1988 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Nolacon II in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Comments: 1988 was a quirky year for the Hugo Awards, driven by the introduction of the one-shot category for "Other Forms". There appears to be almost no coherent set of qualifications that can be discerned for this category. The nominees were a graphic novel, a humor book parodying literature textbooks, a screenplay for an unproduced movie, a retrospective collection, and a shared world series about superheroes. Although I have no idea how one would compare these disparate nominees, I cannot argue with the selection of Alan Moore's brilliant graphic novel Watchmen as the winner. This category was retired after 1988 and has never returned to the Hugo Award ballots.

In the standard written fiction categories, David Brin broke Orson Scott Card's two year hold on the Best Novel prize with The Uplift War, but Card still took home a rocket statue with his novella Eye for Eye. Ursula K. Le Guin earned another Hugo for her novelette Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight, and my second favorite author-who-I-have-met Lawrence Watt-Evans won for his short story Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers.

In the Best Dramatic Presentation category, the sweet humor of The Princess Bride beat out a strong field that included the bitterly satirical Robocop and the first nominated episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Uplift War by David Brin

Other Nominees:
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Best Novella

Winner:

Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Forest of Time by Michael F. Flynn
Mother Goddess of the World by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg

Best Novelette

Winner:

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams
Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Best Short Story

Winner:

Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Other Nominees:
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder by Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
Anatomy of Wonder, 3^rd Edition edited by Neil Barron
The Battle of Brazil by Jack Matthews
Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry by David A. Cherry
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

Other Forms

Winner:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Other Nominees:
Cvltvre Made Stvpid by Tom Weller
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
I, Robot: The Movie by Harlan Ellison
Wild Cards (series) created by George R.R. Martin

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
The Princess Bride

Other Nominees:
Predator
Robocop
Star Trek - The Next Generation: Encounter at Farpoint
The Witches of Eastwick

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
Edward L. Ferman
David G. Hartwell
Stanley Schmidt
Brian Thomsen

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
David A. Cherry
Bob Eggleton
Tom Kidd
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Other Nominees:
Aboriginal SF edited by Charles C. Ryan
Interzone edited by Simon Ounsley and David Pringle
Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter
Thrust edited by D. Douglas Fratz

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Texas SF Inquirer edited by Pat Mueller

Other Nominees:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
FOSFAX edited by Timothy Lane
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
The Mad 3 Party edited by Leslie Turek

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Mike Glyer

Other Nominees:
Arthur Hlavaty
Dave Langford
Guy H. Lillian, III
Leslie Turek

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Brad W. Foster

Other Nominees:
Steve Fox
Teddy Harvia
Merle Insinga
Taral Wayne
Diana Gallagher Wu

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Judith Moffett

Other Nominees:
C.S. Friedman
Loren MacGregor
Rebecca Ore
Martha Soukup

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1988 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California.

Comments: The 1988 Nebula Award ballot is somewhat odd for me, in that I've read several of the nominated works, but as of yet, none of the winning works. This means that while I have great affection for David Brin's The Uplift War and Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist, I have no idea how they stack up against Pat Murphy's The Falling Woman. While I am a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin's Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight and Bruce McAllister's Dream Baby, Ican't say whether they compare favorably or unfavorably with Murphy's Rachel in Love.

With two Nebula wins in this year, I can say that Pat Murphy had a really good 1988. And with more nominations for works written by women than in any of the recent years, so did women in general.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

Other Nominees:
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
The Uplift War by David Brin
Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Best Novella

Winner:

The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:
Fugue State by John M. Ford
The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg
The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts
The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman
Witness by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Other Nominees:
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis

Best Short Story

Winner:
Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm

Other Nominees:
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
Kid Charlemagne by Paul Di Filippo
Temple to a Minor Goddess by Susan Shwartz
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans

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1987 World Fantasy Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Nashville, Tennessee.

Comments: 1987 was the last year that the World Fantasy Awards handed out a combined award for collections and anthologies, and the victor was James Tiptree, Jr.'s collection Tales of the Quintana Roo. Having anthologies and collections together in one category made for some very awkward ballots, as the two different types of compilations of short fiction aren't really comparable in any meaningful sense. The separation of the categories was long overdue.

