1984 Locus Poll Award


Best SF Novel
1	Startide Rising	David Brin
2	The Robots of Dawn	Isaac Asimov
3	Millennium	John Varley
4	Helliconia Summer	Brian W. Aldiss
5	The Void Captain's Tale	Norman Spinrad
6	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	Anne McCaffrey
7	Thendara House	Marion Zimmer Bradley
8	Against Infinity	Gregory Benford
9	Orion Shall Rise	Poul Anderson
10	The Nonborn King	Julian May
11	Superluminal	Vonda N. McIntyre
12	Welcome, Chaos	Kate Wilhelm
13	The Crucible of Time	John Brunner
14	Worlds Apart	Joe Haldeman
15	Valentine Pontifex	Robert Silverberg
16	Gods of Riverworld	Philip José Farmer
17	The Citadel of the Autarch	Gene Wolfe
18	Forty Thousand in Gehenna	C. J. Cherryh
19	A Matter for Men	David Gerrold
20	The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica	John Calvin Batchelor
21	Wall Around a Star	Jack Williamson and Frederik Pohl
22	Golden Witchbreed	Mary Gentle
23	Broken Symmetries	Paul Preuss
24	Roderick at Random	John Sladek
25	There Is No Darkness	Joe Haldeman and Jack C. Haldeman II
26	Code of the Lifemaker	James P. Hogan
27	Tik-Tok	John Sladek
28	Transformer	M. A. Foster

Best Fantasy Novel
1	The Mists of Avalon	Marion Zimmer Bradley
2	The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers
3	The Armageddon Rag	George R. R. Martin
4	Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden	Jack Vance
5	White Gold Wielder	Stephen R. Donaldson
6	Christine	Stephen King
7	Pet Sematary	Stephen King
8	The Dreamstone	C. J. Cherryh
9	Damiano	R. A. MacAvoy
10	Neveryóna	Samuel R. Delany
11	Dragon on a Pedestal	Piers Anthony
12	Hart's Hope	Orson Scott Card
13	The Sword of Winter	Marta Randall
13	Cugel's Saga	Jack Vance
15	Tea with the Black Dragon	R. A. MacAvoy
16	Magician's Gambit	David Eddings
17	The Tree of Swords and Jewels	C. J. Cherryh
18	On a Pale Horse	Piers Anthony
19	Floating Dragon	Peter Straub
20	The Neverending Story	Michael Ende
21	Anackire	Tanith Lee
22	The Dragon Waiting	John M. Ford
23	Sung in Shadow	Tanith Lee
24	'Ware Hawk	Andre Norton
25	The Silent Gondoliers	William Goldman
26	The Sword is Forged	Evangeline Walton

Best First Novel
1	Tea with the Black Dragon	R. A. MacAvoy
2	The Blackcollar	Timothy Zahn
3	A Rumor of Angels	Marjorie B. Kellogg
4	King's Blood Four	Sheri S. Tepper
5	Starrigger	John DeChancie
6	The Shadow of the Ship	Robert Wilfred Franson
7	Harpy's Flight	Megan Lindholm
8	Anvil of the Heart	Bruce T. Holmes
9	The Forest of App	Gloria Rand Dank
10	Ratha's Creature	Clare Bell

Best Novella
1	Her Habiline Husband	Michael Bishop
2	Cascade Point	Timothy Zahn
3	Seeking	David R. Palmer
4	Homefaring	Robert Silverberg
5	Hardfought	Greg Bear
6	Hurricane Claude	Hilbert Schenck
7	The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis (or, the Astrogator's Testimony)	Michael Bishop
8	The Lord of the Skies	Frederik Pohl
9	The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars	Fritz Leiber
10	In the Face of My Enemy	Joseph H. Delaney
11	Gilpin's Space	Reginald Bretnor
12	Aquila Meets Bigfoot	S. P. Somtow
13	Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention	Avram Davidson

Best Novelette
1	The Monkey Treatment	George R. R. Martin
2	Black Air	Kim Stanley Robinson
3	Slow Birds	Ian Watson
4	Blood Music	Greg Bear
5	Street Meat	Norman Spinrad
6	The Sidon in the Mirror	Connie Willis
7	Multiples	Robert Silverberg
8	The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost	Russell Kirk
8	The Black Current	Ian Watson
10	The Final Report on the Lifeline Experiment	Timothy Zahn
11	The Monkey's Bride	Michael Bishop
12	The Mind of Medea	Kate Wilhelm
13	Blind Shemmy	Jack Dann
14	And the Marlin Spoke	Michael Bishop
15	Remembering Siri	Dan Simmons
16	Cicada Queen	Bruce Sterling
17	Into Whose Hands	Karl Edward Wagner
18	Belling Martha	Leigh Kennedy
19	Red Star, Winter Orbit	Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
20	In Whose Name Do We Seek the Quark?	Thomas Dulski
20	Nunc Dimittis	Tanith Lee
20	A Simple Case of Suicide	Marc Stiegler
23	The Hills Behind Hollywood High	Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
24	Deep Song	Reginald Bretnor
25	Life on the Tether	Mark Wheeler
26	A Day in the Life of Justin Argento Morrel	Gregory Frost

