Locus Awards 1991
Winners and nominees of the 1991 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦ Skin of the Soul (nominee)
- ✦ Alien Sex (nominee)
- ✦ Best New Horror (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Borderlands (nominee)
- ✦ Project Solar Sail (nominee)
- ✦ Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1990 (nominee)
- ✦ Zenith 2: The Best in New British Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume VI (nominee)
- ✦ Women of Darkness II (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Alien Sex — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Borderlands — Thomas F. Monteleone(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 24 (nominee)
- ✦ Universe 1 (nominee)
- ✦Universe 1 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Project Solar Sail — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 — Isaac Asimov(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Best New Horror — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Skin of the Soul — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine - 1990 — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Project Solar Sail — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦The 1990 Annual World's Best SF — Arthur W. Saha (nominee)
- ✦Zenith 2: The Best in New British Science Fiction — David S. Garnett (nominee)
- ✦L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume VI — Algis Budrys (nominee)
- ✦ Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (nominee)
- ✦Universe 1 — Karen Haber (nominee)
- ✦Women of Darkness II — Kathryn Ptacek (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction — Charles G. Waugh (nominee)
- ✦Best New Horror — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦ The 1990 Annual World's Best SF (nominee)
- ✦The 1990 Annual World's Best SF — Donald A. Wollheim (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 24 — Michael Bishop (nominee)
- ✦ Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Maps in a Mirror — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦The Atrocity Exhibition — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦War Fever — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦The Shield of Time — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Her Smoke Rose Up Forever — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Lunar Activity — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦The Ends of the Earth — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Points of Departure — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Prayers to Broken Stones — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦The Gateway Trip — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦N-Space — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Houses Without Doors — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Four Past Midnight — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Facets — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Slow Dancing Through Time — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Tehanu — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Drink Down the Moon — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Ghostwood — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Eye of the World — Robert Jordan(nominee)
- ✦Good Omens — Neil Gaiman(nominee)
- ✦The Blood of Roses — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Time and Chance — Alan Brennert (nominee)
- ✦Servant of the Empire(nominee)
- ✦Castleview — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Chase the Morning — Michael Scott Rohan (nominee)
- ✦Rats and Gargoyles — Mary Gentle(nominee)
- ✦Thomas the Rhymer — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Dealing with Dragons — Patricia Wrede(nominee)
- ✦Servant of the Empire — Janny Wurts(nominee)
- ✦Good Omens — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Moving Pictures — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Gossamer Axe(nominee)
- ✦Only Begotten Daughter — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦In Between Dragons — Michael Kandel (nominee)
- ✦Tigana — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆In the Country of the Blind — Michael F. Flynn(winner)
- ✦Golden Fleece — Robert J. Sawyer (nominee)
- ✦An Abyss of Light — Kathleen O'Neal Gear(nominee)
- ✦The Silver Kiss — Annette Curtis Klause(nominee)
- ✦The Interior Life — Dorothy J. Heydt (nominee)
- ✦Winterlong — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦Black Snow Days(nominee)
- ✦Keepers of the Peace — Keith Brooke (nominee)
- ✦Arachne — Lisa Mason (nominee)
- ✦Nightlight — Michael Cadnum (nominee)
- ✦Cortez on Jupiter(nominee)
- ✦In the Net of Dreams — William Mark Simmons (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆The Witching Hour — Anne Rice(winner)
- ✦Dark Matter — Garfield Reeves-Stevens (nominee)
- ✦The Werewolves of London — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦The Bad Place — Dean Koontz(nominee)
- ✦The Stand — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Mary Reilly — Valerie Martin(nominee)
- ✦Tempter — Nancy A. Collins(nominee)
- ✦Fire — Alan Rodgers (nominee)
- ✦Bravoure — Emmanuel Carrère (nominee)
- ✦Moon Dance — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Entropy's Bed at Midnight — Dan Simmons(winner)
- ✦The Last Feast of Harlequin — Thomas Ligotti(nominee)
- ✦Hyena Eyes — Ray Aldridge (nominee)
- ✦Mrs. Byres and the Dragon — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Simulation Six — Steven Gould (nominee)
- ✦Timekeeper — John Morressy (nominee)
- ✦The Shobies' Story — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Chaff — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Inertia — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The All-Consuming — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦And the Angels Sing — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Invaders — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦The Shores of Bohemia — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Hot Sky — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Dr. Pak's Preschool — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Piecework — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦The Caress — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Safe-Deposit Box — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Haunted Boardinghouse — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk — Dafydd ab Hugh (nominee)
- ✦Toward Kilimanjaro — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦U F O — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Death Artist — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
- ✦Tower of Babylon — Ted Chiang (nominee)
- ✦Stephen — Elizabeth Massie (nominee)
- ✦Transit of Betelgeuse(nominee)
- ✦The All-Consuming — Robert Frazier (nominee)
- ✦The Spiral Dance — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦Limekiller at Large — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦A Braver Thing — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆A Short, Sharp Shock — Kim Stanley Robinson(winner)
- ✦Trembling Earth — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Weatherman — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Kalimantan — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Skull City — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦Fool to Believe — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Bones — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦Lion Time in Timbuctoo — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Cairene Purse — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Heads — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Hemingway Hoax — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Mr. Boy — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The First Since Ancient Persia — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦Naught for Hire — John E. Stith (nominee)
- ✦Elegy for Angels and Dogs — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Bully! — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Bwana — Mike Resnick(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Clarke County, Space — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein(nominee)
- ✦Pacific Edge — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦The Ring of Charon — Roger MacBride Allen (nominee)
- ✦Voyage to the Red Planet — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton(nominee)
- ✦The Difference Engine — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦The Vor Game — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Pegasus in Flight — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦The Rowan — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦The Divide — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦In the Country of the Blind — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦The World at the End of Time — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦The Difference Engine — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Earth — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Queen of Angels — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Hemingway Hoax — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦The Quiet Pools — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Polar City Blues — Katharine Kerr(nominee)
- ✦Raising the Stones — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦The Ghost from the Grand Banks — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Redshift Rendezvous — John E. Stith (nominee)
- ✦Agviq: The Whale — Michael Armstrong (nominee)
- ✦The Hollow Earth — Rudy Rucker (nominee)
- ✦Summertide — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
- ✦Heathern — Jack Womack (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Bears Discover Fire — Terry Bisson (winner)
- ✦The First Time — K. W. Jeter(nominee)
- ✦White City — Lewis Shiner (nominee)
- ✦The Cold Cage — Ray Aldridge (nominee)
- ✦Zurich — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Shore Leave Blacks — Nancy Etchemendy (nominee)
- ✦Over Flat Mountain — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦The Utility Man — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Cibola — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦We See Things Differently — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Axiomatic — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Learning to Be Me — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Arousal — Richard Christian Matheson (nominee)
- ✦Lieserl — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦Husbands — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Lizard Lust — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Designated Hitter — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦True Colors — Kathe Koja (nominee)
- ✦VRM-547 — W.R. Thompson (nominee)
- ✦Midnight News — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦Après Moi — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦The Sadness of Detail — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Missolonghi 1824 — John Crowley (nominee)
- ✦Projects — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
- ✦Godspeed — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
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