1992 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.

Comments: In 1992, the SFWA noticed that they hadn't honored any science fiction film in a while, and created the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. They then declared that it was not a Nebula Award and handed the first one to Terminator 2. The SFWA's insistence that the Ray Bradbury Award is not a Nebula is a reflection of the organization's somewhat quixotic stance that an award they give out at the same ceremony, to honor pretty much the exact same sort of thing, is somehow not the same sort of award. It seems they want to honor the creators of dramatic works, and maintain that the Bradbury Award is equal to the Nebula Awards, but also maintain that it is distinct. But since the Bradbury Award is much less well-known than the Nebula Award, saying that you have won a Bradbury Award isn't equal to saying you've won a Nebula Award, and everyone who observes the SFWA awards cycle knows this. So the end result is that almost everyone ignores the "Bradbury" designation for the award, and just calls it a Nebula.

Best Novel

Winner:
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

Other Nominees:
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
Synners by Pat Cadigan

Best Novella

Winner:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

Other Nominees:
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
Bully! by Mike Resnick
The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Jack by Connie Willis
Man Opening a Door by Paul Ash

Best Novelette

Winner:

Guide Dog by Mike Conner

Other Nominees:
The All-Consuming by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
Gate of Faces by Ray Aldridge
Getting Real by Susan Shwartz
The Happy Man by Jonathan Lethem
Standing In Line with Mister Jimmy by James Patrick Kelly

Best Short Story

Winner:
Ma Qui by Alan Brennert

Other Nominees:
Buffalo by John Kessel
the button, and what you know by W. Gregory Stewart
The Dark by Karen Joy Fowler
Dog's Life by Martha Soukup
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson

Ray Bradbury Award

Winner:

Terminator 2

Other Nominees:
None

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1991 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, the members of the Libertarian Futurist Society seem to have been playing a game with themselves. They repeatedly nominated works like Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Levin's This Perfect Day, and Zamyatin's We, and then turned around and voted for books like Wilson's An Enemy of the State to be inducted into the Prometheus Award Hall of Fame. This pattern seems to me to be the result of the voters nominating works that they think they should be reading, but when the time came to vote for the winner, they voted for the books they were actually reading, leading to a collection of high-quality nominees losing out to an array of mediocre winners.

Best Novel

Winner:

In the Country of the Blind by Michael F. Flynn

Other Nominees:

The Cybernetic Shogun by Victor Milán

The Tery by F. Paul Wilson
Under the Yoke by S.M. Stirling
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Hall of Fame

Winner:

An Enemy of the State by F. Paul Wilson

Other Nominees:
Circus World by Barry B. Longyear
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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1991 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: In 1991, Pacific Edge, Kim Stanely Robinson's final installment in his Three Californias series, won the Campbell Award. This victory seems to continue a trend among award voters to give a nod to the final book in a series as a way to recognize the series as a whole, regardless of whether it was the best book in the series or not. There seems to be a trend in genre fiction towards making publishing a trilogy length series of book the de facto standard, with stand-alone novels becoming rarer and rarer. I have to wonder if this tendency of award voters to ignore books until they are the third or fourth in a series has influenced this trend, as authors and editors spend their time trying to chase accolades by pushing out more and more series fiction.

Best Novel

Winner:

Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

Second Place:

Queen of Angels by Greg Bear

Third Place:

Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow

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1991 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: After an absence of several years, the slate of nominees for the Scholarship Award returned in 1991, possibly as a preview for the expanded slate of awards that would show up in 1992. Whether this addition of non-winning nominees for the Scholarship Award was a harbinger of the split of both of the Mythopoeic Award categories or not is entirely unclear, but it does allow us to see what competition George Sayer's work had for the award, and be able to evaluate their relative merits.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner

Other Nominees:

The Books of Great Alta (Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna) by Jane Yolen

Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer

Other Nominees:
Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis by Owen Barfield
The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by Roma A. King

A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War by Sebastian Knowles

The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C.S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer edited by Bruce L. Edward

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1991 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Tuscon, Arizona.

