Locus Awards 1998
Winners and nominees of the 1998 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦Millennium — Douglas E. Winter (nominee)
- ✦ Love in Vein II (nominee)
- ✦ Millennium (nominee)
- ✦ Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ Black Swan, White Raven (nominee)
- ✦ The Best of Interzone (nominee)
- ✦ Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures (nominee)
- ✦ A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (nominee)
- ✦ The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV (nominee)
- ✦ The Science Fiction Century (nominee)
- ✦ New Worlds (nominee)
- ✦ Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love (nominee)
- ✦Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures — Keith Ferrell (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Black Swan, White Raven — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦The Best of Interzone — David Pringle (nominee)
- ✦Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦ Modern Classics of Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards 31 (nominee)
- ✦A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Black Swan, White Raven — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦The Horns of Elfland — Ellen Kushner(nominee)
- ✦Bending the Landscape: Fantasy — Nicola Griffith(nominee)
- ✦Love in Vein II — Poppy Z. Brite(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 31 — Pamela Sargent (nominee)
- ✦The Science Fiction Century — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 2 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦New Worlds — David S. Garnett (nominee)
- ✦The Horns of Elfland — Delia Sherman(nominee)
- ✦The Horns of Elfland — Donald G. Keller (nominee)
- ✦Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Modern Classics of Fantasy — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 2 (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Slippage — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Fractal Paisleys — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Thunder and Roses — Theodore Sturgeon (nominee)
- ✦Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Forest of Time and Other Stories — Michael F. Flynn(nominee)
- ✦ Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Giant Bones — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Virtual Unrealities — Alfred Bester(nominee)
- ✦The Pure Product — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Vacuum Diagrams — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Fabulous Harbours — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Axiomatic — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth — Cyril M. Kornbluth (nominee)
- ✦Eating Memories — Patricia Anthony (nominee)
- ✦A Geography of Unknown Lands — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Back in the USSA — Eugene Byrne(nominee)
- ✦Exorcisms and Ecstasies — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Voyages by Starlight — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦The Arbitrary Placement of Walls — Martha Soukup (nominee)
- ✦Back in the USSA — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦Going Home Again — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆Earthquake Weather — Tim Powers(winner)
- ✦Trader — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Blackgod — Gregory Keyes (nominee)
- ✦Freedom & necessity — Steven Brust(nominee)
- ✦The Subtle Knife — Philip Pullman(nominee)
- ✦The Gift — Patrick O'Leary (nominee)
- ✦Assassin's Quest — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Moon and the Sun — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦King's Dragon — Kate Elliott(nominee)
- ✦Freedom & necessity — Emma Bull(nominee)
- ✦Rose Daughter — Robin McKinley(nominee)
- ✦Running with the Demon — Terry Brooks(nominee)
- ✦The Night Watch — Sean Stewart(nominee)
- ✦The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Jack Faust — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦The Mines of Behemoth — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦The Stars Dispose — Michaela Roessner (nominee)
- ✦City on Fire — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Lord of the Isles — David Drake(nominee)
- ✦My Soul to Keep — Tananarive Due(nominee)
- ✦Dogland — Will Shetterly (nominee)
- ✦Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
- ✦Winter Tides — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆The Great Wheel — Ian R. MacLeod(winner)
- ✦Mars Underground — William Kenneth Hartmann (nominee)
- ✦Waking Beauty — Paul Witcover (nominee)
- ✦The Seventh Heart — Marina Fitch (nominee)
- ✦The Stone Prince — Fiona Patton (nominee)
- ✦A Thousand Words for Stranger — Julie E. Czerneda(nominee)
- ✦Black Wine — Candas Jane Dorsey (nominee)
- ✦Iron Dawn — Matthew Stover (nominee)
- ✦Expendable — James Alan Gardner (nominee)
- ✦Lives of the Monster Dogs — Kirsten Bakis (nominee)
- ✦Lightpaths — Howard V. Hendrix (nominee)
- ✦The Merro Tree — Katie Waitman (nominee)
- ✦The Seraphim Rising(nominee)
- ✦The Troika — Stepan Chapman (nominee)
- ✦The Art of Arrow Cutting — Stephen Dedman (nominee)
- ✦An Exchange of Hostages — Susan R. Matthews (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Newsletter — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦The Dragons of Springplace — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Second Skin — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Residuals — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream — James Alan Gardner (nominee)