Otherwise, 1987 was a pretty ordinary year for the World Fantasy Awards. There weren't any particularly noteworthy winners other than Andre Norton with her special convention award, and the only person who got more than one nomination was Stephen King, who got two although he didn't win in any category.

Best Novel

Winner:
Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Other Nominees:
It by Stephen King
The Pet by Charles L. Grant
Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Strangers by Dean R. Koontz
Talking Man by Terry Bisson
The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

Best Novella

Winner:
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
Chance by Connie Willis
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Night Moves by Tim Powers
The Night Seasons by J.N. Williamson

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
Red Light by David J. Schow

Other Nominees:
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King
Pain by Whitley Strieber
The Rise and Fall of Father Alex by Amyas Naegele
They're Coming for You by Les Daniels
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R. Lansdale

Best Anthology or Collection

Winner:
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree, Jr.

Other Nominees:
Black Wine edited by Douglas E. Winter
Cutting Edge edited by Dennis Etchison
Dreams of Dark and Light by Tanith Lee
Liavek: The Players of Luck edited by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
Merlin's Booke by Jane Yolen
Night Visions 3 edited by George R.R. Martin

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Jack Finney

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Robert Gould

Other Nominees:
Stephen Gervais
Chris Van Allsburg
J.K. Potter

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Jane Yolen

Other Nominees:
Donald M. Grant
David G. Hartwell
Simon Ounsley and David Pringle
Jack Sullivan
Terri Windling

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
(tie) Jeff Conner
(tie) W. Paul Ganley

Other Nominees:
Stephen Jones and David Sutton
David B. Silva

Special Convention Award

Winner:
Andre Norton

Other Nominees:
None

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1987 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: The opposite ends of the Campbell Award ballot in 1987 are interesting because of their contrasts. Joan Slonczewski's novel A Door Into Ocean is a story featuring feminism, ecological awareness, and pacifism that suggests that the moral response to aggression is nonviolent resistance. Orson Scott Card's novel Speaker for the Dead is a murder mystery that suggests that the moral response to the inequities caused by a paternalistic religious society is to make the society even more paternalistic and even more religious. Slonczwski's novel won the award in 1987, but it seems like Card's vision has seeped into modern politics and taken root.

Best Novel

Winner:

A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski

Second Place:

This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow

Third Place:

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

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1987 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: Eastercon in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Comments: 1987 was the inaugural year for the Clarke Award, and right away the judges decided to jump into a controversy by giving the honor to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This award was not controversial because Atwood's book wasn't a worthy recipient of the award, but rather because Atwood was (and remains) adamant that her books were (and are) not science fiction because they do not involve "talking squids in space", even though by any definition of the genre many of her books clearly are. In my opinion, genre awards should not be handing any awards to Atwood. If she doesn't want her work to be considered to be science-fiction, then there is no reason for it to be honored as such. It seems to me that it would be much preferable to recognize this contributions of authors who are proud to be writing genre fiction rather than someone who looks down their nose at anything other than literary fiction.

Winner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Runner-Up
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw

Shortlist
Eon by Greg Bear
Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

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1987 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1987, the Libertarian Futurist Society, for the second time, inducted a pretty lousy Ayn Rand book and a pretty good Robert A. Heinlein book into their Hall of Fame. The fact that these authors had a second round of books inducted isn't that surprising, as their works are widely regarded as being the cornerstones of libertarian science fiction. What is surprising is the amount of time it took for the Prometheus Awards to get around to honoring a second round of books from this pair of authors.

Best Novel

Winner:

Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

Other Nominees:

Circuit by Melinda Snodgrass

The Crystal Empire by L. Neil Smith
A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Hall of Fame

Winner:

