Locus Awards 1979
Winners and nominees of the 1979 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre (winner)
- ✦Stardance II — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Kalki — Gore Vidal(nominee)
- ✦The Eye of the Heron — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Avatar — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦The White Dragon — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦The Faded Sun: Kesrith — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Faded Sun: Shon'jir — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Up the Walls of the World — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦The Outcasts of Heaven Belt — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Hotel Transylvania — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦The Courts of Chaos — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Gloriana — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Blind Voices — Tom Reamy (nominee)
- ✦The Masters of Solitude — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦The Stars in Shroud — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Stand — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Colony — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Saint Camber — Katherine Kurtz(nominee)
- ✦A Different Light — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦The Far Call — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦Stormqueen! — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Stardance II — Jeanne Robinson (nominee)
- ✦The Masters of Solitude — Marvin Kaye(nominee)
- ✦Journey — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Strangers — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Sight of Proteus — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 — Terry Carr(winner)
- 🏆 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 (winner)
- ✦The Year's Finest Fantasy — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Universe 8 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Orbit 20 (nominee)
- ✦ Anticipations (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Finest Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Analog (nominee)
- ✦ Stellar #4: Science-Fiction Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Chrysalis, Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Millennial Women (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 8 (nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions: Science Fiction: Number 8 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Alpha 9 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Study War No More — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Shadows — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Analog — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Winners Twelve — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦ Alpha 9 (nominee)
- ✦The 1978 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Orbit 20 — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦ Immortals (nominee)
- ✦Immortals — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Stellar #4: Science-Fiction Stories — Judy-Lynn del Rey (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Winners Twelve (nominee)
- ✦Anticipations — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Immortals — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ Swords Against Darkness III (nominee)
- ✦ The 1978 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦Millennial Women — Virginia Kidd (nominee)
- ✦The 1978 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
Best Artist
- 🏆 Boris Vallejo (winner)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Persistence of Vision — John Varley (winner)
- ✦Still I Persist in Wondering — Edgar Pangborn (nominee)
- ✦The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦The Earth Book of Stormgate — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Fireship — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Strange Wine — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The Best of L. Sprague de Camp — L. Sprague de Camp(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Eric Frank Russell — Eric Frank Russell (nominee)
- ✦Infinite Dreams — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Night Shift — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Blood and Burning — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Night Winds — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Born to Exile — Phyllis Eisenstein(nominee)
- ✦The Redward Edward Papers — Avram Davidson (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Barbie Murders — John Varley (winner)
- ✦Devil You Don't Know — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦Mikal's Songbird — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Hunter's Moon — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Shipwright — Donald Kingsbury (nominee)
- ✦Swanilda's Song — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Black Glass — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦In Alien Flesh — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Starswarmer — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦The Gunslinger — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Had No Idea — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦A Good Night's Sleep — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Within the Walls of Tyre — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Persistence of Vision — John Varley (winner)
- ✦A Chinese Perspective — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Fireship — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Insects in Amber — Tom Reamy (nominee)
- ✦Seven American Nights — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Doctor of Death Island — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Renewal — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The Watched — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Treasure of Odirex — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Old Folks at Home — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Count the Clock That Tells the Time — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Virra — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Very Slow Time Machine — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Drink Me, Francesca — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦SQ — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦A Thousand Deaths — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Cassandra — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦A Hiss of Dragon — Marc Laidlaw (nominee)
- ✦View from a Height — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦A Hiss of Dragon — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Gotcha! — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Stone — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦A Quiet Revolution for Death — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Whores — Christopher Priest(nominee)
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