- ✦The Pipes of Pan — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Quinn's Way — Dale Bailey (nominee)
- ✦Julie's Unicorn — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Echoes — Alan Brennert (nominee)
- ✦Moon Six — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Beauty in the Night — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦London Bone — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Reasons to Be Cheerful — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Botanist — Mary Rosenblum (nominee)
- ✦Galaxia — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Blood and Judgment — John Brunner (nominee)
- ✦The Undiscovered — William Sanders (nominee)
- ✦After Kerry — Ian McDonald(nominee)
- ✦Escape Route — Peter F. Hamilton(nominee)
- ✦Mother Grasshopper — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Crossing Chao Meng Fu — G. David Nordley (nominee)
- ✦On the Ice Islands — Gregory Feeley (nominee)
- ✦Lethe — Walter Jon Williams (nominee)
- ✦Residuals — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦We Will Drink a Fish Together… — Bill Johnson (nominee)
- ✦El Castillo de la Perseverancia — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆"…Where Angels Fear to Tread" — Allen Steele (winner)
- ✦Briar Rose — Robert Coover(nominee)
- ✦In the Furnace of the Night — James Sarafin (nominee)
- ✦The Veil of Snows — Mark Helprin(nominee)
- ✦Marrow — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Black Blood of the Dead — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦A Cold Dry Cradle — Elisabeth Malartre (nominee)
- ✦Giant Bones — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich — Fritz Leiber(nominee)
- ✦A Cold Dry Cradle — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦Everything's Eventual — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Funeral March of the Marionettes — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
- ✦Messengers of Chaos — G. David Nordley (nominee)
- ✦Quinn's Deal — L. Timmel Duchamp (nominee)
- ✦The Golden Keeper — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Coppola's Dracula — Kim Newman(nominee)
- ✦Izzy and the Father of Terror — Eliot Fintushel (nominee)
- ✦Ecopoiesis — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
- ✦The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter — S. P. Somtow(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- ✦Antarctica — Kim Stanley Robinson(nominee)
- ✦Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Dreaming Metal — Melissa Scott(nominee)
- ✦The Fleet of Stars — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Finity's End — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Once a Hero — Elizabeth Moon(nominee)
- ✦Einstein's Bridge — John G. Cramer (nominee)
- ✦The Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦Corrupting Dr. Nice — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Titan — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Destiny's Road — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Diaspora — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦The Black Sun — Jack Williamson (nominee)
- ✦/ — Greg Bear(nominee)
- ✦Mississippi Blues — Kathleen Ann Goonan(nominee)
- ✦The Calcutta Chromosome — Amitav Ghosh (nominee)
- ✦Forever Peace — Joe Haldeman(nominee)
- ✦Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman — Walter M. Miller(nominee)
- ✦Deception Well — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦Fool's War — Sarah Zettel (nominee)
- ✦God's Fires — Patricia Anthony (nominee)
- ✦The Family Tree — Sheri S. Tepper(nominee)
- ✦The Reality Dysfunction — Peter F. Hamilton(nominee)
- ✦3001: The Final Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦Glimmering — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦The Dazzle of Day — Molly Gloss (nominee)
- ✦Secret Passages — Paul Preuss (nominee)
- ✦Eternity Road — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Tomorrow and Tomorrow — Charles Sheffield (nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Itsy Bitsy Spider — James Patrick Kelly (winner)
- ✦An Office Romance — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦Blooming Ice — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦Always True to Thee, in My Fashion — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Gulliver at Home — John Kessel (nominee)
- ✦Glass Earth, Inc. — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Zemlya — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦On the Inside — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Orphanogenesis — Greg Egan(nominee)
- ✦Get a Grip — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦No Planets Strike — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Flash Company — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Hand You're Dealt — Robert J. Sawyer (nominee)
- ✦Standing Room Only — Karen Joy Fowler (nominee)
- ✦The Wisdom of Old Earth — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Heart of Whitenesse — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Scientifiction — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦The 43 Antarean Dynasties — Mike Resnick(nominee)
- ✦Winter Fire — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
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