Locus Awards 1984
Winners and nominees of the 1984 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 — Terry Carr(winner)
- 🏆 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (winner)
- ✦Universe 13 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 6 (nominee)
- ✦ Changes (nominee)
- ✦ The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers IV (nominee)
- ✦ The Face of Chaos (nominee)
- ✦ Magic for Sale (nominee)
- ✦Heroic Visions — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (nominee)
- ✦Changes — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Fantasy Hall of Fame — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (nominee)
- ✦ The Fantasy Hall of Fame (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 13 (nominee)
- ✦The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Fantasy Hall of Fame — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Nebula Awards 18 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦New Worlds: An Anthology — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Award Stories Seventeen — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 6 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦The 1983 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Whispers IV — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦ Heroic Visions (nominee)
- ✦The Face of Chaos — Lynn Abbey(nominee)
- ✦ The 1983 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Nebula Awards 18 (nominee)
- ✦Magic for Sale — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦The 1983 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Changes — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Face of Chaos — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Unicorn Variations — Roger Zelazny(winner)
- ✦The Worlds of H. Beam Piper — H. Beam Piper(nominee)
- ✦Time Patrol — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Hoka! — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Zanzibar Cat — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦The Saint-Germain Chronicles — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Midas World — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Wind from a Burning Woman — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Winds of Change and Other Stories — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Hoka! — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Sentinel — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Sector General — James White (nominee)
- ✦The 57th Franz Kafka — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Fire from the Wine Dark Sea — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦Ringing Changes — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
- ✦Golden Gate and Other Stories — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆The Mists of Avalon — Marion Zimmer Bradley(winner)
- ✦The Armageddon Rag — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Hart's Hope — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Dreamstone — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Tree of Swords and Jewels — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦'Ware Hawk — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦Sung in Shadow — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Anackire — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Sword is Forged — Evangeline Walton (nominee)
- ✦Damiano — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦Tea with the Black Dragon — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦Lyonesse — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Cugel's Saga — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Waiting — John M. Ford(nominee)
- ✦Magician's Gambit — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦The Anubis Gates — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Floating Dragon — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Christine — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Pet Sematary — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Neveryóna — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦White Gold Wielder — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦The Silent Gondoliers — William Goldman(nominee)
- ✦Dragon on a Pedestal — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦On a Pale Horse — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦The Sword of Winter — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦The Neverending Story — Michael Ende(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Tea with the Black Dragon — R. A. MacAvoy(winner)
- ✦A Rumor of Angels — Marjorie B. Kellogg (nominee)
- ✦Starrigger — John DeChancie (nominee)
- ✦Harpy's Flight — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Ratha's Creature — Clare Bell (nominee)
- ✦The Blackcollar — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦King's Blood Four — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow of the Ship(nominee)
- ✦Anvil of the Heart — Bruce T. Holmes (nominee)
- ✦The Forest of App(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Monkey Treatment — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦Black Air — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Life on the Tether — Mark Wheeler (nominee)
- ✦In Whose Name Do We Seek the Quark? — Thomas R. Dulski (nominee)
- ✦Slow Birds — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Black Current — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost — Russell Kirk (nominee)
- ✦Belling Martha — Leigh Kennedy (nominee)
- ✦Red Star, Winter Orbit — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Sidon in the Mirror — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Mind of Medea — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Nunc Dimittis — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Remembering Siri — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦A Day in the Life of Justin Argento Morrel — Gregory Frost (nominee)
- ✦Cicada Queen — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Red Star, Winter Orbit — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Multiples — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Blood Music — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Deep Song — Reginald Bretnor (nominee)
- ✦The Final Report on the Lifeline Experiment — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦Street Meat — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦The Hills Behind Hollywood High — Grania Davis (nominee)
- ✦Blind Shemmy — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Into Whose Hands — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦A Simple Case of Suicide — Marc Stiegler (nominee)
- ✦The Hills Behind Hollywood High — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦And the Marlin Spoke — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Monkey's Bride — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Her Habiline Husband — Michael Bishop (winner)
- ✦The Lord of the Skies — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦Homefaring — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Hardfought — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Hurricane Claude — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦Gilpin's Space — Reginald Bretnor (nominee)
- ✦Cascade Point — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦Seeking — David R. Palmer (nominee)
- ✦In the Face of My Enemy — Joseph H. Delaney (nominee)
- ✦Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Aquila Meets Bigfoot — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's Testimony) — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Startide Rising — David Brin (winner)
- ✦Code of the Lifemaker — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦A Matter for Men — David Gerrold(nominee)
- ✦Transformer — M. A. Foster (nominee)
- ✦Tik-Tok — John Sladek (nominee)
- ✦Roderick at Random — John Sladek (nominee)
- ✦Orion Shall Rise — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Forty Thousand in Gehenna — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Helliconia Summer — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Superluminal — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦Welcome, Chaos — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Gods of Riverworld — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Wall Around a Star — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Valentine Pontifex — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Wall Around a Star — Jack Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Worlds Apart — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦There Is No Darkness — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Robots of Dawn — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Against Infinity — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Citadel of the Autarch — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Crucible of Time — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦Golden Witchbreed — Mary Gentle(nominee)
- ✦There Is No Darkness — Jack C. Haldeman II (nominee)
- ✦The Nonborn King — Julian May(nominee)
- ✦The Void Captain's Tale — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Thendara House — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Millennium — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica — John Batchelor (nominee)
- ✦Broken Symmetries — Paul Preuss (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Beyond the Dead Reef — Alice Bradley Sheldon (winner)
- ✦Stone Eggs — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Brothers — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Her Furry Face — Leigh Kennedy (nominee)
- ✦Speech Sounds — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Solitario's Eyes — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Revisions — Gordon Eklund (nominee)
- ✦Servant of the People — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Spook — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Needle in a Timestack — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Amanda and the Alien — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Basileus — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Potential — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦The Geometry of Narrative — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦$CALL LINK4(CATHY) — Cherie Wilkerson (nominee)
- ✦La Ronde — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦The Man Outside — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦The Peacemaker — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Man-Mountain Gentian — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Wong's Lost and Found Emporium — William F. Wu (nominee)
- ✦Golden Gate — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
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