Locus Award for Best Collection

• Year — Nominated work — Author — Ref. • 1972 — World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 — Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr • 1973 — The Best Science Fiction of the Year — Terry Carr • 1974 — The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 — Terry Carr • 1975 — Before the Golden Age — Isaac Asimov

With the 1975 awards the category was renamed Best Single Author Collection, becoming simply Best Collection in 1984. • Year — Nominated work — Author — Ref. • 1975 — The Best of Fritz Leiber — Fritz Leiber • 1976 — The Wind's Twelve Quarters — Ursula K. Le Guin • 1977 — A Song for Lya and Other Stories — George R. R. Martin • 1978 — Category not awarded • 1979 — The Persistence of Vision — John Varley • 1980 — Convergent — Larry Niven • 1981 — The Barbie Murders — John Varley • 1982 — Sandkings — George R. R. Martin • 1983 — The Compass Rose — Ursula K. Le Guin • 1984 — Unicorn Variations — Roger Zelazny • 1985 — The Ghost Light — Fritz Leiber • 1986 — Skeleton Crew — Stephen King • 1987 — Blue Champagne — John Varley • 1988 — The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard • 1989 — Angry Candy — Harlan Ellison • 1990 — Patterns — Pat Cadigan • 1991 — Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card — Orson Scott Card • 1992 — Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories — Howard Waldrop • 1993 — The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers — Robert Silverberg • 1994 — Impossible Things — Connie Willis • 1995 — Otherness — David Brin • 1996 — Four Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin • 1997 — None So Blind — Joe Haldeman • 1998 — Slippage — Harlan Ellison • 1999 — The Avram Davidson Treasury — Avram Davidson • 2000 — The Martians — Kim Stanley Robinson • 2001 — Tales of Old Earth — Michael Swanwick • 2002 — Tales from Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin • 2003 — Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang • 2004 — Changing Planes — Ursula K. Le Guin • 2005 — The John Varley Reader — John Varley • 2006 — Magic for Beginners — Kelly Link • 2007 — Fragile Things — Neil Gaiman • 2008 — The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories — Connie Willis • 2009 — Pump Six and Other Stories — Paolo Bacigalupi • 2010 — "The Best of Gene Wolfe|The Best of Gene Wolfe (aka The Very Best of Gene Wolfe)" — Gene Wolfe • 2011 — Selected Stories — Fritz Leiber • 2012 — The Bible Repairman and Other Stories — Tim Powers • 2013 — Shoggoths in Bloom — Elizabeth Bear • 2014 — The Best of Connie Willis — Connie Willis • 2015 — Last Plane to Heaven — Jay Lake • 2016 — Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances — Neil Gaiman • 2017 — The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories — Ken Liu • 2018 — The Hainish Novels and Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin • 2019 — How Long 'til Black Future Month? — N. K. Jemisin • 2020 — Exhalation — Ted Chiang • 2021 — The Hidden Girl and Other Stories — Ken Liu • 2022 — Even Greater Mistakes — Charlie Jane Anders • 2023 — Boys, Beasts & Men — Sam J. Miller • 2024 — White Cat, Black Dog — Kelly Link • 2025 — Lake of Souls — Ann Leckie • 2026 — Uncertain Sons and Other Stories — Thomas Ha