1993 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: Even though 1993 is reasonably recent - a mere twenty-one years ago - the result of the Campbell Awards are once again an example of how some books age better than others. At the time, I doubt if anyone would have questioned the placement of Charles Sheffield's Brother to Dragons as the first place finisher in the voting. But now, two decades later, I suspect that most people who you asked would rank these books in the reverse order from the order they appear here, with Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep taking first place, and Sheffield's book relegated to the third spot.

Best Novel

Winner:

Brother to Dragons by Charles Sheffield

Second Place:

Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper

Third Place:

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

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1993 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Bloomington, Minnesota.

Comments: In 1993, the World Fantasy Awards handed a Lifetime Achievement honor to Harlan Ellison. The only real question I have is what took them so long. Ellison's fantasy fiction is among the most imaginative and thought-provoking ever written, so the idea that it took the World Fantasy awards almost two decades to get around to honoring him is simply mystifying.

The rest of the 1993 World Fantasy Awards seem to have been fairly ordinary. James Gurney won one award and was nominated for another, Charles de Lint got three nominations, and Martin H. Greenberg got two, but neither of them won any awards, and no on else got more than one nomination. For the most part the World Fantasy Awards seem to be better at spreading the recognition around than either the Hugos or the Nebulas, where the same authors seem to get nominated time and again, and in some years the awards are dominated by a handful of names. I'm not sure why this is, but it might be that the fantasy genre has never been dominated by individual personalities the way science fiction was historically dominated by individuals like Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and John W. Campbell.

Best Novel

Winner:
Last Call by Tim Powers

Other Nominees:
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi
Was by Geoff Ryman

Best Novella

Winner:
The Ghost Village by Peter Straub

Other Nominees:
Paperjack by Charles de Lint
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
Unmasking by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
(tie) Graves by Joe Haldeman
(tie) This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
Bridges by Charles de Lint
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite
The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario

Best Anthology

Winner:

MetaHorror edited by Dennis Etchison

Other Nominees:
Freak Show edited by F. Paul Wilson

Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

Narrow Houses edited by Peter Crowther
Northern Frights edited by Don Hutchison

Best Collection

Winner:
The Sons of Noah and Other Stories by Jack Cady

Other Nominees:
Bear's Fantasies by Greg Bear
Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock
Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel
Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
James Gurney

Other Nominees:
Jill Bauman
James Christensen
Alan M. Clark
Harry O. Morris

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Jeanne Cavelos

Other Nominees:
Martin H. Greenberg
James Gurney
Grant Morrison and Klaus Janson
Terri Windling

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Doug Lewis and Tomi Lewis

Other Nominees:
John Betancourt and Kim Betancourt
Richard T. Chizmar
George Hatch
Joe Stefko and Tracy Cocoman
Stanislaus Tal

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1993 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: I have not read any of the books that were nominated for the 1993 Clarke Award. I say this not because I think that there was something wrong with this slate of nominees, but rather to highlight the massive bounty that confronts a science fiction fan in the modern era. In the 1950s and 1960s (and even for most of the 1970s), the science fiction field was so small that one could reasonably expect most fans to have read the bulk of the material that was published. But in more recent years, the sheer volume of science fiction available means that no one but the most completely dedicated science fiction fan simply won't keep up, and even the most completely dedicated science fiction fan will often be unable to read everything. While some people bemoan the resulting fracturing of the science fiction fan-base, I think that the explosion of science fiction into a myriad of subgenres is a mark of the maturity of the genre.

Winner
Body of Glass by Marge Piercy

Runner-Up
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Third Place
(tie) Correspondence by Sue Thomas
(tie) Hearts, Hands, and Voices by Ian McDonald

Shortlist
Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

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1993 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1993, after flirting with the book for years, the Libertarian Futurist Society finally decided to induct Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed into its Hall of Fame. On the one hand, this was a good choice, because The Dispossessed is a better novel than many of the previous inductees into the Prometheus Awards Hall of Fame. On the other hand, when one read The Dispossessed, it becomes readily apparent that the tenor of the novel is decidedly not sympathetic towards libertarian position, and in fact is highly critical of the ideology. This isn't new for the Prometheus Awards - they have previously nominated and awarded works that are only related to libertarianism to the extent that they are highly critical of it. I don't know if this is because the members of the Libertarian Futurist Society are trying to be broad-minded and include criticisms of their espoused ideology among the works they honor, or if they are simply so politically tone-deaf that they don't realize their position is being skewered and just assume if libertarianism is mentioned in a book it must be friendly to it.

