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
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! 1975
| Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13'
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! 1976
| The New Atlantis || Ursula K. Le Guin
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! 1977
| The Bicentennial Man || Isaac Asimov
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! 1978
| — (No award given) ||—
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! 1979
| The Barbie Murders || John Varley
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! 1980
| Sandkings || George R. R. Martin
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! 1981
| The Brave Little Toaster || Thomas M. Disch
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! 1982
| Guardians || George R. R. Martin
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! 1983
| Djinn, No Chaser || Harlan Ellison
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! 1984
| The Monkey Treatment || George R. R. Martin
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! 1985
| Bloodchild || Octavia Butler
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! 1986
| Paladin of the Lost Hour || Harlan Ellison
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! 1987
| Thor Meets Captain America || David Brin
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! 1988
| Rachel in Love || Pat Murphy
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! 1989
| The Function of Dream Sleep || Harlan Ellison
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! 1990
| Dogwalker || Orson Scott Card
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! 1991
| Entropy's Bed at Midnight || Dan Simmons
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! 1992
| All Dracula's Children || Dan Simmons
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! 1993
| Danny Goes to Mars || Pamela Sargent
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! 1994
| Death in Bangkok || Dan Simmons
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! 1995
| The Martian Child || David Gerrold
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! 1996
| When the Old Gods Die || Mike Resnick
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! 1997
| Mountain Ways || Ursula K. Le Guin
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! 1998
| Newsletter || Connie Willis
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! rowspan="2" |1999
| The Planck Drive || Greg Egan
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|Taklamakan || Bruce Sterling
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! rowspan="2" |2000
| Huddle || Stephen Baxter
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| Border Guards || Greg Egan
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! 2001
| The Birthday of the World || Ursula K. Le Guin
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! 2002
| Hell Is the Absence of God || Ted Chiang
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! 2003
| The Wild Girls || Ursula K. Le Guin
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! 2004
| A Study in Emerald || Neil Gaiman
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! rowspan="2" |2005
| The Faery Handbag || Kelly Link
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| Reports of Certain Events in London || China Miéville
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! 2006
| I, Robot || Cory Doctorow
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! 2007
| When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth || Cory Doctorow
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! 2008
| The Witch's Headstone || Neil Gaiman
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! 2009
| Pump Six || Paolo Bacigalupi
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! 2010
| By Moonlight || Peter S. Beagle
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|{{Cite web |date=2010-06-28 |title=Awards: Trillium Book Awards; Locus Awards |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1219 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2017-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002205556/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1219 |url-status=live }}
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! 2011
| The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains || Neil Gaiman
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|{{Cite web |date=2011-06-27 |title=Awards: Locus Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1494 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2023-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203073449/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1494 |url-status=live }}
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! 2012
| White Lines on a Green Field || Catherynne M. Valente
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! 2013
| The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi || Pat Cadigan
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! 2014
| The Sleeper and the Spindle || Neil Gaiman
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|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-06-30 |title=Awards: Locus Winners; Guardian Children's Fiction |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2286 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2023-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320005142/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2286 |url-status=live }}
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! 2015
| Tough Times All Over || Joe Abercrombie
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! 2016
| Black Dog || Neil Gaiman
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|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-06-28 |title=Awards: Locus; Guardian & 4th Estate BAME |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2784 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2022-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815103910/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2784 |url-status=live }}
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! 2017
| You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay || Alyssa Wong
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! 2018
| The Hermit of Houston || Samuel R. Delany
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! 2019
| The Only Harmless Great Thing || Brooke Bolander
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|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-07-02 |title=Awards: Locus Winners; Branford Boase Winner |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3528 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2021-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419183231/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3528 |url-status=live }}
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! 2020
| Omphalos || Ted Chiang
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!2021
|The Pill
|Big Girl Plus..., PM Press
|{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=2021-06-26 |title=2021 Locus Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2021-locus-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626231850/https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2021-locus-awards-winners/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=sfadb: Locus Awards 2021 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2021 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=www.sfadb.com |archive-date=2022-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527124858/http://sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2021 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2021-07-02 |title=2021 Locus Award Winners |url=https://eisenhowerlibrary.org/2021-locus-award-winners/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Eisenhower Public Library |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818102240/https://eisenhowerlibrary.org/2021-locus-award-winners/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2021-06-28 |title=Here are the winners of the 2021 Locus Awards. |url=https://lithub.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2021-locus-awards/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203042643/https://lithub.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2021-locus-awards/ |url-status=live }}
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!2022
|That Story Isn't the Story
|Uncanny (#43), Nov/Dec 2021
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!2023
|If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
|Uncanny (#47), Jul/Aug 2022
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!2024
|The Rainbow Bank
|Uchechukwu Nwaka
|GigaNotoSaurus Aug 2023
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References
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