1990 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, California.

Comments: The 1990s started with a bang for the Nebula Awards, with a sterling set of nominees. Interestingly, the slate was generationally diverse, with a few entries from some old science fiction stalwarts, several from authors in the prime of their careers, and a couple from authors just starting out. This was something of a change from the years of the 1980s, in which the awards seemed to lurch from honoring everyone's favorite authors from their childhood, to honoring the "new guard".

Not only that, but with ten of the twenty-four nominations on the ballot going to works written by women, the slate was also, for the first time, something approaching equitable in its treatment of female authors. In many ways, 1990 seems to have been the year in which the Nebula Awards "grew up" and began to shed its "old boy network" trappings.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Other Nominees:
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen

Best Novella

Winner:

The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

Other Nominees:
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marîd Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm

Best Novelette

Winner:

At the Rialto by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters by Greg Bear

Best Short Story

Winner:
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis

Other Nominees:
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop

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1989 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Seattle, Washington.

Comments: In 1989, the World Fantasy awards recognized Evangeline Walton, one of my favorite authors, for her lifetime achievement. Her adaptation of the Mabinogion into a set of four fantasy novels was one of the formative reading experiences of my life, and after Tolkien was one of the biggest influences that sparked my love of mythology, in her case, my love of Celtic and Welsh mythology. Consequently, I believe that her award here was not only well-deserved, but long overdue.

In the other award categories, the winners seem to generally be well-deserved, although I have always been quite surprised that George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade, as good as it is, was able to beat out Jane Yolen's harrowing The Devil's Arithmetic for the Best Novella award.

Best Novel

Winner:
Koko by Peter Straub

Other Nominees:
The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale
Fade by Robert Cormier
The Last Coin by James P. Blaylock
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Sleeping In Flame by Jonathan Carroll

Best Novella

Winner:
The Skin Trade by George R.R. Martin

Other Nominees:
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Gardener by Sheri S. Tepper
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John M. Ford

Other Nominees:
Life of Buddha by Lucius Shepard
Metastasis by Dan Simmons
Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale

Best Anthology

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

Other Nominees:
Night Visions 6 edited by Paul J. Mikol
Prime Evil edited by Douglas E. Winter
Silver Scream edited by David J. Schow

Best Collection

Winner:
(tie) Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
(tie) Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe

Other Nominees:
The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
Cabal by Clive Barker
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker
The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Evangeline Walton

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
Edward Gorey

Other Nominees:
Jill Bauman
Thomas Canty
Don Maitz
Harry O. Morris
Phil Parks

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
(tie) Robert Weinberg
(tie) Terri Windling

Other Nominees:
Ellen Datlow
Dean R. Koontz
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith

Other Nominees:
Carl T. Ford
Peggy Nadramia
Paul F. Olson

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1989 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1989 the Locus awards added the Best Horror Novel category to the voting lists, a decision about which I have mixed opinions. On the one hand, horror can, and often does include a supernatural element, aligning the genre with fantasy to some degree, especially in novels and other media where zombies, vampires, and werewolves are featured. And sometimes horror and and science fiction can be mixed together, as in the classic science fiction movie Alien. But on the other hand, although Alien and The Silence of the Lambs are both in the horror genre, they scratch very different itches, and the itch that The Silence of the Lambs scratches is decidedly different from anything related to fantasy or science fiction. Both science fiction and fantasy are more or less substitutes for one another - many science fiction authors also write fantasy, and vice versa, something that one sees much less often with horror writers. When choosing a science fiction book to read or fantasy movie to watch, for the most part I feel not real loss if I have to switch to the other genre. But I never go to the movie theater and choose to go to a horror film because the science fiction offerings were sold out. Although horror is often lumped in with science fiction and fantasy, it is simply too distinct a genre to mesh well with the other two.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh

Other Nominees:
2.   Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
3.   Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
4.   Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
5.   The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
6.   Eternity by Greg Bear
7.   Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
8.   Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner
9.   Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
10. Araminta Station by Jack Vance
11. Alternities by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
12. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
13. Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge
14. At Winter's End by Robert Silverberg
15. Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
16. Ivory by Mike Resnick
17. Wetware by Rudy Rucker
18. Crazy Time by Kate Wilhelm
19. Venus of Shadows by Pamela Sargent
20. Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen
21. The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
22. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
23. Neon Lotus by Marc Laidlaw
24. Hellspark by Janet Kagan
25. Chronosequence by Hilbert Schenck
26. Children of the Thunder by John Brunner
27. Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
28. Terraplane by Jack Womack
29. Starfire by Paul Preuss
30. An Alien Light by Nancy Kress
31. The Company Man by Joe Clifford Faust

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card

Other Nominees:
2.   The Paladin by C.J. Cherryh
3.   There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe
4.   Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop
5.   King of the Murgos by David Eddings
6.   The Last Coin by James P. Blaylock
7.   The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart
8.   Greenmantle by Charles de Lint
9.   Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
10. (tie) The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
      (tie) Wyvern by A.A. Attanasio
12. The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
13. Druid's Blood by Esther M. Friesner
14. The White Serpent by Tanith Lee
15. (tie) Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
      (tie) Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
17. Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
18. The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip
19. The Reindeer People by Megan Lindholm
20. Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll
21. The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson
22. Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner
23. Silk Roads and Shadows by Susan Shwartz
24. The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey
25. Death in the Spirit House by Craig Strete

Best Horror Novel
Winner:
1.   Those Who Hunt the Night (aka Immortal Blood) by Barbara Hambly

Other Nominees:
2.   The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
3.   Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist
4.   Koko by Peter Straub
5.   Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
6.   The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
7.   The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
8.   The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
9.   The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale
10. Bloodlinks by Lee Killough
11. The Scream by John Skipp and Craig Spector
12. Antibodies by David J. Skal
13. In Darkness Waiting by John Shirley
14. The Kill Riff by David J. Schow

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   Desolation Road by Ian McDonald

Other Nominees:
2.   Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner
3.   Metrophage by Richard Kadrey
4.   Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
5.   The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran
6.   Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn
7.   Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver
8.   Neverness by David Zindell
9.   Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley
10. Journey to Fusang by William Sanders
11. Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson
12. Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
13. Demon of Undoing by Andrea I. Alton
14. The Blind Knight by Gail Van Asten
15. The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West by Mary Stanton
16. Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android by Stephen Fine
17. Dreams of Flesh and Sand by W.T. Quick
18. Maiden Flight by Eric Vinicoff
19. The Fairy of Ku-She by M. Lucie Chin
20. Inner Eclipse by Richard Paul Russo
21. The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine
22. Tower to the Sky by Phillip C. Jennings
23. Through a Brazen Mirror by Delia Sherman

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis

3.   Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad
4.   Surfacing by Walter Jon Williams
5.   The Color of Neanderthal Eyes by James Tiptree, Jr.
6.   We Are For the Dark by Robert Silverberg
7.   The Skin Trade by George R.R. Martin
8.   Cabal by Clive Barker
9.   The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton
10. Noman's Land by Lucius Shepard
11. Backward, Turn Backward by James Tiptree, Jr.
12. Wires by F. Paul Wilson
13. Waiting for the Olympians by Frederik Pohl
14. Oddkins by Dean R. Koontz
15. Trapping Run by Harry Turtledove
16. The Blabber by Vernor Vinge
17. La Vie Continué by Norman Spinrad
18. The Flies of Memory by Ian Watson
19. Dancing Among Ghosts by Jim Aikin
20. Fatal Statistics by Pauline Ashwell