Comments: The 1991 World Fantasy Awards were the home of some small controversy when Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won the Best Short Story Award for A Midsummer Night's Dream. The problem was not that the story wasn't good enough to win, but rather that it had been published in graphic form, as part of the Sandman comic book series. I've always found these kinds of controversies to be silly - if the writing is good enough, and the work otherwise meets all of the requirements of the category, why does it matter if it was published in a "traditional" format or as a graphic novel? This sort of complaint seems almost petty to me. If great fantasy fiction is being produced, then it should be recognized regardless of the details regarding its publication.

Best Novel

Winner:
(tie) Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
(tie) Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner

Other Nominees:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Best Novella

Winner:
Bones by Pat Murphy

Other Nominees:
The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson
Black Cocktail by Jonathan Carroll
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Other Nominees:
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
Stephen by Elizabeth Massie

Best Anthology

Winner:

Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell

Other Nominees:
Alien Sex edited by Ellen Datlow
Borderlands edited by Thomas F. Monteleone
Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror edited by David Sutton and Stephen Jones
Walls of Fear edited by Kathryn Cramer

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

Best Collection

Winner:
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller

Other Nominees:
The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
The Leiber Chronicles by Fritz Leiber
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Ray Russell

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Dave McKean

Other Nominees:
Janet Aulisio
David Bergen
Brian Froud
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Arnie Fenner

Other Nominees:
Ellen Datlow
S.T. Joshi
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky
David Pringle

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Richard T. Chizmar

Other Nominees:
Barry Hoffman
Marc Michaud
Steve Pasechnick

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1991 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: As one might expect from an award that was given to an almost iconic piece of feminist fiction in its first cycle, the Clarke Awards seem to have caught on more quickly that other genre awards to the fact that women make up half of the population, and are just as capable of turning out fantastic works of genre fiction as men are. And in 1991, the judges showed that they had learned this lesson, as three of the six nominees were works by women. Compared to other awards like Campbell Award and Prometheus Award, and even the Hugo Award and Nebula Award, this recognition of reality is like a breath of fresh air.

Winner
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland

Runner-Up
Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle

Shortlist
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter
Red Spider, White Web by Misha
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

What Are the Arthur C. Clarke Awards?

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1991 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1991 the relatively new Best Horror Novel category was renamed the Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel. This renaming highlights what I think are the problematic aspects of the category, namely, what are the borders between "horror", "dark fantasy", and plain old "fantasy"? Genre fiction is replete with fuzzy borders - the demarcation between Science Fiction and Fantasy can be awfully blurred at times - but in the case of these three designations, they seem to overlap more than they describe three different genres.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Earth by David Brin
3.   Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
4.   The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
5.   Voyage to the Red Planet by Terry Bisson

6.   Stranger in a Strange Land [Expanded Edition] (original uncut edition) by Robert A. Heinlein

7.   The Quiet Pools by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
8.   The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
9.   Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
10. The Ring of Charon by Roger MacBride Allen
11. Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey
12. Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper
13. Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
14. The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
15. Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
16. Summertide by Charles Sheffield
17. Polar City Blues by Katharine Kerr
18. The World at the End of Time by Frederik Pohl
19. Clarke County, Space by Allen M. Steele
20. The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker
21. The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey
22. In the Country of the Blind by Michael F. Flynn
23. The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke
24. The Divide by Robert Charles Wilson
25. Agviq by Michael A. Armstrong
26. Heathern by Jack Womack

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
2.   Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
3.   Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
4.   Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
5.   Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
6.   The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
7.   The Blood of Roses by Tanith Lee
8.   Servant of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
9.   Drink Down the Moon by Charles de Lint
10. Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
11. Ghostwood by Charles de Lint
12. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
13. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
14. Time and Chance by Alan Brennert
15. In Between Dragons by Michael Kandel
16. Gossamer Axe by Gaèl Baudino
17. Chase the Morning by Michael Scott Rohan
18. Castleview by Gene Wolfe

Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Other Nominees:
2.   The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition by Stephen King
3.   Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow
4.   Tempter by Nancy A. Collins
5.   The Werewolves of London by Brian Stableford
6.   Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
7.   Dark Matter by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
8.   Fire by Alan Rodgers
9.   The Bad Place by Dean R. Koontz
10. Gothic Romance by Emmanuel Carrère

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   In the Country of the Blind by Michael F. Flynn