Best Short Story
1	Beyond the Dead Reef	James Tiptree, Jr.
2	The Peacemaker	Gardner Dozois
3	Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair	Frederik Pohl
4	Servant of the People	Frederik Pohl
5	Speech Sounds	Octavia E. Butler
6	Spook	Bruce Sterling
7	The Geometry of Narrative	Hilbert Schenck
8	Wong's Lost and Found Emporium	William F. Wu
9	Her Furry Face	Leigh Kennedy
10	Brothers	Richard Cowper
11	Amanda and the Alien	Robert Silverberg
12	Solitario's Eyes	Lucius Shepard
13	Needle in a Timestack	Robert Silverberg
14	Stone Eggs	Kim Stanley Robinson
15	Golden Gate	R. A. Lafferty
16	Potential	Isaac Asimov
17	Man-Mountain Gentian	Howard Waldrop
18	La Ronde	Damon Knight
19	Revisions	Gordon Eklund
20	Basileus	Robert Silverberg
21	The Man Outside	O. Niemand
22	$CALL LINK4(CATHY)	Cherie Wilkerson

Best Collection
1	Unicorn Variations	Roger Zelazny
2	Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer	Tanith Lee
3	The Sentinel	Arthur C. Clarke
4	The Wind from a Burning Woman	Greg Bear
5	The Zanzibar Cat	Joanna Russ
6	Hoka!	Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
7	The 57th Franz Kafka	Rudy Rucker
8	Midas World	Frederik Pohl
8	The Saint-Germain Chronicles	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
10	The Worlds of H. Beam Piper	H. Beam Piper and John F. Carr
11	Sector General	James White
12	The Winds of Change and Other Stories	Isaac Asimov
13	The Time Patrol	Poul Anderson
14	Ringing Changes	R. A. Lafferty
15	Golden Gate and Other Stories	R. A. Lafferty
16	Fire from the Wine Dark Sea	S. P. Somtow

Best Anthology
1	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12	Terry Carr
2	The Face of Chaos	Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey
3	Universe 13	Terry Carr
4	The 1983 Annual World's Best SF	Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
5	Whispers IV	Stuart David Schiff
6	Heroic Visions	Jessica Amanda Salmonson
7	Magic for Sale	Avram Davidson
8	Changes	Michael Bishop and Ian Watson
9	Shadows 6	Charles L. Grant
10	The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 10, 1948	Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
11	The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 9, 1947	Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
12	New Worlds: An Anthology	Michael Moorcock
13	The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces	Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
14	The Fantasy Hall of Fame	Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
15	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 9	Arthur W. Saha
16	Nebula Award Stories 17	Joe Haldeman
17	The Nebula Awards #18	Robert Silverberg

Best Non-Fiction/Reference
1	Dream Makers, Volume II	Charles Platt
2	The High Kings	Joy Chant and Ian Ballantine and Betty Ballantine and George Sharp and David Larkin
3	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968, Vol 3: Miscellaneous	Donald H. Tuck
4	The Fantastic Art of Rowena	Rowena Morrill
5	Staying Alive: A Writer's Guide	Norman Spinrad
6	Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell	Frederick C. Durant III and Ron Miller
7	Philip K. Dick	Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander
8	Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography	Daniel J. H. Levack
9	The Science Fiction Book of Lists	Maxim Jakubowski and Malcolm Edwards
10	The Guide to Supernatural Fiction	Everett F. Bleiler
11	Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy	Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo
12	De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography	Charlotte Laughlin and Daniel J. H. Levack
13	The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British "New Wave" in Science Fiction	Colin Greenland

Best Magazine/Fanzine
1	Locus - 1983	Charles N. Brown
2	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	Edward L. Ferman
3	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	Stanley Schmidt
4	Asimov's Science Fiction	George H. Scithers
5	Amazing Science Fiction Stories	Ted White
6	Omni	Ben Bova
7	Science Fiction Review	Richard E. Geis
8	Twilight Zone	T. E. D. Klein
9	Science Fiction Chronicle	Andrew I. Porter
10	Starlog	Howard Zimmerman
11	Fantasy Newsletter/Fantasy Review	Robert A. Collins
12	Whispers	Stuart David Schiff
13	File 770	Mike Glyer
14	Fantasy Book	Unknown-Mags
15	Interzone	Simon Ounsley and David Pringle

Best Book Publisher
1	----	Ballantine/Del Rey
2	----	Pocket/Timescape
3	----	DAW
4	----	Ace
5	----	Berkley
6	----	Bantam
7	----	Tor
8	----	Doubleday
9	----	Underwood-Miller
10	----	Donald M. Grant
11	----	Phantasia
12	----	SF Book Club
13	----	Atheneum
14	----	Arkham House
15	----	Houghton Mifflin

Best Artist
1	----	Michael Whelan
2	----	Rowena Morrill
3	----	Don Maitz
4	----	Barclay Shaw
5	----	Boris Vallejo
6	----	Darrell K. Sweet
7	----	Victoria Poyser
8	----	Val Lakey Lindahn
9	----	Frank Kelly Freas
10	----	Carl Lundgren
11	----	Alicia Austin
12	----	Vincent Di Fate
13	----	Jim Burns
14	----	David Mattingly
15	----	Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
16	----	Stephen Fabian
17	----	Frank Frazetta
18	----	Tom Kidd
19	----	Phil Foglio
20	----	Alexis Gilliland
20	----	Kevin Johnson