Locus Awards 1978
Winners and nominees of the 1978 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Silmarillion — J. R. R. Tolkien(winner)
- ✦Trey of Swords — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦Silver on the Tree — Susan Cooper(nominee)
- ✦Heir of Sea and Fire(nominee)
- ✦The Grey Mane of Morning — Joy Chant (nominee)
- ✦Our Lady of Darkness — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Sword of Shannara — Terry Brooks(nominee)
- ✦Sword of the Demon — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Cry Silver Bells — Thomas Burnett Swann (nominee)
- ✦Queens Walk in the Dusk — Thomas Burnett Swann (nominee)
- ✦The Shining — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Merlyn — T. H. White(nominee)
- ✦The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦A Spell for Chameleon — Piers Anthony(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Stardance — Spider Robinson (winner)
- 🏆Stardance — Jeanne Robinson (winner)
- ✦The Mars Ship — Robert Thurston (nominee)
- ✦Joelle — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Aztecs — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦Auk House — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦Heretic in a Balloon — L. Sprague de Camp(nominee)
- ✦A Snark in the Night — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Family Monkey — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦In the Hall of the Martian Kings — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Equinoctial — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Wonderful Secret — Keith Laumer(nominee)
- ✦Growing Boys — Robert Aickman (nominee)
- ✦Cold Cash War — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Gateway — Frederik Pohl(winner)
- ✦Inherit the Stars — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦Moonstar Odyssey — David Gerrold(nominee)
- ✦Cirque — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Martian Inca — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Midnight at the Well of Souls — Jack L. Chalker(nominee)
- ✦A Scanner Darkly — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Dying of the Light — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Mirkheim — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Dragonsinger — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Hunter of Worlds — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦A Heritage of Stars — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Design — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦If the Stars Are Gods — Gordon Eklund (nominee)
- ✦Lucifer's Hammer — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦All My Sins Remembered — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦In the Ocean of Night — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦If the Stars Are Gods — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Time Storm — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Forbidden Tower — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦The Ophiuchi Hotline — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Michaelmas — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Lucifer's Hammer — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦The Dosadi Experiment — Frank Herbert (nominee)
- ✦A Little Knowledge — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆Jeffty Is Five — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦The Big Fans — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Dog Day Evening — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Bitterblooms — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Stone City — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Screwfly Solution — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦The Kugelmass Episode — Woody Allen (nominee)
- ✦Eyes of Amber — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Camera Obscura — Thomas F. Monteleone(nominee)
- ✦The Bagful of Dreams — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦A Rite of Spring — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Detweiler Boy — Tom Reamy (nominee)
- ✦Prismatica — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs — Carter Scholz (nominee)
- ✦Air Raid — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Particle Theory — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Pinocchio — Stanley Schmidt (nominee)
- ✦A Rain of Pebbles — Stephen Leigh (nominee)
- ✦The House of Compassionate Sharers — Michael Bishop (nominee)
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