1997 Locus Poll Award

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Best SF Novel
1	Blue Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
2	Endymion	Dan Simmons
3	Memory	Lois McMaster Bujold
4	Cetaganda	Lois McMaster Bujold
5	Holy Fire	Bruce Sterling
6	Idoru	William Gibson
7	Inheritor	C. J. Cherryh
8	Night Lamp	Jack Vance
9	Fairyland	Paul J. McAuley
10	Exodus from the Long Sun	Gene Wolfe
11	Voyage	Stephen Baxter
12	Beggars Ride	Nancy Kress
13	Excession	Iain M. Banks
14	The Ringworld Throne	Larry Niven
15	Children of the Mind	Orson Scott Card
16	City of Golden Shadow	Tad Williams
17	Dreamfall	Joan D. Vinge
18	Remnant Population	Elizabeth Moon
19	Distress	Greg Egan
20	Pirates of the Universe	Terry Bisson
21	River of Dust	Alexander Jablokov
22	Night Sky Mine	Melissa Scott
23	The Other End of Time	Frederik Pohl
24	Gibbon's Decline and Fall	Sheri S. Tepper
25	The Tranquillity Alternative	Allen Steele
26	Oaths and Miracles	Nancy Kress
27	Infinity's Shore	David Brin
Best Fantasy Novel
1	A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin
2	Lunatics	Bradley Denton
3	Winter Rose	Patricia A. McKillip
4	Blameless in Abaddon	James Morrow
5	Royal Assassin	Robin Hobb
6	A Crown of Swords	Robert Jordan
7	Feet of Clay	Terry Pratchett
8	Nadya	Pat Murphy
9	The Prestige	Christopher Priest
10	The Wood Wife	Terri Windling
11	One for the Morning Glory	John Barnes
12	Walking the Labyrinth	Lisa Goldstein
13	Ancient Echoes	Robert Holdstock
14	Clouds End	Sean Stewart
15	Northern Lights	Philip Pullman
16	Mother of Winter	Barbara Hambly
17	Fair Peril	Nancy Springer
18	Blood of the Fold	Terry Goodkind
19	Firebird	Mercedes Lackey
20	The Golden Key	Kate Elliott and Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson
21	The Dragon and the Unicorn	A. A. Attanasio
22	Sea Without a Shore	Sean Russell
Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
1	Desperation	Stephen King
2	Sacrament	Clive Barker
3	The Fetch	Robert Holdstock
4	The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires	Brian Stableford
5	Requiem	Graham Joyce
6	The 37th Mandala	Marc Laidlaw
7	Servant of the Bones	Anne Rice
8	The Green Mile	Stephen King
9	The Pillow Friend	Lisa Tuttle
10	Stainless	Todd Grimson
Best First Novel
1	Reclamation	Sarah Zettel
1	Whiteout	Sage Walker
3	The Waterborn	J. Gregory Keyes
4	The Fortunate Fall	Raphael Carter
5	Celestial Matters	Richard Garfinkle
6	Looking for the Mahdi	N. Lee Wood
7	Luck in the Shadows	Lynn Flewelling
8	Mordred's Curse	Ian McDowell
9	Mainline	Deborah Christian
10	Wind from a Foreign Sky	Katya Reimann
11	Shade and Shadow	Francine G. Woodbury
12	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell
13	Mage Heart	Jane Routley
14	Commencement	Roby James
15	First Dawn	Mike Moscoe
Best Novella
1	Bellwether	Connie Willis
2	Blood of the Dragon	George R. R. Martin
3	Human History	Lucius Shepard
4	The Unicorn Sonata	Peter S. Beagle
5	Kilroy Was Here	Jack Cady
6	Gas Fish	Mary Rosenblum
7	Immersion	Gregory Benford
8	The Tree That Grew from the Sky	Robert Silverberg
9	Chrysalis	Robert Reed
10	The Cost to Be Wise	Maureen F. McHugh
11	Abandon in Place	Jerry Oltion
12	The Littlest Jackal	Bruce Sterling
13	Verglas	Ian R. MacLeod
14	Saddle Point Sequence	Stephen Baxter
15	Fugue on a Sunken Continent	G. David Nordley
16	Primrose and Thorn	Bud Sparhawk
16	Saddle Point Dreamtime	Stephen Baxter
Best Novelette
1	Mountain Ways	Ursula K. Le Guin
2	The Edge of the Universe	Terry Bisson
3	The Land of Nod	Mike Resnick
4	Bicycle Repairman	Bruce Sterling
5	Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast	Suzy McKee Charnas
6	The Dog's Story	Eleanor Arnason
7	A Dry, Quiet War	Tony Daniel
8	The Flowers of Aulit Prison	Nancy Kress
9	Radio Waves	Michael Swanwick
10	The Man in the Pepper Mill	Gene Wolfe
11	Age of Aquarius	William Barton
12	The First Law of Thermodynamics	James Patrick Kelly
13	Amends	John Brunner
14	After a Lean Winter	Dave Wolverton
15	Martian Valkyrie	G. David Nordley
16	Try and Kill It	Gene Wolfe
17	Kronos	Allen Steele
18	The Peacock Throne	Charles Sheffield
19	Out of the Mouths	Sheila Finch
20	Diana of the Hundred Breasts	Robert Silverberg
21	The Longer Voyage	Michael Cassutt
22	The Three Labors of Bubba	Bud Webster
23	Nonstop to Portales	Connie Willis
24	In the Upper Room	Terry Bisson
Best Short Story
1	Gone	John Crowley
2	Counting Cats in Zanzibar	Gene Wolfe
3	The Last Homosexual	Paul Park
4	The Dead	Michael Swanwick
5	The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective	Connie Willis
