Locus Award for Best Novelette
The Locus Award for Best Novelette is one of a series of Locus Awards given annually by Locus Magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.
The first award in this category was presented in 1975.
Winners
Winners are as follows:| Year | Novelette | Author |
| 1975 | Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13 W | Harlan Ellison |
| 1976 | The New Atlantis | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1977 | The Bicentennial Man | Isaac Asimov |
| 1978 | No award given | |
| 1979 | The Barbie Murders | John Varley |
| 1980 | Sandkings | George R. R. Martin |
| 1981 | The Brave Little Toaster | Thomas M. Disch |
| 1982 | Guardians | George R. R. Martin |
| 1983 | Djinn, No Chaser | Harlan Ellison |
| 1984 | The Monkey Treatment | George R. R. Martin |
| 1985 | Bloodchild | Octavia Butler |
| 1986 | Paladin of the Lost Hour | Harlan Ellison |
| 1987 | Thor Meets Captain America | David Brin |
| 1988 | Rachel in Love | Pat Murphy |
| 1989 | The Function of Dream Sleep | Harlan Ellison |
| 1990 | Dogwalker | Orson Scott Card |
| 1991 | Entropy's Bed at Midnight | Dan Simmons |
| 1992 | All Dracula's Children | Dan Simmons |
| 1993 | Danny Goes to Mars | Pamela Sargent |
| 1994 | Death in Bangkok | Dan Simmons |
| 1995 | The Martian Child | David Gerrold |
| 1996 | When the Old Gods Die | Mike Resnick |
| 1997 | Mountain Ways | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1998 | Newsletter | Connie Willis |
| 1999 | The Planck Drive | Greg Egan |
| 1999 | Taklamakan | Bruce Sterling |
| 2000 | Huddle | Stephen Baxter |
| 2000 | Border Guards | Greg Egan |
| 2001 | The Birthday of the World | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2002 | Hell is the Absence of God | Ted Chiang |
| 2003 | The Wild Girls | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2004 | A Study in Emerald | Neil Gaiman |
| 2005 | The Faery Handbag | Kelly Link |
| 2005 | Reports of Certain Events in London | China Mieville |
| 2006 | I, Robot | Cory Doctorow |
| 2007 | When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | Cory Doctorow |
| 2008 | The Witch's Headstone | Neil Gaiman |
| 2009 | Pump Six | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2010 | By Moonlight | Peter S. Beagle |
| 2011 | The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains | Neil Gaiman |
| 2012 | White Lines on a Green Field | Catherynne M. Valente |
| 2013 | The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi | Pat Cadigan |
| 2014 | The Sleeper and the Spindle | Neil Gaiman |
| 2015 | Tough Times All Over | Joe Abercrombie |
| 2016 | Black Dog | Neil Gaiman |
| 2017 | You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay | Alyssa Wong |
| 2018 | The Hermit of Houston | Samuel R. Delany |
| 2019 | The Only Harmless Great Thing'' | Brooke Bolander |