Locus Award for Best Collection

The Locus Award for Best Collection is one of the annual Locus Award ms presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The award for Best Collection was originally presented as Best Reprint Anthology/Collection between 1972 and 1974, in conjunction with a Best Original Anthology award which evolved into the modern Best Anthology award.

Year	Nominated work^[1]	Author	Ref.
1972	World's Best Science Fiction: 1971	Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr	^[2]
1973	The Best Science Fiction of the Year	Terry Carr	^[3]
1974	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2	Terry Carr	^[4]
1975	Before the Golden Age	Isaac Asimov	^[5]

Year	Nominated work^[1]	Author	Ref.
1975	The Best of Fritz Leiber	Fritz Leiber	^[6]
1976	The Wind's Twelve Quarters	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[7]
1977	A Song for Lya and Other Stories	George R. R. Martin	^[8]
1978	Category not awarded
1979	The Persistence of Vision	John Varley	^[9]
1980	Convergent	Larry Niven	^[10]
1981	The Barbie Murders	John Varley	^[11]
1982	Sandkings	George R. R. Martin	^[12]
1983	The Compass Rose	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[13]
1984	Unicorn Variations	Roger Zelazny	^[14]
1985	The Ghost Light	Fritz Leiber	^[15]
1986	Skeleton Crew	Stephen King	^[16]
1987	Blue Champagne	John Varley	^[17]
1988	The Jaguar Hunter	Lucius Shepard	^[18]
1989	Angry Candy	Harlan Ellison	^[19]
1990	Patterns	Pat Cadigan	^[20]
1991	Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card	Orson Scott Card	^[21]
1992	Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories	Howard Waldrop	^[22]
1993	The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers	Robert Silverberg	^[23]
1994	Impossible Things	Connie Willis	^[24]
1995	Otherness	David Brin	^[25]
1996	Four Ways to Forgiveness	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[26]
1997	None So Blind	Joe Haldeman	^[27]
1998	Slippage	Harlan Ellison	^[28]
1999	The Avram Davidson Treasury	Avram Davidson	^[29]
2000	The Martians	Kim Stanley Robinson	^[30]
2001	Tales of Old Earth	Michael Swanwick	^[31]
2002	Tales from Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[32]
2003	Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang	^[33]
2004	Changing Planes	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[34]
2005	The John Varley Reader	John Varley	^[35]
2006	Magic for Beginners	Kelly Link	^[36]
2007	Fragile Things	Neil Gaiman	^[37]
2008	The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories	Connie Willis	^[38]
2009	Pump Six and Other Stories	Paolo Bacigalupi	^[39]
2010	The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe)"	Gene Wolfe	^[40]
2011	Selected Stories	Fritz Leiber	^[41]
2012	The Bible Repairman and Other Stories	Tim Powers	^[42]
2013	Shoggoths in Bloom	Elizabeth Bear	^[43]
2014	The Best of Connie Willis	Connie Willis	^[44]
2015	Last Plane to Heaven	Jay Lake	^[45]
2016	Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances	Neil Gaiman	^[46]
2017	The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories	Ken Liu	^[47]
2018	The Hainish Novels and Stories	Ursula K. Le Guin	^[48]
2019	How Long 'til Black Future Month?	N. K. Jemisin	^[49]
2020	Exhalation	Ted Chiang	^[50]
2021	The Hidden Girl and Other Stories	Ken Liu	^[51]
2022	Even Greater Mistakes	Charlie Jane Anders	^[52]
2023	Boys, Beasts & Men	Sam J. Miller	^[53]
2024	White Cat, Black Dog	Kelly Link	^[54]
2025	Lake of Souls	Ann Leckie	^[55]

v t e Locus Award
Novels	Novel Science Fiction Novel Fantasy Novel Horror Novel First Novel Young Adult Book
Other fiction	Novella Novelette Short Story Collection Anthology
Other	Magazine Publisher Editor Artist Non-fiction Art Book

Locus Award for Best Collection

Best Reprint Anthology/Collection

Best Collection

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