Locus Awards 2002
Winners and nominees of the 2002 Locus Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology
- 🏆The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection — Gardner Dozois(winner)
- 🏆 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (winner)
- ✦ Starlight 3 (nominee)
- ✦ Futures (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (nominee)
- ✦ The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twelve (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (nominee)
- ✦ The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century (nominee)
- ✦ Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦ Supermen (nominee)
- ✦ Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (nominee)
- ✦ Night Visions 10 (nominee)
- ✦The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century — Martin H. Greenberg(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection — Ellen Datlow(nominee)
- ✦Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦A Woman's Liberation — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦ Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (nominee)
- ✦The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3 — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twelve — Stephen Jones (nominee)
- ✦The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century — Harry Turtledove(nominee)
- ✦Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction — Al Sarrantonio(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best SF 6 — David G. Hartwell(nominee)
- ✦Year's Best Fantasy — Kathryn Cramer(nominee)
- ✦ Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (nominee)
- ✦Starlight 3 — Patrick Nielsen Hayden (nominee)
- ✦Futures — Peter Crowther (nominee)
- ✦Supermen — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Night Visions 10 — Richard Chizmar(nominee)
- ✦A Woman's Liberation — Sheila Williams (nominee)
- ✦ Year's Best SF 6 (nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Tales from Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦City of Saints and Madmen — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦Stranger Things Happen — Kelly Link(nominee)
- ✦The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard — J. G. Ballard (nominee)
- ✦Trigger & Friends — James H. Schmitz(nominee)
- ✦Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Futureland — Walter Mosley (nominee)
- ✦Other Voices, Other Doors — Patrick O'Leary (nominee)
- ✦Strange Trades — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Skin Folk — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
- ✦The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦Claremont Tales — Richard A. Lupoff (nominee)
- ✦From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown — Fredric Brown (nominee)
- ✦Night Moves and Other Stories — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon — Kristine Kathryn Rusch (nominee)
- ✦The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke — Arthur C. Clarke(nominee)
- ✦50 in 50 — Harry Harrison(nominee)
- ✦Jubilee — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists — Norman Partridge (nominee)
- ✦Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois — Gardner Dozois(nominee)
- ✦Meet Me in the Moon Room(nominee)
- ✦The Other Nineteenth Century — Avram Davidson (nominee)
- ✦Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities — Geoffrey A. Landis (nominee)
- ✦Immodest Proposals — William Tenn (nominee)
- ✦Thirteen Phantasms — James Blaylock(nominee)
Best Fantasy Novel
- 🏆American Gods — Neil Gaiman(winner)
- ✦The Onion Girl — Charles de Lint(nominee)
- ✦The Shadows of God — Gregory Keyes (nominee)
- ✦The Hauntings of Hood Canal — Jack Cady (nominee)
- ✦Past the Size of Dreaming — Nina Kiriki Hoffman(nominee)
- ✦Kushiel's Dart — Jacqueline Carey(nominee)
- ✦The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Mother of Kings — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold(nominee)
- ✦Dead Until Dark — Charlaine Harris(nominee)
- ✦Fool's Errand — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Beyond — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Bold as Love — Gwyneth Jones (nominee)
- ✦Coldheart Canyon — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦The Dreamthief's Daughter — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦The One Kingdom — Sean Russell(nominee)
- ✦Black House — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦Sea of Silver Light — Tad Williams(nominee)
- ✦Black House — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦From the Dust Returned — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Thief of Time — Terry Pratchett(nominee)
- ✦Lirael — Garth Nix(nominee)
- ✦The House in the High Wood — Jeffrey E. Barlough (nominee)
- ✦Smoking Poppy — Graham Joyce(nominee)
- ✦The Wooden Sea — Jonathan Carroll(nominee)
- ✦Lost — Gregory Maguire(nominee)
Best First Novel
- 🏆Kushiel's Dart — Jacqueline Carey(winner)
- ✦Illumination — Terry McGarry (nominee)
- ✦Enemy Glory — Karen Michalson (nominee)
- ✦Swim the Moon — Paul Brandon (nominee)
- ✦Alien Taste — Wen Spencer (nominee)
- ✦The Ghost Sister — Liz Williams(nominee)
- ✦Eccentric Circles — Rebecca Lickiss (nominee)
- ✦Inca(nominee)
- ✦The Ill-Made Mute — Cecilia Dart-Thornton (nominee)
- ✦The Love-Artist — Jane Alison (nominee)
- ✦Children of the Shaman — Jessica Rydill (nominee)
- ✦Dance of Knives — Donna McMahon (nominee)
- ✦Archangel Protocol — Lyda Morehouse (nominee)
- ✦Divine Intervention — Ken Wharton (nominee)
- ✦The Eyre Affair — Jasper Fforde (nominee)
- ✦Ill Met by Moonlight — Sarah A. Hoyt (nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Hell Is the Absence of God — Ted Chiang (winner)
- ✦The Days Between — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦The Return of Spring — Shane Tourtellotte (nominee)
- ✦First to the Moon! — Simon Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦The Old Rugged Cross — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦On the High Marsh — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Mirror — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Boy — Robert Reed (nominee)
- ✦The Two Dicks — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Know How, Can Do — Michael Blumlein (nominee)
