncanny (#47) (Jul/Aug 2022) [55][56][57]
2024 The Rainbow Bank Uchechukwu Nwaka GigaNotoSaurus (Aug 2023) [58][59]
2025 By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars Premee Mohamed Strange Horizons (June 2024) [60][61]
2026 We Begin Where Infinity Ends Somto Ihezue Clarkesworld 2/25 [62]

References

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