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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

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 Asimov [5]

Best Collection

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 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]
2026 Uncertain Sons and Other Stories Thomas Ha [56]

References

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