Locus Awards 1981
Winners and nominees of the 1981 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective (winner)
- 🏆The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective — Edward L. Ferman (winner)
- ✦ New Dimensions 11 (nominee)
- ✦ Orbit 21 (nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Universe 10 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (nominee)
- ✦ The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees (nominee)
- ✦ What If? Volume 1 (nominee)
- ✦ Basilisk (nominee)
- ✦ Their Immortal Hearts: Three Visions of Time (nominee)
- ✦ Stellar #5: Science-Fiction Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Interfaces (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of All Possible Worlds (nominee)
- ✦The Best of All Possible Worlds — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Dark Forces — Kirby McCauley (nominee)
- ✦Interfaces — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Dragons of Light — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Winners Fourteen (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 10 (nominee)
- ✦Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Winners Fourteen — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions 11 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦What If? Volume 1 — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Basilisk — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Winners Thirteen — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The 1980 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Their Immortal Hearts: Three Visions of Time — Bruce McAllister (nominee)
- ✦Orbit 21 — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction — Joseph D. Olander (nominee)
- ✦Stellar #5: Science-Fiction Stories — Judy-Lynn del Rey (nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions 11 — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Winners Thirteen (nominee)
- ✦ Dark Forces (nominee)
- ✦Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ The 1980 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 (nominee)
- ✦Interfaces — Virginia Kidd (nominee)
- ✦The 1980 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦ Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Barbie Murders — John Varley (winner)
- ✦The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
- ✦Antinomy — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Out There Where the Big Ships Go — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦The Golden Man — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton — Mark Clifton (nominee)
- ✦Lore of the Witch World — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦The Last Defender of Camelot — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Shatterday — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories — Tom Reamy (nominee)
- ✦The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. — Walter M. Miller(nominee)
- ✦The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Wave Rider — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦The Stories of Ray Bradbury — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Lost Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦Fundamental Disch — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Manifest Destiny — Barry B. Longyear(nominee)
- ✦Unfinished Tales — J. R. R. Tolkien(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Lord Valentine's Castle — Robert Silverberg (winner)
- ✦The Beginning Place — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦After Dark — Manly Wade Wellman(nominee)
- ✦Duncton Wood — William Horwood (nominee)
- ✦Kill the Dead — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Sabella or The Blood Stone — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Ariosto — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Necropolis — Basil Copper (nominee)
- ✦Changeling — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Firelord — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦The Orphan(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Shadowland — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Mist — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Vampire Tapestry — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦The Northern Girl — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦The Wounded Land — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦Thorn — Fred Saberhagen(nominee)
- ✦Split Infinity — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦All Darkness Met — Glen Cook (nominee)
- ✦Master of the Five Magics — Lyndon Hardy (nominee)
- ✦A Storm of Wings — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Dragon's Egg — Robert L. Forward (winner)
- ✦A Lost Tale — Dale Estey (nominee)
- ✦Scavengers — David J. Skal (nominee)
- ✦Sundiver — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Web of Angels — John M. Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Orphan(nominee)
- ✦Hawk of May — Gillian Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦Still Forms on Foxfield — Joan Slonczewski (nominee)
- ✦One on Me(nominee)
- ✦Yearwood — Paul Hazel (nominee)
- ✦The Man in the Darksuit(nominee)
- ✦Beyond Rejection — Justin Leiber (nominee)
- ✦The Gates of Heaven — Paul Preuss (nominee)
- ✦White Light — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Master of the Five Magics — Lyndon Hardy (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Brave Little Toaster — Thomas M. Disch (winner)
- ✦Tutor — J. Ray Dettling (nominee)
- ✦The Lordly Ones — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Have You Heard the One ... ? — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Variation on a Theme from Beethoven — Sharon Webb (nominee)
- ✦The Way Station — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Scorched Supper on New Niger — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦The Cloak and the Staff — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Feast of Saint Janis — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Ginungagap — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Curse of the Mohndoro Nkabele or The Revenge of Stanley G. Weinbaum — Eric Norden (nominee)
- ✦Feesters in the Lake — Bob Leman (nominee)
- ✦Beatnik Bayou — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Strata — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Raising the Green Lion — Janet Morris (nominee)
- ✦The Apotheosis of Myra — Walter Tevis (nominee)
- ✦Billy Big-Eyes — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Ugly Chickens — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Savage Planet — Barry B. Longyear(nominee)
- ✦Earth and Stone — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Saving Face — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Nightflyers — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Le Croix (The Cross) — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦Anasazi — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦On the North Pole of Pluto — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Web of the Magi — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦One-Wing — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Tell Us a Story — Zenna Henderson (nominee)
- ✦Slow Music — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦All the Lies That Are My Life — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The Patchwork Girl — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Buoyant Ascent — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦One-Wing — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Unicorn Tapestry — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦Lost Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦Dangerous Games — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦The Autopsy — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat — Glen Cook (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Snow Queen — Joan D. Vinge (winner)
- ✦Thrice Upon a Time — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦The Number of the Beast — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
- ✦City Come A-Walkin' — John Shirley(nominee)
- ✦The Gardens of Delight — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Molly Zero — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Waves — M. A. Foster (nominee)
- ✦Dragon's Egg — Robert L. Forward (nominee)
- ✦Songmaster — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Serpent's Reach — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Wild Seed — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Golem100 — Alfred Bester(nominee)
- ✦The Magic Labyrinth — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Blue Event Horizon — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦First Channel — Jacqueline Lichtenberg (nominee)
- ✦The Ringworld Engineers — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Timescape — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Firestarter — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Songs from the Stars — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Two to Conquer — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Wizard — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦First Channel — Jean Lorrah (nominee)
- ✦Dangerous Games — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Mockingbird — Walter Tevis (nominee)
- ✦Eyes of Fire — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Grotto of the Dancing Deer — Clifford D. Simak(winner)
- ✦The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080 — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Rautavaara's Case — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Child of Darkness — P. C. Hodgell (nominee)
- ✦St. Amy's Tale — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Our Lady of the Sauropods — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Lindsay and the Red City Blues — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Last Answer — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Antithesis — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦The Detective of Dreams — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦War Beneath the Tree — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Secrets of the Heart — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦The Fear That Men Call Courage — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Bug House — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Prime Time — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather — Craig Strete (nominee)
- ✦Window — Bob Leman (nominee)
- ✦Prairie Sun — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Some of My Best Friends Are Americans(nominee)
- ✦The Confession of Hamo(nominee)
- ✦Spidersong — Susan C. Petrey (nominee)
- ✦Men Like Us — David Drake(nominee)
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