Locus Awards 1986
Winners and nominees of the 1986 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆Medea: Harlan's World — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- 🏆 Medea: Harlan's World (winner)
- ✦The Planets — Byron Preiss(nominee)
- ✦ Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Edmond Hamilton (nominee)
- ✦Universe 15 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Imaginary Lands (nominee)
- ✦ The Planets (nominee)
- ✦ The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Interzone: The 1st Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Hugo Winners, Volume 4 (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 8 (nominee)
- ✦ Berserker Base (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers - 1984 (nominee)
- ✦ The Science Fiction Yearbook (nominee)
- ✦ The Dead of Winter (nominee)
- ✦ Afterwar (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII (nominee)
- ✦ After the Flames (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Katherine MacLean (nominee)
- ✦Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind — Jen Green (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Mark Clifton (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Steven Brust(nominee)
- ✦The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 1st Anthology — David Pringle (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Mack Reynolds (nominee)
- ✦ Bestiary! (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Alfred Bester(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 20 (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 15 (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Imaginary Lands — Robin McKinley(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 20 — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 1st Anthology — John Clute (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Eric Frank Russell (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Peter Phillips (nominee)
- ✦The Hugo Winners, Volume 4 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Walter M. Miller(nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 8 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Cyril M. Kornbluth (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Patricia Wrede(nominee)
- ✦The 1985 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 11 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Berserker Base — Fred Saberhagen(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14(nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Whispers - 1984 — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind — Sarah Lefanu (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 — John D. MacDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Yearbook — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (nominee)
- ✦Bestiary! — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Dead of Winter — Lynn Abbey(nominee)
- ✦Afterwar — Janet Morris (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Kara Dalkey(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Pamela Dean(nominee)
- ✦Bestiary! — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Yearbook — John F. Carr (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 1st Anthology — Colin Greenland (nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Yearbook — Jim Baen (nominee)
- ✦ Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year (nominee)
- ✦ The 1985 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Will Shetterly (nominee)
- ✦Liavek — Barry B. Longyear(nominee)
- ✦The 1985 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦The Dead of Winter — Robert Asprin(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Skeleton Crew — Stephen King(winner)
- ✦Slow Birds and Other Stories — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Ian Watson — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Melancholy Elephants — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Nightflyers — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Fire Watch — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Trinity and Other Stories — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Dragonfield and Other Stories — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Phoenix in the Ashes — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Beastmarks — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Limits — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Dealing in Futures — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Flight from Nevèrÿon — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Anthonology — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦Eye — Frank Herbert (nominee)
- ✦Viriconium Nights — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Trumps of Doom — Roger Zelazny(winner)
- ✦Mulengro: A Romany Tale — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Kells — Sharon Devlin (nominee)
- ✦Things Invisible to See — Nancy Willard(nominee)
- ✦Brokedown Palace — Steven Brust(nominee)
- ✦The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice(nominee)
- ✦Dark of the Moon — P. C. Hodgell (nominee)
- ✦Wizard of the Pigeons — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Kells — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦Dragonsbane — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦The Damnation Game — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦The Green Pearl — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Wishsong of Shannara — Terry Brooks(nominee)
- ✦Wings of Flame — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦The Last Rainbow — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦Lovecraft's Book — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Silverthorn(nominee)
- ✦The Bronze King — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦The King's Justice — Katherine Kurtz(nominee)
- ✦Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦The Song of Mavin Manyshaped — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦With a Tangled Skein — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦In Yana, the Touch of Undying — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦The Dream Years — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦The Summer Tree — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Contact — Carl Sagan (winner)
- ✦Masters of Glass — Coleman Brax (nominee)
- ✦The Long Forgetting — Edward A. Byers (nominee)
- ✦Down Town — Viido Polikarpus (nominee)
- ✦The Torch of Honor — Roger MacBride Allen (nominee)
- ✦Song of Kali — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Emprise — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Tailchaser's Song — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦In the Drift — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Sorcery Within — Dave Smeds (nominee)
- ✦The Isle of Glass — Judith Tarr(nominee)
- ✦Children of the Light(nominee)
- ✦Staroamer's Fate(nominee)
- ✦Saturnalia — Grant Callin (nominee)
- ✦Walk the Moons Road — Jim Aikin (nominee)
- ✦Ibis — Linda Steele (nominee)
- ✦Pandora's Genes — Kathryn Lance (nominee)
- ✦Skirmish — Melisa Michaels (nominee)
