Locus Awards 1989
Winners and nominees of the 1989 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆 Full Spectrum (winner)
- 🏆Full Spectrum — Lou Aronica (winner)
- 🏆Full Spectrum — Shawna McCarthy (winner)
- ✦Interzone: The 3rd Anthology — Simon Ounsley (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦ Terry's Universe (nominee)
- ✦ Other Edens II (nominee)
- ✦The Man-Kzin Wars — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦Dark Visions — Douglas E. Winter (nominee)
- ✦Prime Evil — Douglas E. Winter (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Silver Scream (nominee)
- ✦ Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (nominee)
- ✦ Night Visions 6 (nominee)
- ✦ Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Man-Kzin Wars (nominee)
- ✦ Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors (nominee)
- ✦ Haunting Women (nominee)
- ✦ Synergy: New Science Fiction #2 (nominee)
- ✦ Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1988 (nominee)
- ✦ Sword and Sorceress V (nominee)
- ✦ Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (nominee)
- ✦ Bardic Voices One (nominee)
- ✦ Tropical Chills (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Kevin Andrew Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Tropical Chills — Tim Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Haunting Women — Alan Ryan (nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (nominee)
- ✦ Unknown (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Dark Visions — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 3rd Anthology — David Pringle (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦The Man-Kzin Wars — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Dark Visions — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 22 (nominee)
- ✦Synergy: New Science Fiction #2 — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 22 — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 3rd Anthology — John Clute (nominee)
- ✦The Man-Kzin Wars — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Melinda M. Snodgrass (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Michael Cassutt (nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Dark Visions — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1988 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Sword and Sorceress V — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦The 1988 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens II — Christopher Evans (nominee)
- ✦Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Silver Scream — David J. Schow (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Carrie Vaughn(nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — John Joseph Miller (nominee)
- ✦Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Unknown — Stanley Schmidt (nominee)
- ✦ Prime Evil (nominee)
- ✦Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors — Robert Weinberg (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Stephen Leigh (nominee)
- ✦ The 1988 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦Aces Abroad — Victor Milán (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens II — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦The 1988 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors — Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Angry Candy — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Minds, Machines and Evolution — James P. Hogan(nominee)
- ✦Dance Band on the Titanic — Jack L. Chalker(nominee)
- ✦Memories of the Space Age — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦John the Balladeer — Manly Wade Wellman(nominee)
- ✦Busy About the Tree of Life and Other Stories — Pamela Zoline (nominee)
- ✦Crown of Stars — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦The Book of the Damned — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Hidden Side of the Moon — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories — Charles Beaumont (nominee)
- ✦Cabal — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Threats ... and Other Promises — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦The Day the Martians Came — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Knight and Knave of Swords — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦Final Reckonings — Robert Bloch(nominee)
- ✦The Best of John Brunner — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦The Toynbee Convector — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Time Bomb and Zahndry Others — Timothy Zahn(nominee)
- ✦Empire Dreams — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Other Americas — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦The Blood Kiss — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦A Rendezvous in Averoigne — Clark Ashton Smith(nominee)
- ✦The Wine-Dark Sea — Robert Aickman (nominee)
- ✦Blood and Water and Other Tales — Patrick McGrath (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Red Prophet — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦Greenmantle — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Paladin — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Reindeer People — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Sister Light, Sister Dark — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦The White Serpent — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Changeling Sea(nominee)
- ✦Wyvern — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦Who's Afraid of Beowulf? — Tom Holt(nominee)
- ✦King of the Murgos — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦There Are Doors — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Dragonbone Chair — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦The White Raven — Diana L. Paxson(nominee)
- ✦Wyrd Sisters — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Healer's War — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough(nominee)
- ✦Death in the Spirit House — Craig Strete (nominee)
- ✦Druid's Blood — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦The Nightingale — Kara Dalkey(nominee)
- ✦Walkabout Woman — Michaela Roessner (nominee)
- ✦Sleeping in Flame — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Silk Roads and Shadows — Susan Shwartz (nominee)
- ✦The Story of the Stone — Barry Hughart (nominee)
- ✦Lavondyss — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Unicorn Mountain — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦The Last Coin — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Desolation Road — Ian McDonald(winner)
- ✦The Fairy of Ku-She — M. Lucie Chin (nominee)
- ✦Neverness — David Zindell (nominee)
- ✦The Blind Knight — Gail van Asten (nominee)
- ✦Four Hundred Billion Stars — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Metrophage — Richard Kadrey(nominee)
- ✦Sheepfarmer's Daughter — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦Resurrection, Inc. — Kevin J. Anderson (nominee)
- ✦Inner Eclipse — Richard Paul Russo (nominee)
- ✦The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit — Storm Constantine (nominee)
- ✦Journey to Fusang — William Sanders (nominee)
- ✦Moon of Ice — Brad Linaweaver (nominee)
- ✦The Armageddon Blues — Daniel Keys Moran (nominee)
- ✦Through a Brazen Mirror — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦Dragon Prince — Melanie Rawn(nominee)
- ✦Tower to the Sky(nominee)
- ✦Fool on the Hill — Matt Ruff(nominee)
- ✦Demon of Undoing(nominee)
- ✦The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West — Mary Stanton (nominee)
- ✦Walkabout Woman — Michaela Roessner (nominee)
- ✦Maiden Flight — Eric Vinicoff (nominee)
- ✦Dreams of Flesh and Sand — William Thomas Quick (nominee)
- ✦Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android(nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆Those Who Hunt the Night — Barbara Hambly(winner)