Other Nominees:
2.   Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand
3.   Arachne by Lisa Mason
4.   Golden Fleece by Robert J. Sawyer
5.   An Abyss of Light by Kathleen M. O'Neal
6.   Black Snow Days by Claudia O'Keefe
7.   In the Net of Dreams by William Mark Simmons
8.   Nightlight by Michael Cadnum
9.   Cortez on Jupiter by Ernest Hogan
10. Keepers of the Peace by Keith Brooke
11. The Interior Life by Katherine Blake
12. The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:

2.   Heads by Greg Bear

3.   The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
4.   Bones by Pat Murphy
5.   Lion Time in Timbuctoo by Robert Silverberg
6.   Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
7.   Kalimantan by Lucius Shepard
8.   Skull City by Lucius Shepard
9.   Elegy for Angels and Dogs by Walter Jon Williams
10. Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
11. Bully! by Mike Resnick
12. Bwana by Mike Resnick
13. Naught for Hire by John E. Stith
14. Trembling Earth by Allen M. Steele
15. Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum by Michael F. Flynn
16. Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold
17. The First Since Ancient Persia by John Brunner
18. The Cairene Purse by Michael Moorcock

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Entropy's Bed at Midnight by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Dr. Pak's Preschool by David Brin
3.   The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.   Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
5.   And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm
6.   A Braver Thing by Charles Sheffield
7.   Invaders by John Kessel
8.   Piecework by David Brin
9.   Inertia by Nancy Kress
10. The All-Consuming by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
11. The Shores of Bohemia by Bruce Sterling
12. The Safe-Deposit Box by Greg Egan
13. Toward Kilimanjaro by Ian McDonald

14. The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk by Dafydd ab Hugh

15. (tie) Mrs. Byres and the Dragon by Keith Roberts
      (tie) UFO by Michael Swanwick
17. Hot Sky by Robert Silverberg
18. Hyena Eyes by Ray Aldridge
19. The Caress by Greg Egan
20. Timekeeper by John Morressy
21. The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
22. Transit of Betelgeuse by Robert R. Chase
23. Chaff by Robert Reed
24. Limekiller at Large by Avram Davidson
25. The Death Artist by Alexander Jablokov
26. The Haunted Boardinghouse by Gene Wolfe
27. Simulation Six by Steven Gould
28. Stephen by Elizabeth Massie
29. The Spiral Dance by R. Garcia y Robertson

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson

Other Nominees:

2.   Cibola by Connie Willis

3.   Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
4.   The First Time by K.W. Jeter
5.   Zürich by Kim Stanley Robinson
6.   Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
7.   Husbands by Lisa Tuttle
8.   White City by Lewis Shiner
9.   We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling
10. The Utility Man by Robert Reed
11. Axiomatic by Greg Egan
12. Missolonghi 1824 by John Crowley
13. Designated Hitter by Harry Turtledove
14. Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
15. True Colors by Kathe Koja
16. Shore Leave Blacks by Nancy Etchemendy
17. Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan
18. (tie) The Cold Cage by Ray Aldridge
      (tie) Midnight News by Lisa Goldstein
19. Après Moi by Gardner Dozois
20. The Sadness of Detail by Jonathan Carroll
21. VRM-547 by W.R. Thompson
22. Over Flat Mountain by Terry Bisson
23. Arousal by Richard Christian Matheson
24. Projects by Geoffrey A. Landis
25. Lizard Lust by Lisa Tuttle

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
3.   Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
4.   N-Space by Larry Niven
5.   The Leiber Chronicles by Fritz Leiber
6.   (tie) The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard
       (tie) Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
8.   The Gateway Trip by Frederik Pohl
9. Points of Departure by Pat Murphy
10. The Shield of Time by Poul Anderson
11. Facets by Walter Jon Williams
12. Slow Dancing Through Time by Gardner Dozois
13. Lunar Activity by Elizabeth Moon
14. The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
15. Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
16. War Fever by J.G. Ballard
17. The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   Alien Sex edited by Ellen Datlow

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

4.   Universe 1 edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber

5.   The 1990 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

6.   Borderlands edited by Thomas F. Monteleone
7.   Nebula Awards 24 edited by Michael Bishop
8.   Project Solar Sail edited by Arthur C. Clarke

9.   Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Nine: Fall 1990 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

10. Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror edited by Paul M. Sammon
11. Zenith 2 edited by David S. Garnett

12. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 20 (1958) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

13. Skin of the Soul edited by Lisa Tuttle

14. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

15. Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Seven: Spring 1990 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

16. The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh

17. The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XVIII edited by Karl Edward Wagner
18. Women of Darkness II edited by Kathryn Ptacek
19. Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell

20. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VI edited by Algis Budrys

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith

Other Nominees:

2.   How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card

3.   Science Fiction in the Real World by Norman Spinrad
4.   H.R. Giger's Biomechanics by H.R. Giger
5.   Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
6.   Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's by Brian W. Aldiss

7.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1989 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

8.   The Weird Tale by S.T. Joshi
9.   Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide edited by Neil Barron
10. C.S. Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson
11. Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide edited by Neil Barron
12. Don't Tell the Grown-Ups by Alison Lurie

13. Understanding American Science Fiction: The Formative Period, 1926-1970 by Thomas D. Clareson

14. Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Ellen Datlow
3.   Kristine Kathryn Rusch
4.   Edward L. Ferman
5.   Stanley Schmidt
6.   David Pringle
7.   David G. Hartwell
8.   Donald A. Wollheim
9.   Terri Windling
10. Charles C. Ryan
11. Martin H. Greenberg
12. Beth Meacham

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

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

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

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
4.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Fawcett
5.   Baen
6.   DAW
7.   Ziesing/Ursus
8.   Avon/Morrow
9.   Dark Harvest
10. Pulphouse/Axolotl
11. Warner/Popular Library/Questar
12. Arkham House
13. Penguin USA/Roc/Viking/Signet/NAL
14. Gollancz
15. Underwood-Miller

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Don Maitz
3.   Tom Canty
4.   J.K. Potter
5.   Gary Ruddell
6.   Keith Parkinson
7.   David A. Cherry
8.   Bob Eggleton
9.   Frank Kelly Freas
10. Boris Vallejo
11. W.J. Hodgson
12. Jim Burns
13. Janet Aulisio
14. Ilene Meyer
15. Darrell K. Sweet
16. Barclay Shaw
17. Thomas Kidd
18. (tie) Ian Miller
      (tie) Vincent Di Fate

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1991 Hugo Award Finalists

Location: Chicon V in Chicago, Illinois.

Comments: In 1991, Lois McMaster Bujold took home the Best Novel prize for her Miles Vorkosigan adventure The Vor Game. While this represented yet another step for women in science fiction, the full import of this victory would not be clear until 1992. In the other written fiction categories, reasonably solid choices were made, although all were won by men, and the bulk of the nominees were men. Science fiction has made strides with respect to gender equality, but it still has a long way to go.

In the Best Dramatic Presentation category, the bizarre Tim Burton-directed Edward Scissorhands took the prize, beating out a mostly indifferent collection of competitors, demonstrating that the Hugo voters are willing to look past the popular but mundane, such as Back to the Future III, and embrace the ethereal, the weird, and the surreal.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

Other Finalists:
Earth by David Brin
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
The Quiet Pools by Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Best Novella

Winner:

The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman

Other Finalists:
Bones by Pat Murphy
Bully! by Mike Resnick
Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson

Best Novelette

Winner:

The Manamouki by Mike Resnick

Other Finalists:
A Braver Thing by Charles Sheffield

The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk by Dafydd ab Hugh

Over the Long Haul by Martha Soukup
Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

Best Short Story

Winner:

Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson

Other Finalists:
Cibola by Connie Willis
Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
The Utility Man by Robert Reed
VRM-547 by W.R. Thompson

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card

Other Finalists:
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's by Brian W. Aldiss
Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
Science Fiction in the Real World by Norman Spinrad

Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Edward Scissorhands

Other Finalists:
Back to the Future III
Ghost
Total Recall
The Witches

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Edward L. Ferman
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Michael Whelan

Other Finalists:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Bob Eggleton
Don Maitz

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Other Finalists:
Interzone edited by David Pringle

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell, and Gordon van Gelder

Quantum edited by D. Douglas Fratz
Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski

Other Finalists:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
FOSFAX edited by Janice Moore and Timothy Lane
Mainstream edited by Jerry Kaufman and Suzanne Tompkins
Mimosa edited by Richard Lynch and Nicki Lynch

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Avedon Carol
Mike Glyer
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Arthur Hlavaty
Evelyn C. Leeper

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Teddy Harvia

Other Finalists:
Merle Insinga
Peggy Ranson
Stu Shiffman
Diana Stein

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Julia Ecklar

Other Finalists:
Nancy A. Collins
John Cramer
Scott Cupp
Michael Kandel

What Are the Hugo Awards?

