Locus Awards 1988
Winners and nominees of the 1988 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (winner)
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- ✦The Universe — Byron Preiss(nominee)
- ✦ Other Edens (nominee)
- ✦ Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 2nd Anthology — Simon Ounsley (nominee)
- ✦Universe 17 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 — Terry Carr(nominee)
- ✦ The Dark Descent (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV (nominee)
- ✦ Masques II (nominee)
- ✦ In the Field of Fire (nominee)
- ✦ The Universe (nominee)
- ✦ Vampires (nominee)
- ✦ The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Tales of the Witch World (nominee)
- ✦ Synergy: New Science Fiction #1 (nominee)
- ✦ Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 10 (nominee)
- ✦ Sword and Sorceress IV (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume III (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers VI (nominee)
- ✦ Tales from the Forbidden Planet (nominee)
- ✦ New Destinies, Volume II/Fall 1987 (nominee)
- ✦ Free Lancers (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Vampires — Alan Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 2nd Anthology — David Pringle (nominee)
- ✦The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction — Sam J. Lundwall (nominee)
- ✦ The Architecture of Fear (nominee)
- ✦Tales of the Witch World — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦ Universe 17 (nominee)
- ✦Synergy: New Science Fiction #1 — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 2nd Anthology — John Clute (nominee)
- ✦Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 10 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Sword and Sorceress IV — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦The 1987 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 13 — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens — Christopher Evans (nominee)
- ✦The Dark Descent — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume III — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Whispers VI — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
- ✦The Architecture of Fear — Peter D. Pautz (nominee)
- ✦Masques II — J. N. Williamson (nominee)
- ✦In the Field of Fire — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Architecture of Fear — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Forbidden Planet — Roz Kaveney(nominee)
- ✦New Destinies, Volume II/Fall 1987 — Jim Baen (nominee)
- ✦ Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 (nominee)
- ✦ The 1987 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦The 1987 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard(winner)
- ✦Foreword: The Left-Handed Muse — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Evil Water and Other Stories — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick — Philip K. Dick(nominee)
- ✦Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Portraits of His Children — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Cardography — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦A Touch of Sturgeon — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Night's Sorceries — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Essential Ellison — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦True Names ... and Other Dangers — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦Chance & Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦And the Gods Laughed — Fredric Brown (nominee)
- ✦Return to Nevèrÿon — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Pamela Sargent — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦Getting Home — F. M. Busby (nominee)
- ✦Why Not You and I? — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Polyphemus — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦ Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Seventh Son — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦Infernal Devices — K. W. Jeter(nominee)
- ✦Never the Twain — Kirk Mitchell (nominee)
- ✦Lincoln's Dreams — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Swan Song — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦The Falling Woman — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦The Grey Horse — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦The Witches of Wenshar — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦Sign of Chaos — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Weaveworld — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦War for the Oaks — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Strange Toys — Patricia Geary (nominee)
- ✦Daughter of the Empire(nominee)
- ✦Guardians of the West — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦On Stranger Tides — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Darkspell — Katharine Kerr(nominee)
- ✦A Man Rides Through — Stephen R. Donaldson (nominee)
- ✦Daughter of the Empire — Janny Wurts(nominee)
- ✦Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Firebrand — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Being a Green Mother — Piers Anthony(nominee)
- ✦Bones of the Moon — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦The Solitudes — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Land of Dreams — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆War for the Oaks — Emma Bull(winner)
- ✦The American Book of the Dead — Stephen Billias (nominee)
- ✦A Rose-Red City — Dave Duncan(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow of His Wings — Bruce Fergusson (nominee)
- ✦The Leeshore — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Movement of Mountains — Michael Blumlein (nominee)
- ✦Memoirs of an Invisible Man — H. F. Saint (nominee)
- ✦Mindplayers — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Station Gehenna — Andrew Weiner (nominee)
- ✦Arrows of the Queen — Mercedes Lackey(nominee)
- ✦Soldiers of Paradise — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Swordspoint — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Reindeer Moon — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (nominee)
- ✦Liege-Killer — Christopher Hinz (nominee)
- ✦Napoleon Disentimed — Hayford Peirce (nominee)
- ✦Teot's War(nominee)
- ✦Frame of Reference — Jerry Oltion (nominee)
- ✦A Death of Honor — Joe Clifford Faust (nominee)
- ✦Pennterra — Judith Moffett (nominee)
- ✦The Architects of Hyperspace — Thomas R. McDonough (nominee)
- ✦The Net(nominee)
- ✦Soulstring — Midori Snyder (nominee)
- ✦Becoming Alien — Rebecca Ore (nominee)
- ✦In Conquest Born — Celia S. Friedman(nominee)
