Locus Award for Best Collection

The Locus Award for Best Collection is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The award for Best Collection was originally presented as Best Reprint Anthology/Collection between 1972 and 1974, in conjunction with a Best Original Anthology award which evolved into the modern Best Anthology award.

Winners

Best Reprint Anthology/Collection

Year Nominated work Author Ref.
1972 World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
1973 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Terry Carr
1974 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 Terry Carr
1975 Before the Golden Age Isaac Asimov

Best Collection

With the 1975 awards the category was renamed Best Single Author Collection, becoming simply Best Collection in 1984.

Year Nominated work Author Ref.
1975 The Best of Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber
1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin
1977 A Song for Lya and Other Stories George R. R. Martin
1978 Category not awarded
1979 The Persistence of Vision John Varley
1980 Convergent Larry Niven
1981 The Barbie Murders John Varley
1982 Sandkings George R. R. Martin
1983 The Compass Rose Ursula K. Le Guin
1984 Unicorn Variations Roger Zelazny
1985 The Ghost Light Fritz Leiber
1986 Skeleton Crew Stephen King
1987 Blue Champagne John Varley
1988 The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard
1989 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison
1990 Patterns Pat Cadigan
1991 Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card
1992 Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories Howard Waldrop
1993 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Robert Silverberg
1994 Impossible Things Connie Willis
1995 Otherness David Brin
1996 Four Ways to Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin
1997 None So Blind Joe Haldeman
1998 Slippage Harlan Ellison
1999 The Avram Davidson Treasury Avram Davidson
2000 The Martians Kim Stanley Robinson
2001 Tales of Old Earth Michael Swanwick
2002 Tales from Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
2003 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang
2004 Changing Planes Ursula K. Le Guin
2005 The John Varley Reader John Varley
2006 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link
2007 Fragile Things Neil Gaiman
2008 The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories Connie Willis
2009 Pump Six and Other Stories Paolo Bacigalupi
2010 The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe)" Gene Wolfe
2011 Selected Stories Fritz Leiber
2012 The Bible Repairman and Other Stories Tim Powers
2013 Shoggoths in Bloom Elizabeth Bear
2014 The Best of Connie Willis Connie Willis
2015 Last Plane to Heaven Jay Lake
2016 Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Neil Gaiman
2017 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu
2018 The Hainish Novels and Stories Ursula K. Le Guin
2019 How Long 'til Black Future Month? N. K. Jemisin
2020 Exhalation Ted Chiang
2021 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Ken Liu
2022 Even Greater Mistakes Charlie Jane Anders
2023 Boys, Beasts & Men Sam J. Miller
2024 White Cat, Black Dog Kelly Link
2025 Lake of Souls Ann Leckie
2026 Uncertain Sons and Other Stories Thomas Ha

References

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