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Other Nominees:
None

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1987 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: After just missing the year before with Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card captured the Best Science Fiction Novel award for 1987 with Speaker for the Dead. The thing that is interesting about this win is that overall, I think Speaker for the Dead is a weaker book than Ender's Game, so the fact that Speaker won and Ender didn't seems a bit odd. One could possibly chalk this oddity up to weaker competition in 1987 when compared to 1986, but looking at the list of other nominees like The Handmaid's Tale, Chanur's Homecoming, and Marooned in Realtime, that simply doesn't seem plausible. It seems that the best explanation for this win is that the voters, now more aware of Card because of the success of Ender's Game, were voting a "make up" win for him as compensation for their oversight the previous year. I can't say that this is certain, but it does seem like the most plausible explanation.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford and David Brin
3.   Count Zero by William Gibson
4.   The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5.   Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
6.   Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh
7.   Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
8.   The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
9.   The Coming of the Quantum Cats by Frederik Pohl
10. Santiago by Mike Resnick
11. Enigma by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
12. When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
13. Lear's Daughters by M. Bradley Kellogg with William Rossow
14. Star of Gypsies by Robert Silverberg
15. Nerilka's Story by Anne McCaffrey
16. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
17. The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald M. Kingsbury
18. Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
19. The Architect of Sleep by Steven R. Boyett
20. Venus of Dreams by Pamela Sargent
21. The Nimrod Hunt by Charles Sheffield
22. This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
23. The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt
24. The Forever Man by Gordon R. Dickson
25. The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
26. Rebels' Seed by F.M. Busby

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe

Other Nominees:
2.   Blood of Amber by Roger Zelazny
3.   It by Stephen King
4.   Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
5.   Twisting the Rope by R.A. MacAvoy
6.   The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle
7.   The Serpent Mage by Greg Bear
8.   Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm
9.   The Quest for Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz
10. A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
11. The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
12. The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
13. Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold! by Terry Brooks
14. Homunculus by James P. Blaylock
15. Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony
16. The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
17. The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock
18. Jinian Star-Eye by Sheri S. Tepper
19. New York by Knight by Esther M. Friesner
20. The King of Ys: Roma Mater by Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson
21. The Hounds of God by Judith Tarr
22. The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman
23. Yarrow by Charles de Lint
24. The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
25. Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
26. A Voice for Princess by John Morressy
27. Talking Man by Terry Bisson

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt

Other Nominees:
2.   Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
3.   A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson
4.   Wrack & Roll by Bradley Denton
5.   The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski
6.   No Safe Place by Anne Moroz
7.   Sentience by Terry A. Adams
8.   (tie) The Doomsday Effect by Thomas Wren
      (tie) Windmaster's Bane by Tom Deitz
10. The Game of Fox and Lion by Robert R. Chase
11. Fire Sanctuary by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
12. Warchild by Richard Bowes
13. Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
14. The Curse of Sagamore by Kara Dalkey
15. The Star Country by Michael Cassutt
16. The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea
17. The Burning Stone by Deborah Turner Harris

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   R & R by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.   Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley
4.   Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg
5.   Collision by James Tiptree, Jr.
6.   Spice Pogrom by Connie Willis
7.   Voice in the Dark by Jack McDevitt
8.   Good Night, Sweethearts by James Tiptree, Jr.
9.   As Big as the Ritz by Gregory Benford
10. Dydeetown Girl by F. Paul Wilson
11. Though the Heavens Fall by Harry Turtledove
12. Born from the Beast by Vance Aandahl
13. Hotel Mind Slaves by Ronald Anthony Cross
14. Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn
15. The Head of Shemesh the Eshurian by Avram Davidson
16. Newton Sleep by Gregory Benford

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin

Other Nominees:
2.   Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card
3.   The Glass Flower by George R.R. Martin
4.   The Winter Market by William Gibson
5.   Permafrost by Roger Zelazny
6.   Of Space-Time and the River by Gregory Benford
7.   Aymara by Lucius Shepard
8.   Fire Zone Emerald by Lucius Shepard
9.   The Arcevoalo by Lucius Shepard
10. Salvage by Orson Scott Card (reviewed in The Folk of the Fringe)
11. The Girl Who Fell into the Sky by Kate Wilhelm
12. The Barbarian Princess by Vernor Vinge
13. Windows by Ian Watson
14. Chance by Connie Willis
15. Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes by Somtow Sucharitkul
16. Fill It With Regular by Michael Shea
17. Into Gold by Tanith Lee
18. Against Babylon by Robert Silverberg
19. The Beautiful and the Sublime by Bruce Sterling
20. Video Star by Walter Jon Williams
21. Cold Light by Ian Watson
22. The News from D Street by Andrew Weiner
23. (tie) The Prisoner of Chillon by James Patrick Kelly
      (tie) The Pure Product by John Kessel
25. Voices by Michael Bishop
26. The Gate of Ghosts by Karen Joy Fowler
27. Grave Angels by Richard Kearns
28. Surviving by Judith Moffett
29. The Metaphysical Gun by Wayne Wightman