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1991 Nebula Award Nominees

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

Comments: I don't think it is any secret that I love Ursula K. Le Guin's writing. So it should surprise no one that I am entirely happy with the fact that Tehanu won the Nebula this year. Granted, a lot of criticisms have been leveled at the novel, mostly because it isn't exactly the same as the three Earthsea novels that preceded it, but whether those criticisms are valid or not is beside the point. Every piece of Le Guin's writing manages to be both enjoyable and thought-provoking, and Tehanu is no exception. Also granted, the other nominees this year were somewhat underwhelming. None of that matters. Le Guin won another Nebula, and as a result, I am happy.

In a mildly ironic twist, the subtitle of Tehanu, declaring it to be The Last Book of Earthsea, is a little dated now, as The Other Wind has since been published.

Best Novel

Winner:
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith
White Jenna by Jane Yolen

Best Novella

Winner:

The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman

Other Nominees:
Bones by Pat Murphy
Fool to Believe by Pat Cadigan
Mr. Boy by James Patrick Kelly
Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Novelette

Winner:

Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang

Other Nominees:
1/72^nd Scale by Ian R. MacLeod

The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk by Dafydd ab Hugh

Loose Cannon by Susan M. Shwartz
The Manamouki by Mike Resnick
Over the Long Haul by Martha Soukup
The Shobies' Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Best Short Story

Winner:
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson

Other Nominees:
Before I Wake by Kim Stanley Robinson
Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates by Pat Murphy
The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan
Story Child by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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1990 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: There seems to be a pattern at the Prometheus Awards in which a mediocre book wins the award over a collection of nominees consisting of much better books. In 1990, this happened in both categories, although the disparity in quality between the winner and the competition was, as usual, most apparent in the Hall of Fame category where F. Paul Wilson's book Healer emerged victorious over Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Levin's This Perfect Day, and Zamyatin's We.

Best Novel

Winner:

Solomon's Knife by Victor Koman

Other Nominees:

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

Henry Martyn by L. Neil Smith
Infinity Hold by Barry B. Longyear
The Mirror Maze by James P. Hogan

Hall of Fame

Winner:

Healer by F. Paul Wilson

Other Nominees:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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1990 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Schaumburg, Illinois.

Comments: In 1990, The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection, edited by the formidable team of Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. This win was surely deserved, but I have always been somewhat less than enthusiastic when such types of anthologies win awards. The World Fantasy award for Best Anthology has never been dominated by a single "Best of" series in the same way that the Locus Award Best Anthology award has been dominated by Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction series, but it almost seems anticlimactic when collections like this win. Aren't they supposed to be a compilation of the best genre fiction of the year? Given that the guiding principle of other anthologies is usually something other than "compile all of the best stories from this year into one volume", it almost seems unfair for them to be competing with these "Best of" anthologies. On the other hand, these volumes do usually represent the best genre fiction of the year, so excluding or handicapping them also seems unfair. So we're left with what seems to me to be an ultimately unsatisfying situation that has no real solution. The other anthologies at least get the benefit of a nomination, which is something.

Best Novel

Winner:
Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance

Other Nominees:
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
In a Dark Dream by Charles L. Grant
Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

Best Novella

Winner:
Great Work of Time by John Crowley

Other Nominees:
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
The Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R. Lansdale

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
The Illusionist by Steven Millhauser

Other Nominees:
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
Mr. Fiddlehead by Jonathan Carroll
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
Varicose Worms by Scott Baker
Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty . . . He Said. by Chet Williamson

Best Anthology

Winner:

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

Other Nominees:
Blood Is Not Enough edited by Ellen Datlow
Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector
Razored Saddles edited by Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto

Best Collection

Winner:
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson

Other Nominees:
Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon
By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale
Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
Novelty by John Crowley

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
R.A. Lafferty

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Thomas Canty

Other Nominees:
James Christensen
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Mark V. Ziesing

Other Nominees:
Ellen Datlow
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky
Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Peggy Nadramia

Other Nominees:
Richard T. Chizmar
David B. Silva
Joe Stefko and Tracy Cocoman

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1990 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: There are few things that will make you realize how little science fiction you have read more than cataloging all of the genre awards that have been handed out over the years. I have read a lot of science fiction over the years, and yet I have not only not read any of the three books that earned places in the voting for the 1990 Campbell Award, I haven't read any other books by any of these three authors. I am sure they are all fine authors and these are all fine books, I just haven't gotten to them yet, which is my failing and not theirs.