- ✦In Darkness Waiting — John Shirley(nominee)
- ✦The Queen of the Damned — Anne Rice(nominee)
- ✦Stinger — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦The Empire of Fear — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Antibodies — David J. Skal (nominee)
- ✦The Silence of the Lambs — Thomas Harris(nominee)
- ✦Faerie Tale(nominee)
- ✦Koko — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Scream — Craig Spector (nominee)
- ✦The Kill Riff — David J. Schow (nominee)
- ✦The Scream — John Skipp (nominee)
- ✦Bloodlinks — Lee Killough (nominee)
- ✦The Drive-In — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦The Influence — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Function of Dream Sleep — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Love in Vain — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Glacier — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Lunatics — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Once in a Lullaby — Fred Bals (nominee)
- ✦Peaches for Mad Molly — Steven Gould (nominee)
- ✦Dowser — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Gut Feelings — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦Remember'd Kisses — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Madame Two Swords — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Two — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Hannibal's Elephants — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon Line — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Last Article — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Fogarty & Fogarty(nominee)
- ✦Schrödinger's Kitten — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Sanctuary — James White (nominee)
- ✦Tea — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Hob — Judith Moffett (nominee)
- ✦Under the Covenant Stars — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦My Year with the Aliens — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Sunrise — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The Courts of Xanadu — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦The Calling of Paisley Coldpony — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter — Lucius Shepard(winner)
- ✦The Flies of Memory — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Skin Trade — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦The Last of the Winnebagos — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Color of Neanderthal Eyes — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Backward, Turn Backward — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Nomans Land — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages — Dean Koontz(nominee)
- ✦Cabal — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦The Blabber — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦Waiting for the Olympians — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦We Are for the Dark — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Trapping Run — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Journals of the Plague Years — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦La Vie Continue — Norman Spinrad (nominee)
- ✦Wires — F. Paul Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Dancing Among Ghosts — Jim Aikin (nominee)
- ✦Surfacing — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Fatal Statistics — Pauline Ashwell (nominee)
- ✦The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians — Bradley Denton (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Cyteen — C. J. Cherryh(winner)
- ✦Hellspark — Janet Kagan (nominee)
- ✦Deserted Cities of the Heart — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦The Gold Coast — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Orphan of Creation — Roger MacBride Allen (nominee)
- ✦Fire on the Mountain — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Mona Lisa Overdrive — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Brothers in Arms — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Falling Free — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Dragonsdawn — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦An Alien Light — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Adulthood Rites — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦Neon Lotus — Marc Laidlaw (nominee)
- ✦Crazy Time — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Catspaw — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦The Player of Games — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Araminta Station — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦Islands in the Net — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦At Winter's End — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Eternity — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Prelude to Foundation — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Alternities — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Chronosequence — Hilbert Schenck (nominee)
- ✦Children of the Thunder — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦The Gate to Women's Country — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦Venus of Shadows — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The Company Man — Joe Clifford Faust (nominee)
- ✦Starfire — Paul Preuss (nominee)
- ✦Ivory — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Wetware — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Terraplane — Jack Womack (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Eidolons — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦The Circus Horse — Amy Bechtel (nominee)
- ✦Moments of Clarity — Elissa Malcohn (nominee)
- ✦The Thing Itself — Michael Blumlein (nominee)
- ✦Craps — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦In Memoriam — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Philippa's Hands — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Quiet Monk — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Youthful Folly — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦It Was the Heat — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Our Neural Chernobyl — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦The Dead Man's Eyes — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦House of Bones — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Giving Plague — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦At the Double Solstice — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Home Front — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Lily Red — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦A Midwinter's Tale — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Girl Who Loved Animals — Bruce McAllister (nominee)
- ✦Transients — Carter Scholz (nominee)
- ✦Stable Strategies for Middle Management — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
- ✦Slow, Slow Burn — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Dying in Hull — David Alexander Smith (nominee)
- ✦Dark Night in Toyland — Bob Shaw (nominee)
- ✦After the Master — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Death Is Different — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Stairs — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Voices of the Kill — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Last Contact — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦The Fort Moxie Branch — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Wild, Wild Horses — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Kirinyaga — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Ripples in the Dirac Sea — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
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