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (reviewed in Robot Dreams)

Other Nominees:

2.   Down and Out in the Year 2000 by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.   Rat by James Patrick Kelly
4.   Tangents by Greg Bear
5.   The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
6.   Alien Graffiti by Michael Bishop
7.   Face Value by Karen Joy Fowler
8.   Thorn by Robert Holdstock
9.   Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan
10. Jeff Beck by Lewis Shiner
11. Voyage South from Thousand Willows by Lucius Shepard
12. Our Town by Kim Stanley Robinson
13. The Lions Are Asleep This Night by Howard Waldrop
14. And So to Bed by Harry Turtledove
15. Blindsight by Robert Silverberg
16. Strangers on Paradise by Damon Knight
17. Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming by Suzette Haden Elgin
18. Fair Game by Howard Waldrop
19. The Idea Trap by George Zebrowski
20. Phone Repairs by Nancy Kress
21. Snake-Eyes by Tom Maddox
22. Skintwister by Paul Di Filippo
23. State of the Art by Robert Charles Wilson
24. Sea Change by Scott Baker

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Blue Champagne by John Varley

Other Nominees:
2.   Burning Chrome by William Gibson
3.   Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop
4.   Visible Light by C.J. Cherryh
5.   Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
6.   The River of Time by David Brin
7.   Callahan's Secret by Spider Robinson
8.   Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
9.   Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler
10. The Planet on the Table by Kim Stanley Robinson
11. In Alien Flesh by Gregory Benford
12. The Starry Rift by James Tiptree, Jr.
13. Close Encounters with the Deity by Michael Bishop
14. Dreams of Dark and Light by Tanith Lee
15. Cascade Point and Other Stories by Timothy Zahn
16. Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree, Jr.
17. Merlin's Booke by Jane Yolen
18. Beyond the Safe Zone by Robert Silverberg
19. Retief in the Ruins by Keith Laumer
20. The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction by Samuel R. Delany
21. Kaeti & Company by Keith Roberts

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   Wild Cards edited by George R.R. Martin

3.   Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 edited by Terry Carr
4.   Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling

5.   Afterlives: Stories About Life After Death edited by Pamela Sargent and Ian Watson

6.   Universe 16 edited by Terry Carr
7.   The Hugo Winners, Volume 5: 1980-1982 edited by Isaac Asimov
8.   Heroes in Hell edited by Janet Morris

9.   The 1986 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

10. Cutting Edge edited by Dennis Etchison
11. Tales from the Spaceport Bar edited by George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer
12. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume II edited by Algis Budrys
13. Hitler Victorious edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
14. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV edited by Terry Carr

15. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

16. Nebula Awards 21 edited by George Zebrowski
17. Uncollected Stars edited by Piers Anthony
18. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIV edited by Karl Edward Wagner
19. Shadows 9 edited by Charles L. Grant
20. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 edited by Arthur W. Saha
21. Under the Wheel edited by Elizabeth Mitchell

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Trillion Year Spree by Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove

Other Nominees:

2.   Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick by Paul Williams

3.   The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. 1 edited by Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr., Tony Chapdelaine, and George Hay

4.   Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects by Thomas G. Smith
5.   Science Fiction in Print: 1985 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento
6.   The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural edited by Jack Sullivan
7.   The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley

8.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines edited by Marshall B. Tymn and Mike Ashley

9.   Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Second Edition edited by Curtis C. Smith

10. Lightship by Chris Evans, art by Jim Burns
11. H.R. Giger's Necronomicon 2 by H.R. Giger

12. Inside Outer Space: Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft edited by Sharon Jarvis

13. . . . And the Lurid Glare of the Comet by Brian W. Aldiss
14. Hard Science Fiction edited by George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
15. Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years by David L. Rosheim
16. Chroma: The Art of Alex Schomburg by Jon Gustafson, art by Alex Schomburg

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Fantasy & Science Fiction

Other Nominees:
2.   Asimov's
3.   Analog
4.   Omni
5.   Amazing Stories
6.   Interzone
7.   Twilight Zone
8.   Science Fiction Chronicle
9.   Fantasy Review
10. Science Fiction Review
11. Night Cry
12. Starlog

