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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1971 to 2024)

The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel is an annual award presented by Locus, a science fiction and fantasy magazine. The award for Sci-Fi novels was first presented in 1980. However previous to that, from 1971 they award a more generic "Best Novel" award, which coincidentally was only awarded to sci-fi books, so I have also included those books here.

#1

Ringworld

1970 • 475 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

#2

The Lathe of Heaven

1000 • 422 Readers • 194 pages 4

#3

The Gods Themselves

1972 • 216 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

#4

Rendezvous with Rama

1973 • 613 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

#5

The Dispossessed

1974 • 769 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

#6

The Forever War

1974 • 671 Readers • 218 pages 4

#7

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

1976 • 63 Readers • 256 pages 3.3

#8

Gateway

1975 • 225 Readers • 294 pages 3.9

#9

Dreamsnake

1978 • 64 Readers • 288 pages 3.4

#10

Titan

1979 • 45 Readers • 324 pages 3.7

#11

The Snow Queen

1980 • 101 Readers • 469 pages 3.4

#12

The Many-Colored Land

1981 • 13 Readers • 433 pages 4.3

#13

Foundation's edge

1951 • 312 Readers • 450 pages 3.9

#14

Startide Rising

1983 • 95 Readers • 498 pages 4

#15

The Integral Trees

1983 • 25 Readers • 240 pages 3.8

#16

The Postman

1985 • 122 Readers • 296 pages 3.5

#17

Speaker for the Dead

1986 • 650 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

#18

The Uplift War

1987 • 65 Readers • 703 pages 3.9

#19

Cyteen

1988 • 74 Readers • 885 pages 3.4

#20

Hyperion

1989 • 1,489 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

#21

The Fall of Hyperion

477 Readers 4.2

#22

Barrayar

1991 • 122 Readers • 402 pages 4

#23

Doomsday Book

1992 • 376 Readers • 587 pages 3.8

#24

Green Mars

1992 • 184 Readers 3.8

#25

Mirror Dance

1994 • 74 Readers 4.1

#27

Blue Mars

1996 • 134 Readers • 786 pages 3.9

#28

The Rise of Endymion

1997 • 243 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

#29

To Say Nothing of the Dog

1990 • 224 Readers • 514 pages 4.1

#30

Cryptonomicon

1999 • 578 Readers • 1,152 pages 4.3

#31

The Telling

2000 • 59 Readers • 264 pages 3.7

#32

Passage

2001 • 38 Readers • 608 pages 3.6

#33

The Years of Rice and Salt

2002 • 129 Readers 3.5

#34

Ilium

2003 • 184 Readers • 752 pages 3.9

#35

The Confusion

104 Readers 4.3

#36

The System of the World

2004 • 113 Readers • 912 pages 4.3

#37

Accelerando

2005 • 150 Readers • 415 pages 3.6

#38

Rainbows End

2006 • 104 Readers • 364 pages 3.4

#39

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

2007 • 221 Readers • 414 pages 3.6

#40

Anathem

2008 • 507 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.2

#41

Boneshaker

2009 • 201 Readers • 416 pages 3.3

#42

Blackout

2010 • 112 Readers • 610 pages 3.6

#43

All Clear

2010 • 61 Readers • 800 pages 4

#45

Redshirts

2012 • 592 Readers • 318 pages 3.9

#46

Abaddon's Gate

7 • 696 Readers • 564 pages 4.2

#47

Ancillary Sword

2014 • 326 Readers • 359 pages 4

#48

Ancillary Mercy

2015 • 253 Readers • 432 pages 4.1

#49

Death's End

2010 • 726 Readers • 604 pages 4.4

#50

The Collapsing Empire

2017 • 500 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

#51

The Calculating Stars

2018 • 469 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

#52

The City in the Middle of the Night

2019 • 205 Readers • 366 pages 3.2

#53

Network Effect

2020 • 805 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

#54

A Desolation Called Peace

2021 • 366 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

#55

The Kaiju Preservation Society

2022 • 660 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

#56

System Collapse

2023 • 560 Readers • 197 pages 4.2