Locus Awards 1976
Winners and nominees of the 1976 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆The Forever War — Joe Haldeman(winner)
- ✦Missing Man — Katherine MacLean (nominee)
- ✦The Warriors of Dawn — M. A. Foster (nominee)
- ✦Blake's Progress — Ray Nelson (nominee)
- ✦The Exile Waiting — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦The Birthgrave — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Female Man — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦The Computer Connection — Alfred Bester(nominee)
- ✦Sign of the Unicorn — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Doorways in the Sand — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Showboat World — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Anton Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Stochastic Man — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Inferno — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Shockwave Rider — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Lifeboat — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Heritage of Hastur — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Imperial Earth — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Lifeboat — Harry Harrison(nominee)
- ✦Inferno — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Norstrilia — Cordwainer Smith (nominee)
- ✦A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea (nominee)
Best Anthology
- 🏆Epoch — Robert Silverberg (winner)
- 🏆 Epoch (winner)
- 🏆Epoch — Roger Elwood(winner)
- ✦Final Stage — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦ The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Orbit 16 (nominee)
- ✦ Final Stage (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Planet Stories #1: Strange Adventures on Other Worlds (nominee)
- ✦ The Best from Orbit (nominee)
- ✦ Science Fiction of the Thirties (nominee)
- ✦Final Stage — Edward L. Ferman (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Award Stories 10 (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Planet Stories #1: Strange Adventures on Other Worlds — Leigh Brackett(nominee)
- ✦ New Dimensions: Science Fiction Number 5 (nominee)
- ✦The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions: Science Fiction Number 5 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Women of Wonder — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The 1975 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Orbit 16 — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦The Best from Orbit — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Science Fiction of the Thirties — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Award Stories 10 — James Gunn (nominee)
- ✦ The 1975 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (nominee)
- ✦The 1975 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Wind's Twelve Quarters — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Warm Worlds and Otherwise — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦The Best of C. L. Moore — Catherine Lucile Moore (nominee)
- ✦The Infinity Box — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Deathbird Stories — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Frederik Pohl — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Second Book of Fritz Leiber — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Feast of St. Dionysus — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Tales of Known Space — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Buy Jupiter and Other Stories — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦No Direction Home — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Henry Kuttner — Henry Kuttner (nominee)
- ✦Early del Rey — Lester del Rey (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Cordwainer Smith — Cordwainer Smith (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The New Atlantis — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Down to a Sunless Sea — Genevieve Linebarger (nominee)
- ✦A Galaxy Called Rome — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦"... For a Single Yesterday" — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦And Seven Times Never Kill Man — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Sandsnake Hunter — Gordon Eklund (nominee)
- ✦The Venging — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦San Diego Lightfoot Sue — Tom Reamy (nominee)
- ✦End Game — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Cambridge, 1:58 A.M. — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Black Hole Passes — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦In the Bowl — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Retrograde Summer — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Down to a Sunless Sea — Cordwainer Smith (nominee)
- ✦Blooded on Arachne — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Storms of Windhaven — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- 🏆The Storms of Windhaven — Lisa Tuttle(winner)
- ✦The Custodians — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦A Momentary Taste of Being — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Mother and Child — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Home Is the Hangman — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Ancient Shadows — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦ARM — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Borderland of Sol — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Silhouette — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Sharking Down — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦The Silent Eyes of Time — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Allegiances — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Croatoan — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Clay Suburb — Robert F. Young (nominee)
- ✦Find the Lady — Nicholas Fisk (nominee)
- ✦Shatterday — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The Mother Trip — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Catch That Zeppelin! — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦All the Charms of Sycorax — Alan Brennert (nominee)
- ✦Sail the Tide of Mourning — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Anniversary Project — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Doing Lennon — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Beyond Grayworld — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Sierra Maestra — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Child of All Ages — P. J. Plauger (nominee)
- ✦Rogue Tomato — Michael Bishop (nominee)
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