- Award Category: Best Non-Fiction/Reference Award Category Record # 359
- Award Type: Locus Poll Award
- Display Order: 31
| 1983 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties | Barry N. Malzberg |
| 2 | A Reader's Guide to Fantasy | Baird Searles and Beth Meacham and Michael Franklin |
| 3 | Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller |
| 4 | Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction | James E. Gunn |
| 5 | The World of the Dark Crystal | Brian Froud and J. J. Llewellyn |
| 6 | Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (variant of Science Fiction Writers) | E. F. Bleiler |
| 7 | Index to the Science Fiction Magazines: 1926-1950, Revised Edition | Donald B. Day |
| 8 | Mirage | Boris Vallejo and Doris Vallejo |
| 9 | Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography | Rosemarie Arbur |
| 10 | The NESFA Index to the Science Fiction Magazines and Original Anthologies: 1981 | NESFA Press |
| 11 | Critical Encounters II: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction | Tom Staicar |