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Locus Award for Best Novel

{{Short description|Literary award by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus}}

Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novel, one of several discontinued Locus Awards, awarded by Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.

The award for Best Novel was presented from 1971 (when the awards began) to 1979. Since 1980, awards have been presented for Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Fantasy Novel.

Winners

{| class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Nominated Work

!Author

!Ref.

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! |1971

| Ringworld

|Larry Niven

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1971 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1971 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1972

| {{Sort|Lathe of Heaven|The Lathe of Heaven}}

|Ursula K. Le Guin

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1972 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1972 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Databse}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1973

| {{Sort|Gods Themselves|The Gods Themselves}}

|Isaac Asimov

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1973 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1973 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1974

| Rendezvous with Rama

|Arthur C. Clarke

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1974 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1974 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Databse}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1975

| {{Sort|Dispossessed|The Dispossessed}}

|Ursula K. Le Guin

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1975 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1975 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1976

| {{Sort|Forever War|The Forever War}}

|Joe Haldeman

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1976 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1976 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1977

| Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

|Kate Wilhelm

|{{Cite web |date=2020-06-12 |title=Locus Awards 1977 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1977 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1978

| Gateway

|Frederik Pohl

|{{Cite web |date=2020-07-22 |title=Locus Awards 1978 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1978 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

! |1979

| Dreamsnake

|Vonda N. McIntyre

|{{Cite web |date=2012-09-11 |title=Locus Awards 1979 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1979 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Science Fiction Awards Database}}

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

|}

References

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External links

  • [https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards Locus Awards] at the Science Fiction Awards Database

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Category:American literary awards

Novel

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Category:Awards established in 1971

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