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.
Winners Best Reprint Anthology/Collection YearNominated workAuthorRef.1972World's Best Science Fiction: 1971Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr1973The Best Science Fiction of the YearTerry Carr1974The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2Terry Carr1975Before the Golden AgeIsaac Asimov
Best Collection With the 1975 awards the category was renamed Best Single Author Collection, becoming simply Best Collection in 1984.
YearNominated workAuthorRef.1975The Best of Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber1976The Wind's Twelve QuartersUrsula K. Le Guin1977A Song for Lya and Other StoriesGeorge R. R. Martin1978 Category not awarded1979The Persistence of VisionJohn Varley1980ConvergentLarry Niven1981The Barbie MurdersJohn Varley1982SandkingsGeorge R. R. Martin1983The Compass RoseUrsula K. Le Guin1984Unicorn VariationsRoger Zelazny1985The Ghost LightFritz Leiber1986Skeleton CrewStephen King1987Blue ChampagneJohn Varley1988The Jaguar HunterLucius Shepard1989Angry CandyHarlan Ellison1990PatternsPat Cadigan1991Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card1992Night of the Cooters: More Neat StoriesHoward Waldrop1993The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret SharersRobert Silverberg1994Impossible ThingsConnie Willis1995OthernessDavid Brin1996Four Ways to ForgivenessUrsula K. Le Guin1997None So BlindJoe Haldeman1998SlippageHarlan Ellison1999The Avram Davidson TreasuryAvram Davidson2000The MartiansKim Stanley Robinson2001Tales of Old EarthMichael Swanwick2002Tales from EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin2003Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang2004Changing Planes Ursula K. Le Guin2005The John Varley ReaderJohn Varley2006Magic for BeginnersKelly Link 2007Fragile ThingsNeil Gaiman2008The Winds of Marble Arch and Other StoriesConnie Willis2009Pump Six and Other Stories Paolo Bacigalupi 2010The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe)"Gene Wolfe2011Selected StoriesFritz Leiber 2012The Bible Repairman and Other StoriesTim Powers 2013Shoggoths in BloomElizabeth Bear 2014The Best of Connie WillisConnie Willis 2015Last Plane to HeavenJay Lake 2016Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and DisturbancesNeil Gaiman 2017The Paper Menagerie and Other StoriesKen Liu2018The Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le Guin2019How Long 'til Black Future Month?N. K. Jemisin2020ExhalationTed Chiang2021The Hidden Girl and Other StoriesKen Liu2022Even Greater MistakesCharlie Jane Anders2023Boys, Beasts & MenSam J. Miller2024White Cat, Black DogKelly Link2025Lake of SoulsAnn Leckie2026Uncertain Sons and Other StoriesThomas Ha
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