Best Novel

Winner:

The Multiplex Man by James P. Hogan

Other Nominees:

The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Steel Beach by John Varley
Timemaster by Robert L. Forward
A Woman's Place by Rex Denver Borough

Hall of Fame

Winner:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
None

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1993 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: By 1993, the Mythopoeic Awards had developed into their fully formed modern version. All four of the current categories had been established by the Mythopoeic Society. All four of the award categories listed both the winning entry and the full slate of non-winning nominees. Although the Mythopoeic Awards had long been leaps and bounds ahead of most other genre awards in terms of things like genre equity, they had lagged behind when it came to their reporting methods, so the change made in 1992 and stuck with in 1993 and thereafter was a welcome development.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Other Nominees:

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Grail of Hearts by Susan Shwartz
Last Call by Tim Powers
The Paper Grail by James P. Blaylock

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

Other Nominees:
The Ancient One by T.A. Barron
Fish Soup by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hobkin by Peni R. Griffin
Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy by David C. Downing

Other Nominees:
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend introduction by Judith Priestman
The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by Roma A. King, Jr.
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery

Other Nominees:
Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber by Bruce Byfield
Contours of the Fantastic edited by Michele K. Lanford

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1993 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: ConFrancisco in San Francisco, California.

Comments: In 1992 the Best Novel voting resulted in a tie between Connie Willis' quirky time travel novel Doomsday Book, and Vernor Vinge's bizarrely imaginative novel about varying physics A Fire Upon the Deep. Either would have been a credible winner on its own, as would Kim Stanley Robinson's non-winning nominee Red Mars, which speaks to the strength of printed science fiction in the early years of the 1990s.

After six Star Trek movies featuring the original series cast and zero Hugo wins, an entirely new version of the franchise finally managed to end the Star Trek losing streak, winning for its episode The Inner Light, which bears a little bit of resemblance to the Hugo winning Arthur C. Clarke story The Star. Granted, it didn't face a lot of particularly noteworthy competition, but it is nice to see Star Trek back on top at least for a little while.

The second year for the Best Original Artwork award resulted in a win for James Gurney's Dinotopia, probably one of the most substantial victors in the short history of the award.

Best Novel

Winner:
(tie) Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
(tie) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Other Finalists:
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Steel Beach by John Varley

Best Novella

Winner:

Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard

Other Finalists:
Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
Stopping at Slowyear by Frederik Pohl
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll

Best Novelette

Winner:

The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan

Other Finalists:
Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent
In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg
Suppose They Gave a Peace. . . by Susan Shwartz
True Faces by Pat Cadigan

Best Short Story

Winner:

Even the Queen by Connie Willis

Other Finalists:
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
The Lotus and the Spear by Mike Resnick
The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress
The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

A Wealth of Fable: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the 1950s by Harry Warner, Jr.

Other Finalists:
The Costumemaker's Art edited by Thom Boswell

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith

Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Dave Langford
Monad: Essays on Science Fiction #2 edited by Damon Knight
Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages by Virgil Finlay

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Inner Light

Other Finalists:
Aladdin
Alien 3
Batman Returns
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Beth Meacham
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Don Maitz

Other Finalists:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Bob Eggleton
James Gurney

Best Original Artwork

Winner:

Dinotopia by James Gurney

Other Finalists:
Jim Burns for Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
Michael Whelan for Asimov's Science Fiction: November 1992
Michael Whelan for Illusion by Paula Volsky
Ron Walotsky for Fantasy & Science Fiction: October/November 1992

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter

Other Finalists:
Interzone edited by David Pringle
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert K.J. Killheffer, and Gordon van Gelder

Pulphouse edited by Dean Wesley Smith

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Mimosa edited by Dick Lynch and Nicki Lynch

Other Finalists:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
FOSFAX edited by Timothy Lane and Janice Moore
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
STET edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and Dick Smith

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Mike Glyer
Andy Hooper
Evelyn C. Leeper
Harry Warner, Jr.

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Peggy Ranson

Other Finalists:
Teddy Harvia
Merle Insinga
Linda Michaels
Stu Shiffman
Diana Harlan Stein

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Laura Resnick

Other Finalists:
Barbara Delaplace
Nicholas A. DiChario
Holly Lisle
Carrie Richerson
Michelle Sagara

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1993 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.