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   The Function of Dream Sleep by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
2.   Dowser by Orson Scott Card
3.   Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? by Howard Waldrop
4.   Glacier by Kim Stanley Robinson
5.   Schrödinger's Kitten by George Alec Effinger
6.   The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew by James Tiptree, Jr.
7.   The Hob by Judith Moffett
8.   The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson
9.   Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr.
10. Two by Pat Cadigan
11. Hannibal's Elephants by Robert Silverberg
12. The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian Stableford
13. The Last Article by Harry Turtledove
14. Peaches for Mad Molly by Steven Gould
15. Madame Two Swords by Tanith Lee
16. My Year with the Aliens by Lisa Goldstein
17. Love in Vain by Lewis Shiner
18. The Courts of Xanadu by Charles Sheffield
19. The Calling of Paisley Coldpony by Michael Bishop
20. Sunrise by Jack McDevitt
21. The Dragon Line by Michael Swanwick
22. Under the Covenant Stars by John Barnes
23. Sanctuary by James White
24. Once in a Lullaby by Fred Bals
25. Gut Feelings by Elizabeth Moon
26. Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh by Ian McDonald
27. Remember'd Kisses by Michael F. Flynn
28. Fogarty & Fogarty by Elizabeth Engstrom
29. Tea by Jack Dann

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Eidolons by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:

2.   Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick

3.   Wild, Wild Horses by Howard Waldrop
4.   The Giving Plague by David Brin
5.   Youthful Folly by Lucius Shepard
6.   A Midwinter's Tale by Michael Swanwick
7.   At the Double Solstice by Gregory Benford
8.   House of Bones by Robert Silverberg
9.   Voices of the Kill by Thomas M. Disch
10. Our Neural Chernobyl by Bruce Sterling
11. Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
12. The Quiet Monk by Jane Yolen
13. The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
14. Stairs by Neal Barrett, Jr.
15. Slow, Slow Burn by George Alec Effinger
16. Last Contact by Jack McDevitt
17. Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner by John Kessel
18. Lily Red by Karen Joy Fowler
19. The Dead Man's Eyes by Robert Silverberg
20. Home Front by James Patrick Kelly
21. Moments of Clarity by Elissa Malcohn
22. Philippa's Hands by Nancy Kress
23. The Circus Horse by Amy Bechtel
24. In Memoriam by Nancy Kress
25. It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
26. Stable Strategies for Middle Management by Eileen Gunn
27. Dark Night in Toyland by Bob Shaw
28. Craps by Nancy Kress
29. Dying in Hull by D. Alexander Smith
30. After the Master by Lisa Goldstein
31. Death Is Different by Lisa Goldstein
32. The Girl Who Loved Animals by Bruce McAllister
33. Transients by Carter Scholz
34. The Thing Itself by Michael Blumlein

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
2.   Crown of Stars by James Tiptree, Jr.
3.   The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber
4.   Other Americas by Norman Spinrad
5.   John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman
6.   Empire Dreams by Ian McDonald
7.   Cabal by Clive Barker
8.   Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker
9.   Memories of the Space Age by J.G. Ballard
10. The Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl
11. The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
12. Dance Band on the Titanic by Jack Chalker
13. The Best of John Brunner by John Brunner
14. Threats. . .And Other Promises by Vernor Vinge
15. The Book of the Damned by Tanith Lee
16. Minds, Machines, & Evolution by James P. Hogan
17. The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (3 Volumes) by Robert Bloch
18. The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
19. The Hidden Side of the Moon by Joanna Russ
20. Time Bomb and Zahndry Others by Timothy Zahn

21. A Rendezvous in Averoigne: The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith by Clark Ashton Smith

22. Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath

23. Busy About the Tree of Life (aka The Heat Death of the Universe) by Pamela Zoline

24. Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss by Brian W. Aldiss
25. The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman

Best Anthology
Winner:

1.   Full Spectrum edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy

Other Nominees:

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

3.   Terry's Universe edited by Beth Meacham
4.   The Man-Kzin Wars edited by Larry Niven

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

6.   Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad edited by George R.R. Martin
7.   Prime Evil edited by Douglas E. Winter
8.   Silver Scream edited by David J. Schow
9.   Sword and Sorceress V edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Blood Is Not Enough edited by Ellen Datlow

11. The 1988 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald A. Wollheim, with Arthur W. Saha

12. (tie) Night Visions 5 edited by Douglas E. Winter

      (tie) Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One: Fall 1988 edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

14. Other Edens II edited by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
15. Synergy: New Science Fiction, Number 2 edited by George Zebrowski

16. Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg

17. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

18. Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment edited by David G. Hartwell
19. Night Visions 6 edited by Anonymous

