Locus Awards 1979
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Westercon 32,
San Francisco :
July 4, 1979
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July 8, 1979
Eligibility Year: 1978
Eligibility Year: 1978
Novel
- Winner: Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre (Houghton Mifflin)
- Blind Voices, Tom Reamy (Berkley Putnam)
- The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Faded Sun: Kesrith, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Colony, Ben Bova (Pocket)
- Stormqueen!, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW)
- The Far Call, Gordon R. Dickson (Dial)
- The Avatar, Poul Anderson (Berkley/Putnam)
- The Courts of Chaos, Roger Zelazny (Doubleday)
- Strangers, Gardner Dozois (Berkley/Putnam)
- The Stars In Shroud, Gregory Benford (Berkley/Putnam)
- Up the Walls of the World, James Tiptree, Jr. (Berkley/Putnam)
- The Outcasts of Heaven's Belt, Joan D. Vinge (Signet)
- Sight of Proteus, Charles Sheffield (Ace)
- The Stand, Stephen King (Doubleday)
- Journey, Marta Randall (Pocket)
- Gloriana, Michael Moorcock (Allison & Busby)
- Saint Camber, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Faded Sun: Shon'jir, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- “Stardance II”, Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson (Analog Sep,Oct,Nov 1978)
- (tie): “The Eye of the Heron”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Millennial Women)
- (tie): Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (St. Martin's)
- Masters of Solitude, Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin (Doubleday)
- A Different Light, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley)
- Kalki, Gore Vidal (Random House)
Novella
- Winner: “The Persistence of Vision”, John Varley (F&SF Mar 1978)
- “The Watched”, Christopher Priest (F&SF Apr 1978)
- “Seven American Nights”, Gene Wolfe (Orbit 20)
- “Old Folks at Home”, Michael Bishop (Universe 8)
- “Fireship”, Joan D. Vinge (Analog Dec 1978)
- “The Doctor of Death Island”, Gene Wolfe (Immortal)
- “The Renewal”, Pamela Sargent (Immortal)
- “Insects in Amber”, Tom Reamy (F&SF Jan 1978)
- “The Treasure of Odirex”, Charles Sheffield (Fantastic Jul 1978)
- “A Chinese Perspective”, Brian W. Aldiss (Anticipations)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Barbie Murders”, John Varley (Asimov's Jan/Feb 1978)
- “Hunter's Moon”, Poul Anderson (Analog Nov 1978)
- “Mikal's Songbird”, Orson Scott Card (Analog May 1978)
- “Swanilda's Song”, Frederik Pohl (Analog Oct 1978)
- “Devil You Don't Know”, Dean Ing (Analog Jan 1978)
- “In Alien Flesh”, Gregory Benford (F&SF Sep 1978)
- “The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds”, Algis Budrys (Analog May 1978)
- (tie): “The Gunslinger”, Stephen King (F&SF Oct 1978)
- (tie): “The Man Who Had No Idea”, Thomas M. Disch (F&SF Oct 1978)
- “Shipwright”, Donald Kingsbury (Analog Apr 1978)
- “Black Glass”, Fritz Leiber (Andromeda 3)
- “Starswarmer”, Gregory Benford (Analog Sep 1978)
- “A Good Night's Sleep” (aka “Sleep Well of Nights“), Avram Davidson (F&SF Aug 1978)
- “The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck”, Hilbert Schenck (F&SF Sep 1978)
- “Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies”, R. A. Lafferty (Universe 8)
- “Within the Walls of Tyre”, Michael Bishop (Weirdbook #13 1978)
Short Story
- Winner: “Count the Clock that Tells the Time”, Harlan Ellison (Omni Dec 1978)
- “View From a Height”, Joan D. Vinge (Analog Jun 1978)
- “Stone”, Edward Bryant (F&SF Feb 1978)
- “Virra”, Terry Carr (F&SF Oct 1978)
- “A Hiss of Dragon”, Gregory Benford & Marc Laidlaw (Omni Dec 1978)
- “Cassandra”, C. J. Cherryh (F&SF Oct 1978)
- “Drink Me, Francesca”, Richard Cowper (F&SF Apr 1978)
- “A Thousand Deaths”, Orson Scott Card (Omni Dec 1978)
- (tie): “SQ”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Cassandra Rising)
- (tie): “Whores”, Christopher Priest (New Dimensions 8)
- “The Very Slow Time Machine”, Ian Watson (Anticipations)
- “Gotcha!”, Ray Bradbury (Redbook Aug 1978)
- “A Quiet Revolution for Death”, Jack Dann (New Dimensions 8)
Single Author Collection
- Winner: The Persistence of Vision, John Varley (The Dial Press/James Wade/Quantum)
- Strange Wine, Harlan Ellison (Harper & Row)
- Still I Persist in Wondering, Edgar Pangborn (Dell)
