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Locus Award for Best First Novel
Winners of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, awarded by the Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.
The award for Best First Novel was first presented in 1981, and is among the awards still presented (as of 2008).
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Dragon's Egg
Dragon's Egg is a hard science fiction novel written by Robert Forward and published in 1980. In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures that...
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Starship & Haiku
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Courtship Rite
Courtship Rite is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in Analog magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of Kingsbury's other stories, such as "Shipwright" (1978) and the...
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Tea with the Black Dragon
Tea with the Black Dragon is a 1983 fantasy novel by R. A. MacAvoy. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1983, the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1984, and won MacAvoy the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1983 and the...
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The Wild Shore
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Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel written by Carl Sagan and published in 1985.
A film adaptation of the novel starring Jodie Foster was released in 1997.
Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway is the director of "Project Argus," in which scores of radio...
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The Hercules Text
The Hercules Text is a 1986 science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt. It tells the story of a message of intelligent extraterrestrial origin received by SETI-scientists. The Hercules Text was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1986.
The story...
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War for the Oaks
A fantasy novel by Emma Bull, War for the Oaks (1987) is the story of Eddi McCandry, a rock musician who finds herself unwillingly pulled into the supernatural faerie conflict between good and evil. War for the Oaks is a pioneering work in the...
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Desolation Road
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Orbital Decay
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China Mountain Zhang
China Mountain Zhang is a 1992 novel by science fiction author Maureen F. McHugh. The novel is made up of several stories loosely intertwined.
The main story involves a man's maturation in a future dominated by China. His personal evolution is...
The Cipher
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Cold Allies
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Gun, with Occasional Music
Gun, with Occasional Music is a 1994 novel by Jonathan Lethem. It blends science fiction and hardboiled detective fiction. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.
The novel follows the adventures of Conrad Metcalf, a tough guy...
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The Bohr Maker
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Reclamation
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Whiteout
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The Great Wheel
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Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring is a novel by writer Nalo Hopkinson. It was the winning entry in the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and received the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel and earned Hopkinson the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New...
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The Silk Code
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Mars Crossing
Mars Crossing is a science fiction novel by Geoffrey A. Landis about an expedition to Mars, published by Tor Books in 2000. The novel was a nominee for the Nebula award, and won the Locus Award for best first novel in 2001.
The characters in the...
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Kushiel's Dart
Kushiel's Dart is Jacqueline Carey's first novel and the first of the novels in her Kushiel's Legacy series. The idea for this book first came to Carey when she was reading the Biblical Book of Genesis, and specifically a passage about "sons of God"...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternate history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has...
Hammered
Hammered is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear first published in 2004. It won the 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel. It is the first book of a trilogy made of Hammered, Scardown and Worldwired.
Story of Canadian Master Warrant Officer...
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His Majesty's Dragon
His Majesty's Dragon, published in the UK as Temeraire, is the first novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik first published in 2005.
His Majesty's Dragon won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best novel...
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Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
Heart-Shaped Box (2007) is the debut horror novel of author Joe Hill.
Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios, he doesn't think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost....
