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

Best Collection

With the 1975 awards the category was renamed Best Single Author Collection, becoming simply Best Collection in 1984.
YearNominated workAuthorRef.
1975The Best of Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber
1976The Wind's Twelve QuartersUrsula K. Le Guin
1977A Song for Lya and Other StoriesGeorge R.R. Martin
1978Category not awarded
1979The Persistence of VisionJohn Varley
1980Convergent SeriesLarry Niven
1981The Barbie MurdersJohn Varley
1982SandkingsGeorge R.R. Martin
1983The Compass RoseUrsula K. Le Guin
1984Unicorn VariationsRoger Zelazny
1985The Ghost LightFritz Leiber
1986Skeleton CrewStephen King
1987Blue ChampagneJohn Varley
1988The Jaguar HunterLucius Shepard
1989Angry CandyHarlan Ellison
1990PatternsPat Cadigan
1991Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card
1992Night of the Cooters: More Neat StoriesHoward Waldrop
1993The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret SharersRobert Silverberg
1994Impossible ThingsConnie Willis
1995OthernessDavid Brin
1996Four Ways to ForgivenessUrsula K. Le Guin
1997None So BlindJoe Haldeman
1998SlippageHarlan Ellison
1999The Avram Davidson TreasuryAvram Davidson
2000The MartiansKim Stanley Robinson
2001Tales of Old EarthMichael Swanwick
2002Tales from EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin
2003Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang
2004Changing PlanesUrsula K. Le Guin
2005The John Varley ReaderJohn Varley
2006Magic for BeginnersKelly Link
2007Fragile ThingsNeil Gaiman
2008The Winds of Marble Arch and Other StoriesConnie Willis
2009Pump Six and Other StoriesPaolo Bacigalupi
2010The Best of Gene Wolfe "Gene Wolfe
2011Selected StoriesFritz Leiber
2012The Bible Repairman and Other StoriesTim Powers
2013Shoggoths in BloomElizabeth Bear
2014The Best of Connie WillisConnie Willis
2015Last Plane to HeavenJay Lake
2016Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and DisturbancesNeil Gaiman
2017The Paper Menagerie and Other StoriesKen Liu
2018The Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le Guin
2019How Long 'til Black Future Month?N. K. Jemisin
2020ExhalationTed Chiang
2021The Hidden Girl and Other StoriesKen Liu
2022Even Greater MistakesCharlie Jane Anders
2023Boys, Beasts & MenSam J. Miller
2024White Cat, Black DogKelly Link
2025Lake of SoulsAnn Leckie