Locus Awards 1982
Winners and nominees of the 1982 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 Shadows of Sanctuary (winner)
- 🏆Shadows of Sanctuary — Robert Asprin(winner)
- ✦Elsewhere — Mark Alan Arnold (nominee)
- ✦Flashing Swords! 5: Demons and Daggers — Lin Carter (nominee)
- ✦Fantasy Annual III — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦A Treasury of Modern Fantasy — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Universe 11 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Elsewhere (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 4 (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers III (nominee)
- ✦ The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (nominee)
- ✦ Fantasy Annual III (nominee)
- ✦ A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ New Dimensions 12 (nominee)
- ✦ The Magic May Return (nominee)
- ✦ After the Fall (nominee)
- ✦ What If? Volume 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 4 (nominee)
- ✦ More Wandering Stars (nominee)
- ✦ Stellar #7: Science-Fiction Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Destinies, Winter 1981 (nominee)
- ✦ New Voices 4: The John W. Campbell Award Nominees (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX (nominee)
- ✦ Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦A Treasury of Modern Fantasy — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦New Voices 4: The John W. Campbell Award Nominees — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Dragons of Darkness — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Winners Fifteen (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Leigh Brackett(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III — George Wyatt Proctor (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 11 (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions 12 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — A. E. van Vogt(nominee)
- ✦The Magic May Return — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦After the Fall — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦What If? Volume 2 — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Elsewhere — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 4 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦The 1981 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 7 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Cleve Cartmill (nominee)
- ✦ Dragons of Darkness (nominee)
- ✦Whispers III — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 4 — John Silbersack (nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (nominee)
- ✦More Wandering Stars — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 4 — Victoria Schochet (nominee)
- ✦Stellar #7: Science-Fiction Stories — Judy-Lynn del Rey (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦New Dimensions 12 — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 — Lester del Rey (nominee)
- ✦Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Destinies, Winter 1981 — Jim Baen (nominee)
- ✦ The 1981 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Winners Fifteen — Frank Herbert (nominee)
- ✦The 1981 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Sandkings — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Lord Darcy Investigates — Randall Garrett(nominee)
- ✦Paratime — H. Beam Piper(nominee)
- ✦Federation — H. Beam Piper(nominee)
- ✦Time Travelers Strictly Cash — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦The Best of John Sladek — John Sladek (nominee)
- ✦Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Winners — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Sunfall — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Listen, Listen — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Father to the Stars — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Gene Wolfe's Book of Days — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦A Glow of Candles and Other Stories — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Distant Stars — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦Particle Theory — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Far from Home — Walter Tevis (nominee)
- ✦A Life in the Day of ... and Other Short Stories — Frank M. Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Hidden Variables — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Claw of the Conciliator — Gene Wolfe(winner)
- ✦Behind the Wind — Patricia Wrightson (nominee)
- ✦Esbae: A Winter's Tale — Linda Haldeman (nominee)
- ✦Gryphon in Glory — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦Horn Crown — Andre Norton(nominee)
- ✦A Sense of Shadow — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Delusion's Master — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Path of the Eclipse — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Madwand — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Changing Land — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The War Hound and the World's Pain — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦The Sable Moon — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦The Captive(nominee)
- ✦Cujo — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Too Long a Sacrifice — Mildred Downey Broxon (nominee)
- ✦Camber the Heretic — Katherine Kurtz(nominee)
- ✦Kingdom of Summer — Gillian Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦Blue Adept — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦The Keep — F. Paul Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Little, Big — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Peregrine: Secundus — Avram Davidson (nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Starship & Haiku — S. P. Somtow(winner)
- ✦The Former King — Adam Corby (nominee)
- ✦The Tularemia Gambit — Steve Perry (nominee)
- ✦The Breaking of Northwall — Paul Osborne Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Prince of Morning Bells — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Radix — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦At the Eye of the Ocean — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦The Revolution from Rosinante — Alexis A. Gilliland (nominee)
- ✦War Games — Karl Hansen (nominee)
- ✦Under the City of Angels(nominee)
- ✦A Storm Upon Ulster — Kenneth C. Flint (nominee)
- ✦Pilgrimage — Drew Mendelson (nominee)
- ✦Daystar and Shadow — James B. Johnson (nominee)
- ✦Tintagel — Paul Cook (nominee)
- ✦Lanark: A Life in Four Books — Alasdair Gray (nominee)
- ✦Slow Fall to Dawn — Stephen Leigh (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Guardians — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Stuff of Dreams — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Werewind — Michael Reaves(nominee)
