Locus Awards 1985
Winners and nominees of the 1985 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 Light Years and Dark (winner)
- 🏆Light Years and Dark — Michael Bishop (winner)
- ✦Masques — David B. Silva (nominee)
- ✦Elsewhere, Vol. III — Mark Alan Arnold (nominee)
- ✦Universe 14 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦The Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Night Visions 1 (nominee)
- ✦ Faery! (nominee)
- ✦ Elsewhere, Vol. III (nominee)
- ✦ The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5 (nominee)
- ✦ More Magic (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 7 (nominee)
- ✦ The Clarion Awards (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII (nominee)
- ✦ Far Frontiers (nominee)
- ✦ Habitats (nominee)
- ✦ Alien Stars (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (nominee)
- ✦Masques(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Night Visions 1 — Alan Ryan (nominee)
- ✦The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5 — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Masques — William F. Nolan (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Charles Beaumont (nominee)
- ✦ The Nebula Awards 19 (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 14 (nominee)
- ✦More Magic — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Richard Christian Matheson (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Faery! — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Elsewhere, Vol. III — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Robert Bloch(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 7 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Diana L. Paxson(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Diane Duane (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ardath Mayhar (nominee)
- ✦The 1984 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 10 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Chris Morris (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦The Clarion Awards — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Gahan Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Far Frontiers — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Masques — F. Paul Wilson(nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (nominee)
- ✦Masques — J. N. Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Lynn Abbey(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Janet Morris (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦The Nebula Awards 19 — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Mort Castle (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ray Russell (nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Robin Wayne Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Far Frontiers — Jim Baen (nominee)
- ✦Habitats — Susan Shwartz (nominee)
- ✦ The 1984 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The 1984 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Wings of Omen — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Ghost Light — Fritz Leiber(winner)
- ✦Watchers at the Strait Gate — Russell Kirk (nominee)
- ✦The Lunatics of Terra — John Sladek (nominee)
- ✦Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Seasons in Flight — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Tamastara or The Indian Nights — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Extra(ordinary) People — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦Signs & Portents — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Rhialto the Marvellous — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Pohlstars — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Years of the City — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Opium General and Other Stories — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Is That What People Do? — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦The Fire When It Comes — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦Daughter of Regals and Other Tales — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦Red Dreams — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦Utopia Hunters — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦One Winter in Eden — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Viriconium Nights — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Job: A Comedy of Justice — Robert A. Heinlein(winner)
- ✦Moonheart — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Nights at the Circus — Angela Carter(nominee)
- ✦Fire and Hemlock — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦Cards of Grief — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Damiano's Lute — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦Raphael — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦The Ladies of Mandrigyn — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦The Hero and the Crown — Robin McKinley(nominee)
- ✦Maia — Richard Adams(nominee)
- ✦Gilgamesh the King — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Infinity Concerto — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Enchanters' End Game — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦Castle of Wizardry — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦The Talisman — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Beggar Queen — Lloyd Alexander(nominee)
- ✦The Talisman — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Brisingamen — Diana L. Paxson(nominee)
- ✦The Bishop's Heir — Katherine Kurtz(nominee)
- ✦The Third Book of Swords — Fred Saberhagen(nominee)
- ✦Bearing an Hourglass — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦The Businessman: A Tale of Terror — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦The Ceremonies — T. E. D. Klein(nominee)
- ✦Mythago Wood — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Vampire Junction — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦Who Made Stevie Crye? — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Half a Sky — R. A. Lafferty(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Wild Shore — Kim Stanley Robinson(winner)
- ✦The Riddle of the Wren — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Frontera — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Elleander Morning — Jerry Yulsman (nominee)
- ✦Procurator — Kirk Mitchell (nominee)
- ✦Neuromancer — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Game Beyond — Melissa Scott(nominee)
- ✦Green Eyes — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Divine Endurance — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Palimpsests — Carter Scholz (nominee)
- ✦Emergence — David R. Palmer (nominee)
- ✦The Alchemists — Geary Gravel (nominee)
- ✦Winter's Daughter: The Saying of Signe Ragnhilds-Datter(nominee)
- ✦Palimpsests(nominee)
- ✦Valentina: Soul in Sapphire — Joseph H. Delaney (nominee)
- ✦Demon-4 — David Mace (nominee)
- ✦Valentina: Soul in Sapphire — Marc Stiegler (nominee)
- ✦The Ceremonies — T. E. D. Klein(nominee)
- ✦Them Bones — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Bloodchild — Octavia E. Butler(winner)
- ✦Twilight Time — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦The Lucky Strike — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Demon Lover — M. Sargent Mackay (nominee)
- ✦We Remember Babylon — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦A Message to the King of Brobdingnag — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Blued Moon — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Black Coral — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Three Days — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Foreign Skins — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Draco, Draco — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Another One Hits the Road — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Freedom Beach — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Kindly Isle — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Freedom Beach — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Silicon Muse — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦Summer Solstice — Charles L. Harness (nominee)
- ✦Trojan Horse — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Bad Medicine — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦Five Mercies — Michael Conner (nominee)
- ✦Promises to Keep — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Slowly, Slowly in the Wind — Rob Chilson (nominee)
- ✦With a Little Help from Her Friends — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Press Enter■ — John Varley (winner)
- ✦In the Sumerian Marshes — Gerald Pearce (nominee)
- ✦The Scapegoat — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Trinity — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦A Traveler's Tale — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Some Are Born Great — J. A. Lawrence (nominee)
- ✦The Blister — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Greening of Bed-Stuy — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Cyclops — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Floodtide — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Marrow Death — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Young Doctor Eszterhazy — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦The Unconquered Country — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Integral Trees — Larry Niven(winner)
- ✦Dr. Adder — K. W. Jeter(nominee)
- ✦A Day for Damnation — David Gerrold(nominee)
- ✦The Wild Shore — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Icehenge — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Neuromancer — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Chanur's Venture — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Clay's Ark — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Green Eyes — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦World's End — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Native Tongue — Suzette Haden Elgin (nominee)
- ✦The Peace War — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦Heechee Rendezvous — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Practice Effect — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Circumpolar! — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Across the Sea of Suns — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Free Live Free — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Steam Bird — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Adversary — Julian May(nominee)
- ✦Final Encyclopedia — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦City of Sorcery — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦West of Eden — Harry Harrison(nominee)
- ✦Demon — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Emergence — David R. Palmer (nominee)
- ✦Star Rebel — F. M. Busby (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Melted — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Glamour — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Them Bones — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Heretics of Dune — Frank Herbert (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Salvador — Lucius Shepard(winner)
- ✦Ridge Running — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Kitemaster — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦The Scent of Silverdill — John Middleton Murry, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦New Rose Hotel — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Gods in Flight — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Strangeness, Charm and Spin — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Bright Burning Tiger — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Bodies — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦A Troll and Two Roses(nominee)
- ✦The Eichmann Variations — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Criticality — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Sunken Gardens — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Affair — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Tourist Trade — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Crystal Spheres — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Heat of Fusion — John M. Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Map — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦A Cabin on the Coast — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Crow — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Out of Time — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦At the Embassy Club — Elizabeth A. Lynn(nominee)
- ✦Fears — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦When the Music's Over ... — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Armageddon Between Sets — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦On Cannon Beach — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Dinner Party — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Morning Child — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Barking Dogs — Terence M. Green (nominee)
- ✦Helpless, Helpless — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
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