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Winners and
Nominations—
• Complete List by Nominee
• Records and Tallies
• Results by Year:
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Record winners
Gardner Dozois has won the Locus Poll most often, 32 times; for works of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin has won 18 times.
Losers Club (Most nominations with no wins)
Among fiction writers, Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Robert Reed, Greg Bear, Paul J. McAuley, and Brian Stableford have placed most often without having won
Never Won
Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, William Gibson. Vernor Vinge was on this list until 2004.
Never Even Nominated
L. Ron Hubbard and Hugo Gernsback have never appeared in any Locus Poll results--not even an all-time best category.
(On this page and the Nominee List, 'nominations' refers to rankings below first place in published poll results.)
Total Locus Wins
(Number of fiction wins in parentheses)
| 32 |
Gardner Dozois |
| 26 |
Michael Whelan |
| 19 |
Ursula K. Le Guin (18) |
| 18 |
Harlan Ellison (15) |
| 12 |
Dan Simmons (12) |
| 11 |
Terry Carr,
Neil Gaiman (10),
George R. R. Martin (11) |
| 10 |
Arnie Fenner,
Cathy Fenner,
John Varley (10) |
| 9 |
Robert Silverberg (5),
Connie Willis (9) |
| 8 |
Orson Scott Card (8),
Lucius Shepard (8) |
| 7 |
Isaac Asimov (4) |
| 6 |
Kim Stanley Robinson (6) |
| 5 |
David Brin (5),
Frank Kelly Freas,
Stephen King (3),
Gene Wolfe (5) |
| 4 |
Michael Bishop (3),
John Clute,
Ellen Datlow,
Joe Haldeman (4),
Kelly Link (3),
China Miéville (4),
Larry Niven (4) |
| 3 |
Lois McMaster Bujold (3),
Cory Doctorow (3),
Greg Egan (3),
Frederik Pohl (2),
Tim Powers (3),
Terry Pratchett (3),
Bill Rotsler,
Neal Stephenson (3),
Bruce Sterling (2) |
| 2 |
Lou Aronica,
Terry Bisson (2),
Pat Cadigan (2),
Ted Chiang (2),
Thomas M. Disch (1),
Bob Eggleton,
Richard E. Geis,
Robert A. Heinlein (1),
Tim Kirk,
Fritz Leiber (2),
Maureen F. McHugh (2),
Peter Nicholls,
Spider Robinson (1),
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1),
Allen Steele (2),
Rick Sternbach,
Charles Stross (2),
Ian Summers,
Michael Swanwick (1),
James Tiptree, Jr. (2),
Vernor Vinge (2),
Kate Wilhelm (1),
Roger Zelazny (2) |
Total Locus Nominations
(Number of fiction nominations in parentheses)
[Number of wins in brackets]
Locus Never-Winners
Number of rankings on poll without ever having placed 1st
(Fiction nominations in parentheses)
Total Locus Losses
Number of times ranked on poll below 1st place [Number of wins in bracket]
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