1986 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

The Postman

David Brin

This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin’s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the p…

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin

Blood Music

Greg Bear

Brightness Falls from the Air

James Tiptree, Jr.

Contact

Carl Sagan

Cuckoo’s Egg

C. J. Cherryh

Dinner at Deviant’s Palace

Tim Powers

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Eon

Greg Bear

Footfall

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Helliconia Winter

Brian W. Aldiss

Robots and Empire

Isaac Asimov

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Robert A. Heinlein

The Kif Strike Back

C. J. Cherryh

The Proteus Operation

James P. Hogan