1989 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Penta Hotel, New York City, New York.

Comments: In 1989, Lois McMaster Bujold won the Best Novel Nebula for her brilliant book Falling Free. Although the competition, including William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive and Gene Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun, was composed of first rate novels, Bujold's win was well-deserved.

In the Best Novella category, on the other hand, the wrong story won. While there is nothing wrong with Connie Willis' The Last of the Winnebagos, it was simply a criminal miscarriage of justice for any story to win over Jane Yolen's holocaust time travel story The Devil's Arithmetic.

Best Novel

Winner:
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

Other Nominees:
Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner
Drowning Towers by George Turner
Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Best Novella

Winner:

The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard
Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Schrödinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger

Other Nominees:
Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? by Howard Waldrop
Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Hob by Judith Moffett
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
Peaches for Mad Molly by Steven Gould
Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh by Ian McDonald

Best Short Story

Winner:
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge by James Morrow

Other Nominees:
The Color Winter by Steven Popkes
Dead Men on TV by Pat Murphy
The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner by John Kessel
Voices of the Kill by Thomas M. Disch

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1988 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: The most noteworthy thing I can say about the 1988 Campbell awards is that I have no idea whether any of these books are good or not, because I haven't read any of them. Usually I will have read one or two of the books that appeared on the year's ballot, or I will know the books by reputation, or at least know something about one or more of the authors whose works were nominated. But not only have I not read any of the three books that appeared in this year's slate, I have only read one book by one of the authors - Connie Willis' novel Passage, and that's clearly an insufficient basis to form an opinion about an author's body of work.

Best Novel

Winner:

Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis

Second Place:

The Sea and Summer by George Turner

Third Place:

The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman

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1988 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, London, United Kingdom.

Comments: In 1988, the Best Anthology or Collection category was split up into two categories aimed at honoring Anthologies and Collections separately., presumably because these two types of compilations are distinctly different and the nominee field containing both sets of books was a little overcrowded. The voters responded by promptly voting The Architecture of Fear and The Dark Descent into a tie for first place in the Best Anthology category.

Sadly, the split of Best Anthology or Collection into two different categories seems to have come at the cost of the Special Convention Award category, which is unfortunate. Many of the winners in the Special Convention award category were deserving people who had been otherwise egregiously overlooked by the World Fantasy Awards, meaning that losing this category was something of a step backwards for the awards.

Best Novel

Winner:
Replay by Ken Grimwood

Other Nominees:
Ægypt by John Crowley
Misery by Stephen King
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Best Novella

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

Other Nominees:
Best Friends by Robert R. McCammon
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers
A Hypothetical Lizard by Alan Moore
Nesting Instinct by Scott Baker
The Pear-Shaped Man by George R.R. Martin
Shades by Lucius Shepard

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll

Other Nominees:
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands by Garry Kilworth
In the House of Gingerbread by Gene Wolfe
Pamela's Get by David J. Schow
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale by Douglas E. Winter

Best Anthology

Winner:
(tie) The Architecture of Fear edited by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz
(tie) The Dark Descent edited by David G. Hartwell

Other Nominees:
In the Field of Fire edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann
Masques II edited by J.N. Williamson
Night Visions 4 edited by Anonymous
Other Edens edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV edited by Karl Edward Wagner

Best Collection

Winner:
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:
Night's Sorceries by Tanith Lee
Polyphemus by Michael Shea
Scared Stiff, Tales of Sex and Death by Ramsey Campbell
Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Everett F. Bleiler

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
J.K. Potter

Other Nominees:
Tom Canty
Harry O. Morris
Michael Whelan

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
David G. Hartwell

Other Nominees:
Gardner Dozois
Tappan King
Dean R. Koontz
Shawna McCarthy
George Scithers
Terri Windling

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
(tie) Robert Garcia and Nancy Garcia
(tie) David B. Silva

Other Nominees:
Stephen Jones and David Sutton
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky

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1988 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: The Clarke Award is something of strange animal. The eligibility requirements are that a book must be in the science fiction genre, and it must be first published in Britain. Leaving aside the eternally elusive definition of what is and is not "in the science fiction genre", the publication requirement is the quirky element. Unlike, for example, the Aurealis Awards, which honor works of science fiction written by Australians, the Clarke Award honors works of science fiction published in Britain, regardless of whether the author is from Britain or not. This tends to result in British authors being nominated, as they are the most likely authors to have their work published in Britain first, but it seems to have resulted in a fair number of non-British authors arranging to have their books published in Britain first so as to be eligible for this award, which I think somewhat defeats its purpose.