Best Publisher
Winner:
1.   Ballantine/Del Rey

Other Nominees:
2.   Tor
3.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
4.   Bantam
5.   DAW
6.   Baen
7.   Arbor House
8.   Bluejay
9.   Doubleday
10. Phantasia
11. Warner/Popular Library/Questar
12. Arkham House
13. Donald M. Grant
14. NAL/Signet
15. Gollancz
16. Underwood-Miller
17. Avon

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Jim Burns
3.   J.K. Potter
4.   Frank Kelly Freas
5.   Darrell Sweet
6.   Don Maitz
7.   Rowena Morrill
8.   Boris Vallejo
9.   Barclay Shaw
10. David A. Cherry
11. David Mattingly
12. H.R. Giger
13. Thomas Kidd
14. Victoria Poyser
15. Vincent Di Fate
16. Tom Canty
17. Phil Foglio
18. Carl Lundgren
19. David Hardy
20. Robert Gould

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1987 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Due to the specific rules of the Mythopoeic Awards, a series is eligible as a whole in the year that its final volume appears. In addition to the nomination for Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry this year, R.A. MacAvoy had previously been nominated for her Damiano Trilogy in 1985. I have mixed feelings about these sorts of inclusions in award nominations, because of the inherent difficulty in comparing a single book, like most nominees, with a series of books such as these. On the other hand, the two most famous authors of the Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, were known for book series like the Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, and the Space Trilogy, so it seems somewhat fitting to honor this sort of literary product in the Mythopoeic Awards.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:

The Fionavar Tapestry (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road) by Guy Gavriel Kay

Merlin's Booke by Jane Yolen
Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard Purtill

Other Nominees:
None

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1987 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Conspiracy '87 in Brighton, England.

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

Winner:
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

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:
Aliens

Other Nominees:
The Fly
Labyrinth
Little Shop of Horrors
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Terry Carr

Other Nominees:
Gardner Dozois
Edward L. Ferman
David G. Hartwell
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Jim Burns

Other Nominees:
Frank Kelly Freas
Tom Kidd
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter
Barclay Shaw

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

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

Winner:

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

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Nominees:
Mike Glyer
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Arthur Hlavaty
Simon Ounsley
D. West
Owen Whiteoak [nomination withdrawn]

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Brad W. Foster

Other Nominees:
Steve Fox
Stu Schiffman
Arthur "Atom" Thomson
Taral Wayne

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Karen Joy Fowler

Other Nominees:
Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo Frankowski
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Rebecca Ore
Robert Reed

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1987 Nebula Award Reviews

Location: Halloran House Hotel, New York City, New York.

Comments: In 1987 Orson Scott Card won the Best Novel Nebula for Speaker for the Dead. This win was historic, in that because Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, Card became the first author to pull of that feat for a novel and its sequel in successive years. However, this is something of a disappointment because when one evaluates the Speaker for the Dead, it is good, but not great, and probably not as good a couple of the other nominees such as Count Zero and The Handmaid's Tale. Oddly, given Card's espoused political and social positions, it seems to me like he probably doesn't regard Atwood's cautionary tale as a dystopia, but rather a political future to be coveted and desired.

However, after the embarrassing ballots of the early 1980s, the Nebula Awards seem to have gotten themselves turned around a little bit in 1987, with seven of the twenty-four nominations going to works penned by female authors. There was still a ways to go to get to something resembling real gender equity, but at least the ratio wasn't horribly unbalanced this year.

Best Novel

Winner:
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
Count Zero by William Gibson
Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Journal of Nicholas the American by Leigh Kennedy
This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow

Best Novella

Winner:

R&R by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:
Dydeetown Girl by F. Paul Wilson
Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg
Newton Sleep by Gregory Benford

Best Novelette

Winner:

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky by Kate Wilhelm

Other Nominees:
Aymara by Lucius Shepard
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card
Listening to Brahms by Suzy McKee Charnas
Permafrost by Roger Zelazny
Surviving by Judith Moffett
The Winter Market by William Gibson

Best Short Story

Winner:
Tangents by Greg Bear

Other Nominees:
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
The Lions Are Asleep This Night by Howard Waldrop
Pretty Boy Crossover by Pat Cadigan
Rat by James Patrick Kelly
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (reviewed in Robot Dreams)

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1986 World Fantasy Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Providence, Rhode Island.

