Locus Award for Best First Novel

Literary award by Locus magazine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Locus Award for Best First Novel is one of the annual Locus Awards 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 First Novel was first presented in 1981.[1] The Locus Awards have been described as a prestigious prize in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature.[2][3]

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Award winners[1]
YearNovel Author Ref.
1981 Dragon's Egg Robert L. Forward [4]
1982 Starship & Haiku Somtow Sucharitkul [5]
1983 Courtship Rite Donald Kingsbury [6]
1984 Tea with the Black Dragon R. A. MacAvoy [7]
1985 The Wild Shore Kim Stanley Robinson [8]
1986 Contact Carl Sagan [9]
1987 The Hercules Text Jack McDevitt [10]
1988 War for the Oaks Emma Bull [11]
1989 Desolation Road Ian McDonald [12]
1990 Orbital Decay Allen Steele [13]
1991 In the Country of the Blind Michael F. Flynn [14]
1992 The Cipher Kathe Koja [15]
1993 China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh [16]
1994 Cold Allies Patricia Anthony [17]
1995 Gun, with Occasional Music Jonathan Lethem [18]
1996 The Bohr Maker Linda Nagata [19]
1997 Reclamation Sarah Zettel [20]
Whiteout Sage Walker
1998 The Great Wheel Ian R. MacLeod [21]
1999 Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson [22]
2000 The Silk Code Paul Levinson [23]
2001 Mars Crossing Geoffrey A. Landis [24]
2002 Kushiel's Dart Jacqueline Carey [25]
2003 A Scattering of Jades Alexander C. Irvine [26]
2004 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow [27]
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke [28]
2006 Hammered / Scardown / Worldwired Elizabeth Bear [29]
2007 Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/
Throne of Jade/Black Powder War		 Naomi Novik [30]
2008 Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill [31]
2009 Singularity's Ring Paul Melko [32][33]
2010 The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi [34][35]
2011 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin [36][37]
2012 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern [38]
2013 Throne of the Crescent Moon Saladin Ahmed [39][40]
2014 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie [41][42]
2015 The Memory Garden M. Rickert [43]
2016 The Grace of Kings Ken Liu [44][45]
2017 Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee [46]
2018 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss [47]
2019 Trail of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse [48][49]
2020 Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir [50][51]
2021 Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger [52][53]
2022 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark [54][55]
2023 The Mountain in the Sea Ray Nayler [56][57][58]
2024 The Saint of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera [59][60][61]
2025 Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell [62][63][64]
2026 Sour Cherry Natalia Theodoridou [65]
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