Comments: In 1993 Dan Simmons won the Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel category for the second year in a row with Children of the Night following up his 1992 win for Summer of Night. This came on the heels of his 1990 and 1991 wins for Best Science Fiction Novel for Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. This is a rare feat as not only did Simmons win back to back Locus awards, he did it twice, in two different categories. No matter how one looks at this accomplishment, it is definitely impressive and places Simmons in a very select category of writers.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
2.   Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.   The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
4.   A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
5.   Steel Beach by John Varley
6.   Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
7.   Chanur's Legacy by C.J. Cherryh
8.   Mars by Ben Bova
9.   The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card
10. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
11. Worlds Enough and Time by Joe Haldeman
12. Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
13. Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop
14. Hellburner by C.J. Cherryh
15. Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper
16. Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
17. Labyrinth of Night by Allen M. Steele
18. Mining the Oort by Frederik Pohl
19. Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock
20. Hearts, Hands and Voices (aka The Broken Land) by Ian McDonald
21. A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
22. Jaran by Kate Elliott
23. Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon
24. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
25. A Deeper Sea by Alexander Jablokov
26. Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
27. Æstival Tide by Elizabeth Hand

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Last Call by Tim Powers

Other Nominees:
2.   The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold
3.   Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
4.   A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
5.   Was by Geoff Ryman
6.   Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey
7.   The Magicians of Night (aka Magicians of the Night) by Barbara Hambly
8.   The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
9.   Domes of Fire by David Eddings
10. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
11. Last Refuge by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
12. The Cutting Edge by Dave Duncan
13. A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones
14. The Gypsy by Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm
15. Forest of the Night by S.P. Somtow
16. Flying in Place by Susan Palwick

Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
3.   The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
4.   The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
5.   Bad Brains by Kathe Koja
6.   Dark Dance by Tanith Lee
7.   Blood Lines by Tanya Huff
8.   Valentine by S.P. Somtow
9.   Wilding by Melanie Tem
10. Wolf Flow by K.W. Jeter
11. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
12. Young Blood by Brian Stableford
13. Ghostwright by Michael Cadnum
14. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

Other Nominees:
2.   Jumper by Steven Gould
3.   Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
4.   Flying in Place by Susan Palwick
5.   Fatherland by Robert Harris
6.   Fire in the Mist by Holly Lisle
7.   The Mountain Made of Light by Edward Meyers
8.   Sheltered Lives by Charles Oberndorf
9.   The Meri by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   Stopping at Slowyear by Frederik Pohl

3.   Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
4.   Cleon the Emperor by Isaac Asimov
5.   The Territory by Bradley Denton
6.   Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg
7.   Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
8.   Deus X by Norman Spinrad
9.   Resurrection by Katharine Kerr
10. Grownups by Ian R. MacLeod
11. Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
12. Synthesis by Mary Rosenblum
13. Death of Reason by Tony Daniel
14. The Virgin and the Dinosaur by R. Garcia y Robertson

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent

Other Nominees:
2.   True Faces by Pat Cadigan
3.   Looking for the Fountain by Robert Silverberg
4.   Beast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard
5.   Into Darkness by Greg Egan
6.   Dust by Greg Egan
7.   Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love by Roger Zelazny
8.   In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg
9.   Horse Meat by Brian W. Aldiss
10. Vanilla Dunk by Jonathan Lethem
11. Jumping the Road by Jack Dann
12. The Vulture Maiden by Marc Laidlaw
13. Breakfast Cereal Killers by R. Garcia y Robertson
14. The Satanic Illusion by L. Sprague de Camp
15. The Stone Garden by Mary Rosenblum
16. Chimaera by Barry B. Longyear
17. Suppose They Gave a Peace . . . by Susan Shwartz
18. Prison Dreams by Paul J. McAuley

19. Sepoy by Tom Purdom (reviewed in Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons)

20. Trail of Crumbs by Melanie Tem
21. The Best and the Rest of James Joyce by Ian McDonald
22. In the Month of Athyr by Elizabeth Hand
23. Innocents by Ian McDonald

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Even the Queen by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:

2.   The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress

3.   Graves by Joe Haldeman
4.   The Last Robot by Adam-Troy Castro
5.   In Concert by Michael Swanwick
6.   (tie) A Little Night Music by Lucius Shepard
      (tie) The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario
8.   The Lotus and the Spear by Mike Resnick
9.   The Message from Mars by J.G. Ballard
10. In Memoriam by Poul Anderson
11. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
12. The Kennedy Enterprise by David Gerrold
13. The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
14. 50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm by Pat Cadigan
15. Good Intentions by John Varley
16. The Company of Storms by Kathe Koja
17. All Vows by Esther M. Friesner
18. C-Change by Charles Sheffield
19. The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or A Shameless Lie by Thomas M. Disch
20. The Effects of Alienation by Howard Waldrop
21. (tie) Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
      (tie) Steelcollar Worker by Vonda N. McIntyre
23. Two Guys from the Future by Terry Bisson
24. (tie) Planck Zero by Stephen Baxter
      (tie) Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies by Greg Egan
26. The Rock that Changed Things by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. The Round-Eyed Barbarians by L. Sprague de Camp
28. The Sound of the River by M. Shayne Bell
29. Ship Full of Jews by Barry N. Malzberg