Comments: In 1986, Anne Rice made the first of her many appearances on the nominee list with The Vampire Lestat. This marked a distinct development in the world of fantasy, as romance oriented vampire fiction emerged as a dominant form in the field. Eventually, other traditional fantasy creatures such as werewolves and witches joined this style of fiction, resulting in the format now known as Paranormal Romance. But in 1986, this was all in the future and all that there was of this was the embryonic seeds.

In contrast, the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Avram Davidson, a distinguished member of the "old guard" of fantasy fiction. In many ways, the nomination of Anne Rice and the win for Avram Davidson represent the transition the fantasy field was going through in the 1980s, as the older, male dominated vision of the genre was slowly giving way to a new, more female-friendly one.

Best Novel

Winner:
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Winterking by Paul Hazel

Best Novella

Winner:
Nadelman's God by T.E.D. Klein

Other Nominees:
Dead Image by David Morrell
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Flight by Peter Dickinson
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
Paper Dragons by James P. Blaylock

Other Nominees:
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Return of the Dust Vampires by Sharon N. Farber
The Slovo Stove by Avram Davidson

Best Anthology or Collection

Winner:
Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley

Other Nominees:
Black Venus by Angela Carter
Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volumes IV-VI by Clive Barker
Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen
Faery! edited by Terri Windling
Night Visions 2 edited by Charles L. Grant
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Whispers V edited by Stuart David Schiff

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Avram Davidson

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
(tie) Thomas Canty
(tie) Jeff Jones

Other Nominees:
Alan Lee
J.K. Potter

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Pat LoBrutto

Other Nominees:
Thomas Canty and Phil Hale
Donald M. Grant
Terri Windling

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Douglas E. Winter

Other Nominees:
Jeff Conner
W. Paul Ganley
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky
David B. Silva

Special Convention Award

Winner:
Donald A. Wollheim

Other Nominees:
None

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1986 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1986, for the first time, the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship in Inklings Studies reported a full slate of nominees to the public, and not merely the winning entry. This was the first time this had happened, and the last time it would happen until the early 1990s, as the Mythopoeic Society seems to have recovered from whatever malady made them think that observers appreciated additional information about the process that led to particular works winning their awards. The recovery was short-lived, however, and when the Mythopoeic Awards were completely overhauled in 1991, the non-winning nominees would be listed for all categories.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

Other Nominees:
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dark of the Moon by P.C. Hodgell
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Lainez

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero

Other Nominees:
The Fantasts by Edmund Little
J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard Purtill
The Novels of Charles Williams by Thomas Howard
Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger

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1986 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: With wins in the Best Novelette, Best Short Story, and Best Anthology categories and another nomination in the Best Nonfiction, Reference, or Related Work category, there can be no doubt but that Harlan Ellison had a great year in the Locus Awards. Given Ellison's track record, this sort of year is not at all surprising, or even unexpected.

The other interesting thing about the 1986 Locus Awards is that David Brin's The Postman beat out Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game for Best Science Fiction Novel. Given the novel's respective reputations, one would expect the results to have been reversed. This is not to say that Brin's post-apocalyptic story is not a worthy winner - I actually like it more than Card's book - but with the adulation that has been heaped upon Ender's Game, one might think that nothing could possibly beat it in a reader poll. I'm glad that Brin got the recognition over Card, partially because I think The Postman is a better book, and partially because I think Brin is a better human being.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   The Postman by David Brin

Other Nominees:
2.   Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3.   Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
4.   Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
5.   Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss
6.   The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein
7.   Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
8.   Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree, Jr.
9.   Cuckoo's Egg by C.J. Cherryh
10. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
11. Blood Music by Greg Bear
12. Eon by Greg Bear
13. The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan
14. The Kif Strike Back by C.J. Cherryh
15. Contact by Carl Sagan
16. Artifact by Gregory Benford
17. The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
18. Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
19. Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield
20. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
21. Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
22. Emprise by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
23. Dayworld by Philip José Farmer
24. Child of Fortune by Norman Spinrad
25. Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg
26. Starquake by Robert L. Forward
27. Kiteworld by Keith Roberts
28. The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N. Malzberg
29. Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott
30. The Darkling Wind by Somtow Sucharitkul

