Reviews of Locus SF Award Winners

This is a list of Locus Award winners for best science fiction novel, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. This award is voted on by the readers of Locus and was originally intended to provide recommendations and suggestions for Hugo voting, but now often draws a larger total number of voters.

2007	Vernor Vinge	Rainbows End	6 out of 10
2006	Charles Stross	Accelerando	8 out of 10
2005	Neal Stephenson	The Confusion
2005	Neal Stephenson	The System of the World
2004	Dan Simmons	Ilium
2003	Kim Stanley Robinson	The Years of Rice and Salt	6 out of 10
2002	Connie Willis	Passage	8 out of 10
2001	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Telling
2000	Neal Stephenson	Cryptonomicon	9 out of 10
1999	Connie Willis	To Say Nothing of the Dog	7 out of 10
1998	Dan Simmons	The Rise of Endymion	9 out of 10
1997	Kim Stanley Robinson	Blue Mars	5 out of 10
1996	Neal Stephenson	The Diamond Age	7 out of 10
1995	Lois McMaster Bujold	Mirror Dance	8 out of 10
1994	Kim Stanley Robinson	Green Mars	6 out of 10
1993	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book	8 out of 10
1992	Lois McMaster Bujold	Barrayar	6 out of 10
1991	Dan Simmons	The Fall of Hyperion	8 out of 10
1990	Dan Simmons	Hyperion	10 out of 10
1989	C.J. Cherryh	Cyteen	9 out of 10
1988	David Brin	The Uplift War	8 out of 10
1987	Orson Scott Card	Speaker for the Dead	10 out of 10
1986	David Brin	The Postman
1985	Larry Niven	The Integral Trees	6 out of 10
1984	David Brin	Startide Rising	7 out of 10
1983	Isaac Asimov	Foundation's Edge	6 out of 10
1982	Julian May	The Many-Colored Land
1981	Joan D. Vinge	The Snow Queen	6 out of 10
1980	John Varley	Titan
1979	Vonda N. McIntyre	Dreamsnake	7 out of 10
1978	Frederik Pohl	Gateway	7 out of 10
1977	Kate Wilhelm	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	5 out of 10
1976	Joe Haldeman	The Forever War	7 out of 10
1975	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Dispossessed	8 out of 10
1974	Arthur C. Clarke	Rendezvous with Rama	6 out of 10
1973	Isaac Asimov	The Gods Themselves	7 out of 10
1972	Urusla K. Le Guin	The Lathe of Heaven
1971	Larry Niven	Ringworld	7 out of 10

Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.

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