Award
Locus Award for Best Novel
8 years tracked (1971–1979), 156 entries total.
A specific category of the Locus Awards, this prize honors the best science fiction or fantasy novel of the year as voted by readers of Locus magazine, often highlighting influential and popular works in the genre.
1979
Dreamsnake
A Different Light
Blind Voices
Colony
Gloriana
Hotel Transylvania
Journey
Kalki
Saint Camber
Sight of Proteus
Stardance II
Stormqueen!
Strangers
The Avatar
The Courts of Chaos
The Eye of the Heron
The Faded Sun: Kesrith
The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
The Far Call
The Masters of Solitude
The Outcasts of Heaven Belt
The Stand
The Stars in Shroud
The White Dragon
Up the Walls of the World
1977
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
A World Out of Time
Brothers of Earth
Children of Dune
Cloned Lives
Dragonsong
Floating Worlds
Imperial Earth
Inferno
Man Plus
Maske: Thaery
Michaelmas
Millennium
Mindbridge
Shadrach in the Furnace
The Clewiston Test
The Dragon and the George
The End of All Songs
The Hand of Oberon
The Shattered Chain
Time of the Fourth Horseman
Triton
1976
The Forever War
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Blake's Progress
Dhalgren
Doorways in the Sand
Lifeboat
Missing Man
Norstrilia
Showboat World
Sign of the Unicorn
The Birthgrave
The Computer Connection
The Exile Waiting
The Female Man
The Heritage of Hastur
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Shockwave Rider
The Stochastic Man
The Warriors of Dawn
1975
The Dispossessed
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
A Midsummer Tempest
Fire Time
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
How Are the Mighty Fallen
Icerigger
Prince of Annwn
Star Rider
Stargate
The Company of Glory
The Destruction of the Temple
The Dream Millennium
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
The Godwhale
The Gray Prince
The Inverted World
The Mote in God's Eye
The Twilight of Briareus
The Unsleeping Eye
Total Eclipse
Walk to the End of the World
1974
Rendezvous with Rama
Gravity's Rainbow
Herovit's World
Hiero's Journey
Protector
Relatives
The Cloud Walker
The Doomsday Gene
The Far Call
The Man Who Folded Himself
The People of the Wind
Time Enough for Love
To Die in Italbar
Today We Choose Faces
Trullion: Alastor 2262
1973
The Gods Themselves
A Choice of Gods
Beyond Apollo
Beyond the Resurrection
Deryni Checkmate
Dying Inside
Other Days, Other Eyes
The Book of Skulls
The Brave Free Men
The Castle Keeps
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Guns of Avalon
The Iron Dream
The Listeners
The Pritcher Mass
The Sheep Look Up
There Will Be Time
Tunnel Through the Deeps
What Entropy Means to Me
When HARLIE Was One
Yesterday's Children
1972
The Lathe of Heaven
A Time of Changes
Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine
Dragonquest
Furthest
Jack of Shadows
Son of Man
The Byworlder
The Devil is Dead
The Fabulous Riverboat
The Forest of Forever
The Second Trip
The World Inside
The World Menders
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971
Ringworld
After Things Fell Apart
And Chaos Died
Beastchild
Chronocules
Deryni Rising
Downward to the Earth
Fourth Mansions
I Will Fear No Evil
Nine Princes in Amber
Star Light
Tactics of Mistake
Tau Zero
The Steel Crocodile
The Year of the Quiet Sun
Tower of Glass