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

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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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1990 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: ConFiction in The Hague, Netherlands.

Comments: 1990 seems to have been the year for retrospective musings from established giants of the science fiction field, as both Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein released memoirs (or in Heinlein's case, posthumously released a collection of letters and essays he had written before his death) and Harlan Ellison released a collection compiling a quarter century of film reviews and essays. These books all lost to Alexei and Corey Panshin's in-depth examination of the history of science fiction The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence.

The other categories were fairly boring this year, with no real surprises and a collection of solid but unspectacular winners. The Best Dramatic Presentation category was somewhat interesting, not because the winner, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, was undeserving, but rather because the eclectic variety of the nominees. The only thing that probably could be said of the Dramatic Presentation nominees as a group is that they were all so very unlike one another.

Best Novel

Winner:
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Other Finalists:
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

Best Novella

Winner:

The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

Other Finalists:
The Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard
Time-Out by Connie Willis
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm

Best Novelette

Winner:

Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg

Other Finalists:
At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card
Everything but Honor by George Alec Effinger
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
The Price of Oranges by Nancy Kress

Best Short Story

Winner:

Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas

Other Finalists:
Computer Friendly by Eileen Gunn
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Return of William Proxmire by Larry Niven

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

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

Other Finalists:
Astounding Days by Arthur C. Clarke
Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Grumbles from the Grave by Robert A. Heinlein
Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
Noreascon Three Souvenir Book by Greg Thokar

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Other Finalists:
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
Batman
Field of Dreams

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Edward L. Ferman
David G. Hartwell
Beth Meacham
Charles C. Ryan
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Don Maitz

Other Finalists:
Jim Burns
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
James Gurney
Tom Kidd
Michael Whelan

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

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

Best Fanzine

Winner:

The Mad 3 Party edited by Leslie Turek

Other Finalists:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
FOSFAX edited by Timothy Lane
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
Pirate Jenny edited by Pat Mueller

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Mike Glyer
Arthur D. Hlavaty
Evelyn C. Leeper
Leslie Turek

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Stu Shiffman

Other Finalists:
Steve Fox
Teddy Harvia
Merle Insinga
Joe Mayhew
Taral Wayne

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Other Finalists:
Nancy A. Collins
John Cramer
Katherine Neville
Allen M. Steele

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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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