Locus Award for Best Novelette
The Locus Award for Best Novelette 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.
The first award in this category was presented in 1975.
Winners
Winners are as follows:[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 | ||
| 1980 | Sandkings | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 1981 | The Brave Little Toaster | Thomas M. Disch | ||
| 1982 | Guardians | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 1983 | Djinn, No Chaser | Harlan Ellison | ||
| 1984 | The Monkey Treatment | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 1985 | Bloodchild | Octavia Butler | ||
| 1986 | Paladin of the Lost Hour | Harlan Ellison | ||
| 1987 | Thor Meets Captain America | David Brin | ||
| 1988 | Rachel in Love | Pat Murphy | ||
| 1989 | The Function of Dream Sleep | Harlan Ellison | ||
| 1990 | Dogwalker | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1991 | Entropy's Bed at Midnight | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1992 | All Dracula's Children | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1993 | Danny Goes to Mars | Pamela Sargent | ||
| 1994 | Death in Bangkok | Dan Simmons | ||
| 1995 | The Martian Child | David Gerrold | ||
| 1996 | When the Old Gods Die | Mike Resnick | ||
| 1997 | Mountain Ways | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1998 | Newsletter | Connie Willis | ||
| 1999 | The Planck Drive | Greg Egan | ||
| Taklamakan | Bruce Sterling | |||
| 2000 | Huddle | Stephen Baxter | ||
| Border Guards | Greg Egan | |||
| 2001 | The Birthday of the World | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2002 | Hell Is the Absence of God | Ted Chiang | ||
| 2003 | The Wild Girls | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2004 | A Study in Emerald | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2005 | The Faery Handbag | Kelly Link | ||
| Reports of Certain Events in London | China Miéville | |||
| 2006 | I, Robot | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 2007 | When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 2008 | The Witch's Headstone | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2009 | Pump Six | Paolo Bacigalupi | [2] | |
| 2010 | By Moonlight | Peter S. Beagle | [3] | |
| 2011 | The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains | Neil Gaiman | [4] | |
| 2012 | White Lines on a Green Field | Catherynne M. Valente | ||
| 2013 | The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi | Pat Cadigan | ||
| 2014 | The Sleeper and the Spindle | Neil Gaiman | [5] | |
| 2015 | Tough Times All Over | Joe Abercrombie | ||
| 2016 | Black Dog | Neil Gaiman | [6] | |
| 2017 | You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay | Alyssa Wong | ||
| 2018 | The Hermit of Houston | Samuel R. Delany | ||
| 2019 | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Brooke Bolander | [7] | |
| 2020 | Omphalos | Ted Chiang | ||
| 2021 | The Pill | Meg Elison | Big Girl Plus..., PM Press | [8] |
| 2022 | That Story Isn't the Story | John Wiswell | Uncanny (#43) (Nov/Dec 2021) | [9] |
| 2023 | If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You | John Chu | Uncanny (#47) (Jul/Aug 2022) | [10] |
| 2024 | The Rainbow Bank | Uchechukwu Nwaka | GigaNotoSaurus (Aug 2023) | [11] |
| 2025 | By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars | Premee Mohamed | Strange Horizons (June 2024) | [12] |
References
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- ^ "Awards: Locus; John W. Campbell; Frank O'Connor Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Awards: Trillium Book Awards; Locus Awards". Shelf Awareness. 2010-06-28. Archived from the original on 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
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- ^ "2022 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 25 Jun 2022. Retrieved 7 Aug 2025.
- ^ "2023 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 6 Aug 2025.
- ^ "2024 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 22 Jun 2024. Retrieved 6 Aug 2025.
- ^ "2025 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 21 Jun 2025. Retrieved 13 Jul 2025.