Winner
The Sea and Summer by George Turner

Runner-Up
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem

Shortlist
Ægypt by John Crowley
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Gráinne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint
Replay by Ken Grimwood

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1988 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: 1988 is the first time I have had a serious disagreement with the results of the Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Literature. I simply don't think that Orson Scott Card's novel Seventh Son should have won the award. While Seventh Son is not a bad novel, it is basically just a fairly routine hodgepodge of folklore thrown into an alternate history of the United States. In comparison, all of the other nominees were simply much more creative and interesting - an observation that is substantiated when one looks at some of the other genre awards handed out in 1988, with Pat Murphy's The Falling Woman winning a Nebula Award, and Connie Willis' Lincoln's Dreams winning the Campbell Award.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:

The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

C.S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher

Other Nominees:
None

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1988 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1988, David Brin won the Locus Awards' Best Science Fiction Novel category with The Uplift War, his sequel to the Locus Award winning novel Startide Rising. This was the first time a novel and its direct sequel had won the Locus Award, and as such, this was quite a feather in Brin's cap. This was also the third time overall that Brin had won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction novel, which is also an impressive accomplishment. What this highlights is that Brin was one of the defining authors of the science fiction genre in the 1980s. And what is so interesting about this is how clearly his fiction was reacting against the dominant American political paradigm of the era. In a decade defined by Reagan's outsize personality, Brin's writing tackled themes like environmentalism and evolution as well as condemning ideas such as jingoism, colonialism, and the notion that humanity holds a special place in the universe. And in doing so, Brin was doing one of the things that science fiction does best, which is to point out where the status quo is problematic in one way or another.

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

Other Nominees:
2.   When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
3.   The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
4.   The Forge of God by Greg Bear
5.   Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
6.   The Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl
7.   Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick
8.   The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven
9.   Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
10. 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
11. The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes
12. To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein
13. Memories by Mike McQuay
14. Fool's Run by Patricia A. McKillip
15. The Secret Ascension by Michael Bishop
16. The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
17. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
18. Intervention by Julian May
19. After Long Silence by Sheri S. Tepper
20. Code Blue — Emergency! by James White
21. Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R. Dickson
22. Araminta Station by Jack Vance
23. Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams
24. The Awakeners: Northshore; Southshore by Sheri S. Tepper
25. Still River by Hal Clement
26. Dover Beach by Richard Bowker
27. Rumors of Spring by Richard Grant
28. Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
29. In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman
30. Little Heroes by Norman Spinrad
31. Replay by Ken Grimwood
32. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
33. A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
3.   Sign of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
4.   Weaveworld by Clive Barker
5.   Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
6.   Ægypt by John Crowley
7.   The Witches of Wenshar by Barbara Hambly
8.   The Grey Horse by R.A. MacAvoy
9.   Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
10. Guardians of the West by David Eddings
11. A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson
12. Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony
13. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
14. Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
15. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
16. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
17. Land of Dreams by James P. Blaylock
18. Strange Toys by Patricia Geary
19. Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
20. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
21. Never the Twain by Kirk Mitchell
22. Darkspell by Katharine Kerr
23. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
24. The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

Other Nominees:
2.   Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan
3.   In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman
4.   Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
5.   The Net by Loren J. MacGregor
6.   Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
7.   Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
8.   After the Zap by Michael A. Armstrong
9.   Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
10. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
11. Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint
12. Napoleon Disentimed by Hayford Peirce
13. A Death of Honor by Joe Clifford Faust
14. The American Book of the Dead by Stephen Billias
15. The Architects of Hyperspace by Thomas R. McDonough
16. The Shadow of His Wings by Bruce Fergusson
17. Pennterra by Judith Moffett
18. The Leeshore by Robert Reed
19. A Rose-Red City by Dave Duncan
20. The Movement of Mountains by Michael Blumlein
21. Station Gehenna by Andrew Weiner
22. Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park
23. Teot's War by Heather Gladney
24. Soulstring by Midori Snyder
25. Frame of Reference by Jerry Oltion

