Locus Award for Best Non-fiction

The Locus Award for Non-fiction is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year.

The Best non-fiction award has been made since 1979, originally known as Best Reference Book. The category was briefly merged with Best Art Book in 2004 and 2009-2010, and had on some occasions been previous won by graphic novels, which at the time did not have a category to fit them.

Winners

Year	Nominated Work [1]	Author	Ref.
1979	The Way the Future Was	Frederik Pohl	[2]
1980	The Science Fiction Encyclopedia	Peter Nicholls	[3]
1981	In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978	Isaac Azimov	[4]
1982	Danse Macabre	Stephen King	[5]
1983	The Engines of the Night	Barry N. Malzberg	[6]
1984	Dream Makers, Volume II	Charles Platt	[7]
1985	Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed	Harlan Ellison	[8]
1986	Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf	Algis Budrys	[9]
1987	Trillion Year Spree	Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove	[10]
1988	Watchmen	Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons	[11]
1989	First Maitz	Don Maitz	[12]
1990	Grumbles from the Grave	Robert A. Heinlein	[13]
1991	Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook	Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith	[14]
1992	Science-Fiction: The Early Years	Everett F. Bleiler	[15]
1993	Dinotopia	James Gurney	[16]
1994	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction	John Clute & Peter Nicholls	[17]
1995	I. Asimov: A Memoir	Isaac Asimov	[18]
1996	Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia	John Clute	[19]
1997	Look at the Evidence	John Clute	[20]
1998	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	John Clute & John Grant	[21]
1999	The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World	Thomas M. Disch	[22]
2000	Sixty Years of Arkham House	S. T. Joshi	[23]
2001	On Writing	Stephen King	[24]
2002	Being Gardner Dozois	Michael Swanwick	[25]
2003	Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years	Bruce Sterling	[26]
2004	The Sandman: Endless Nights	Neil Gaiman	[27]
2005	The Wave in the Mind	Ursula K. Le Guin	[28]
2006	Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop	Kate Wilhelm	[29]
2007	James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon	Julie Phillips	[30]
2008	Breakfast in the Ruins	Barry N. Malzberg	[31]
2009	Awarded to an Art Book		[32]
2010	Cheek by Jowl: Essays	Ursula K. Le Guin	[33]
2011	Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve	William H. Patterson, Jr	[34]
2012	Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature	Gary K. Wolfe	[35]
2013	Distrust That Particular Flavor	William Gibson	[36]
2014	Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction	Jeff VanderMeer	[37]
2015	What Makes This Book So Great	Jo Walton	[38]
2016	Letters to Tiptree	Alisa Krasnostein & Alexandra Pierce	[39]
2017	The Geek Feminist Revolution	Kameron Hurley	[40]
2018	Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler	Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal	[41]
2019	Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing	Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon	[42]
2020	Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction	Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson	[43]
2021	The Magic of Terry Pratchett	Marc Burrows	[44]
2022	Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985	Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre	[45]
2023	Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography	Rob Wilkins	[46]
2024	Space Crone	Ursula K. Le Guin	[47]
2025	Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction	Eugen Bacon	[48]

References

2. "Locus Awards 1979" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
3. "Locus Awards 1980" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
4. "Locus Awards 1981" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
5. "Locus Awards 1982" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
6. "Locus Awards 1983" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
7. "Locus Awards 1984" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
8. "Locus Awards 1985" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
9. "Locus Awards 1986" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
10. "Locus Awards 1987" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
11. "Locus Awards 1988" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
12. "Locus Awards 1989" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
13. "Locus Awards 1990" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
14. "Locus Awards 1991" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
15. "Locus Awards 1992" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
16. "Locus Awards 1993" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
17. "Locus Awards 1994" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
18. "Locus Awards 1995" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
19. "Locus Awards 1996" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
20. "Locus Awards 1997" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
21. "Locus Awards 1998" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
22. "Locus Awards 1999" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
23. "Locus Awards 2000" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
24. "Locus Awards 2001" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
25. "Locus Awards 2002" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
26. "Locus Awards 2003" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
27. "Locus Awards 2004" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
28. "Locus Awards 2005" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
29. "Locus Awards 2006" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
30. "Locus Awards 2007" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
31. "Locus Awards 2008" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
32. "Locus Awards 2009" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
33. "Locus Awards 2010" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
34. "Locus Awards 2011" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
35. "Locus Awards 2012" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
36. "Locus Awards 2013" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
37. "Locus Awards 2014" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
38. "Locus Awards 2015" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
39. "Locus Awards 2016" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
40. "Locus Awards 2017" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
41. "Locus Awards 2018" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
42. "Locus Awards 2019" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
43. "Locus Awards 2020" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
44. "Locus Awards 2021" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
45. "Locus Awards 2022" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
46. "Locus Awards 2023" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
47. "Locus Awards 2024" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.
48. "Locus Awards 2025" . Retrieved June 23, 2025.

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