Locus Awards 1990
Winners and nominees of the 1990 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦Interzone: The 4th Anthology — Simon Ounsley (nominee)
- ✦ Full Spectrum 2 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (nominee)
- ✦ Razored Saddles (nominee)
- ✦ Interzone: The 4th Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ The New Hugo Winners (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of the Nebulas (nominee)
- ✦ Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1989 (nominee)
- ✦ Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (nominee)
- ✦ Stalkers (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume V (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII (nominee)
- ✦Full Spectrum 2 — Lou Aronica (nominee)
- ✦Full Spectrum 2 — Pat LoBrutto (nominee)
- ✦Razored Saddles — Pat LoBrutto (nominee)
- ✦The New Hugo Winners — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Stalkers — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Alternate Heroes — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Alternate Empires — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Foundation's Friends — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 4th Anthology — David Pringle (nominee)
- ✦The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology — Edward L. Ferman (nominee)
- ✦ Alternate Heroes (nominee)
- ✦ Alternate Empires (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 23 (nominee)
- ✦Interzone: The 4th Anthology — John Clute (nominee)
- ✦ Foundation's Friends (nominee)
- ✦Full Spectrum 2 — Shawna McCarthy (nominee)
- ✦The New Hugo Winners — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Alternate Heroes — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Alternate Empires — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Book of the Dead — Craig Spector (nominee)
- ✦ 1989 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦The Best of the Nebulas — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1989 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦1989 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦The World Treasury of Science Fiction — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction — David S. Garnett (nominee)
- ✦The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two — David S. Garnett (nominee)
- ✦Stalkers — Ed Gorman(nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume V — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Full Spectrum 2 — Amy Stout (nominee)
- ✦Book of the Dead — John Skipp (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Razored Saddles — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦ The World Treasury of Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦1989 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 23 — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Patterns — Pat Cadigan(winner)
- ✦Escape from Kathmandu — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Heatseeker — John Shirley(nominee)
- ✦Salvage Rites and Other Stories — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦The Brains of Rats — Michael Blumlein (nominee)
- ✦The Folk of the Fringe — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Borders of Infinity — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Wizards' Worlds — Andre Norton (nominee)
- ✦Blue World and Other Stories — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Children of the Wind — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Women as Demons — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Frost & Fire — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Crystal Express — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Tangents — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Richard Matheson: Collected Stories — Richard Matheson(nominee)
- ✦The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Antique Dust — Robert Westall(nominee)
- ✦Endangered Species — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Old Funny Stuff — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦By Bizarre Hands — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦Novelty — John Crowley (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Prentice Alvin — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦The Coachman Rat — David Henry Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Rusalka — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦White Jenna — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦A Heroine of the World — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦The Cockroaches of Stay More — Donald Harington (nominee)
- ✦Madouc — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Fortress of the Pearl — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Queen's Gambit Declined — Melinda M. Snodgrass (nominee)
- ✦Apocalypse — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦Sorceress of Darshiva — David Eddings(nominee)
- ✦Soldier of Aretê — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Stress of Her Regard — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Snow White and Rose Red — Patricia Wrede(nominee)
- ✦The Satanic Verses(nominee)
- ✦Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light — Tanya Huff(nominee)
- ✦Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Dream Baby — Bruce McAllister (nominee)
- ✦Ars Magica — Judith Tarr(nominee)
- ✦Arthur — Stephen R. Lawhead(nominee)
- ✦Tourists — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Tours of the Black Clock — Steve Erickson(nominee)
- ✦A Child Across the Sky — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦The Stone Giant — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Orbital Decay — Allen Steele (winner)
- ✦On My Way to Paradise — Dave Wolverton (nominee)
- ✦Laying the Music to Rest — Dean Wesley Smith (nominee)
- ✦Mermaid's Song — Alida Van Gores (nominee)
- ✦Julian's House — Judith Hawkes (nominee)
- ✦Contrarywise — Zohra Greenhalgh (nominee)
- ✦Child of Saturn — Teresa Edgerton (nominee)
- ✦Twistor — John G. Cramer (nominee)
- ✦Bad Voltage — Jonathan Littell (nominee)
- ✦Sunglasses After Dark — Nancy A. Collins(nominee)
- ✦The Gate of Ivory — Doris Egan (nominee)
- ✦After Sundown(nominee)
- ✦Silk Road — Jeanne Larsen (nominee)
- ✦Empire's Horizon(nominee)
- ✦Petrogypsies — Rory Harper (nominee)
- ✦The Steerswoman — Rosemary Kirstein (nominee)
- ✦The Tides of God — Ted Reynolds (nominee)
- ✦Strange Invasion — Michael Kandel (nominee)
- ✦The Grotesque — Patrick McGrath (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆Carrion Comfort — Dan Simmons(winner)
- ✦In the Land of the Dead — K. W. Jeter(nominee)
- ✦Owl Light — John Michael Curlovich (nominee)
- ✦The Wolf's Hour — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Midnight — Dean Koontz(nominee)
- ✦The Great and Secret Show — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Mystery — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Geek Love — Katherine Dunn(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Half — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Sunglasses After Dark — Nancy A. Collins(nominee)
- ✦Nightshade — Jack Butler (nominee)
- ✦John Dollar — Marianne Wiggins (nominee)
- ✦Ancient Images — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Dogwalker — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦The Loch Moose Monster — Janet Kagan (nominee)