- ✦Johnny Mnemonic — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Haunted Tower — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Out of the Everywhere — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Shadows on the Cave Wall — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Unicorn Variation — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦A Thief in Ni-moya — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Waiting for the Earthquake — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Elric at the End of Time — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦The Fire When It Comes — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦These Stones Will Remember — Reginald Bretnor (nominee)
- ✦The Giftie Gie Us — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦H-Tec — Charles L. Harness (nominee)
- ✦The Summer's Dust — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦Walden Three — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Mummer Kiss — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Thermals of August — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Blue Apes — Phyllis Gotlieb (nominee)
- ✦Murder on Lupozny Station — Gerald W. Page (nominee)
- ✦Going Under — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Blind Spot — Jayge Carr (nominee)
- ✦Mythago Wood — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Murder on Lupozny Station — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Vox Olympica — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Quickening — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Blue Champagne — John Varley (winner)
- ✦Which Way to the Ends of Time? — Michael McCollum (nominee)
- ✦The Saturn Game — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Ealdwood — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦With Delicate Mad Hands — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦The Winter Beach — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦True Names — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦The Desert of Stolen Dreams — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Loom of Thessaly — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Swarmer, Skimmer — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Venetian Court — Charles L. Harness (nominee)
- ✦Emergence — David R. Palmer (nominee)
- ✦Amnesia — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Petals of Rose — Marc Stiegler (nominee)
- ✦Polyphemus — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦In the Western Tradition — Phyllis Eisenstein(nominee)
- ✦Through All Your Houses Wandering — Ted Reynolds (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Many-Colored Land — Julian May(winner)
- ✦Giants' Star — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦Systemic Shock — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦Riddley Walker — Russell Hoban(nominee)
- ✦Deathhunter — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Lilith: A Snake in the Grass — Jack L. Chalker(nominee)
- ✦The Divine Invasion — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Valis — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Windhaven — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Downbelow Station — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Wave Without a Shore — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Pride of Chanur — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Dream Park — Steven Barnes(nominee)
- ✦Twelve Fair Kingdoms — Suzette Haden Elgin (nominee)
- ✦Radix — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦Project Pope — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦The Unreasoning Mask — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Dreams — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Cool War — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Dream Park — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Oath of Fealty — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Worlds — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦At the Eye of the Ocean — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦Voyagers — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Windhaven — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦The Sardonyx Net — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦Sharra's Exile — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦King David's Spaceship — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Oath of Fealty — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Dream Dancer — Janet Morris (nominee)
- ✦The Affirmation — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦The Dreamers — James Gunn (nominee)
- ✦In the Hands of Glory — Phyllis Eisenstein(nominee)
- ✦God Emperor of Dune — Frank Herbert (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Pusher — John Varley (winner)
- ✦Mud/Aurora — D. D. Storm (nominee)
- ✦Venice Drowned — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Shroud — Michael McCollum (nominee)
- ✦Serpents' Teeth — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Remembering Melody — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Needle Men — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Gernsback Continuum — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Hinterlands — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Only Death in the City — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Casey's Empire — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Second Comings - Reasonable Rates — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦The Coming of the Doll — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦On the Slab — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The Palace at Midnight — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Regulars — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Exposures — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Woman the Unicorn Loved — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Executive Clemency — Jack C. Haldeman II (nominee)
- ✦Walk the Ice — Mildred Downey Broxon (nominee)
- ✦The Bone Flute — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Altamira — Carter Scholz (nominee)
- ✦Forever — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦The Quiet(nominee)
- ✦The Grown-Up — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Disciples — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Executive Clemency — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile ... — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦The Softest Hammer — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
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