- ✦The Secret Country — Pamela Dean(nominee)
- ✦Saraband of Lost Time — Richard Grant (nominee)
- ✦Infinity's Web — Sheila Finch (nominee)
- ✦Down Town — Tappan Wright King (nominee)
- ✦The Princess of Flames(nominee)
- ✦Cats Have No Lord — Will Shetterly (nominee)
- ✦The Warrior Who Carried Life — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦The Summer Tree — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Paladin of the Lost Hour — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Shanidar — David Zindell (nominee)
- ✦Rockabye Baby — S. C. Sykes (nominee)
- ✦Mercurial — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Kitemistress — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Portraits of His Children — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Under Siege — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Dogfight — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Fringe — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦All My Darling Daughters — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The End of Life As We Know It — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦A Spanish Lesson — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Things That Happen — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Storming the Cosmos — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Solstice — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Dogfight — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Vilest Beast — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Road Not Taken — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Vestibular Man — Felix C. Gotschalk (nominee)
- ✦Unferno — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Side Effects — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Slovo Stove — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Storming the Cosmos — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦O Happy Day! — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦A Gift from the GrayLanders — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- ✦Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Plague Star — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Loaves and Fishes — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Scapegoat — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Curse of Kings — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Only Neat Thing to Do — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦How the Wind Spoke at Madaket — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Gorgon Field — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Green Days in Brunei — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Sailing to Byzantium — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦When Winter Ends — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦To the Storming Gulf — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Talion — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦George Washington Slept Here — Charles L. Harness (nominee)
- ✦World War Last — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Flight — Peter Dickinson(nominee)
- ✦Duke Pasquale's Ring — Avram Davidson (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Postman — David Brin (winner)
- ✦The Proteus Operation — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦The Remaking of Sigmund Freud — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦The Cat Who Walks Through Walls — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
- ✦The Memory of Whiteness — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Kiteworld — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Always Coming Home — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Five-Twelfths of Heaven — Melissa Scott(nominee)
- ✦Starquake — Robert L. Forward (nominee)
- ✦Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Kif Strike Back — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Cuckoo's Egg — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Brightness Falls from the Air — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Helliconia Winter — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Dayworld — Philip José Farmer(nominee)
- ✦Schismatrix — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Tom O'Bedlam — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Footfall — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Eon — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Blood Music — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Robots and Empire — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Emprise — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Artifact — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Dinner at Deviant's Palace — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Contact — Carl Sagan (nominee)
- ✦Child of Fortune — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Footfall — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Chapterhouse: Dune — Frank Herbert (nominee)
- ✦The Darkling Wind — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦Between the Strokes of Night — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Ancient of Days — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦The War at Home — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Mozart in Mirrorshades — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Out of All Them Bright Stars — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦"... How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song ..." — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Mengele — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Last Dragon Master — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦Fermi and Frost — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Dinner in Audoghast — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Mozart in Mirrorshades — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Sunrise on Pluto — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Time's Rub — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦The Poplar Street Study — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦No Regrets — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Blind Minotaur — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Transmigration of Philip K. — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The R Strain — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦My Life in the Jungle — Jim Aikin (nominee)
- ✦Tourists — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦The Gods of Mars — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Snow — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Flying Saucer Rock & Roll — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Heirs of the Perisphere — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Great Wall — Wayne Wightman (nominee)
- ✦Hong's Bluff — William F. Wu (nominee)
- ✦The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd. — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Paper Dragons — James Blaylock(nominee)
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