- ✦Steel Dogs — Ray Aldridge (nominee)
- ✦The Part of Us That Loves — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦War Fever — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦At the Rialto — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Price of Oranges — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Surrender — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Bound for Glory — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦On the Wings of a Butterfly — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦The Third Sex — Alan Brennert (nominee)
- ✦A Sleep and a Forgetting — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦To the Promised Land — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Sisters — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Sleepside Story — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Varicose Worms — Scott Baker (nominee)
- ✦Misbegotten — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Faith — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Fast Cars — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Listen — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Snow Angels — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Just Another Perfect Day — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦Miss Carstairs and the Merman — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned — Edward Bryant (nominee)
- ✦Everything But Honor — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Not Without Honor — Judith Moffett (nominee)
- ✦The Gentle Seduction — Marc Stiegler (nominee)
- ✦The Sin-Eater of the Kaw — Bradley Denton (nominee)
- ✦For I Have Touched the Sky — Mike Resnick(nominee)
Best Novella
- ✦Red Planet Blues — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦The True Nature of Shangri-La — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Nanoware Time — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦Pageant Wagon — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Originist — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Labyrinth — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦The Mountains of Mourning — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦A Touch of Lavender — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Time Out — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Ends of the Earth — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Father of Stones — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Children of the Wind — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦The State of the Art — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦In Another Country — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Marîd Changes His Mind — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Tiny Tango — Judith Moffett (nominee)
- ✦Re: Generations — Mike McQuay (nominee)
- ✦No Spot of Ground — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Great Work of Time — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦The Egg — Steven Popkes (nominee)
- ✦A Dozen Tough Jobs — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Destroyer of Worlds — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Farewell Horizontal — K. W. Jeter(nominee)
- ✦On My Way to Paradise — Dave Wolverton (nominee)
- ✦Orbital Decay — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Black Milk — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Boat of a Million Years — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦The Renegades of Pern — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦Rimrunners — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Imago — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦The City, Not Long After — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦The Third Eagle — R. A. MacAvoy(nominee)
- ✦Hyperion — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Phases of Gravity — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Falcon — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Good News From Outer Space — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Homegoing — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The New Springtime — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Sugar Rain — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Buying Time — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Tides of Light — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Grass — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦Out on Blue Six — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Rama II — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦A Fire in the Sun — George Alec Effinger (nominee)
- ✦Eden — Stanisław Lem(nominee)
- ✦Dawn's Uncertain Light — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦A Talent for War — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Being Alien — Rebecca Ore (nominee)
- ✦Rama II — Gentry Lee (nominee)
- ✦The Child Garden — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Lost Boys — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦Steam Engine Time — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦Remaking History — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Enormous Space — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦Little Worker — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Dilemma — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Malheur Maar — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes — Marc Laidlaw (nominee)
- ✦Soul of the City — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦The Power and the Passion — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Prescience — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Dori Bangs — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Tales from the Venia Woods — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Privacy — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Useful Life — Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦Alphas — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Mozart on Morphine — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Game Night at the Fox & Goose — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Boobs — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦The Edge of the World — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦"Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243) — Chet Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Points of View — Kathe Koja (nominee)
- ✦Skin Deep — Kathe Koja (nominee)
- ✦Computer Friendly — Eileen Gunn (nominee)
- ✦What Befell Mairiam — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦Mosquito — Richard Calder (nominee)
- ✦Kaddish — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Steel Valentine — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦The Happy Turnip — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦Solace — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Abe Lincoln in McDonald's — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Out of Copyright — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Icicle Music — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦Unidentified Objects — James Blaylock(nominee)
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