- The Earth Book of Stormgate, Poul Anderson (Berkley/Putnam)
- Infinite Dreams, Joe Haldeman (St. Martin's)
- Fireship, Joan D. Vinge (Dell)
- The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprague de Camp (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Night Shift, Stephen King (Doubleday)
- Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions, Kate Wilhelm (Harper & Row)
- The Best of Eric Frank Russell, Eric Frank Russell (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Blood and Burning, Algis Budrys (Berkley)
- Night Winds, Karl Edward Wagner (Warner)
- (tie): The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, J. G. Ballard (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
- (tie): Born to Exile, Phyllis Eisenstein (Arkham House)
- The Redward Edward Papers, Avram Davidson (Doubleday)
Anthology
- Winner: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7, Terry Carr, ed. (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The 1978 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, ed. with Arthur W. Saha (DAW)
- Universe 8, Terry Carr, ed. (Doubleday)
- New Dimensions 8, Robert Silverberg, ed. (Harper & Row)
- Stellar #4, Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed. (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Year's Finest Fantasy, Terry Carr, ed. (Berkley)
- Chrysalis 2, Roy Torgeson, ed. (Zebra)
- Orbit 20, Damon Knight, ed. (Harper & Row)
- Anticipations, Christopher Priest, ed. (Faber & Faber)
- Swords Against Darkness III, andrew j. offutt, ed. (Zebra)
- Immortal, Jack Dann, ed. (Harper & Row)
- Millennial Women, Virginia Kidd, ed. (Delacorte)
- Shadows, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Doubleday)
- Nebula Winners Twelve, Gordon R. Dickson, ed. (Harper & Row)
- Alpha 9, Robert Silverberg, ed. (Berkley)
- The Best of Analog, Ben Bova, ed. (Baronet)
- Study War No More, Joe Haldeman, ed. (St. Martin's)
Reference Book
- Winner: The Way the Future Was, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2, Donald H. Tuck (Advent)
- Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, William G. Contento (G.K. Hall)
- Science Fiction and Heroic Fantasy Index, Stuart W. Wells III (Purple Unicorn)
- Fantasms: A Jack Vance Bibliography, Daniel J. H. Levack & Tim Underwood (Underwood-Miller)
- A History of the Hugo, Nebula, and International Fantasy Awards, Donald Franson & Howard DeVore (Misfit Press)
- The Complete Guide to Middle Earth, Richard Foster (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The International Science Fiction Yearbook, Colin Lester (Quick Fox)
- The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy, Diana Waggoner (Atheneum)
- The American Shore, Samuel R. Delany (Dragon Press)
- Speaking of Science Fiction, Paul Walker (Luna)
Art Or Illustrated Book
- Winner: Tomorrow and Beyond, Ian Summers, ed. (Workman)
- Faeries, Brian Froud & Alan Lee (Abrams)
- The Magic Goes Away, Larry Niven, illustrated by Esteban Maroto (Ace)
- The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo, Boris Vallejo (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Illustrated Roger Zelazny, Roger Zelazny, illustrated by Gray Morrow (Baronet)
- Age of Dreams, Alicia Austin (Donald M. Grant)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Robert Holdstock, ed. (Octopus/Mayflower)
- Empire, Samuel R. Delany, illustrated by Howard Chaykin (Berkley)
- Fantasy by Fabian, Stephen Fabian (de la Ree)
- Frank Frazetta, Book III, Frank Frazetta (Peacock/Bantam)
- The Second Book of Virgil Finlay, Virgil Finlay (de la Ree)
- The Flight of Icarus, Donald Lehmkuhl, edited by Martyn Dean & Roger Dean (A & W)
- Beauty and the Beast, Chris Achilleos (Fireside/Simon & Schuster)
Magazine
- Winner: F&SF (Edward L. Ferman)
- Locus (Charles N. Brown)
- Analog (Stanley Schmidt)
- Asimov's (George Scithers)
- Omni (Ben Bova)
- Science Fiction Review (Richard E. Geis)
- Algol/Starship (Andrew Porter)
- Galileo (Charles C. Ryan)
- Destinies (Ace) (James Baen)
- Starlog (Howard Zimmerman)
- Unearth (Ostrowsky-Lantz & Landsberg)
- Galaxy (J.J. Pierce)
- Asimov's SF Adventure (George Scithers)
- (tie): Future Life (Naha & Nelson)
- (tie): Whispers (Stuart David Schiff)
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