ShelfEvidentLocus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel — Complete Winners List
46 years of winners · Locus Magazine / Locus Science Fiction Foundation · Since 1971 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Alexander Boldizar | Clash Books | |
| 2024 | Martha Wells | Tordotcom | |
| 2023 | John Scalzi | Tor Books | |
| 2022 | Arkady Martine | Tor Books | |
| 2021 | Martha Wells | Tor.com Publishing | |
| 2020 | Charlie Jane Anders | Tor Books | |
| 2019 | Mary Robinette Kowal | Tor Books | |
| 2018 | John Scalzi | Tor Books | |
| 2017 | Liu Cixin | Tor Books | |
| 2016 | Ann Leckie | Orbit | |
| 2015 | Ann Leckie | Orbit | |
| 2014 | James S. A. Corey | Orbit | |
| 2013 | John Scalzi | Tor Books | |
| 2012 | China Miéville | Del Rey | |
| 2011 | Connie Willis | Bantam Books | |
| 2010 | Cherie Priest | Tor Books | |
| 2009 | Neal Stephenson | — | |
| 2008 | Michael Chabon | HarperCollins | |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | Tor Books | |
| 2006 | Charles Stross | — | |
| 2005 | Neal Stephenson | — | |
| 2004 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 2003 | Kim Stanley Robinson | — | |
| 2002 | Connie Willis | — | |
| 2001 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 2000 | Neal Stephenson | — | |
| 1999 | Connie Willis | — | |
| 1998 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | — | |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | — | |
| 1995 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 1994 | Kim Stanley Robinson | — | |
| 1993 | Connie Willis | — | |
| 1992 | Lois McMaster Bujold | — | |
| 1991 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 1990 | Dan Simmons | — | |
| 1989 | C. J. Cherryh | — | |
| 1988 | David Brin | — | |
| 1987 | Orson Scott Card | — | |
| 1986 | David Brin | — | |
| 1985 | Larry Niven | — | |
| 1984 | David Brin | — | |
| 1983 | Isaac Asimov | — | |
| 1982 | Julian May | — | |
| 1981 | Joan D. Vinge | — | |
| 1980 | John Varley | — |
