1980 Locus Award Nominees

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Comments: 1980 was a great year for George R.R. Martin who garnered a a win for Sandkings in the Best Novelette category and a win for The Way of the Cross and Dragon in the Best Short Story category. Martin was also nominated for editing the New Voices II anthology. Because of the immense success of the Song of Ice and Fire series, some people forget just how accomplished a writer Martin had proved himself to be in the 1970s and 1980s, and the 1980 Locus Award results are a testament to this fact.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Titan by John Varley

Other Nominees:
2.   Jem by Frederik Pohl
3.   The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
4.   Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
5.   On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
6.   The Faded Sun: Kutath by C.J. Cherryh
7.   The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper
8.   Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
9.   Engine Summer by John Crowley
10. The Face by Jack Vance
11. Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
12. Transfigurations by Michael Bishop
13. Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny
14. Kinsman by Ben Bova
15. SS-GB by Len Deighton
16. Catacomb Years by Michael Bishop
17. The Web Between the Worlds by Charles Sheffield
18. Mayflies by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
19. The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
20. A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card
21. A World Between by Norman Spinrad
22. The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James P. Hogan
23. The Day of the Klesh by M.A. Foster
24. The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
25. Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip

Other Nominees:
2.   The Dead Zone by Stephen King
3.   Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
4.   Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony
5.   The Merman's Children by Poul Anderson
6.   Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh
7.   Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
8.   The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
9.   Malafrena by Ursula K. Le Guin
10. Death's Master by Tanith Lee
11. The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
12. The Dancers of Arun by Elizabeth A. Lynn
13. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
14. Daughter of the Bright Moon by Lynn Abbey
15. The Door Into Fire by Diane Duane
16. Sorcerer's Son by Phyllis Eisenstein
17. The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear

Other Nominees:

2.   Songhouse by Orson Scott Card

3.   Palely Loitering by Christopher Priest
4.   Mars Masked by Frederik Pohl
5.   The Battle of the Abaco Reefs by Hilbert Schenck
6.   The Tale of Gorgik by Samuel R. Delany
7.   The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald M. Kingsbury
8.   Ker-Plop by Ted Reynolds
9.   Fireship by Joan D. Vinge
10. The Story Writer by Richard Wilson
11. Far Rainbow by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
12. Silver Shoes for a Princess by James P. Hogan
13. Spirals by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
14. The Dancer in the Darkness by Thomas F. Monteleone
15. The Napoli Express by Randall Garrett

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Sandkings by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
2.   Options by John Varley
3.   Fireflood by Vonda N. McIntyre
4.   Out There Where the Big Ships Go by Richard Cowper
5.   Galatea Galante by Alfred Bester
6.   Camps by Jack Dann
7.   The Pathways of Desire by Ursula K. Le Guin
8.   The Angel of Death by Michael Shea
9.   The Button Molder by Fritz Leiber
10. The Things That Are Gods by John Brunner
11. Phoenix by Mark J. McGarry
12. The Relic by Gary Jennings
13. The Ancient Mind at Work by Suzy McKee Charnas
14. Down and Out on Ellfive Prime by Dean Ing
15. Prose Bowl by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
16. The Locusts by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes
17. Indifference by Brian W. Aldiss
18. The Ways of Love by Poul Anderson
19. Some Events at the Templar Radiant by Fred Saberhagen

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:

2.   giANTS by Edward Bryant

3.   Quietus by Orson Scott Card
4.   War Beneath the Tree by Gene Wolfe
5.   Redeemer by Gregory Benford
6.   Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card
7.   Wave Rider by Hilbert Schenck
8.   (tie) Blood Sisters by Joe Haldeman
      (tie) In Trophonius's Cave by James P. Girard
10. Daisy, In the Sun by Connie Willis
11. The Crate by Stephen King
12. Rent Control by Walter Tevis
13. The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand by Joanna Russ
14. The Exit Door Leads In by Philip K. Dick
15. Vernalfest Morning by Michael Bishop
16. Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
17. The Rooms of Paradise by Ian Watson
18. Can These Bones Live? by Ted Reynolds
19. All the Birds Came Home to Roost by Harlan Ellison

