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.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
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