Locus Award for Best Novella

The Locus Award for Best Novella is one of a number of Locus Awards given out each year by Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.

The first award in this category was presented in 1973.

Winners

1970s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 1973-1979^[1]

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
1973	The Gold at the Starbow's End	Frederik Pohl
1974	The Death of Doctor Island	Gene Wolfe
1975	Born with the Dead	Robert Silverberg
1976	The Storms of Windhaven	Lisa Tuttle and George R. R. Martin
1977	The Samurai and the Willows	Michael Bishop
1978	Stardance	Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
1979	The Persistence of Vision	John Varley

1980s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 1980-1989^[1]

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
1980	Enemy Mine	Barry B. Longyear
1981	Nightflyers	George R. R. Martin
1982	Blue Champagne	John Varley
1983	Souls	Joanna Russ
1984	Her Habiline Husband	Michael Bishop
1985	PRESS ENTER	John Varley
1986	The Only Neat Thing to Do	James Tiptree Jr.
1987	R&R	Lucius Shepard
1988	The Secret Sharer	Robert Silverberg
1989	The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter	Lucius Shepard

1990s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 1990-1999^[1]

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
1990	The Father of Stones	Lucius Shepard
1991	A Short, Sharp Shock	Kim Stanley Robinson
1992	The Gallery of His Dreams	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1993	Barnacle Bill the Spacer	Lucius Shepard
1994	Mefisto in Onyx	Harlan Ellison
1995	Forgiveness Day	Ursula K. Le Guin
1996	Remake	Connie Willis
1997	Bellwether	Connie Willis
1998	Where Angels Fear to Tread	Allen Steele
1999	Oceanic	Greg Egan

2000s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 2000-2009^[1]

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
2000	Orphans of the Helix	Dan Simmons
2001	Radiant Green Star	Lucius Shepard
2002	The Finder	Ursula K. Le Guin
2003	The Tain	China Miéville
2004	The Cookie Monster	Vernor Vinge
2005	Golden City Far	Gene Wolfe
2006	Magic for Beginners	Kelly Link
2007	Missile Gap	Charles Stross
2008	After the Siege	Cory Doctorow
2009	Pretty Monsters	Kelly Link	[2]

2010s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 2010-2019^[1]

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
2010	The Women of Nell Gwynne's	Kage Baker	[3]
2011	The Lifecycle of Software Objects	Ted Chiang	[4]
2012	Silently and Very Fast	Catherynne M. Valente	[5]
2013	After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall	Nancy Kress	[6]
2014	Six-Gun Snow White	Catherynne M. Valente	[7][8]
2015	Yesterday’s Kin	Nancy Kress	[9]
2016	Slow Bullets	Alastair Reynolds	[10]
2017	Every Heart a Doorway	Seanan McGuire	[11]
2018	All Systems Red	Martha Wells	[12]
2019	Artificial Condition	Martha Wells	[13]

2020s

Locus Award for Best Novella winners, 2020-2025

Year	Novella	Author	Ref.
2020	This Is How You Lose the Time War	Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar	[14]
2021	Ring Shout	P. Djèlí Clark	[15]
2022	Fugitive Telemetry	Martha Wells	[16]
2023	A Prayer for the Crown-Shy	Becky Chambers	[17]
2024	Thornhedge	T. Kingfisher	[18]
2025	What Feasts at Night	T. Kingfisher	[19]