Locus Award Winners for Best Anthology

The Locus Award for Best Anthology is bestowed upon the best collection of short fiction that is compiled from the works of several authors. This differentiates this award from the award for Best Collection, which honors compilations of short fiction in which the works are all from a single author.

Though the award had a fair amount of variety until 1987, with Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year series showing up four times in nine voting years, since 1987, the award has been dominated by Gardner Dozois and his Year's Best Science Fiction series. In the last twenty-five years the Year's Best Science Fiction series has won this award for Dozois eighteen times. Dozois has also won this award three more times with other anthology collections, although in each of those cases he shared the award with a coeditor. In short, it seems that your best bet to have a chance to win this award is to either be Gardner Dozois, or team up to edit a book with Gardner Dozois.

1971: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume I, 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg

1976: Epoch edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg
1977: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr
1979: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #7 edited by Terry Carr
1980: Universe 9 edited by Terry Carr

1981: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective edited by Edward L. Ferman

1982: Shadows of Sanctuary edited by Robert Lynn Asprin
1983: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 edited by Terry Carr
1984: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 edited by Terry Carr
1985: Light Years and Dark edited by Michael Bishop
1986: Medea: Harlan's World edited by Harlan Ellison

1987: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1988: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1989: Full Spectrum edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy

1990: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1991: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1992: Full Spectrum 3 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell

1993: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1994: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1995: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1996: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1997: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1998: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

1999: Legends edited by Robert Silverberg
2000: Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg

2001: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2002: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2003: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2004: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2005: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2006: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant

2007: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2008: The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan

2009: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2010: The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
2011: Warriors edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

2012: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

2013: Edge of Infinity edited by Jonathan Strahan
2014: Old Mars edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

2015: Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

2016: Old Venus edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

2017: The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

2018: The Book of Swords edited by Gardner Dozois

2019: The Book of Magic edited by Gardner Dozois

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