Comments: In 1999 the World Fantasy awards handed a Lifetime Achievement Award to Hugh B. Cave. This award was well-deserved, as Cave had a long and distinguished career writing fantasy fiction, but giving this award now make the decision to give Cave a Special Convention Award in 1996 all the more perplexing. Why did the judges dust off an award that hadn't been awarded in over a decade to honor Cave in 1996 if his accomplishments warranted a Lifetime Achievement Award? With about 98% of his career behind him by 1996, shouldn't Cave have qualified for a Lifetime Achievement award then? Was there some tipping point that required them to wait until 1999 when 99% of Cave's career was behind him before he was a worthy recipient?
Best Novel
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Other Nominees:
The Martyring by Thomas Sullivan
Mockingbird by Sean Stewart
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint
Best Novella
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
Other Nominees:
Cold by A.S. Byatt
Dragonfly by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff by Peter Straub
Best Short Fiction
The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link
Other Nominees:
The Death of the Duke by Ellen Kushner
Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman
Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link
Best Anthology
Dreaming Down-Under edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
Other Nominees:
The Best of Crank! edited by Bryan Cholfin
Dark Terrors 4 edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
Legends edited by Robert Silverberg
Starlight 2 edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Best Collection
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
Other Nominees:
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton by Graham Masterton, with Ray Clark and Matt Williams
The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack CadyLifetime Achievement
Hugh B. Cave
Other Nominees:
None
Best Artist
Charles Vess
Other Nominees:
Jim Burns
Tom Canty
Alan M. Clark
Bob Eggleton
Special Award, Professional
Jim Turner
Other Nominees:
Les Daniels
Jo Fletcher
David Pringle
Robert Silverberg and Grania Davis
Special Award, Non-Professional
Richard T. Chizmar
Other Nominees:
David Marshall
Steve Pasechnick
Jacob Weisman
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Go to subsequent year's nominees: 2000
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