Best Novel

Winner:

The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

Second Place:

Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter

Third Place:

Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel

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1990 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: There is a kind of inevitability in the results for the 1990 Clarke Awards. I'm not talking about Geoff Ryman winning for The Child Garden, or even Jonathan Carroll winning for A Child Across the Sky. No, I am referring to the tie for third place, which was almost assured after the judges saw fit to include a third place ranking in 1989. Once a new result category is added, it is almost a certainty that it will quickly result in a tie, and in 1990, the Clarke Awards provided yet another example of this phenomenon.

Winner
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

Runner-Up
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll

Third Place
(tie) Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
(tie) A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein

Shortlist
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Neverness by David Zindell
Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park

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1990 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1990 the ridiculousness of awarding the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship to works by Inklings seems to have reached its apex with the award going to Tolkien's Hobbit, albeit an annotated version. Even if one considers the annotations by Douglas Anderson to be the "scholarship" being honored, the primary element of the work in question is Tolkien's fiction, meaning that the Mythopoeic Society essentially gave an award for scholarship about Tolkien to a work of fiction by Tolkien. This gives the appearance, at the very least, of an incestuous decision making process.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

Other Nominees:

The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip

The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, annotated by Douglas A. Anderson

Other Nominees:
None

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1990 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: The 1990 Locus Awards were very good for Dan Simmons. Not only did he win the award for Best Science Fiction novel, but he also had another novel place in that same category and had a third novel win in the Best Horror Novel category. Orson Scott Card also had an impressive showing with two wins and a couple of other nominations.

But I think that the most interesting thing about the 1990 Locus Awards is that Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses was nominated in the Best Fantasy Novel category. For anyone who doesn't think that fantasy fiction has anything meaningful to say, this is the ultimate riposte. Not only did Rushdie's novel have something important to say, his saying it enraged vast numbers of people.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh
3.   Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
4.   Tides of Light by Gregory Benford
5.   A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger
6.   The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
7.   Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
8.   Falcon by Emma Bull
9.   Phases of Gravity by Dan Simmons
10. The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
11. Imago by Octavia E. Butler
12. A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt
13. Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
14. The Third Eagle by R.A. MacAvoy
15. Buying Time (aka The Long Habit of Living) by Joe Haldeman
16. Homegoing by Frederik Pohl
17. Being Alien by Rebecca Ore
18. Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter
19. Out on Blue Six by Ian McDonald
20. Orbital Decay by Allen M. Steele
21. The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
22. Sugar Rain by Paul Park
23. Eden by Stanislaw Lem
24. Dawn's Uncertain Light by Neal Barrett, Jr.
25. Black Milk by Robert Reed
26. On My Way to Paradise by Dave Wolverton
27. The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
28. The Queen of Springtime (aka The New Springtime) by Robert Silverberg

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
3.   Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
4.   Rusalka by C.J. Cherryh
5.   Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister
6.   Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance
7.   White Jenna by Jane Yolen
8.   The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
9.   Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
10. A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
11. Tourists by Lisa Goldstein
12. The Fortress of the Pearl by Michael Moorcock
13. The Stone Giant by James P. Blaylock
14. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
15. Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede
16. A Heroine of the World by Tanith Lee
17. Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse by Sheri S. Tepper
18. Ars Magica by Judith Tarr
19. Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light by Tanya Huff
20. Apocalypse by Nancy Springer
21. Queen's Gambit Declined by Melinda Snodgrass
22. Arthur by Stephen R. Lawhead
23. The Coachman Rat by David Henry Wilson
24. Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson
25. The Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington

