Most Popular Locus Award Books

Accelerando

Charles Stross

Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

2005

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

T. Kingfisher

Fantasy · Locus Award

July 2020

Otherness

David Brin

Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1994

Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction

Brian Aldiss, David Wingrove

Hugo Award · Locus Award · Non-fiction

1988

Dragon's Egg #1

Dragon's Egg

Robert L. Forward

Science Fiction · Hard Science Fiction · Locus Award

1980

The Clockwork Century #1

Boneshaker

Cherie Priest

Science Fiction · Steampunk · Locus Award

September 27, 2009

Gun, with Occasional Music

Jonathan Lethem

Science Fiction · Locus Award

1994

Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1

The Witching Hour

Anne Rice

Fantasy · Horror · Locus Award

1990

The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1

Throne of the Crescent Moon

Saladin Ahmed

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Locus Award

February 6, 2012

Temeraire #3

Black Powder War

Naomi Novik

Fantasy · Dragons · Locus Award · Alternate History

May 2006

The Golden

Lucius Shepard

Horror · Vampires · Locus Award

1993

James Asher Chronicles #1

Those Who Hunt the Night

Barbara Hambly

Horror · Locus Award

1988

Fires of Eden

Dan Simmons

Horror · Locus Award

1994

Children of the Night

Dan Simmons

Horror · Vampires · Locus Award

1992

Redshirts

John Scalzi

Science Fiction · Hugo Award · Locus Award

May 31, 2012

Carrion Comfort

Dan Simmons

Horror · Bram Stoker Award · British Fantasy Award · Locus Award

1989

Passage

Connie Willis

Science Fiction · Locus Award

2001

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

Connie Willis

Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

July 4, 2013

Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award

1998

China Mountain Zhang

Maureen F. McHugh

Science Fiction · Locus Award

1992

Patterns

Pat Cadigan

Horror · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1988

The Hercules Text

Jack McDevitt

Science Fiction · Locus Award

1986

The Great Cities #1

The City We Became

N. K. Jemisin

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Locus Award

March 24, 2020

The Years of Rice and Salt

Kim Stanley Robinson

Locus Award · Alternate History

2002

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1990

Someone You Can Build A Nest In

John Wiswell

Fantasy · Horror · Locus Award · Nebula Award · Shapeshifters

April 29, 2025

Night of the Cooters

Howard Waldrop

Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

1990

The Jenny Casey Trilogy #1

Hammered

Elizabeth Bear

Science Fiction · Locus Award

2004

Gaea Trilogy #1

Titan

John Varley

Science Fiction · Locus Award

1979

New Suns

Nisi Shawl

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Anthology · Locus Award

March 12, 2019

Alchemical Journeys #1

Middlegame

Seanan McGuire

Fantasy · Locus Award

May 6, 2019

Thousand Worlds #1

Dragon Pearl

Yoon Ha Lee

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Young Adult · Locus Award

January 15, 2019

Old Mars

George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois

Science Fiction · Anthology · Locus Award

October 2013

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer

Locus Award · Non-fiction

October 2013

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

Tim Powers

Fantasy · Locus Award · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

August 31, 2011

Selected Stories

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories

May 2010