Comments: Unlike many other awards which simply list the winner and the losing nominees, the Locus Awards rank every single nominee on the short list, from first to last, in every single category. Because the Locus Awards are supposed to provide recommendations for Hugo Award voters (and implicitly for Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award voters as well), this sort of ranking makes some sense. After all, even though the fact that a particular book won the Locus Award provides a certain level of information, the fact that another book finished second, while a third book finished twelfth provides even more. On the other hand, for some of the categories, this sort of detailed information is overkill. After all, do we really need to know which single fanzine issue ranked fifth and which one ranked tenth overall?
Best Novel
Winner:
1. Ringworld by Larry Niven
Other Nominees:
2. (tie) Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
(tie) The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
4. And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
5. (tie) Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
(tie) Fourth Mansions by R.A. Lafferty
7. Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
8. The Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson
9. I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
10. Star Light by Hal Clement
11. Beastchild by Dean Koontz
12. Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
13. Chronocules by D.G. Compton
14. The Steel Crocodile by D.G. Compton
15. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
16. After Things Fell Apart by Ron Goulart
Best Short Story
Winner:
1. The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
Other Nominees:
2. The Snow Women by Fritz Leiber
3. Continued on Next Rock by R.A. Lafferty
4. Beastchild by Dean Koontz
5. In the Queue by Keith Laumer
6. Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)
7. Runesmith by Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon8. Brillo by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
9. The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
10. (tie) Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
(tie) Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R.A. Lafferty
(tie) The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
13. The Throwbacks by Robert Silverberg
14. Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)
Best Anthology or Collection
Winner:
Other Nominees:
2. Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty
3. Orbit 6 edited by Damon Knight
4. World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
5. Orbit 7 edited by Damon Knight
6. Quark/1 edited by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker
7. Five Fates edited by Anonymous
8. The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde by Norman Spinrad
9. Alchemy and Academe edited by Anne McCaffrey
10. Alpha One by Robert Silverberg
11. The Reluctant Shaman by L. Sprague de Camp
12. Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber
13. Great Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg
14. Orbit 8 edited by Damon Knight
15. Nova 1 edited by Harry Harrison
Best Magazine
Winner:
1. Fantasy & Science Fiction
Other Nominees:
2. Analog
3. Galaxy
4. Amazing Stories
5. Fantastic
6. If
7. Vision of Tomorrow
8. Worlds of Fantasy
Best Fanzine
Winner:
1. Locus
Other Nominees:
2. Science Fiction Review
3. Outworlds
4. Energumen
5. Speculation
6. Yandro
7. Warhoon
8. SF Commentary
9. Luna
10. Focal Point
11. Granfalloon
12. WSFA Journal
13. Riverside Quarterly
14. Amra
15. Tolkien Journal
16. Egoboo
Best Single Fanzine Issue
Winner:
1. Locus #70
Other Nominees:
2. Outworlds #4
3. Warhoon #27
4. Focal Point #12.5
5. (tie) Science Fiction Review #39
(tie) Yandro #200
7. Energumen #2
8. (tie) Energumen #4
(tie) Granfalloon #9
10. Science Fiction Review #41
11. Energumen #3
12. The Essence #2
13. (tie) Anomaly #2
(tie) SF Commentary #17
15. Locus #66
Best Fan Writer
Winner:
1. Harry Warner, Jr.
Other Nominees:
2. Dick Geis
3. Charlie Brown
4. Liz Fishman
5. Terry Carr
6. Ted White
7. Ted Pauls
8. Bob Shaw
9. Bob Tucker
10. Piers Anthony
11. Rosemary Ullyot
12. (tie) Mike Glicksohn
(tie) Juanita Coulson
13. Gregory Benford
Best Fan Critic
Winner:
1. Ted Pauls
Other Nominees:
2. Paul Walker
3. Richard Delap
4. Charlie Brown
5. Dick Geis
6. Buck Coulson
7. Fred Patten
8. Bruce Gillespie
9. Alexei Panshin
10. Chris Couch
11. John Foyster
12. Dena Brown
13. Ted White
14. Sandra Miesel
15. Alexis Gilliland
Best Paperback Cover Illustrator
Winner:
1. Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
Other Nominees:
2. Jeff Jones
3. Frank Kelly Freas
4. Jack Gaughan
5. Frank Frazetta
6. George Barrv
7. (tie) John Schoenherr
(tie) Steele Savage
9. Dean Ellis
10. Robert Pepper
11. Gervasio Gallardo
12. Jim Steranko
13. Paul Lehr
14. Gene Szafran
15. James Bama
Best Fan Artist
Winner:
1. Alicia Austin
Other Nominees:
2. Tim Kirk
3. George Barr
4. Steve Fabian
5. Mike Gilbert
6. Bill Rotsler
7. Grant Canfield
8. James Shull
9. Derek Carter
10. Atom
11. Bjo Trimble
12. (tie) Connie Faddis
(tie) Vincent Di Fate
14. Jim McLeod
15. Vaughn Bodé
16. Eddie Jones
Best Fan Cartoonist
Winner:
1. Bill Rotsler
Other Nominees:
2. Tim Kirk
3. Steve Stiles
4. ATom
5. Derek Carter
6. Grant Canfield
7. Alexis Gilliland
8. Jay Kinney
9. Mike Gilbert
10. Vaughn Bodé
11. Doug Lovenstein
12. Jonh Ingham
13. Jack Gaughan
14. Jeff Schalles
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