20. Interzone: The 3^rd Anthology edited by John Clute, David Pringle, and Simon Ounsley

21. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IV edited by Algis Budrys
22. Spell Singers edited by Alan Bard Newcomer
23. Tropical Chills edited by Timothy Sullivan
24. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI edited by Karl Edward Wagner
25. Haunting Women edited by Alan Ryan
26. Nebula Awards 22 edited by George Zebrowski
27. Unknown edited by Stanley Schmidt

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   First Maitz by Don Maitz

Other Nominees:

2.   The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 by Samuel R. Delany

3.   The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by James E. Gunn

4.   Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King edited by Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller

5.   Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony by Piers Anthony
6.   Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986 by John Clute
7.   Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry by David A. Cherry

8.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

9.   Women of Vision by Denise Dupont
10. Horror: 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
11. Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller

12. A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists by Robert Weinberg

13. Fantasy: The 100 Best Books by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock
14. Philip K. Dick by Douglas A. Mackey
15. In the Chinks of the World Machine by Sarah Lefanu
16. Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels by David Pringle
17. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

18. Dune Master: A Frank Herbert Bibliography by Daniel J.H. Levack and Mark Willard

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Edward L. Ferman
3.   David G. Hartwell
4.   Ellen Datlow
5.   Stanley Schmidt
6.   Lou Aronica
7.   Charles N. Brown
8.   Shawna McCarthy
9.   Charles C. Ryan
10. Beth Meacham
11. Douglas E. Winter
12. Jim Baen
13. George R.R. Martin
14. (tie) Martin H. Greenberg
      (tie) Brian Thomsen

Best Magazine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Aboriginal SF
5.   Omni
6.   (tie) Amazing Stories
      (tie) Interzone
8.   Twilight Zone
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Weird Tales
11. Thrust
12. The Horror Show
13. Science Fiction Eye
14. The New York Review of Science Fiction

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

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

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

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

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1989 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: In 1989, both the winning novel, Islands in the Net, and the runner up novel, The Gold Coast, seem to touch on much of the same themes, both featuring an alternate future that is dominated by inimical political forces. On the other hand, the third place finisher, Dragonsdawn, is a prehistory of the earlier published books in the Pern series. What this demonstrates, I think, is the eternal flux within the field of science fiction - even though the dystopian themes apparent in Sterling's and Robinson's books were responding to common concerns among the science fiction community at the time, there was still room for McCaffrey's book about planetary exploration and settlement to have a place at the table.

Best Novel

Winner:

Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling

Second Place:

The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson

Third Place:

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

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1989 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: In the third years of the Clarke Award's existence, the judges on the selection panel decided to change things up a bit and recognize a third place finisher as well as a winner, runner-up, and mass of shortlisted finalists. I'm not sure why so many awards seem to think it is a good idea to fiddle with how they report their results. I simply can't figure out what need designating a third place finisher serves here. Did the judges think that authors and publishers would start proudly placing an announcement on third place finishers' books saying "Third Place Finisher in the Clarke Awards!" Did they think that this would be a more impressive piece of cover text than "Shortlisted for the Clarke Award!" Neither seem incredibly enticing, but to be perfectly honest, the shortlist designation seems slightly more impressive. At least that version doesn't sound quite so desperate.

Winner
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack

Runner-Up
The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford

Third Place
Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant

Shortlist
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson

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1989 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1989, the Libertarian Futurist Society decided to make the listing of the non-winning Hall of Fame Award nominees a permanent part of their reporting. The problem is that in many cases it seems that this reporting serves only to highlight how mediocre the winning entry seems when compared to the competition. There's nothing particularly wrong with Schulman's Alongside Night, but when lined up beside Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Zamyatin's We, it suffers in comparison. Not only that, the inclusion on the nominee list of non-science fiction works like Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest serves only to highlight how thin the ranks of "libertarian science fiction" actually is.

