Locus Awards 1980
Winners and nominees of the 1980 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Universe 9 — Terry Carr(winner)
- 🏆 Universe 9 (winner)
- ✦The Year's Finest Fantasy — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Nightmares (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers II (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Finest Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 (nominee)
- ✦ The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ The Edge of Space (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of New Dimensions (nominee)
- ✦ Rooms of Paradise (nominee)
- ✦ From Heinlein to Here (nominee)
- ✦ Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Chrysalis 3 (nominee)
- ✦ New Voices II (nominee)
- ✦Amazons! — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (nominee)
- ✦The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦New Voices II — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Edge of Space — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Best of New Dimensions — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Nightmares — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 2 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦ Amazons! (nominee)
- ✦The 1979 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦ Thieves' World (nominee)
- ✦Whispers II — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction — Charles G. Waugh (nominee)
- ✦Rooms of Paradise — Lee Harding (nominee)
- ✦From Heinlein to Here — James Gunn (nominee)
- ✦Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ The 1979 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 (nominee)
- ✦The 1979 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Thieves' World — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Convergent Series — Larry Niven(winner)
- ✦The Very Slow Time Machine — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Ladies from Hell — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦The Stars Are the Styx — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Fireflood and Other Stories — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦The Best of James Blish — James Blish(nominee)
- ✦Eyes of Amber and Other Stories — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Riverworld and Other Stories — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Ship of Shadows — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Change War — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Stories of Walter M. Miller, Jr. — Walter M. Miller(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Hal Clement — Hal Clement (nominee)
- ✦The Star-Spangled Future — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦An Infinite Summer — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Avram Davidson — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Vectors — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Harpist in the Wind(winner)
- ✦Malafrena — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Merman's Children — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Fires of Azeroth — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Kindred — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Death's Master — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Last Enchantment — Mary Stewart(nominee)
- ✦The Palace — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦The Drawing of the Dark — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦The Dead Zone — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Tales of Nevèrÿon — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Watchtower — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦The Dancers of Arun — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦The Door Into Fire — Diane Duane (nominee)
- ✦Castle Roogna — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦Daughter of the Bright Moon — Lynn Abbey(nominee)
- ✦Sorcerer's Son — Phyllis Eisenstein(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Sandkings — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Prose Bowl — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦Down & Out on Ellfive Prime — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦Out There Where the Big Ships Go — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦The Pathways of Desire — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Ways of Love — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Indifference — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Fireflood — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦The Locusts — Steven Barnes(nominee)
- ✦Galatea Galante, the Perfect Popsy — Alfred Bester(nominee)
- ✦The Relic — Gary Jennings(nominee)
- ✦The Button Molder — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦The Locusts — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Things That Are Gods — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦The Ancient Mind at Work — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦Some Events at the Templar Radiant — Fred Saberhagen(nominee)
- ✦Options — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Camps — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Phoenix(nominee)
- ✦The Angel of Death — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦Prose Bowl — Bill Pronzini(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Enemy Mine — Barry B. Longyear(winner)
- ✦Silver Shoes for a Princess — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦The Napoli Express — Randall Garrett(nominee)
- ✦Far Rainbow — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (nominee)
- ✦Songhouse — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Fireship — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦The Dancer in the Darkness — Thomas F. Monteleone(nominee)
- ✦The Moon Goddess and the Son — Donald Kingsbury (nominee)
- ✦The Story Writer — Richard Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Mars Masked — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Spirals — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Battle of the Abaco Reefs — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦The Tale of Gorgik — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Spirals — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Far Rainbow — Boris Strugatsky (nominee)
- ✦Far Rainbow — Arkady Strugatsky (nominee)
- ✦Palely Loitering — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Ker-Plop — Ted Reynolds (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Titan — John Varley (winner)
- ✦The Two Faces of Tomorrow — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦The Unlimited Dream Company — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦Stardance — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦The Day of the Klesh — M. A. Foster (nominee)
- ✦The Road to Corlay — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦A Planet Called Treason — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Dragondrums — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦The Faded Sun: Kutath — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Juniper Time — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Roadmarks — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Face — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Jem — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Ringworld Engineers — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Mayflies — Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Kinsman — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦A World Between — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Stardance — Jeanne Robinson (nominee)
- ✦SS-GB — Len Deighton(nominee)
- ✦Janissaries — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦On Wings of Song — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Engine Summer — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦The Web Between the Worlds — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Catacomb Years — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Transfigurations — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Way of Cross and Dragon — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦In Trophonius's Cave — James P. Girard (nominee)
- ✦The Rooms of Paradise — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦"You're Welcome," Said the Robot and Turned to Watch the Snowflakes — Alan Ryan (nominee)
- ✦The Exit Door Leads In — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Quietus — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Unaccompanied Sonata — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Daisy, in the Sun — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Red As Blood — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦All the Birds Come Home to Roost — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦Blood Sisters — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Redeemer — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦War Beneath the Tree — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Wave Rider — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦The Crate — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦giANTS — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦The View from Endless Scarp — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Rent Control — Walter Tevis (nominee)
- ✦Can These Bones Live? — Ted Reynolds (nominee)
- ✦Vernalfest Morning — Michael Bishop (nominee)
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