- ✦Doing the Unstuck — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦Neutrino Drag — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦The Lady of the Winds — Poul Anderson(nominee)
- ✦Computer Virus — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦And No Such Things Grow Here — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦Monster Story — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Applesauce Monster — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Life on Earth — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦On K2 with Kanakaredes — Dan Simmons(nominee)
- ✦First to the Moon! — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦In the Un-Black — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Quijote Robot — Robert Sheckley(nominee)
- ✦More Adventures on Other Planets — Michael Cassutt (nominee)
- ✦Troubadour — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦Lobsters — Charles Stross(nominee)
- ✦The Dread and Fear of Kings — Richard Paul Russo (nominee)
- ✦Undone — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦This Shape We're In — Jonathan Lethem (nominee)
- ✦Into Greenwood — Jim Grimsley(nominee)
- ✦Isabel of the Fall — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Rhido Wars — Neal Barrett, Jr. (nominee)
- ✦The Cat's Pajamas — James Morrow(nominee)
- ✦The Ferryman's Wife — Richard Bowes(nominee)
- ✦The Measure of All Things — Richard Chwedyk (nominee)
- ✦Firebird — R. Garcia y Robertson (nominee)
- ✦The Other Real World — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Major Spacer in the 21st Century — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Have Not Have — Geoff Ryman(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Finder — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦Stealing Alabama — Allen Steele (nominee)
- ✦Karuna, Inc. — Paul Di Filippo(nominee)
- ✦deck.halls@boughs/holly — Connie Willis(nominee)
- ✦Eternity and Afterward — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Caravan from Troon — Kage Baker (nominee)
- ✦Yesterday's Tomorrows — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Fast Times at Fairmont High — Vernor Vinge(nominee)
- ✦Viewpoint — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Glacial — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's — Adam-Troy Castro(nominee)
- ✦The Chief Designer — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦May Be Some Time — Brenda Clough (nominee)
- ✦Cleopatra Brimstone — Elizabeth Hand(nominee)
- ✦The Diamond Pit — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦New Light on the Drake Equation — Ian R. MacLeod(nominee)
- ✦Silent Her — Barry B. Longyear(nominee)
Best Science Fiction Novel
- 🏆Passage — Connie Willis(winner)
- ✦The Pickup Artist — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦The Secret of Life — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦Whole Wide World — Paul J. McAuley(nominee)
- ✦A Paradigm of Earth — Candas Jane Dorsey (nominee)
- ✦Shadow of the Hegemon — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Defender — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Probability Sun — Nancy Kress(nominee)
- ✦The Chronoliths — Robert Charles Wilson(nominee)
- ✦The Cassandra Complex — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Dervish Is Digital — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Nekropolis — Maureen F. McHugh (nominee)
- ✦Appleseed — John Clute (nominee)
- ✦Origin — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦Terraforming Earth — Jack Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Eyes of the Calculor — Sean McMullen (nominee)
- ✦Ship of Fools — Richard Paul Russo (nominee)
- ✦Return to the Whorl — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Cosmonaut Keep — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Dark Light — Ken MacLeod (nominee)
- ✦Chasm City — Alastair Reynolds(nominee)
- ✦Limit of Vision — Linda Nagata (nominee)
- ✦The Merchants of Souls — John Barnes (nominee)
- ✦The Eyre Affair — Jasper Fforde (nominee)
- ✦Deepsix — Jack McDevitt (nominee)
- ✦Angel of Destruction — Susan R. Matthews (nominee)
- ✦Metaplanetary: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War — Tony Daniel (nominee)
- ✦Going, Going, Gone — Jack Womack (nominee)
- ✦Maelstrom — Peter Watts(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆The Bones of the Earth — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦The Exchange by Nicholas Sporlender, illustrated by Louis Verden — Jeff VanderMeer(nominee)
- ✦What We Did That Summer — Barry N. Malzberg (nominee)
- ✦Exclusion — Daniel Abraham (nominee)
- ✦Charlie's Angels — Terry Bisson (nominee)
- ✦The Building — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦Non-Disclosure Agreement — Scott Westerfeld(nominee)
- ✦Little Brother — Walter Mosley (nominee)
- ✦The Black Heart — Patrick O'Leary (nominee)
- ✦Cut — Robin Hobb(nominee)
- ✦The Honeyed Knot — Jeffrey Ford(nominee)
- ✦Ave de Paso — Catherine Asaro(nominee)
- ✦The Milk of Human Kindness — Brian Stableford (nominee)
- ✦Creature — Carol Emshwiller (nominee)
- ✦Incognita, Inc. — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦The God of Dark Laughter — Michael Chabon(nominee)
- ✦Grey Earth — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦The Ghost Pit — Stephen Baxter(nominee)
- ✦A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club — Michael Moorcock(nominee)
- ✦Self Portrait, with Melanoma, Final Draft — Paul Park(nominee)
- ✦Anomalies — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦In Glory Like Their Star — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Queen — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Unique Visitors — James Patrick Kelly (nominee)
- ✦The Dog Said Bow-Wow — Michael Swanwick(nominee)
- ✦Senator Bilbo — Andy Duncan (nominee)
- ✦What We Did That Summer — Kathe Koja (nominee)
- ✦The Infodict — James Van Pelt (nominee)
- ✦The Ground He Stood On(nominee)
- ✦The Shadow — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
- ✦His Own Back Yard — James Blaylock(nominee)
- ✦Small Houses — James Blaylock(nominee)
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