20. 'You're Welcome,' Said the Robot, and Turned to Watch the Snowflakes by Alan Ryan

21. The View from Endless Scarp by Marta Randall

Best Single Author Collection
Winner:

1.   Convergent Series by Larry Niven

Other Nominees:
2.   Eyes of Amber and Other Stories by Joan D. Vinge
3.   The Stars Are the Styx by Theodore Sturgeon
4.   Riverworld and Other Stories by Philip José Farmer
5.   Fireflood and Other Stories by Vonda N. McIntyre
6.   The Best of James Blish by James Blish, edited by Robert A.W. Lowndes
7.   An Infinite Summer by Christopher Priest
8.   Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance by Jack Vance
9.   The Star-Spangled Future by Norman Spinrad
10. The Best of Hal Clement by Hal Clement, edited by Lester del Rey
11. Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber
12. The Best of Avram Davidson by Avram Davidson
13. The Change War by Fritz Leiber
14. Vectors by Charles Sheffield
15. The Very Slow Time Machine by Ian Watson
16. The Science Fiction Stories of Walter M. Miller, Jr. by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
17. Ladies from Hell by Keith Roberts

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   Universe 9 edited by Terry Carr

Other Nominees:
2.   The Best of New Dimensions edited by Robert Silverberg
3.   The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 edited by Terry Carr
4.   Amazons! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
5.   Chrysalis 3 edited by Roy Torgeson
6.   The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 edited by Terry Carr
7.   New Voices II edited by George R.R. Martin

8.   The 1979 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

9.   Whispers II edited by Stuart David Schiff
10. Shadows 2 edited by Charles L. Grant
11. Thieves' World edited by Robert Asprin
12. Nightmares edited by Charles L. Grant
13. Rooms of Paradise edited by Lee Harding

14. The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh

15. The Year's Finest Fantasy, Volume 2 edited by Terry Carr
16. The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here edited by James E. Gunn
17. The Edge of Space edited by Robert Silverberg

18. Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia edited by Peter Nicholls

Other Nominees:
2. In Memory Yet Green by Isaac Asimov

3. A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction by Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin

4. The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Susan Wood
5. The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976 by Lester del Rey
6. The 80s: A Look Back edited by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, and Peter Elbling
7. The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
8. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature edited by R. Reginald
9. Fantasy Literature by Marshall B. Tymn, Robert H. Boyer, and Kenneth J. Zahorski

Best Art or Illustrated Book
Winner:

1.   Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials by Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers, and Beth Meacham

Other Nominees:
2.   H.R. Giger's Necronomicon by H.R. Giger
3.   Alien Landscapes by Robert Holdstock and Malcolm Edwards
4.   Wonderworks by Michael Whelan
5.   The Illustrated Harlan Ellison edited by Byron Preiss
6.   21^st Century Foss by Chris Foss
7.   Giants edited by David Larkin
8.   The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson, illustrated by Wayne Anderson
9.   The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt edited by Ian Summers
10. Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and J. Michael Reaves, illustrated by Joseph Zucker
11. Morreion by Jack Vance, illustrated by Steve Fabian
12. More Fantasy by Fabian by Steve Fabian
13. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, illustrated by Howard Chaykin

14. The Demon of Scattery by Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey Broxon, illustrated by Alicia Austin

15. Urshurak by Jerry Nichols, illustrated by The Brothers Hildebrandt
16. Planet Story by Harry Harrison, illustrated by Jim Burns
17. The Illustrated Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by Ian Miller

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Fantasy & Science Fiction

Other Nominees:
2.   Locus
3.   Analog
4.   Asimov's
5.   Omni
6.   Science Fiction Review
7.   Destinies (Ace)
8.   Galileo
9.   Starship
10. Fantasy Newsletter
11. Asimov's SF Adventure
12. Thrust
13. Whispers
14. Starlog
15. Janus

Best Publisher
Winner:
1.   Ballantine/Del Rey

Other Nominees:
2.   Ace
3.   Berkley/Putnam
4.   DAW
5.   Science Fiction Book Club
6.   Dell/Dial
7.   Doubleday
8.   St. Martin's
9.   Pocket
10. Bantam
11. Underwood-Miller
12. Atheneum
13. Gregg Press
14. Donald M. Grant
15. Harper & Row
16. Avon

