1994 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Comments: I don't really have much that I can say about the 1994 World Fantasy Awards. Charles de Lint received two nominations, but that was par for the course for him by now. Neil Gaiman also received two nominations, which would shortly become par for the course for him as well.

But as I have read none of the winning works, and precious few of the other nominees, exacerbated by the fact that I have not even read any other fiction by the winners, there isn't really a whole lot of useful commentary that I can give about the field as a whole, or the results specifically.

Best Novel

Winner:
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner

Other Nominees:
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr
Skin by Kathe Koja
The Throat by Peter Straub

Best Novella

Winner:
Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley

Other Nominees:
The Erl-King by Elizabeth Hand
Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
The Lodger by Fred Chappell

Other Nominees:
Death in Bangkok by Dan Simmons
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Little Green Ones by Les Daniels
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint
Some Strange Desire by Ian McDonald
Something Worse by Terry Lamsley
Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman

Best Anthology

Winner:

Full Spectrum 4 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell

Other Nominees:
Christmas Forever edited by David G. Hartwell
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales edited by Alison Lurie
Sinistre edited by George Hatch
Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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

Best Collection

Winner:
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell

Other Nominees:
Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany by Neil Gaiman
Antiquities by John Crowley
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands by Garry Kilworth
Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell Schweitzer
Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Jack Williamson

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
(tie) J.K. Potter
(tie) Alan M. Clark

Other Nominees:
Rick Berry
Thomas Canty
Jason Eckhardt
Harry O. Morris

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller

Other Nominees:
John Clute
Ellen Datlow
David J. Skal
Terri Windling
Mark V. Ziesing

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Marc Michaud

Other Nominees:
Richard T. Chizmar
George Hatch
Brian Stableford
Joe Stefko and Tracy Cocoman

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1994 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: Of all the Campbell Award voting results, this one is the one that seems to me to be the most inexplicable. Somehow the judges decided that there was no science fiction novel published in 1993 that was worthy of being honored, despite the fact that two excellent science fiction novels - Beggars in Spain and Moving Mars - were voted second and third place. How is it possible that "No Winner" was a better choice than either of those two novels? Looking at novels nominated for other awards in the same time frame one has to wonder how "No Winner" was a better choice than Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars, or David Brin's Glory Season, or Gene Wolfe's Nightside of the Long Sun, or any number of other novels. The only real answer here is that the judges for the 1994 Campbell Awards failed, and should be ashamed for returning with this unconscionable result.

Best Novel

Winner:

No Winner

Second Place:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

Third Place:

Moving Mars by Greg Bear

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1994 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Now that the full slate of non-winning nominees for the scholarship awards are available to the public, it is possible to evaluate them to see if they are as balanced as the Mythopoeic Society's fantasy awards have been. And happily, the answer is that they appear to be. Seven of the ten nominees and both of the winners in the fantasy literature categories were works written by women. Four of the nine nominees and one of the winners in the scholarship category were written by women (and one work was a composite work that has no specified author, but did have its introduction written by a woman). In short, it appears that the Mythopoeic Society displays roughly as much balance when it comes to recognizing scholarship as it does when it comes to recognizing fantasy literature.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman

Other Nominees:

The Cygnet and the Firebird by Patricia A. McKillip

Deerskin by Robin McKinley
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
The Little Country by Charles de Lint

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas

Other Nominees:
Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Mystery of the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Nevernever by Will Shetterly

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson

Other Nominees:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World by Colin Manlove
The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend introduction by Judith Priestman
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature edited by Kath Filmer

Other Nominees:

For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children edited by Roderick McGillis

Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar

The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinivere in Modern Fantasy by Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise

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1994 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Although it didn't win, one has to wonder why Beggars in Spain was nominated for the Prometheus Award. I suspect that its nomination was something of a case of mistaken identity. Originally, Beggars in Spain was published as a novella, and the dominant theme of that novella was the contrast between the productive members of society with those who, through either inability or inclination, were not - a contrast highlighted by an analogy concerning "beggars in Spain" that gave the story its title. Later, Kress expanded the story into a novel, and in the final third of the new version turned around and eviscerated the earlier libertarian premises. I suspect that those who nominated the book were either content with a book that brought up libertarian ideas, even if it then engaged in some criticism of them, or simply didn't read the expanded story and didn't realize that it contained this kind of turnaround in tenor.

