…Where Angels Fear to TreadAllen Steele
…Where Angels Fear to Tread
by Allen Steele
Novella · 1997
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula recognition
A 1997 science fiction novella by Allen Steele. Hugo and Locus Award winner; Nebula recognition.
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Locus Award science fiction books and reader favorites
Discover science fiction recognized in the Locus Awards and historical reader polls. See which works won, reached finalist lists or appeared in the included historical poll selections.
Locus recognition brings a reader perspective to the library. Formal winners and finalists are distinguished from historical poll top five selections. Those selections are not silently presented as formal finalists. Only the selected science fiction categories and eligible works are included. Official award site ↗
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11/22/63
by Stephen King
Novel · 2011 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Locus recognition
11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F.
2010: Odyssey Two
Novel · 1982
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it.
2312
Novel · 2012
Nebula winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai
Novella · 1985
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai is a science fiction novella by American writer Roger Zelazny, originally published in the July 1985 issue of the Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1986 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1985.
A Blessing of UnicornsElizabeth Bear
A Blessing of Unicorns
Novella · 2020
Locus recognition
A 2020 science fiction novella by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
A Borrowed Man
by Gene Wolfe
Novel · 2015
Locus recognition
It's perhaps a hundred years in the future and E. A. Smithe is "a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer".
A Choice of Gods
Novel · 1971
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
One night in July, 2135, there were some eight billion people on Earth! The next morning there were perhaps 400. There was no clue to what had happened to the world's population—but, over the centuries that followed, still stranger things occurred.
A Civil Campaign
Novel · 1999 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Miles Vorkosigan launches a campaign to win the heart of Ekatarina, whose former husband died as a result of Miles' investigations in the book Komarr , by the same author.
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1999
Hugo winnerClarke recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set 30,000 years previous) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
A Desolation Called Peace
Novel · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus winnerClarke recognitionNebula recognition
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
A Fire Born of Exile
Novel · 2023
Locus recognition
A 2023 science fiction novel by Aliette de Bodard. Locus recognition.
A Fire in the Sun
Novel · 1989
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A Fire in the Sun is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by American writer George Alec Effinger, published in 1989.
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1992
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology…
A Man of the People
Novella · 1995
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1995 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hugo and Locus recognition.
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Novella · 2022
Locus winnerNebula recognition
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a 2022 solarpunk novella written by American author Becky Chambers and published by Tor.com on July 12, 2022. It is the second book in the Monk & Robot series, preceded by A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021).
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Novella · 2021
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A tea monk meets a robot. The big question is what people actually need.
A Snark in the Night
Novella · 1977
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
A 1977 science fiction novella by Gregory Benford. Hugo and Locus recognition.
A Song for Lya
Novella · 1974
Hugo winnerLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"A Song For Lya" is a science fiction novella by American writer George R.R. Martin. It was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1975.
A Time of Changes
Novel · 1971
Nebula winnerHugo recognitionLocus recognition
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique…
A Time to ReapElizabeth Bear
A Time to Reap
Novella · 2019
Locus recognition
A 2019 science fiction novella by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
A Traveler's TaleLucius Shepard
A Traveler's Tale
Novella · 1984
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
A 1984 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus and Nebula recognition.
A Woman's Liberation
Novella · 1995
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A 1995 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
A World Out of Time
by Larry Niven
Novel · 1976
Locus recognition
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else\'s body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.
Abaddon's Gate
Novel · 2013
Locus winner
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.
Absolution
Novel · 2024
Locus recognition
Absolution is a 2024 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, and the fourth entry in the Southern Reach Series. It is both a prequel and sequel to the Southern Reach Series.
Accelerando
Novel · 2005
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will.
Act One
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2010
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
A 2010 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. Hugo and Locus and Nebula recognition.
After Atlas
by Emma Newman
Novel · 2016
Clarke recognitionLocus recognition
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems...
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2012
Locus winnerNebula winnerHugo recognition
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race.
After the Siege
Novella · 2007
Locus winner
A 2007 science fiction novella by Cory Doctorow. Locus Award winner.
Agency
Novel · 2020
Locus recognition
Agency is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, released on January 21, 2020. It is a 'sequel and a prequel' to his previous novel The Peripheral (2014), reusing the technology from the novel to explore an alternative 2017 where Hillary Clinton won the 2016 Presidential Election.
Agents of Dreamland
Novella · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Locus recognition
A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona.
Alien Clay
Novel · 2024
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close.
All Seated on the Ground
Novella · 2007
Hugo winnerLocus recognition
All Seated on the Ground is a science fiction novella by American writer Connie Willis, originally published in the December 2007 issue of American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and as a standalone volume from Subterranean Press. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
Hugo winnerLocus winnerNebula winner
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
All That We See or Seem
by Ken Liu
Novel · 2025
Locus recognition
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.
All the Weyrs of Pern
Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Hugo recognitionLocus recognition
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land.
Anathem
Novel · 2008
Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is a young…
Ancestral Night
Novel · 2019
Locus recognition
A 2019 science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear. Locus recognition.
Ancillary Mercy
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2015
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship.
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2014
Locus winnerHugo recognitionNebula recognition
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
And Chaos Died
by Joanna Russ
Novel · 1970
Locus recognitionNebula recognition
And Chaos Died (1970) is a science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. Its setting is a dystopian projection of modern society, in which Earth's population has continued to grow, with the effects somewhat mitigated by advanced technology. The novel was nominated for the 1970 Nebula Award.
And Then There Were (N-One)
Novella · 2017
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"And Then There Were (N-One)" is a 2017 science fiction/murder mystery novella by Sarah Pinsker. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine. It was republished in the collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance
Novel · 2014
Locus recognition
A 2014 science fiction novel by Jeff VanderMeer. Locus recognition.
Antarctica
Novel · 1997
Locus recognition
Eco-terrorists battle capitalists, seeking to open Antarctica to commercial exploitation. The time is the 21st century, the world is an ecological disaster, and the treaty banning mineral exploration of Antarctica has expired. By the author of Red Mars.
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
by Ted Chiang
Novella · 2019
Hugo recognitionLocus recognitionNebula recognition
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844).
Ariel
Novella · 2003
Locus recognition
A 2003 science fiction novella by Lucius Shepard. Locus recognition.
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