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Stephen Fabian
3.   Boris Vallejo
4.   Vincent Di Fate
5.   Frank Kelly Freas
6.   Don Maitz
7.   H.R. Giger
8.   Paul Lehr
9.   Darrell Sweet
10. Alicia Austin
11. Tim Kirk
12. Alexis Gilliland
13. Rowena Morrill
14. Chris Foss
15. George Barr
16. Wayne Douglas Barlowe
17. (tie) Rick Sternbach
      (tie) Carl Lundgren
19. The Brothers Hildebrandt
20. David Hardy
21. Jack Gaughan
22. Connor Freff Cochran
23. Dean Ellis
24. Ron Walotsky

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1980 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Baltimore, Maryland.

Comments: After mostly ignoring women for the first several years of its existence, the World Fantasy Awards seem to have decided to try to make up for lost time in a single year. Not only did Elizabeth A. Lynn win in the Best Novel category, she shared a victory in the Best Short Fiction category, and the Jessica Amanda Salmonson edited anthology Amazons! won in the Best Anthology or Collection category.

But the real sea change was down ballot. Of the six nominees for Best Novel, five of them were authored by women. The other categories were still overwhelmingly dominated by men, with the Lifetime Achievement, Best Artist, and Special Professional Award categories being exclusively male affairs, but at least the World Fantasy Awards had finally noticed half of the human race.

Best Novel

Winner:
Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Other Nominees:
The Dancers of Arun by Elizabeth A. Lynn
The Dark Bright Water by Patricia Wrightson
Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip
The Last Call of Mourning by Charles L. Grant
The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
(tie) Mackintosh Willy by Ramsey Campbell
(tie) The Woman Who Loved the Moon by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Other Nominees:
The Button Molder by Fritz Leiber
Petey by T.E.D. Klein
Saturday's Shadow by William F. Nolan

Best Anthology or Collection

Winner:
Amazons! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Other Nominees:
Nightmares edited by Charles L. Grant
Shadows 2 edited by Charles L. Grant
Thieves' World edited by Robert Asprin
Whispers II edited by Stuart David Schiff
The Year's Finest Fantasy, Volume 2 edited by Terry Carr

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Manly Wade Wellman

Other Nominees:
Avram Davidson
L. Sprague de Camp
H. Warner Munn
Jack Vance

Best Artist

Winner:
Don Maitz

Other Nominees:
Stephen Fabian
Boris Vallejo
Michael Whelan

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Donald M. Grant

Other Nominees:
Lester del Rey
Pat LoBrutto
James Turner
Donald A. Wollheim

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Paul C. Allen

Other Nominees:
Pat Cadigan and Arnie Fenner
Harry O. Morris, Jr.
Stuart David Schiff

Special Convention Award

Winner:
Stephen King

Other Nominees:
None

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1980 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Noreascon II in Boston, Massachusetts.

Comments: In 1980 the "Best Related Work" category (technically, the "Best Nonfiction Book" category) was added to the slate of Hugo Awards, and it promptly took its amorphous undefined shape with a slate of nominees that included an encyclopedia, two art books, a memoir, and an essay collection. The encyclopedia won. This category has always been something of a conundrum. The sorts of related books that reflect on the field of science fiction and fantasy, but are not themselves fiction, do deserve recognition. But having them all in one category seems to create a hodgepodge slate of unrelated kinds of books requiring the voters to essentially compare apples and oranges and decide which is better. On the other hand, I can understand the desire to avoid a proliferation of too specific categories, resulting in (as has happened with some Locus Award categories) a single series, editor, or author dominating the award.