Best Novel

Winner:

Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver

Other Nominees:

Brightsuit MacBear by L. Neil Smith

David's Sling by Marc Stiegler
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Final Circuit by Melinda Snodgrass
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein

Hall of Fame

Winner:

Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman

Other Nominees:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We the Living by Ayn Rand

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1989 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1989 the Scholarship Award went to J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published book The Return of the Shadow. I've said this before, but I think that handing Mythopoeic Awards to honor works written by actual members of the Inklings seems little bit like self-dealing to me. In the case of The Return of the Shadow, there is at least the fact that Christopher Tolkien edited his father's work into a publishable form to mitigate the apparent conflict of interest, but Christopher's involvement also raises the specter of nepotism, so it doesn't actually improve the situation much.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop

Other Nominees:

The Last Coin by James P. Blaylock

The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner
The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

The Return of the Shadow by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

Other Nominees:
None

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1989 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Noreascon III in Boston, Massachusetts.

Comments: 1989 was a year of some controversy for the Hugo Awards. Two nominations - one for Best Novel for The Guardsman by P.J. Beese and Todd Cameron Hamilton, and one for Best Professional Artist for Todd Cameron Hamilton - were removed from the ballot due to apparent irregularities in the nominating process. The "irregularity" was bloc voting on the part of some enthusiastic New York area fans. Although I am generally in favor of maintaining the integrity of the Hugo Awards, they are a fan voted award. Given that reality, it seems somewhat hypocritical to me for the Hugo committee to remove a particular nomination because they don't like the way a group of fans decided to exercise their vote. Either the Hugo Awards are fan voted, or they aren't. In 1989, it seems, at least to a certain extent they were not.

The Guardsman had no realistic chance of winning the Best Novel award anyway, so removing it seems pointless and meddlesome. And if it had been left on the ballot and had won, then those who nominated it would have been vindicated, which means the only reason it was removed was because the Hugo committee had a fit of pique and decided to eliminate a novel just on the off-chance that they would look bad because some fans got their way. In the end, the Hugo Award went to C.J. Cherry's Cyteen, which was a fine winner, although I have always been partial to Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling Free. But the whole Guardsman fracas, and the pettiness of removing it from the ballot just made this year's Hugo committee look bad.

Best Novel

Winner:
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh

Other Nominees:
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Guardsman by P.J. Beese and Todd Cameron Hamilton [nomination deleted]
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card

Best Novella

Winner:

The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton
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
The Function of Dream Sleep by Harlan Ellison
Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Peaches for Mad Molly by Steven Gould

Best Short Story

Winner:

Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick

Other Nominees:
The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
The Giving Plague by David Brin
Our Neural Chernobyl by Bruce Sterling
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Stable Strategies for Middle Management by Eileen Gunn

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965 by Samuel R. Delany

Other Nominees:
A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists by Robert Weinberg

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking [unclear whether this was ineligible or withdrawn]

First Maitz by Don Maitz
The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by James E. Gunn

Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Other Nominees:
Alien Nation
Beetlejuice
Big
Willow

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
Edward L. Ferman
David G. Hartwell
Charles C. Ryan
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Bob Eggleton
Todd Cameron Hamilton [nomination deleted]
Don Maitz

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

Other Nominees:
Aboriginal SF edited by Charles C. Ryan [ineligible]
Interzone edited by David Pringle and Simon Ounsley

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Susan Palwick, and Kathryn Cramer

Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew I. Porter
Thrust edited by D. Douglas Fratz

Best Fanzine

Winner:

File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Other Nominees:
FOSFAX edited by Timothy Lane
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
Niekas edited by Edmund R. Meskys, Mike Bastraw, and Anne Braude
OtherRealms edited by Chuq Von Rospach

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Nominees:
Avedon Carol
Mike Glyer
Arthur D. Hlavaty
Guy H. Lillian, III
Chuq Von Rospach

Best Fan Artist

Winner:
(tie) Brad W. Foster

(tie) Diana Gallagher Wu

Other Nominees:
Teddy Harvia
Merle Insinga
Stu Shiffman
Taral Wayne

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Michaela Roessner

Other Nominees:
P.J. Beese and Todd Cameron Hamilton
Christopher Hinz
Elizabeth Moon [ineligible]
Daniel Keys Moran [ineligible]
Melanie Rawn
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
William Sanders
Delia Sherman

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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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