- ✦After the Zap — Michael Armstrong (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Rachel in Love — Pat Murphy (winner)
- ✦Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Return from Rainbow Bridge — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦A Hole in the Sun — Roger MacBride Allen (nominee)
- ✦The Moon and Michelangelo — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Pear-Shaped Man — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Runaway — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦America — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Winter's Tale — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Yanqui Doodle — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Second Going — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦The Evening and the Morning and the Night — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Extras — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Shades — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦On the Border — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Sun Spider — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Adeste Fideles — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦My Life As a Born-Again Pig — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Flowers of Edo — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Mandikini — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
- ✦Dream Baby — Bruce McAllister (nominee)
- ✦Skylab Done It — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Perpetuity Blues — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Dinosaurs — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Dutchman — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦He-We-Await — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Cage 37 — Wayne Wightman (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Secret Sharer — Robert Silverberg (winner)
- ✦Mother Goddess of the World — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Blind Geometer — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Eye for Eye — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Borders of Infinity — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦The Forest of Time — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Fugue State — John M. Ford(nominee)
- ✦Displaced Person — Ian Stewart(nominee)
- ✦Glass Cloud — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Superwine — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Saving Time — Russell M. Griffin (nominee)
- ✦Love Sickness — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆The Uplift War — David Brin (winner)
- ✦To Sail Beyond the Sunset — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
- ✦Replay — Ken Grimwood(nominee)
- ✦Watchmen — Alan Moore(nominee)
- ✦Dawn — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Life During Wartime — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Legacy of Heorot — Steven Barnes(nominee)
- ✦Fool's Run(nominee)
- ✦Araminta Station — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Annals of the Heechee — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Legacy of Heorot — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Smoke Ring — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦The Forge of God — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Great Sky River — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Urth of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Tommyknockers — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Intervention — Julian May(nominee)
- ✦Watchmen — Dave Gibbons (nominee)
- ✦Way of the Pilgrim — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Awakeners — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦After Long Silence — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦Still River — Hal Clement (nominee)
- ✦Vacuum Flowers — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Little Heroes — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦2061: Odyssey Three — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Liege-Killer — Christopher Hinz (nominee)
- ✦When Gravity Fails — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦The Legacy of Heorot — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
- ✦Code Blue – Emergency — James White (nominee)
- ✦Memories — Mike McQuay (nominee)
- ✦A Mask for the General — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Voice of the Whirlwind — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Dover Beach — Richard Bowker (nominee)
- ✦Rumors of Spring — Richard Grant (nominee)
- ✦In Conquest Born — Celia S. Friedman(nominee)
- ✦Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦What Bleak Land — Robert F. Young (nominee)
- ✦The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar — William S. Burroughs(nominee)
- ✦Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers — Lawrence Watt-Evans (nominee)
- ✦Schwarzschild Radius — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦In Midst of Life — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Glass — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Delta Sly Honey — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Glassblower's Dragon — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Forever Yours, Anna — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Crying in the Rain — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Angel — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦The Alien in the Lake — Andrew Weiner (nominee)
- ✦The Circular Library of Stones — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦The Little Magic Shop — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Pardoner's Tale — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Iron Star — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Daemon — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Heroics — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Faithful Companion at Forty — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦The World Next Door — Brad Ferguson (nominee)
- ✦Lapidary Nights — Marta Randall (nominee)
- ✦Cassandra's Photographs — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Diner — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Highbrow — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦To Hell with the Stars — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Friend's Best Man — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Night of the Cooters — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦For Thus Do I Remember Carthage — Michael Bishop (nominee)
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