6	Forget Luck	Kate Wilhelm
7	On Sequoia Time	Daniel Keys Moran
8	Decency	Robert Reed
9	Strings	Maureen F. McHugh
10	Appointment in Sinai	Ben Bova
11	Community	Gardner Dozois
12	A Silurian Tale	Steven Utley
13	Columbiad	Stephen Baxter
14	Un-Birthday Boy	James White
15	Invasion	Joanna Russ
16	The Spacetime Pit	Stephen Baxter and Eric Brown
17	Breakaway, Backdown	James Patrick Kelly
18	First Tuesday	Robert Reed
19	Death Do Us Part	Robert Silverberg
20	Under Pressure	Sarah Zettel
Best Collection
1	None So Blind	Joe Haldeman
2	Unlocking the Air and Other Stories	Ursula K. Le Guin
3	Quicker Than the Eye	Ray Bradbury
4	Bible Stories for Adults	James Morrow
5	Dreamweaver's Dilemma	Lois McMaster Bujold
6	All One Universe	Poul Anderson
7	The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye	Jonathan Lethem
8	Killdozer!	Theodore Sturgeon
9	Microcosmic God	Theodore Sturgeon
10	The Panic Hand	Jonathan Carroll
11	Over the River and Through the Woods	Clifford D. Simak
12	At the City Limits of Fate	Michael Bishop
13	Standard Candles	Jack McDevitt
14	Ribofunk	Paul Di Filippo
15	Schismatrix Plus	Bruce Sterling
16	Minor Arcana	Diana Wynne Jones
17	The Nightmare Factory	Thomas Ligotti
18	Before... 12:01 ...and After	Richard A. Lupoff
19	The Invisible Country	Paul J. McAuley
20	Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities	Mary Rosenblum
Best Anthology
1	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection	Gardner Dozois
2	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection	Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
3	Year's Best SF	David G. Hartwell
4	Starlight 1	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
5	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches	Kevin J. Anderson
6	Nebula Awards 30	Pamela Sargent
7	Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology	David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf
8	Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex	Ellen Datlow
9	Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology	Richard Butner and John Kessel and Mark L. Van Name
10	American Gothic Tales	Joyce Carol Oates
Best Magazine
1	Asimov's Science Fiction	Gardner Dozois
2	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	Stanley Schmidt
4	Science Fiction Age	Scott Edelman
5	Interzone	David Pringle
6	Realms of Fantasy	Shawna McCarthy
7	Century	Robert K. J. Killheffer and Meg Hamel and Jenna Felice
Best Non-Fiction
1	Look at the Evidence	John Clute
2	Time & Chance: An Autobiography	L. Sprague de Camp
3	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland	Diana Wynne Jones
4	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life	S. T. Joshi
5	St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers	David Pringle
6	Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany	James Sallis
7	Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography	Herbert R. Lottman
8	The Jules Verne Encyclopedia	Brian Taves and Stephen Michaluk, Jr.
Best Art Book
1	Spectrum III: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	Cathy Burnett and Arnie Fenner and Jim Loehr
2	The Faces of Fantasy	Patti Perret
3	The World of Edward Gorey	Edward Gorey and Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin
4	Neurotica: The Darkest Art of J. K. Potter	J. K. Potter
5	H. R. Giger's Film Design	H. R. Giger
6	Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective	Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler and Maxfield Parrish
7	Animal Farm: 50th Anniversary Edition	Ralph Steadman and George Orwell
8	A City in Winter	Chris Van Allsburg and Mark Helprin
9	The Wanderings of Odysseus	Alan Lee and Rosemary Sutcliff
Best Editor
1	----	Gardner Dozois
2	----	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3	----	Ellen Datlow
4	----	David G. Hartwell
5	----	Stanley Schmidt
6	----	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
7	----	Scott Edelman
8	----	Terri Windling
9	----	David Pringle
Best Book Publisher
1	----	Tor/St. Martin's
2	----	Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3	----	Ballantine/Del Rey/etc.
4	----	Baen
5	----	DAW
6	----	Putnam/Berkley/Ace
7	----	HarperCollins US/HarperPrism
8	----	Avon/Morrow
9	----	White Wolf
10	----	Warner
11	----	Penguin/Roc
Best Artist
1	----	Michael Whelan
2	----	Bob Eggleton
3	----	Don Maitz
4	----	Thomas Canty
5	----	Jim Burns
6	----	J. K. Potter
7	----	W. J. Hodgson

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