Locus Awards 1972
Winners and nominees of the 1972 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦The Byworlder — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Dragonquest — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Furthest — Suzette Haden Elgin (nominee)
- ✦Jack of Shadows — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦To Your Scattered Bodies Go — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦The Fabulous Riverboat — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦The World Inside — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦A Time of Changes — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Son of Man — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Second Trip — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Forest of Forever — Thomas Burnett Swann (nominee)
- ✦The World Menders — Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦The Devil is Dead — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
- ✦Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best Original Anthology
- 🏆Universe 1 — Terry Carr(winner)
- 🏆 Universe 1 (winner)
- ✦Protostars — David Gerrold(nominee)
- ✦ Orbit 8 (nominee)
- ✦ Orbit 9 (nominee)
- ✦ Clarion (nominee)
- ✦ Infinity Two (nominee)
- ✦ New Worlds Quarterly 1 (nominee)
- ✦ New Worlds Quarterly 2 (nominee)
- ✦Clarion — Robin Wilson (nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions 1 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦New Worlds Quarterly 1 — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦New Worlds Quarterly 2 — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Quark/2 — Marilyn Hacker (nominee)
- ✦Quark/3 — Marilyn Hacker (nominee)
- ✦Quark/4 — Marilyn Hacker (nominee)
- ✦Protostars — Stephen Goldin (nominee)
- ✦Quark/2 — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Quark/3 — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Quark/4 — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Orbit 8 — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Orbit 9 — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦ New Dimensions 1 (nominee)
- ✦ Quark/2 (nominee)
Best Reprint Anthology/Collection
- 🏆World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 — Terry Carr(winner)
- 🏆 World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 (winner)
- 🏆World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 — Donald A. Wollheim (winner)
- ✦Moderan — David R. Bunch (nominee)
- ✦New Worlds of Fantasy #3 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Best SF: 1970 (nominee)
- ✦ The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Nineteenth Series (nominee)
- ✦ Partners in Wonder (nominee)
- ✦ The Hugo Winners, Volume Two (nominee)
- ✦ New Worlds of Fantasy #3 (nominee)
- ✦ The Ruins of Earth (nominee)
- ✦The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Nineteenth Series — Edward L. Ferman (nominee)
- ✦Best SF: 1970 — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Sturgeon Is Alive and Well... — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦ Alpha 2 (nominee)
- ✦Down in the Black Gang and Other Stories — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Partners in Wonder — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦Moonferns and Starsongs — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Alpha 2 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦All the Myriad Ways — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Hugo Winners, Volume Two — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Driftglass — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Best SF: 1970 — Harry Harrison(nominee)
- ✦The Ruins of Earth — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Under Compulsion — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆The Queen of Air and Darkness — Poul Anderson(winner)
- ✦Mount Charity — Edgar Pangborn (nominee)
- ✦Vaster Than Empires and More Slow — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Wheels — Robert Thurston (nominee)
- ✦The Autumn Land — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦The Human Operators — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦All the Way Up, All the Way Down — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦In Entropy's Jaws — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Human Operators — A. E. van Vogt(nominee)
- ✦Inconstant Moon — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Dread Empire — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦A Meeting with Medusa — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦All the Last Wars at Once — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦A Special Kind of Morning — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Bear with the Knot on His Tail — Stephen Tall (nominee)
- ✦World Abounding — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
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