Locus Award for Best First Novel

Winners of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, awarded 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 First Novel was first presented in 1981.

Winners

Year	Novel	Author
1981	Dragon's Egg	Robert L. Forward
1982	Starship & Haiku	Somtow Sucharitkul
1983	Ratha's Creature	Clare Bell
1984	Tea with the Black Dragon	R. A. MacAvoy
1985	The Wild Shore	Kim Stanley Robinson
1986	Contact	Carl Sagan
1987	The Hercules Text	Jack McDevitt
1988	War for the Oaks	Emma Bull
1989	Desolation Road	Ian McDonald
1990	Orbital Decay	Allen Steele
1991	In the Country of the Blind	Michael F. Flynn
1992	The Cipher	Kathe Koja
1993	China Mountain Zhang	Maureen F. McHugh
1994	Cold Allies	Patricia Anthony
1995	Gun, with Occasional Music	Jonathan Lethem
1996	The Bohr Maker	Linda Nagata
1997 (tie)	Reclamation	Sarah Zettel
	Whiteout	Sage Walker
1998	The Great Wheel	Ian R. MacLeod
1999	Brown Girl in the Ring	Nalo Hopkinson
2000	The Silk Code	Paul Levinson
2001	Mars Crossing	Geoffrey A. Landis
2002	Kushiel's Dart	Jacqueline Carey
2003	A Scattering of Jades	Alexander C. Irvine
2004	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	Cory Doctorow
2005	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke
2006	Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired	Elizabeth Bear
2007	Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/ Throne of Jade/Black Powder War’’	Naomi Novik
2008	Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
2009	Singularity's Ring	Paul Melko
2010	The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi
2011	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N. K. Jemisin
2012	The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern
2013	Throne of the Crescent Moon	Saladin Ahmed
2014	Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie
2015	The Memory Garden	M. Rickert
2016	The Grace of Kings	Ken Liu

See also

• Locus Award

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20081201034720/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusWinsByCategory.html
• http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/06/locus-awards-2011-winners