Comments: In 1987, Orson Scott Card accomplished something that no other author had before when Speaker for the Dead won the Hugo Award for Best Novel becoming the first author to win the Best Novel award in consecutive years for a book and its sequel. In an interesting twist, Card's book beat out another sequel to a Hugo winning novel, William Gibson's follow up to Neuromancer titled Count Zero. On a lesser note, somehow L. Ron Hubbard's incredibly crappy Black Genesis managed to secure a Hugo nomination, possibly due to Scientologists stuffing the ballot box.
In the Best Dramatic Presentation category another sequel won the Hugo, as the James Cameron directed Aliens took home the prize. And once more, a Star Trek movie was nominated for a Hugo, but lost.
Best Novel
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Other Nominees:
Black Genesis by L. Ron Hubbard
Count Zero by William Gibson
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
Best Novella
Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg
Other Nominees:
Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn
Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
R&R by Lucius Shepard
Spice Pogrom by Connie Willis
Best Novelette
Permafrost by Roger Zelazny
Other Nominees:
The Barbarian Princess by Vernor Vinge
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card
Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin
The Winter Market by William Gibson
Best Short Story
Tangents by Greg Bear
Other Nominees:
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
Rat by James Patrick Kelly
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (reviewed in Robot Dreams)
Still Life by David S. Garnett
Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work
Trillion Year Spree by Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove
Other Nominees:
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley
Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects by Thomas G. Smith
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick by Paul Williams
Science Fiction In Print: 1985 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento
Best Dramatic Presentation
Aliens
Other Nominees:
The Fly
Labyrinth
Little Shop of Horrors
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Best Professional Editor
Terry Carr
Other Nominees:
Gardner Dozois
Edward L. Ferman
David G. Hartwell
Stanley Schmidt
Best Professional Artist
Jim Burns
Other Nominees:
Frank Kelly Freas
Tom Kidd
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter
Barclay Shaw
Best Semi-Prozine
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown
Other Nominees:
Fantasy Review edited by Robert A. Collins
Interzone edited by Simon Ounsley and David Pringle
Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter
Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
Best Fanzine
Ansible edited by Dave Langford
Other Nominees:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
Texas SF Inquirer edited by Pat Mueller
Trapdoor edited by Robert Lichtman
Best Fan Writer
Dave Langford
Other Nominees:
Mike Glyer
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Arthur Hlavaty
Simon Ounsley
D. West
Owen Whiteoak [nomination withdrawn]
Best Fan Artist
Brad W. Foster
Other Nominees:
Steve Fox
Stu Schiffman
Arthur "Atom" Thomson
Taral Wayne
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Karen Joy Fowler
Other Nominees:
Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo Frankowski
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Rebecca Ore
Robert Reed
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