Locus Award for Best Collection

The Locus Award for Best Collection is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. The award for Best Collection was originally presented as Best Reprint Anthology/Collection between 1972 and 1974, in conjunction with a Best Original Anthology award which evolved into the modern Best Anthology award.

Year	Nominated Work[1]	Author	Ref.
1972	World's Best Science Fiction: 1971	Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr	[2]
1973	The Best Science Fiction of the Year	Terry Carr	[3]
1974	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2	Terry Carr	[4]
1975	Before the Golden Age	Isaac Azimov	[5]

With the 1975 awards the category was renamed Best Single Author Collection, becoming simply Best Collection in 1984.

Year	Nominated Work[1]	Author	Ref.
1975	The Best of Fritz Leiber	Fritz Leiber	[6]
1976	The Wind's Twelve Quarters	Ursula K. Le Guin	[7]
1977	A Song for Lya and Other Stories	George R.R. Martin	[8]
1978	Category not awarded
1979	The Persistence of Vision	John Varley	[9]
1980	Convergent Series	Larry Niven	[10]
1981	The Barbie Murders	John Varley	[11]
1982	Sandkings	George R.R. Martin	[12]
1983	The Compass Rose	Ursula K. Le Guin	[13]
1984	Unicorn Variations	Roger Zelazny	[14]
1985	The Ghost Light	Fritz Leiber	[15]
1986	Skeleton Crew	Stephen King	[16]
1987	Blue Champagne	John Varley	[17]
1988	The Jaguar Hunter	Lucius Shepard	[18]
1989	Angry Candy	Harlan Ellison	[19]
1990	Patterns	Pat Cadigan	[20]
1991	Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card	Orson Scott Card	[21]
1992	Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories	Howard Waldrop	[22]
1993	The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers	Robert Silverberg	[23]
1994	Impossible Things	Connie Willis	[24]
1995	Otherness	David Brin	[25]
1996	Four Ways to Forgiveness	Ursula K. Le Guin	[26]
1997	None So Blind	Joe Haldeman	[27]
1998	Slippage	Harlan Ellison	[28]
1999	The Avram Davidson Treasury	Avram Davidson	[29]
2000	The Martians	Kim Stanley Robinson	[30]
2001	Tales of Old Earth	Michael Swanwick	[31]
2002	Tales from Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	[32]
2003	Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang	[33]
2004	Changing Planes	Ursula K. Le Guin	[34]
2005	The John Varley Reader	John Varley	[35]
2006	Magic for Beginners	Kelly Link	[36]
2007	Fragile Things	Neil Gaiman	[37]
2008	The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories	Connie Willis	[38]
2009	Pump Six and Other Stories	Paolo Bacigalupi	[39]
2010	The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe)"	Gene Wolfe	[40]
2011	Selected Stories	Fritz Leiber	[41]
2012	The Bible Repairman and Other Stories	Tim Powers	[42]
2013	Shoggoths in Bloom	Elizabeth Bear	[43]
2014	The Best of Connie Willis	Connie Willis	[44]
2015	Last Plane to Heaven	Jay Lake	[45]
2016	Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances	Neil Gaiman	[46]
2017	The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories	Ken Liu	[47]
2018	The Hainish Novels and Stories	Ursula K. Le Guin	[48]
2019	How Long 'til Black Future Month?	N. K. Jemisin	[49]
2020	Exhalation	Ted Chiang	[50]
2021	The Hidden Girl and Other Stories	Ken Liu	[51]
2022	Even Greater Mistakes	Charlie Jane Anders	[52]
2023	Boys, Beasts & Men	Sam J. Miller	[53]
2024	White Cat, Black Dog	Kelly Link	[54]
2025	Lake of Souls	Ann Leckie	[55]

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