Locus Awards 1996
Winners and nominees of the 1996 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦ Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love (nominee)
- ✦ Dark Love (nominee)
- ✦ Full Spectrum 5 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ The Best New Horror: Volume Six (nominee)
- ✦ Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (nominee)
- ✦ Xanadu 3 (nominee)
- ✦ New Legends (nominee)
- ✦ The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (nominee)
- ✦ Far Futures (nominee)
- ✦ Peter Straub's Ghosts (nominee)
- ✦ Tombs (nominee)
- ✦ How to Save the World (nominee)
- ✦Dark Love — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦New Legends — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Xanadu 3 — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 29 (nominee)
- ✦New Legends — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Far Futures — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Peter Straub's Ghosts — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Best New Horror: Volume Six — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦Dark Love — Nancy A. Collins(nominee)
- ✦Women of Wonder: The Classic Years — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 29 — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦ Chicks in Chainmail (nominee)
- ✦Dark Love — Edward E. Kramer(nominee)
- ✦Tombs — Edward E. Kramer(nominee)
- ✦Chicks in Chainmail — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦Full Spectrum 5 — Jennifer Hershey (nominee)
- ✦Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn — Janet Berliner (nominee)
- ✦Tombs — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦How to Save the World — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Four Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦The Ivory and the Horn — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦Blue Shifting — Eric Brown (nominee)
- ✦Ingathering: The Complete People Stories — Zenna Henderson (nominee)
- ✦The Steampunk Trilogy — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦The Secret of This Book — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Bloodchild and Other Stories — Octavia E. Butler(nominee)
- ✦The Ultimate Egoist — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦A Flush of Shadows — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Strange Highways — Dean Koontz(nominee)
- ✦Fabulous Harbours — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Lunching with the Antichrist — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Axiomatic — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Tales of Zothique — Clark Ashton Smith(nominee)
- ✦The Panic Hand — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Georgia on My Mind and Other Places — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Alvin Journeyman — Orson Scott Card(winner)
- ✦A Sorcerer and a Gentleman — Elizabeth Willey (nominee)
- ✦The Silent Strength of Stones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Fortress in the eye of time — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Assassin's Apprentice — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Book of Atrix Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Storm Rising — Mercedes Lackey(nominee)
- ✦Blood: A Southern Fantasy — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦The Tower of Beowulf — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦World Without End — Sean Russell(nominee)
- ✦Stone of Tears — Terry Goodkind(nominee)
- ✦Resurrection Man — Sean Stewart(nominee)
- ✦Harp of Winds — Maggie Furey (nominee)
- ✦Maskerade — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Waking the Moon — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦City of Bones — Martha Wells(nominee)
- ✦Crown of Shadows — Celia S. Friedman(nominee)
- ✦Zod Wallop — William Browning Spencer (nominee)
- ✦The Lions of Al-Rassan — Guy Gavriel Kay(nominee)
Best First Novel
- ✦Humility Garden — Felicity Savage (nominee)
- ✦Planetfall — Scott G. Gier (nominee)
- ✦Door Number Three — Patrick O'Leary (nominee)
- ✦The Shape-Changer's Wife — Sharon Shinn(nominee)
- ✦Primary Inversion — Catherine Asaro(nominee)
- ✦The Bohr Maker — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦The Printer's Devil — A. F. Kidd (nominee)
- ✦Lethe — Tricia Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦The Baker's Boy — J. V. Jones(nominee)
- ✦Legacies — Alison Sinclair (nominee)
- ✦Dead Girls — Richard Calder (nominee)
- ✦Quasar — Jamil Nasir (nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆Expiration Date — Tim Powers(winner)
- ✦Desmodus — Melanie Tem (nominee)
- ✦Night Magic — Tom Tryon(nominee)
- ✦The Off Season — Jack Cady (nominee)
- ✦Memnoch the Devil — Anne Rice(nominee)
- ✦Vivia — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Traveling with the Dead — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦Rose Madder — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Paint It Black — Nancy A. Collins(nominee)
- ✦The Bloody Red Baron — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
- ✦All the Bells on Earth — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆When the Old Gods Die — Mike Resnick(winner)
- ✦The Good Rat — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Ether, OR — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Coming of Age in Karhide — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Waging Good — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Recording Angel — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Evolution — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Ant-Men of Tibet — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Red Blaze Is the Morning — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Wang's Carpets — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Luminous — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦TAP — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Silver Fire — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Judgment Engine — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦For White Hill — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦A Worm in the Well — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Think Like a Dinosaur — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Lunch at the Gotham Café — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Must and Shall — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Starship Day — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Gone to Glory — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦I, Iscariot — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Remake — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦The Death of Captain Future — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦In Forests Afloat Upon the Sea — Daniel Hatch (nominee)
- ✦A Woman's Liberation — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦A Man of the People — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Hottentots — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Harvest the Fire — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Fault Lines — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Human History — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Les Fleurs du Mal — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Inherit the Earth — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Mortimer Gray's History of Death — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Death in the Promised Land — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Looking for Kelly Dahl — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Hot Times in Magma City — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Ziggurat — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The City of God — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy — David Marusek (nominee)
- ✦De Secretis Mulierum — L. Timmel Duchamp (nominee)
- ✦The City of God — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Hypocaust & Bathysphere — Rebecca Ore (nominee)
- ✦Bibi — Susan Shwartz (nominee)
- ✦Les Fleurs du Mal — Susan Shwartz (nominee)
- ✦You *Could* Go Home Again — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Bibi — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Les Fleurs du Mal — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦At the Eschaton — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦An Exaltation of Larks — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Fairyland — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Shadow Man — Melissa Scott(nominee)
- ✦Invader — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦The Killing Star — George Zebrowski (nominee)
- ✦The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson(nominee)
- ✦The Time Ships — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Brightness Reef — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦Legacy — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦The Stone Garden — Mary Rosenblum (nominee)
- ✦Sailing Bright Eternity — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Terminal Experiment — Robert J. Sawyer (nominee)
- ✦Amnesia Moon — Jonathan Lethem (nominee)
- ✦Slow River — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦Chaga — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Worldwar: Tilting the Balance — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Killing Star — Charles R. Pellegrino (nominee)
- ✦Testament(nominee)
- ✦The Golden Nineties — Lisa Mason (nominee)
- ✦Kaleidoscope Century — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦Metropolitan — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Gaia's Toys — Rebecca Ore (nominee)
- ✦The Ganymede Club — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Lincoln Train — Maureen F. McHugh (winner)
- ✦There Are No Dead — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Olders — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Into the Tunnel! — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦The Promise of God — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦The Age of Innocence — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker — Roger Zelazny(nominee)
- ✦Gossamer — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Day the Aliens Came — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦High Abyss — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Beautiful, the Damned — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦Walking Out — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦A Birthday — Esther Friesner(nominee)
- ✦Alice's Asteroid — G. David Nordley (nominee)
- ✦The Lens of Time — James Gunn (nominee)
- ✦Life on the Moon — Tony Daniel (nominee)
- ✦Home — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
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