In the Best Dramatic Presentation category the science fiction horror film Alien won, beating out some decent competition including Star Trek: The Motion Picture. However, the most important thing about the 1980 Best Dramatic Presentation ballot is that The Muppet Movie was nominated for the award. Because of this nomination, I can declare that the Muppets, and all things they appear in, are science fiction or fantasy, and hence are suitable for review on a science fiction and fantasy blog.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

Other Nominees:
Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip
Jem by Frederik Pohl
On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
Titan by John Varley

Best Novella

Winner:

Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear

Other Nominees:
The Battle of the Abaco Reefs by Hilbert Schenck
Ker-Plop by Ted Reynolds
The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald M. Kingsbury
Songhouse by Orson Scott Card

Best Novelette

Winner:

Sandkings by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
Fireflood by Vonda N. McIntyre
Homecoming by Barry B. Longyear
The Locusts by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes
Options by John Varley
Palely Loitering by Christopher Priest

Best Short Story

Winner:

The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
Can These Bones Live? by Ted Reynolds
Daisy, In the Sun by Connie Willis
giANTS by Edward Bryant
Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book

Winner:

The Science Fiction Encyclopedia edited by Peter Nicholls

Other Nominees:

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials by Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers, and Beth Meacham

In Memory Yet Green by Isaac Asimov
The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Susan Wood
Wonderworks by Michael Whelan

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Alien

Other Nominees:
The Black Hole
The Muppet Movie
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Time After Time

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
George H. Scithers

Other Nominees:
Jim Baen
Ben Bova
Edward L. Ferman
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
Vincent Di Fate
Steve Fabian
Paul Lehr
Boris Vallejo

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Other Nominees:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
Janus edited by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll
Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
Thrust edited by Doug Fratz

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Bob Shaw

Other Nominees:
Richard E. Geis
Mike Glyer
Arthur D. Hlavaty
David Langford

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Alexis Gilliland

Other Nominees:
Jeanne Gomoll
Joan Hanke-Woods
Victoria Poyser
Bill Rotsler
Stu Shiffman

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Barry B. Longyear

Other Nominees:
Lynn Abbey
Diane Duane
Karen Jollie
Alan Ryan
Somtow Sucharitkul

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1980 Campbell Award Nominees

Location: Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Comments: After the chaos of the previous several years, including the strange reporting of the non-winning nominees in 1979, the Campbell Awards returned to some semblance of normality in 1980. Three novels accumulated enough voted to be placed, and were accorded first, second, and third place. No odd new categories were added. No strange systems of reporting the results. Just three books ranked in the order that the judges voted them into.

Best Novel

Winner:

On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch

Second Place:

Engine Summer by John Crowley

Third Place:

The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard

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1980 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles, California.

Comments: Usually when a well-known science fiction author is honored with an award win late in his career it is sort of a "make up" award. The book or story that is honored is typically not particularly good, but the voters aren't really honoring that work, but rather older, better books that were overlooked in prior years for one reason or another. Fortunately, when the Nebula was awarded to Arthur C. Clarke for The Fountains of Paradise, this was not the case, as Fountains is one of Clarke's best books. Given the typical pattern, it is good to see voters able to honor a writer as important to the science fiction genre as Clarke was without having to give the award to a below par book.

Sometimes an author has one blazing moment of glory that outshines the rest of his career. In 1980, Barry B. Longyear experienced such a moment with his novella Enemy Mine, which won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. Enemy Mine is a fantastic story, but Longyear has never been able to follow up on its brilliance. Although the rest of his career has been generally good, nothing else he has written has ever come close in terms of greatness.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

Other Nominees:
Jem by Frederik Pohl
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper
Titan by John Varley

Best Novella

Winner:

Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear

Other Nominees:
The Battle of the Abaco Reefs by Hilbert Schenck
Fireship by Joan D. Vinge
Mars Masked by Frederik Pohl
The Story Writer by Richard Wilson
The Tale of Gorgik by Samuel R. Delany

Best Novelette

Winner:

Sandkings by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
The Angel of Death by Michael Shea
Camps by Jack Dann
Options by John Varley
The Pathways of Desire by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ways of Love by Poul Anderson

Best Short Story

Winner:
giANTS by Edward Bryant

Other Nominees:
The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand by Joanna Russ
Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
Unaccompanied Sonata by Orson Scott Card
Vernalfest Morning by Michael Bishop
The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R.R. Martin

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