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:
2.   Speaking in Tongues by Ian McDonald
3.   Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel
4.   Globalhead by Bruce Sterling
5.   Geodesic Dreams by Gardner Dozois
6.   Home by the Sea by Pat Cadigan
7.   And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm
8.   Slightly Off-Center by Neal Barrett, Jr.
9.   Iron Tears by R.A. Lafferty
10. Unwillingly to Earth by Pauline Ashwell
11. Blue Tyson by Terry Dowling
12. The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady
13. Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

3.   Alternate Kennedys edited by Mike Resnick
4.   Universe 2 edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber

5.   What Might Have Been? Vol. 4: Alternate Americas edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg

6.   Tales of Riverworld edited by Philip José Farmer and Martin H. Greenberg
7.   New Worlds 2 edited by David Garnett
8.   MetaHorror edited by Dennis Etchison
9.   Nebula Awards 26 edited by James Morrow
10. Foundations of Fear edited by David G. Hartwell
11. Omni Best Science Fiction One edited by Ellen Datlow
12. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX edited by Karl Edward Wagner
13. Omni Best Science Fiction Two edited by Ellen Datlow
14. The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey

15. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

16. Best New Horror 3 edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
17. Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Dinotopia by James Gurney

Other Nominees:

2.   Odyssey: The Authorised Biography of Arthur C. Clarke (aka Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography) by Neil McAleer

3.   Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages by Virgil Finlay

4.   Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Third Edition edited by Noelle Watson and Paul E. Schellinger

5.   Inside Science Fiction: Essays on Fantastic Literature by James E. Gunn

6.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1991 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

7.   Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle by Colin Greenland
8.   Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991 by Robert Reginald

9.   The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling

10. Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Michael Burgess

11. The Profession of Science Fiction edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James

12. Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative edited by George E. Slusser and Tom Shippey

13. Monad: Essays on Science Fiction #2 edited by Damon Knight
14. Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3.   Ellen Datlow
4.   Stanley Schmidt
5.   David G. Hartwell
6.   Martin H. Greenberg
7.   David Pringle
8.   Kim Mohan
9.   Mike Resnick
10. Terri Windling
11. Beth Meacham
12. Scott Edelman

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Science Fiction Age
5.   Interzone
6.   Amazing Stories
7.   Omni
8.   Aboriginal SF
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Pulphouse
11. Weird Tales
12. Science Fiction Eye
13. Cemetery Dance
14. The New York Review of Science Fiction
15. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine

Best Publisher
Winner:
1.   Tor/St. Martin's

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Random House
4.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
5.   DAW
6.   Baen
7.   Avon/Morrow
8.   Ziesing/Ursus
9.   Penguin/Roc/Viking
10. Warner/Questar
11. Pulphouse/Axolotl
12. Gollancz
13. Arkham House
14. Simon & Schuster/Pocket
15. Science Fiction Book Club

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Thomas Canty
3.   James Gurney
4.   Bob Eggleton
5.   Don Maitz
6.   Jim Burns
7.   David A. Cherry
8.   Boris Vallejo
9.   Darrell K. Sweet
10. Vincent Di Fate
11. W.J. Hodgson
12. J.K. Potter
13. Keith Parkinson
14. Frank Kelly Freas

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1993 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Comments: After their dalliance with honoring filmed science fiction in 1992, the SFWA abandoned the category again in 1993, and didn't award it again for a number of years. The SFWA's resistance to honoring filmed science fiction is understandable from one perspective: they exist to honor science fiction writing, and not science fiction cinema. On the other hand, dramatic science fiction still needs scriptwriters, and ignoring an entire field of writing (and possibly one of the few areas of science fiction writing that is growing substantially) seems to be a bit like putting one's head in the sand.

In any event, the Nebula Awards in 1993 were basically unsurprising. Connie Willis won for her novel Doomsday Book, and her short story Even the Queen. Pamela Sargent won for her novelette Danny Goes to Mars, and James Morrow won for his novella City of Truth, and pretty much no one was surprised.

Best Novel

Winner:
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

Best Novella

Winner:

City of Truth by James Morrow

Other Nominees:
Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard
Contact by Jerry Oltion and Lee Goodloe
Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
Silver or Gold by Emma Bull
The Territory by Bradley Denton

Best Novelette

Winner:

Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent

Other Nominees:
The Honeycrafters by Carolyn Gilman
The July Ward by S.N. Dyer
Matter's End by Gregory Benford
Prayers on the Wind by Walter Jon Williams
Suppose They Gave a Peace . . . by Susan Shwartz

Best Short Story

Winner:
Even the Queen by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
Lennon Spex by Paul Di Filippo
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats by Michael Bishop
The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress
Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

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