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:

2.   The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.   Eye for Eye by Orson Scott Card
4.   Mother Goddess of the World by Kim Stanley Robinson
5.   Superwine by Harry Turtledove
6.   Glass Cloud by James Patrick Kelly
7.   The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
8.   Love Sickness by Geoff Ryman
9.   The Forest of Time by Michael F. Flynn
10. Saving Time by Russell Griffin
11. (tie) Displaced Person by Ian Stewart
      (tie) Fugue State by John M. Ford

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Other Nominees:
2.   Shades by Lucius Shepard
3.   Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.   Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
5.   Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
6.   America by Orson Scott Card (reviewed in The Folk of the Fringe)
7.   The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
8.   On the Border by Lucius Shepard
9.   He-We-Await by Howard Waldrop
10. Winter's Tale by Connie Willis
11. Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams
12. Runaway by Orson Scott Card
13. Yanqui Doodle by James Tiptree, Jr.
14. A Hole in the Sun by Roger MacBride Allen
15. The Moon and Michelangelo by Ian Watson
16. Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr.
17. The Sun Spider by Lucius Shepard
18. The Pear-Shaped Man by George R.R. Martin
19. The Return from Rainbow Bridge by Kim Stanley Robinson
20. Cage 37 by Wayne Wightman
21. Adeste Fideles by Frederik Pohl
22. Skylab Done It by George Alec Effinger
23. Second Going by James Tiptree, Jr.
24. Mandikini by Gregory Benford
25. Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair by Charles de Lint
26. My Life as a Born Again Pig by Frederik Pohl
27. At the Cross-Time Jaunter's Ball by Alexander Jablokov
28. Extras by Robert Charles Wilson
29. Dutchman by Jack McDevitt

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Angel by Pat Cadigan

Other Nominees:

2.   The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler

3.   Delta Sly Honey by Lucius Shepard
4.   In Midst of Life by James Tiptree, Jr.
5.   The Glassblower's Dragon by Lucius Shepard
6.   Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans
7.   Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
8.   Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
9.   Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop
10. Glass by Nancy Kress
11. To Hell with the Stars by Jack McDevitt
12. The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar by William S. Burroughs
13. The Pardoner's Tale by Robert Silverberg
14. The Little Magic Shop by Bruce Sterling
15. Highbrow by Neal Barrett, Jr.
16. Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis
17. Diner by Neal Barrett, Jr.
18. The Circular Library of Stones by Carol Emshwiller
19. For Thus Do I Remember Carthage by Michael Bishop
20. Dæmon by James Patrick Kelly
21. The Iron Star by Robert Silverberg
22. The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson
23. Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll
24. Lapidary Nights by Marta Randall
25. What Bleak Land by Robert F. Young
26. Crying in the Rain by Tanith Lee
27. Heroics by James Patrick Kelly
28. The Alien in the Lake by Andrew Weiner

Best Collection
Winner:

1. The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:
2.   The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
3.   The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vols I-V by Philip K. Dick
4.   And the Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown
5.   All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past by Howard Waldrop
6.   Portraits of His Children by George R.R. Martin
7.   Cardography by Orson Scott Card
8.   Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences by Ursula K. Le Guin
9.   Night's Sorceries by Tanith Lee
10. Polyphemus by Michael Shea
11. True Names. . .and Other Dangers by Vernor Vinge
12. A Touch of Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon
13. The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel R. Delany
14. The Best of Pamela Sargent by Pamela Sargent
15. Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner
16. Getting Home by F.M. Busby
17. Evil Water by Ian Watson
18. Scared Stiff, Tales of Sex and Death by Ramsey Campbell
19. Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate by Nancy Springer

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   In the Field of Fire edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann

3.   Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 edited by Terry Carr
4.   Universe 17 edited by Terry Carr
5.   Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder edited by Robert Silverberg
6.   The Dark Descent edited by David G. Hartwell

7.   The 1987 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

8.   The Universe edited by Byron Preiss
9.   Tales of the Witch World edited by Andre Norton
10. Other Edens edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
11. Free Lancers edited by Elizabeth Mitchell
12. Sword and Sorceress IV edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley

13. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

14. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume III edited by Algis Budrys

15. Interzone: The 2^nd Anthology edited by John Clute, David Pringle, and Simon Ounsley

16. Vampires edited by Alan Ryan
17. New Destinies, Volume II, Fall 1987 edited by Jim Baen
18. Whispers VI edited by Stuart David Schiff
19. Shadows 10 edited by Charles L. Grant
20. Synergy: New Science Fiction, Number 1 edited by George Zebrowski
21. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV edited by Karl Edward Wagner
22. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 13 edited by Arthur W. Saha

23. The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Sam J. Lundwall

24. Masques II edited by J.N. Williamson
25. The Architecture of Fear edited by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz
26. Tales from the Forbidden Planet edited by Roz Kaveney

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Other Nominees:

2.   Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder by Michael Whelan

3.   Anatomy of Wonder, 3^rd Edition edited by Neil Barron
4.   Cvltvre Made Stvpid by Tom Weller
5.   Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock

6.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

7.   How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction edited by J.N. Williamson

8.   The Battle of Brazil by Jack Matthews
9.   Mind in Motion, the Fiction of Philip K. Dick by Patricia S. Warrick
10. The Tale that Wags the God by James Blish
11. Foundations of Science Fiction by John J. Pierce
12. Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life of James Blish by David Ketterer
13. The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction by Frank Herbert
14. Robert Heinlein by Leon Stover
15. A Closer Look by Patrick Woodroffe
16. Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, Vols I and II edited by Hal W. Hall

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Omni
5.   Amazing Stories
6.   Twilight Zone
7.   Aboriginal SF
8.   Interzone
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Starlog
11. File 770
12. Thrust
13. Science Fiction Eye

Best Publisher
Winner:
1.   Tor

Other Nominees:
2.   Ballantine/Del Rey
3.   Bantam Spectra
4.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
5.   DAW
6.   Arbor House
7.   Baen
8.   Underwood-Miller
9.   St. Martin's
10. Warner/Popular Library
11. Arkham House
12. Doubleday
13. Phantasia
14. Donald M. Grant
15. Avon
16. Simon & Schuster/Pocket
17. Gollancz
18. NAL/Signet
19. Dark Harvest
20. Science Fiction Book Club

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Jim Burns
3.   J.K. Potter
4.   Frank Kelly Freas
5.   Boris Vallejo
6.   Rowena Morrill
7.   Don Maitz
8.   David A. Cherry
9.   Darrell K. Sweet
10. Tom Canty
11. Vincent Di Fate
12. Frank Frazetta
13. Bob Eggleton
14. David Mattingly
15. Carl Lundgren
16. W.J. Hodgson
17. Barclay Shaw

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1988 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: 1988 was the first year since the Hall of Fame category was introduced in which only a single work was honored by induction into it. This seems to have been a permanent shift away from inducting two novels per year, as from this point forward the only times that more than one novel has been inducted in a particular year has been when the results were specifically designated a "tie". This appears to have been a change from the first several years of the Hall of Fame award in which it seems that two novels were simply selected for induction each year rather than two novels tying for first place in the voting, although it is difficult to confirm that this was the case, as in these relatively early years of the Prometheus Awards the Libertarian Futurist Society doesn't appear to have kept any records of who the nominees for the category were, or the details of how the inductees were selected. Or if they did keep such records, they haven't seen fit to make them public.

Best Novel

Winner:

The Jehovah Contract by Victor Koman

Other Nominees:

Circuit Breaker by Melinda Snodgrass

First Citizen by Thomas T. Thomas
The Uplift War by David Brin
Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R. Dickson

Hall of Fame

Winner:

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Other Nominees:
None

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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

What Are the Hugo Awards?

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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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