Best Novel

Winner:

Pallas by L. Neil Smith

Other Nominees:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

Rainbow Man by M.J. Engh
The Silicon Man by Charles Platt
Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson

Hall of Fame

Winner:

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Other Nominees:
None

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1994 Hugo Award Finalists

Location: Conadian in Winnipeg, Canada.

Comments: 1994 was an interesting year which had several winners that I think were not as good as their competition. In the Best Novel category, I think that Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain should have taken the prize over Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. In the Best Novella category, I think Jack Cady's The Night We Buried Road Dog should have won over Harry Turtledove's Down in the Bottomlands. And in the Best Dramatic Presentation category I think that Babylon 5: The Gathering or The Nightmare Before Christmas should have won over Jurassic Park.

Unfortunately, I can't dictate to the Hugo voters who they should vote for, so they didn't pick the winners the way I would have. I suppose I will have to rectify this when I am made evil overlord of the world and can make the Hugo results come out the way I want them to.

Best Novel

Winner:
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Finalists:
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Glory Season by David Brin
Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Virtual Light by William Gibson

Best Novella

Winner:

Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove

Other Finalists:
An American Childhood by Pat Murphy
Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
Mefisto In Onyx by Harlan Ellison

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

Other Finalists:
Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress
Deep Eddy by Bruce Sterling
The Franchise by John Kessel
The Shadow Knows by Terry Bisson

Best Short Story

Winner:

Death on the Nile by Connie Willis

Other Finalists:
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
Mwalimu in the Squared Circle by Mike Resnick
The Story So Far by Martha Soukup

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

Other Finalists:
The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions by Michael Whelan
Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Robert Bloch

PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Jurassic Park

Other Finalists:
Addams Family Values
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Groundhog Day
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
Mike Resnick
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Bob Eggleton

Other Finalists:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Don Maitz
Michael Whelan

Best Original Artwork

Winner:

Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet by Stephen Hickman

Other Finalists:
Keith Parkinson for Cold Iron by Michael Swanwick
Thomas Canty for The Little Things by Bridget McKenna

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
Tomorrow Speculative Fiction edited by Algis Budrys

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Mimosa edited by Dick Lynch and Nicki Lynch

Other Finalists:
Ansible edited by Dave Langford
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
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:
Sharon Farber
Mike Glyer
Andy Hooper
Evelyn C. Leeper

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Brad W. Foster

Other Finalists:
Teddy Harvia
Linda Michaels
Peggy Ranson
William Rotsler
Stu Shiffman

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Amy Thomson

Other Finalists:
Holly Lisle
Jack Nimersheim
Carrie Richerson
Elizabeth Willey

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1994 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.

Comments: In 1994 the Best Art Book category was revived and Michael Whelan promptly won it with The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions. The probably unexpected side-effect of reviving the Best Art Book category is that the Best Nonfiction, Reference, or Related Book category was starved for nominees, and the category was reduced to a mere seven entries as all of the art books which had previously been nominated in this category, were shifted over into the Art Book category.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:
2.   Moving Mars by Greg Bear
3.   Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
4.   Virtual Light by William Gibson
5.   Glory Season by David Brin
6.   Hard Landing by Algis Budrys
7.   The Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card
8.   A Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper
9.   Harvest of Stars by Poul Anderson
10. Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
11. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
12. Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
13. Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
14. The Broken God by David Zindell
15. Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford
16. Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony
17. Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
18. Elvissey by Jack Womack
19. Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner
20. Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
21. Red Dust by Paul J. McAuley
22. The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
23. Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
24. Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter
25. Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:
2.   The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
3.   To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams
4.   The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
5.   Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon by Lisa Goldstein
6.   The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
7.   Deerskin by Robin McKinley
8.   Dog Wizard by Barbara Hambly
9.   Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr
10. The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
11. Faery in Shadow by C.J. Cherryh
12. The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman
13. Winter of the Wolf (aka The Belly of the Wolf) by R.A. MacAvoy
14. The Far Kingdoms by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch
15. The Cygnet and the Firebird by Patricia A. McKillip
16. The Wizard's Apprentice by S.P. Somtow
17. Bones of the Past by Holly Lisle
18. Dragon Star Book III: Skybowl by Melanie Rawn
19. The Robin & the Kestrel by Mercedes Lackey

Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The Golden by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:
2.   Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
3.   Agyar by Steven Brust
4.   Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz
5.   Lasher by Anne Rice
6.   Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
7.   X, Y by Michael Blumlein
8.   Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee
9.   Making Love by Melanie Tem and Nancy Holder
10. Blood Pact by Tanya Huff
11. Blackburn by Bradley Denton

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   Cold Allies by Patricia Anthony

Other Nominees:
2.   Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
3.   The Drylands by Mary Rosenblum
4.   CrashCourse by Wilhelmina Baird
5.   Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson
6.   Mutagenesis by Helen Collins
7.   Warpath by Tony Daniel
8.   Flying to Valhalla by Charles Pellegrino
9.   The Rising of the Moon by Flynn Connolly
10. Passion Play by Sean Stewart
11. The Devil You Say by Elisa DeCarlo
12. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
13. Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann
14. The Well-Favored Man by Elizabeth Willey
15. Afterage by Yvonne Navarro

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:

2.   Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress

3.   The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

4.   Flashback by Dan Simmons
5.   Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams
6.   Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove
7.   An American Childhood by Pat Murphy
8.   The Ten O'Clock People by Stephen King
9.   Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
10. Vampire Junkies by Norman Spinrad
11. Sister Alice by Robert Reed
12. Alien Bootlegger by Rebecca Ore
13. A Far Countrie by Avram Davidson
14. Ships in the Night by Jack McDevitt
15. The Last Castle of Christmas by Alexander Jablokov
16. Walt and Emily by Paul Di Filippo
17. Testing by Charles Oberndorf

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Death in Bangkok (aka Dying in Bangkok) by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
3.   The Shadow Knows by Terry Bisson
4.   Deep Eddy by Bruce Sterling
5.   Cush by Neal Barrett, Jr.
6.   Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield
7.   England Underway by Terry Bisson
8.   The Beauty Addict by Ray Aldridge
9.   The Franchise by John Kessel
10. Inn by Connie Willis
11. Darker Angels by S.P. Somtow
12. Swan Song by Gregory Bennett
13. Chaff by Greg Egan
14. The Spook-Box of Theodore Delafont De Brooks by Avram Davidson
15. Suicidal Tendencies by Dave Smeds
18. Papa by Ian R. MacLeod
19. The Hound of Merin by Eleanor Arnason
20. The Arrival of Truth by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
21. Chemistry by James Patrick Kelly
22. Friendship Bridge by Brian W. Aldiss
23. The Death Addict by Barry B. Longyear

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Close Encounter by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:

2.   Mwalimu in the Squared Circle by Mike Resnick

3.   The Story So Far by Martha Soukup
4.   The Bone Woman by Charles de Lint
5.   Martin on a Wednesday by Nancy Kress
6.   The Battle of Long Island by Nancy Kress
7.   Feedback by Joe Haldeman
8.   I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Wood by Kathe Koja
9.   The Face by Ed Gorman
10. Useful Phrases by Gene Wolfe
11. Sacred Cow by Bruce Sterling
12. (tie) The Extra by Greg Egan
      (tie) The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
13. The Sri Lanka Position by Robert Silverberg
14. The Plot to Save Hitler by W.R. Thompson
15. Love Toys of the Gods by Pat Cadigan
16. Everything that Rises, Must Converge by Michael A. Armstrong
17. Sinner-Saints by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
18. Carriers by Brian Stableford
19. (tie) 'Forever,' Said the Duck by Jonathan Lethem
      (tie) Sea-Scene, or, Vergil and the Ox-Thrall by Avram Davidson
20. Cliffs That Laughed by R.A. Lafferty

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Impossible Things by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
2.   Lovedeath by Dan Simmons

3.   The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith

4.   Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
5.   Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
6.   Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
7.   The Aliens of Earth by Nancy Kress
8.   Dirty Work by Pat Cadigan

