Locus Award for Best First Novel

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
YearNovel[1]Author Ref
1981 Dragon's EggRobert L. Forward
1982 Starship & HaikuSomtow Sucharitkul
1983 Courtship RiteDonald Kingsbury
1984 Tea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoy
1985 The Wild ShoreKim Stanley Robinson
1986 ContactCarl Sagan
1987 The Hercules TextJack McDevitt
1988 War for the OaksEmma Bull
1989 Desolation RoadIan McDonald
1990 Orbital DecayAllen Steele
1991 In the Country of the BlindMichael F. Flynn
1992 The CipherKathe Koja
1993 China Mountain ZhangMaureen F. McHugh
1994 Cold AlliesPatricia Anthony
1995 Gun, with Occasional MusicJonathan Lethem
1996 The Bohr MakerLinda Nagata
1997 ReclamationSarah Zettel
WhiteoutSage Walker
1998 The Great WheelIan R. MacLeod
1999 Brown Girl in the RingNalo Hopkinson
2000 The Silk CodePaul Levinson
2001 Mars CrossingGeoffrey A. Landis
2002 Kushiel's DartJacqueline Carey
2003 A Scattering of JadesAlexander C. Irvine
2004 Down and Out in the Magic KingdomCory Doctorow
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSusanna Clarke
2006 Hammered / Scardown / WorldwiredElizabeth Bear
2007 Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/
Throne of Jade/Black Powder War		Naomi Novik
2008 Heart-Shaped BoxJoe Hill
2009 Singularity's RingPaul Melko [4]
2010 The Windup GirlPaolo Bacigalupi [5]
2011 The Hundred Thousand KingdomsN. K. Jemisin [6]
2012 The Night CircusErin Morgenstern
2013 Throne of the Crescent MoonSaladin Ahmed
2014 Ancillary JusticeAnn Leckie [7]
2015 The Memory GardenM. Rickert
2016 The Grace of Kings Ken Liu [8]
2017 Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee
2018 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss
2019 Trail of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse [9]
2020 Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir [10][11]
2021 Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger [12]
2022 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark [13]
2023 The Mountain in the Sea Ray Nayler

See also

References
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  11. "sfadb: Locus Awards 2020". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2022-06-26. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
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  13. "2022 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2022-06-25. Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
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