Locus Award for Best First Novel

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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]

Winners

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]

See also

References

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