Locus Awards 1987
Winners and nominees of the 1987 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (winner)
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦Wild Cards — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Uncollected Stars — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Universe 16 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ Cutting Edge (nominee)
- ✦ The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV (nominee)
- ✦ The Hugo Winners, Volume 5 (nominee)
- ✦ Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 9 (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume II (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV (nominee)
- ✦ Under the Wheel (nominee)
- ✦ Afterlives (nominee)
- ✦Afterlives — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Uncollected Stars — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦ Tales from the Spaceport Bar (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 21 (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 16 (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 21 — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Mirrorshades — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Melinda M. Snodgrass (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Michael Cassutt (nominee)
- ✦The Hugo Winners, Volume 5 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 9 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Spaceport Bar — Darrell Schweitzer (nominee)
- ✦Afterlives — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The 1986 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — David D. Levine (nominee)
- ✦Cutting Edge — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume II — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Uncollected Stars — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 (nominee)
- ✦Heroes in Hell — Janet Morris (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — John Joseph Miller (nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Spaceport Bar — George H. Scithers (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Uncollected Stars — Charles G. Waugh (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Stephen Leigh (nominee)
- ✦ Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (nominee)
- ✦ The 1986 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦ Uncollected Stars (nominee)
- ✦Wild Cards — Victor Milán (nominee)
- ✦The 1986 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Blue Champagne — John Varley (winner)
- ✦The Planet on the Table — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Kaeti & Company — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Callahan's Secret — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Tuf Voyaging — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Burning Chrome — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Visible Light — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Starry Rift — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Tales of the Quintana Roo — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Merlin's Booke — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Beyond the Safe Zone — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The River of Time — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Robot Dreams — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦In Alien Flesh — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Cascade Point and Other Stories — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦Artificial Things — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Retief in the Ruins — Keith Laumer(nominee)
- ✦Howard Who? — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Close Encounters with the Deity — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Soldier of the Mist — Gene Wolfe(winner)
- ✦Yarrow — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Talking Man — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦A Voice for Princess — John Morressy (nominee)
- ✦Roma Mater — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Wizard of the Pigeons — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Godbody — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦The Falling Woman — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Twisting the Rope — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦The Folk of the Air — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Dragonsbane — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦Blood of Amber — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon in the Sword — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Serpent Mage — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Magic Kingdom for Sale — SOLD! — Terry Brooks(nominee)
- ✦A Darkness at Sethanon(nominee)
- ✦It — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Roma Mater — Karen Anderson (nominee)
- ✦The Quest for Saint Camber — Katherine Kurtz(nominee)
- ✦Jinian Star-Eye — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦The Mirror of Her Dreams — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦The Hounds of God — Judith Tarr(nominee)
- ✦New York by Knight — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦Wielding a Red Sword — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦The Hungry Moon — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦The Unconquered Country: A Life History — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
- ✦The Darkest Road — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
- ✦Homunculus — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Hercules Text — Jack McDevitt (winner)
- ✦Shards of Honor — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦A Hidden Place — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Star Country — Michael Cassutt (nominee)
- ✦Daggerspell — Katharine Kerr(nominee)
- ✦The Burning Stone — Deborah Turner Harris (nominee)
- ✦Fire Sanctuary(nominee)
- ✦Sentience — Terry A. Adams (nominee)
- ✦No Safe Place(nominee)
- ✦The Curse of Sagamore — Kara Dalkey(nominee)
- ✦The Cross-Time Engineer — Leo Frankowski (nominee)
- ✦The Game of Fox and Lion(nominee)
- ✦The Hounds of the Morrigan — Pat O'Shea(nominee)
- ✦Warchild — Richard Bowes(nominee)
- ✦The Doomsday Effect — Thomas Thurston Thomas (nominee)
- ✦Windmaster's Bane — Tom Deitz (nominee)
- ✦Wrack & Roll — Bradley Denton (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Thor Meets Captain America — David Brin (winner)
- ✦Grave Angels — Richard Kearns (nominee)
- ✦Windows — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Cold Light — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Glass Flower — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Winter Market — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Hatrack River — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Salvage — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Chance — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Aymara — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Fire Zone Emerald — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Arcevoalo — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Girl Who Fell into the Sky — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Into Gold — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The News from D Street — Andrew Weiner (nominee)
- ✦Permafrost — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦The Pure Product — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Barbarian Princess — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦The Beautiful and the Sublime — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Against Babylon — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Of Space-Time and the River — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Prisoner of Chillon — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Gate of Ghosts — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Surviving — Judith Moffett (nominee)
- ✦Fill It with Regular — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦Video Star — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Metaphysical Gun — Wayne Wightman (nominee)
- ✦Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦Voices — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆R&R — Lucius Shepard(winner)
- ✦Escape from Kathmandu — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Spice Pogrom — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Collision — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Good Night, Sweethearts — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Eifelheim — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Gilgamesh in the Outback — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦As Big As the Ritz — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Newton Sleep — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Born from the Beast — Vance Aandahl (nominee)
- ✦Though the Heavens Fall — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Dydeetown Girl — F. Paul Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Voice in the Dark — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Hotel Mind Slaves — Ronald Anthony Cross (nominee)
- ✦The Head of Shemesh the Eshurian — Avram Davidson (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦Lear's Daughters — Marjorie B. Kellogg (nominee)
- ✦The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood(nominee)
- ✦Count Zero — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Warrior's Apprentice — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Nerilka's Story & The Coelura — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Chanur's Homecoming — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Lear's Daughters — William B. Rossow (nominee)
- ✦The Moon Goddess and the Son — Donald Kingsbury (nominee)
- ✦Marooned in Realtime — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦The Coming of the Quantum Cats — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Star of Gypsies — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Heart of the Comet — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Foundation and Earth — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Enigma — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Heart of the Comet — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Forever Man — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦Venus of Dreams — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The Songs of Distant Earth — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Rebels' Seed — F. M. Busby (nominee)
- ✦When Gravity Fails — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦The Ragged Astronauts — Bob Shaw (nominee)
- ✦Hardwired — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦The Hercules Text — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦This Is the Way the World Ends — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦The Architect of Sleep — Steve Boyett (nominee)
- ✦Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Nimrod Hunt — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Robot Dreams — Isaac Asimov(winner)
- ✦Snake-Eyes — Tom Maddox (nominee)
- ✦Jeff Beck — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Down and Out in the Year 2000 — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Our Town — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Skintwister — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Phone Repairs — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦State of the Art — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Voyage South from Thousand Willows — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Pretty Boy Crossover — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming — Suzette Haden Elgin (nominee)
- ✦The Idea Trap — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Blindsight — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Tangents — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Boy Who Plaited Manes — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦Sea Change — Scott Baker (nominee)
- ✦Rat — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Face Value — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦And So to Bed — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Strangers in Paradise — Damon Knight (nominee)
- ✦The Lions Are Asleep This Night — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Fair Game — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Thorn — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Alien Graffiti (A Personal History of Vagrant Intrusions) — Michael Bishop (nominee)
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