Best Horror Novel
Winner:
1.   Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   The Dark Half by Stephen King
3.   The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
4.   Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
5.   Midnight by Dean R. Koontz
6.   The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
7.   Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
8.   In the Land of the Dead by K.W. Jeter
9.   Mystery by Peter Straub
10. Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
11. Nightshade by Jack Butler
12. Owl Light by Michael Paine
13. John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   Orbital Decay by Allen Steele

Other Nominees:
2.   Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
3.   On My Way to Paradise by Dave Wolverton
4.   The Tides of God by Ted Reynolds
5.   Strange Invasion by Michael Kandel
6.   Laying the Music to Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
7.   The Gate of Ivory by Doris Egan
8.   Petrogypsies by Rory Harper
9.   Twistor by John Cramer
10. The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath
11. Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen
12. The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
13. Child of Saturn by Teresa Edgerton
14. Julian's House by Judith Hawkes
15. Mermaid's Song by Alida Van Gores
16. After Sundown by Randall Boyll
17. Bad Voltage by Jonathan Littell
18. Contrarywise by Zohra Greenhalgh
19. Empire's Horizon by John Brizzolara

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   The Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop

3.   Labyrinth by Lois McMaster Bujold
4.   The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
5.   Pageant Wagon by Orson Scott Card (reviewed in The Folk of the Fringe)
6.   Time-Out by Connie Willis
7.   Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
8.   The Originist by Orson Scott Card
9.   Great Work of Time by John Crowley
10. In Another Country by Robert Silverberg
11. The True Nature of Shangri-La by Kim Stanley Robinson
12. No Spot of Ground by Walter Jon Williams
13. A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
14. Marîd Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
15. The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard
16. The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
17. Destroyer of Worlds by Charles Sheffield
18. Children of the Wind by Kate Wilhelm
19. Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
20. Red Planet Blues by Allen M. Steele
21. The Egg by Steven Popkes
22. Re: Generations by Mike McQuay
23. Nanoware Time by Ian Watson

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
3.   At the Rialto by Connie Willis
4.   For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
5.   Sisters by Greg Bear
6.   The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress
7.   Bound for Glory by Lucius Shepard
8.   Surrender by Lucius Shepard
9.   Everything But Honor by George Alec Effinger
10. War Fever by J.G. Ballard
11. Steel Dogs by Ray Aldridge
12. Just Another Perfect Day by John Varley
13. A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
14. The Loch Moose Monster by Janet Kagan
15. Sleepside Story by Greg Bear
16. Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
17. The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler
18. The Part of Us That Loves by Kim Stanley Robinson
19. A Sleep and a Forgetting by Robert Silverberg
20. Varicose Worms by Scott Baker
21. Listen by Ian McDonald
22. Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
23. (tie) Not Without Honor by Judith Moffett
      (tie) The Sin-Eater of the Kaw by Bradley Denton
25. Misbegotten by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
26. Miss Carstairs and the Merman by Delia Sherman
27. The Third Sex by Alan Brennert
28. Snow Angels by Michael Swanwick
29. To the Promised Land by Robert Silverberg
30. On the Wings of a Butterfly by Michael F. Flynn
31. Faith by James Patrick Kelly

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:

2.   The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan

3.   Privacy by David Brin
4.   The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
5.   Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
6.   Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
7.   Dilemma by Connie Willis
8.   Abe Lincoln in McDonald's by James Morrow
9.   The Happy Turnip by Thomas M. Disch
10. Remaking History by Kim Stanley Robinson
11. Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant by James Morrow
12. Tales from the Venia Woods by Robert Silverberg
13. Mozart on Morphine by Gregory Benford
14. Game Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler
15. The Enormous Space by J.G. Ballard
16. Computer Friendly by Eileen Gunn
17. Soul of the City by Michael F. Flynn
18. Unidentified Objects by James P. Blaylock
19. The Steel Valentine by Joe R. Lansdale
20. Prescience by Pat Murphy
21. Alphas by Gregory Benford
22. His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes by Marc Laidlaw
23. Mosquito by Richard Calder
24. Points of View by Kathe Koja
25. Out of Copyright by Charles Sheffield
26. (tie) Icicle Music by Michael Bishop
      (tie) Useful Life by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
28. (tie) Malheur Maar by Vonda N. McIntyre
      (tie) Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty . . . He Said. by Chet Williamson
30. Steam Engine Time by Lewis Shiner
31. Solace by Gardner Dozois
32. What Befell Mairiam by Algis Budrys
33. Little Worker by Paul Di Filippo
34. (tie) Kaddish by Jack Dann
      (tie) Skin Deep by Kathe Koja

