Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novella
Locus Award for Best Novella Public
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Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
4 stars
What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
4 stars
In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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Yesterday's kin by Nancy Kress
Marianne Jenner, a geneticist and mother of three, has 10 months to try to avert a disaster and keep her …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate)
4 stars
A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west." Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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Slow bullets by Alastair Reynolds
4 stars
"A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
4 stars
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot, #1)
4 stars
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in a series called …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
4 stars
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
4 stars
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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4 stars
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
4 stars
The security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry!
*No, I …
Phil in SF says: 2022 WINNER
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
5 stars
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
