Locus Awards 1997
Winners and nominees of the 1997 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦ Starlight 1 (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (nominee)
- ✦ Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Off Limits — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦American Gothic Tales — Joyce Carol Oates(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 30 (nominee)
- ✦Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches — Kevin J. Anderson (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 30 — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦ American Gothic Tales (nominee)
- ✦Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology — Milton T. Wolf (nominee)
- ✦Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology — Mark L. Van Name (nominee)
- ✦ Off Limits (nominee)
- ✦Starlight 1 — Patrick Nielsen Hayden (nominee)
- ✦ War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆None So Blind — Joe Haldeman(winner)
- ✦The Nightmare Factory — Thomas Ligotti(nominee)
- ✦Unlocking the Air and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Invisible Country — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Ribofunk — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦All One Universe — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Dreamweaver's Dilemma — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Minor Arcana — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦Microcosmic God — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Killdozer! — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Over the River and Through the Woods — Clifford D. Simak(nominee)
- ✦Schismatrix Plus — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities — Mary Rosenblum (nominee)
- ✦Before…12:01…and After — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦Quicker Than the Eye — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye — Jonathan Lethem (nominee)
- ✦Standard Candles — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Bible Stories for Adults — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦The Panic Hand — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦At the City Limits of Fate — Michael Bishop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆A Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin(winner)
- ✦The Golden Key — Jennifer Roberson(nominee)
- ✦A Crown of Swords — Robert Jordan(nominee)
- ✦Northern Lights — Philip Pullman(nominee)
- ✦Royal Assassin — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦Winter Rose(nominee)
- ✦Nadya — Pat Murphy (nominee)
- ✦The Golden Key — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦The Dragon and the Unicorn — A. A. Attanasio(nominee)
- ✦Mother of Winter — Barbara Hambly(nominee)
- ✦Firebird — Mercedes Lackey(nominee)
- ✦Fair Peril — Nancy Springer(nominee)
- ✦Sea Without a Shore — Sean Russell(nominee)
- ✦The Wood Wife — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Blood of the Fold — Terry Goodkind(nominee)
- ✦Clouds End — Sean Stewart(nominee)
- ✦Feet of Clay — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦The Golden Key — Melanie Rawn(nominee)
- ✦One for the Morning Glory — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦Walking the Labyrinth — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
- ✦The Prestige — Christopher Priest(nominee)
- ✦Blameless in Abaddon — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦Ancient Echoes — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Lunatics — Bradley Denton (nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Reclamation — Sarah Zettel (winner)
- 🏆Whiteout — Sage Walker (winner)
- ✦Looking for the Mahdi — N. Lee Wood (nominee)
- ✦Shade and Shadow — Francine G. Woodbury (nominee)
- ✦Mordred's Curse — Ian McDowell (nominee)
- ✦Commencement — Roby James (nominee)
- ✦The Waterborn — Gregory Keyes (nominee)
- ✦Luck in the Shadows — Lynn Flewelling (nominee)
- ✦The Sparrow — Mary Doria Russell (nominee)
- ✦Mainline — Deborah Christian (nominee)
- ✦Mage Heart — Jane Routley (nominee)
- ✦Wind from a Foreign Sky — Katya Reimann (nominee)
- ✦First Dawn — Mike Shepherd (nominee)
- ✦The Fortunate Fall(nominee)
- ✦Celestial Matters — Richard Garfinkle(nominee)
Best Horror Novel
- 🏆Desperation — Stephen King(winner)
- ✦Stainless(nominee)
- ✦Servant of the Bones — Anne Rice(nominee)
- ✦The 37th Mandala — Marc Laidlaw (nominee)
- ✦The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Sacrament — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦The Green Mile — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Pillow Friend — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦Requiem — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦The Fetch — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Mountain Ways — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦After a Lean Winter — Dave Wolverton (nominee)
- ✦Kronos — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦The Edge of the Universe — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦In the Upper Room — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Nonstop to Portales — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦The Flowers of Aulit Prison — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Bicycle Repairman — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Diana of the Hundred Breasts — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Longer Voyage — Michael Cassutt (nominee)
- ✦The Man in the Pepper Mill — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Try and Kill It — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The First Law of Thermodynamics — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Amends — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦Radio Waves — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Three Labors of Bubba — Bud Webster (nominee)
- ✦The Dog's Story — Eleanor Arnason (nominee)
- ✦Martian Valkyrie — G. David Nordley (nominee)
- ✦Out of the Mouths — Sheila Finch (nominee)
- ✦A Dry, Quiet War — Tony Daniel (nominee)
- ✦Age of Aquarius — William Barton (nominee)
- ✦The Land of Nod — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦The Peacock Throne — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Bellwether — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦Kilroy Was Here — Jack Cady (nominee)
- ✦Blood of the Dragon — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Chrysalis — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Human History — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Unicorn Sonata — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Cost to Be Wise — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦The Littlest Jackal — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Saddle Point Dreamtime — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Saddle Point Sequence — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Tree That Grew from the Sky — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Gas Fish — Mary Rosenblum (nominee)
- ✦Immersion — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Primrose and Thorn — Bud Sparhawk (nominee)
- ✦Fugue on a Sunken Continent — G. David Nordley (nominee)
- ✦Abandon in Place — Jerry Oltion (nominee)
- ✦Verglas — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Blue Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson(winner)
- ✦The Tranquillity Alternative — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Pirates of the Universe — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Fairyland — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Idoru — William Gibson(nominee)
- ✦Night Sky Mine — Melissa Scott(nominee)
- ✦Children of the Mind — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Cetaganda — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Inheritor — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Oaths and Miracles — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Beggars Ride — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Remnant Population — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦Dreamfall — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Endymion — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Excession — Iain Banks(nominee)
- ✦Night Lamp — Jack Vance(nominee)
- ✦The Other End of Time — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Holy Fire — Bruce Sterling(nominee)
- ✦Voyage — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Infinity's Shore — David Brin (nominee)
- ✦The Ringworld Throne — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Distress — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Exodus from the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦City of Golden Shadow — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦Gibbon's Decline and Fall — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦River of Dust — Alexander Jablokov (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Gone — John Crowley (winner)
- ✦The Spacetime Pit — Eric Brown (nominee)
- ✦Decency — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦First Tuesday — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Soul Selects Her Own Society — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Forget Luck — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Invasion — Joanna Russ(nominee)
- ✦Strings — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦The Spacetime Pit — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Columbiad — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Death Do Us Part — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦A Silurian Tale — Steven Utley (nominee)
- ✦The Last Homosexual — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Counting Cats in Zanzibar — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Breakaway, Backdown — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦Appointment in Sinai — Ben Bova(nominee)
- ✦Under Pressure — Sarah Zettel (nominee)
- ✦The Dead — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦On Sequoia Time — Daniel Keys Moran (nominee)
- ✦Un-Birthday Boy — James White (nominee)
- ✦Community — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
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