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Patterns by Pat Cadigan

Other Nominees:
2.   Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
3.   Tangents by Greg Bear
4.   The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
5.   Endangered Species by Gene Wolfe
6.   Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold
7.   Frost and Fire by Roger Zelazny
8.   Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
9.   Novelty by John Crowley
10. Heatseeker by John Shirley
11. By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale
12. Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
13. Children of the Wind: Five Novellas by Kate Wilhelm
14. The Asimov Chronicles by Isaac Asimov
15. Wizards' Worlds by Andre Norton
16. Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon
17. Author's Choice Monthly Issue 1: The Old Funny Stuff by George Alec Effinger
18. Women as Demons by Tanith Lee
19. The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
20. (tie) Antique Dust by Robert Westall
      (tie) Salvage Rites and Other Stories by Ian Watson

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   Full Spectrum 2 edited by Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Patrick LoBrutto

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

4.   What Might Have Been? Vol. 1: Alternate Empires edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg

5.   Foundation's Friends edited by Martin H. Greenberg
6.   Blood Is Not Enough edited by Ellen Datlow

7.   What Might Have Been? Vol. 2: Alternate Heroes edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg

8.   Razored Saddles edited by Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto
9.   Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector

10. The 1989 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha

11. The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell

12. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 19 (1957) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

13. Nebula Awards 23 edited by Michael Bishop
14. The New Hugo Winners edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

15. (tie) Interzone: The 4^th Anthology edited by John Clute, David Pringle, and Simon Ounsley

      (tie) Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Three: Spring 1989 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

17. Stalkers edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
18. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVII edited by Karl Edward Wagner

19. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40^th Anniversary Anthology edited by Edward L. Ferman

20. Zenith edited by David S. Garnett

21. Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Five: Fall 1989 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

22. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume V edited by Algis Budrys
23. The Best of the Nebulas edited by Ben Bova
24. The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two edited by David S. Garnett

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Grumbles from the Grave by Robert A. Heinlein

Other Nominees:

2.   The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin

3.   Astounding Days by Arthur C. Clarke
4.   Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.   Giger's Alien by H.R. Giger
6.   Divine Invasions by Lawrence Sutin

7.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

8.   To the High Castle Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962 by Gregg Rickman
9.   The Dark-Haired Girl by Philip K. Dick
10. Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
11. The Way to Ground Zero by Martha A. Bartter
12. Enchanted Drawings by Charles Solomon
13. When Worldviews Collide by John J. Pierce

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Edward L. Ferman
3.   Ellen Datlow
4.   David G. Hartwell
5.   Charles N. Brown
6.   Stanley Schmidt
7.   Kristine Kathryn Rusch
8.   Lou Aronica
9.   Martin H. Greenberg
10. Charles C. Ryan
11. Terri Windling
12. Beth Meacham
13. Donald A. Wollheim
14. Jim Baen
15. Shawna McCarthy

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Aboriginal SF
5.   Interzone
6.   Omni
7.   Science Fiction Chronicle
8.   Weird Tales
9.   Amazing Stories
10. The New York Review of Science Fiction
11. Science Fiction Eye
12. Thrust
13. Midnight Graffiti
14. File 770

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

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
4.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Fawcett
5.   DAW
6.   Baen
7.   Dark Harvest
8.   Mark V. Ziesing
9.   Warner/Popular Library
10. Avon/Morrow
11. Pulphouse/Axolotl
12. Underwood-Miller
13. Gollancz
14. Arkham House
15. NAL/Signet
16. Scream/Press

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Tom Canty
3.   Don Maitz
4.   Jim Burns
5.   Gary Ruddell
6.   J.K. Potter
7.   Richard Hescox
8.   James Gurney
9.   W.J. Hodgson
10. H.R. Giger
11. Frank Kelly Freas
12. Darrell K. Sweet
13. David A. Cherry
14. Rowena Morrill
15. Bob Eggleton
16. Janet Aulisio
17. David Mattingly
18. Steve Youll and Paul Youll

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