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Locus Award for Best Novel/SF Novel

Description: Based on list at end of The Locus Awards Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy and on the Wikipedia entry "Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel"
Based on bookaward: Locus Award

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

4,916 members

430 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Aquila, hipdeep, gypsysmom

2

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

9,426 members

252 reviews

4

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

3

by Connie Willis

7,977 members

375 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

4

by Kim Stanley Robinson

5,193 members

64 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

5

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,751 members

287 reviews

4.1

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

6

by Kim Stanley Robinson

4,757 members

55 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

7

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,393 members

421 reviews

3.8

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

8

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

15,829 members

211 reviews

4

2 Members: Aquila, ahef1963

9

Ancillary Sword

2,988 members

176 reviews

4

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

10

Ancillary Mercy

2,534 members

131 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

11

The Gods Themselves

by Isaac Asimov

5,945 members

102 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963

12

The Calculating Stars

by Mary Robinette Kowal

2,064 members

133 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

13

A Desolation Called Peace

by Arkady Martine

1,166 members

51 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

14

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,728 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

15

by Frederik Pohl

4,661 members

100 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

16

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

by Kate Wilhelm

1,786 members

66 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

17

by Neal Stephenson

17,089 members

295 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

18

9,971 members

187 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

19

by Martha Wells

2,498 members

180 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: Aquila, gypsysmom

20

by Vernor Vinge

2,989 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

21

by Vonda N. McIntyre

1,888 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

22

2,056 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

23

by Joan D. Vinge

2,329 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

24

by Cherie Priest

3,712 members

219 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

25

The Integral Trees

2,215 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gypsysmom

26

The Many-Colored Land

2,380 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

27

The Years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

3,488 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gypsysmom

28

Blackout / All Clear

by Connie Willis

3 members

Member: gypsysmom

29

The Diamond Age

by Neal Stephenson

11,195 members

207 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

30

Foundation's Edge

by Isaac Asimov

10,047 members

84 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

31

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

6,540 members

197 reviews

4

Member: Aquila

32

by Charles Stross

3,354 members

123 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Aquila

33

by China Miéville

3,416 members

215 reviews

3.9

Member: Aquila

34

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,714 members

53 reviews

4.2

Member: Aquila

35

by Lois McMaster Bujold

2,628 members

81 reviews

4.2

Member: Aquila

36

2,888 members

103 reviews

4.2

Member: Aquila

37

by Connie Willis

2,410 members

84 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

38

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,069 members

56 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

39

by C. J. Cherryh

1,828 members

54 reviews

4.1

Member: Aquila

40

The City in the Middle of the Night

by Charlie Jane Anders

1,197 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Aquila

41

11,768 members

275 reviews

4.2

42

Rendezvous With Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

10,147 members

178 reviews

4

43

by Neal Stephenson

8,315 members

290 reviews

4.2

44

The Fall of Hyperion

6,674 members

122 reviews

4.1

45

4,175 members

67 reviews

3.9

46

4,163 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

47

Startide Rising

4,131 members

57 reviews

4

48

The Rise of Endymion

4,039 members

64 reviews

4

49

by James S. A. Corey

3,469 members

141 reviews

4.1

50

3,238 members

32 reviews

3.9

51

The Collapsing Empire

2,495 members

124 reviews

3.9

52

The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World

by Neal Stephenson

77 members

½ 4.4

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Started: gypsysmom
September 2022
Type: Numbered and unnumbered, Adding restricted

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