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny

Other Nominees:
2.   The Book of Kells by R.A. MacAvoy
3.   Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
4.   The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
5.   Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl by Jack Vance
6.   The King's Justice by Katherine Kurtz
7.   The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
8.   The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein
9.   With a Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony
10. Dark of the Moon by P.C. Hodgell
11. Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
12. Mulengro by Charles de Lint
13. Lovecraft's Book by Richard A. Lupoff
14. Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust
15. The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
16. The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks
17. Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm
18. In Yana, the Touch of Undying by Michael Shea
19. The Last Rainbow by Parke Godwin
20. Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard
21. The Song of Mavin Manyshaped by Sheri S. Tepper
22. Wings of Flame by Nancy Springer
23. The Bronze King by Suzy McKee Charnas
24. Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore by Sheri S. Tepper

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   Contact by Carl Sagan

Other Nominees:
2.   Emprise by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
3.   In the Drift by Michael Swanwick
4.   The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
5.   Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
6.   Cats Have No Lord by Will Shetterly
7.   Masters of Glass by M. Coleman Easton
8.   Saraband of Lost Time by Richard Grant
9.   Walk the Moon's Road by Jim Aikin
10. Infinity's Web by Sheila Finch
11. The Isle of Glass by Judith Tarr
12. Saturnalia by Grant Callin
13. The Torch of Honor by Roger MacBride Allen
14. Children of the Light by Susan B. Weston
15. The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman
16. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
17. The Secret Country by Pamela C. Dean
18. Skyrider 1: Skirmish by Melisa C. Michaels
19. The Long Forgetting by Edward A. Byers
20. The Sorcery Within by Dave Smeds
21. The Princess of Flames by Ru Emerson
22. Pandora's Genes by Kathryn Lance
23. Down Town by Viido Polikarpus and Tappan King
24. Ibis by Linda Steele
25. Staroamer's Fate by Chuck Rothman

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr.

Other Nominees:

2.   Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

3.   Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
4.   The Plague Star by George R.R. Martin
5.   24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
6.   The Scapegoat by C.J. Cherryh
7.   Loaves and Fishes by George R.R. Martin
8.   To the Storming Gulf by Gregory Benford
9.   Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling
10. World War Last by Norman Spinrad
11. The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
12. The Curse of Kings by Connie Willis
13. When Winter Ends by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
14. How the Wind Spoke at Madaket by Lucius Shepard
15. Duke Pasquale's Ring by Avram Davidson
16. George Washington Slept Here by Charles L. Harness
17. Flight by Peter Dickinson
18. Talion by John Brunner

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
2.   The Fringe by Orson Scott Card (reviewed in The Folk of the Fringe)
3.   Portraits of His Children by George R.R. Martin
4.   The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
5.   Dogfight by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
6.   Under Siege by George R.R. Martin
7.   All My Darling Daughters by Connie Willis
8.   A Gift from the GrayLanders by Michael Bishop
9.   The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove
10. Storming the Cosmos by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
11. A Spanish Lesson by Lucius Shepard
12. The Things That Happen by Frederik Pohl
13. Mercurial by Kim Stanley Robinson
14. The End Of Life as We Know It by Lucius Shepard
15. Kitemistress by Keith Roberts
16. Side Effects by Walter Jon Williams
17. The Slovo Stove by Avram Davidson
18. Vilest Beast by Eric G. Iverson
19. Rockabye Baby by S.C. Sykes
20. Solstice by James Patrick Kelly
21. Shanidar by David Zindell
22. O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman
23. Unferno by George Alec Effinger
24. Vestibular Man by Felix C. Gotschalk

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:

2.   Fermi and Frost by Frederik Pohl

3.   Snow by John Crowley
4.   Time's Rub by Gregory Benford
5.   Dinner in Audoghast by Bruce Sterling
6.   Mengele by Lucius Shepard
7.   No Regrets by Lisa Tuttle
8.   Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Howard Waldrop
9.   The Gods of Mars by Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, and Michael Swanwick
10. '. . . How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song. . .' by Lucius Shepard
11. Hong's Bluff by William F. Wu
12. Tourists by Lisa Goldstein
13. Sunrise on Pluto by Robert Silverberg
14. Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
15. Paper Dragons by James P. Blaylock
16. The Transmigration of Philip K. by Michael Swanwick
17. Mozart in Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
18. My Life in the Jungle by Jim Aikin
19. The Poplar Street Study by Karen Joy Fowler
20. The Great Wall by Wayne Wightman
21. (tie) The Blind Minotaur by Michael Swanwick
      (tie) The War at Home by Lewis Shiner
22. The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler
23. The R Strain by Eric G. Iverson
24. Heirs of the Perisphere by Howard Waldrop
25. The Last Dragon Master by A.A. Attanasio