9.   Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger

10. The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
11. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
12. Rude Astronauts by Allen M. Steele
13. Departures by Harry Turtledove
14. Antiquities by John Crowley
15. Swamp Foetus by Poppy Z. Brite
16. Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories by Rebecca Ore
17. Nightshades by Tanith Lee
18. Bunch! by David R. Bunch
19. Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
20. Driftglass/Starshards by Samuel R. Delany
21. A Tupolev Too Far by Brian W. Aldiss

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   Full Spectrum 4 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell

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

4.   Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

5.   The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery

6.   Alternate Warriors edited by Mike Resnick

7.   Confederacy of the Dead edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

8.   Nebula Awards 27 edited by James Morrow
9.   Omni Best Science Fiction Three edited by Ellen Datlow
10. Christmas Forever edited by David G. Hartwell
11. New Worlds 3 edited by David Garnett

12. Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Twelve: The Last Issue edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

13. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI edited by Karl Edward Wagner

14. The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women edited by A. Susan Williams

15. Best New Horror 4 edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
16. Strange Dreams edited by Stephen R. Donaldson
17. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF edited by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

Other Nominees:

2.   Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Robert Bloch

3.   The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal

4.   PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell

5.   The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology by Albert I. Berger

6.   Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar
7.   Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index: 1985-1991 edited by Hal W. Hall

Best Art Book
Winner:

1.   The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions by Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz by Don Maitz
3.   A Hannes Bok Treasury by Hannes Bok
4.   Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
5.   Virgil Finlay's Strange Science by Virgil Finlay
6.   Virgil Finlay's Phantasms by Virgil Finlay
7.   Tolkien's World edited by Anonymous

8.   The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Nancy Willard; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

9.   Carl Lundgren: Great Artist by Carl Lundgren
10. Switch on the Night by Ray Bradbury; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
11. Pastures in the Sky by Patrick Woodroffe

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

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

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.   Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
11. Aboriginal SF
12. Weird Tales
13. The New York Review of Science Fiction
14. Science Fiction Eye
15. Cemetery Dance
16. Pulphouse

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

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Random House
4.   Baen
5.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
6.   DAW
7.   Avon/Morrow
8.   Ziesing/Ursus
9.   Penguin/Roc/Viking
10. Underwood-Miller
11. Science Fiction Book Club
12. Carroll & Graf
13. HarperCollins (unspecified U.S. or U.K.)
14. HarperCollins U.K.

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Don Maitz
3.   Thomas Canty
4.   Bob Eggleton
5.   Jim Burns
6.   W.J. Hodgson
7.   Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
8.   David A. Cherry
9.   Darrell K. Sweet
10. Frank Kelly Freas
11. Boris Vallejo

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1994 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon.

Comments: 1994 reflected the renewed interest in Mars among the science fiction community. The win for Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars marked the beginning of a period in which books focused on Mars, mostly written by Robinson and Greg Bear, dotted the award ballots. Mars has always been a popular topic in science fiction, but interest in it seems to ebb and flow, and in the mid-1990s, interest seemed to flow. Personally, I preferred Nancy Kress' genetic engineering novel Beggars in Spain, but Red Mars is a fine novel and I can't fault the Nebula jurors for not sharing my taste.

In my opinion, the most well-deserved win in 1994 was for Jack Cady's The Night We Buried Road Dog. Cady's story is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever read, but his science fiction output other than this story seems to be fairly limited. Which is a shame.

Best Novel

Winner:
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:
Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress
Hard Landing by Algis Budrys
Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

Best Novella

Winner:

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Other Nominees:
The Beauty Addict by Ray Aldridge
Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress
Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

Other Nominees:
Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Franchise by John Kessel
The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan
Things Not Seen by Martha Soukup

Best Short Story

Winner:
Graves by Joe Haldeman

Other Nominees:
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
All Vows by Esther M. Friesner
The Beggar in the Living Room by William John Watkins
The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore by Harlan Ellison

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1994 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: Irish Center in London, United Kingdom.

Comments: After years of reporting both the winner and the runner-up, the Clarke Award judges decided to change things up a bit in 1994 and forego announcing the runner-up. As a result, in this year we only know the identity of the winner of the award and the shortlist of books that provided the competition. As usual, there seems to have been no particular reason for this change other than the random whims of the organizers of the award.

Winner
Vurt by Jeff Noon

Shortlist
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
The Broken God by David Zindell
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

What Are the Arthur C. Clarke Awards?

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