26. The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium Ltd. by Michael Bishop

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Other Nominees:
2.   Fire Watch by Connie Willis
3.   Limits by Larry Niven
4.   Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin
5.   Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
6.   Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI by Clive Barker
7.   The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
8.   Slow Birds and Other Stories by Ian Watson
9.   Dealing in Futures by Joe Haldeman
10. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Philip K. Dick
11. Anthonology by Piers Anthony
12. Byte Beautiful by James Tiptree, Jr.
13. Phoenix in the Ashes by Joan D. Vinge
14. Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
15. The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley by Marion Zimmer Bradley
16. Viriconium Nights by M. John Harrison
17. Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen
18. Beastmarks by A.A. Attanasio
19. Eye by Frank Herbert
20. The Book of Ian Watson by Ian Watson
21. Trinity and Other Stories by Nancy Kress

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   Medea: Harlan's World edited by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:

2.   The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

3.   Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #14 edited by Terry Carr
4.   The Dead of Winter edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey
5.   Universe 15 edited by Terry Carr
6.   Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley
7.   The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: 1976-1979 edited by Isaac Asimov

8.   The 1985 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

9.   Interzone: The 1^st Anthology edited by John Clute, Colin Greenland, and David Pringle

10. Berserker Base edited by Fred Saberhagen
11. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future edited by Algis Budrys
12. Liavek edited by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
13. The Planets edited by Byron Preiss

14. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 13 (1951) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

15. Bestiary! edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
16. The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII edited by Karl Edward Wagner
17. Shadows 8 edited by Charles L. Grant
18. Nebula Awards 20 edited by George Zebrowski

19. Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu

20. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 14 (1952) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

21. Afterwar edited by Janet Morris

22. The Science Fiction Yearbook edited by Jerry Pournelle, Jim Baen, and John F. Carr

23. After the Flames edited by Elizabeth Mitchell
24. Whispers #21/22 edited by Stuart David Schiff
25. The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction edited by Ellen Datlow
26. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 11 edited by Arthur W. Saha

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf by Algis Budrys

Other Nominees:

2.   The Pale Shadow of Science by Brian W. Aldiss

3.   The Novels of Philip K. Dick by Kim Stanley Robinson
4.   Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror by Douglas E. Winter
5.   Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller
6.   Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels by David Pringle
7.   Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror edited by E.F. Bleiler
8.   The Atlas of the Land by Karen Wynn Fonstad
9.   An Edge in My Voice by Harlan Ellison
10. Ghastly Beyond Belief by Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman
11. A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool by Sam Moskowitz
12. Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy by Stanislaw Lem

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Locus

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Asimov's
4.   Analog
5.   Omni
6.   Amazing Stories
7.   Interzone
8.   Science Fiction Chronicle
9.   Twilight Zone
10. Science Fiction Review
11. Starlog
12. Fantasy Review
13. Far Frontiers
14. File 770

Best Publisher
Winner:
1.   Ballantine/Del Rey

Other Nominees:
2.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
3.   Tor
4.   DAW
5.   Bantam Spectra
6.   Bluejay
7.   Baen
8.   Arbor House
9.   Phantasia
10. Doubleday
11. Scream/Press
12. Gollancz
13. Mark V. Ziesing
14. Donald M. Grant
15. Atheneum
16. Pocket
17. Arkham House
18. Science Fiction Book Club
19. Avon
20. NAL/Signet
21. Warner/Questar

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   J.K. Potter
3.   Boris Vallejo
4.   Frank Kelly Freas
5.   Rowena Morrill
6.   Victoria Poyser
7.   Don Maitz
8.   Darrell Sweet
9.   Barclay Shaw
10. Frank Frazetta
11. Jim Burns
12. Vincent Di Fate
13. Carl Lundgren
14. David Mattingly
15. David A. Cherry
16. Val Lakey Lindahn
17. Tom Canty
18. Kevin Johnson
19. Phil Foglio

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