1994 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Comments: I don't really have much that I can say about the 1994 World Fantasy Awards. Charles de Lint received two nominations, but that was par for the course for him by now. Neil Gaiman also received two nominations, which would shortly become par for the course for him as well.

But as I have read none of the winning works, and precious few of the other nominees, exacerbated by the fact that I have not even read any other fiction by the winners, there isn't really a whole lot of useful commentary that I can give about the field as a whole, or the results specifically.

Best Novel

Winner:
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner

Other Nominees:
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr
Skin by Kathe Koja
The Throat by Peter Straub

Best Novella

Winner:
Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley

Other Nominees:
The Erl-King by Elizabeth Hand
Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
The Lodger by Fred Chappell

Other Nominees:
Death in Bangkok by Dan Simmons
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Little Green Ones by Les Daniels
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint
Some Strange Desire by Ian McDonald
Something Worse by Terry Lamsley
Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman

Best Anthology

Winner:

Full Spectrum 4 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell

Other Nominees:
Christmas Forever edited by David G. Hartwell
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales edited by Alison Lurie
Sinistre edited by George Hatch
Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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

Best Collection

Winner:
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell

Other Nominees:
Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany by Neil Gaiman
Antiquities by John Crowley
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands by Garry Kilworth
Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell Schweitzer
Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Jack Williamson

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
(tie) J.K. Potter
(tie) Alan M. Clark

Other Nominees:
Rick Berry
Thomas Canty
Jason Eckhardt
Harry O. Morris

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller

Other Nominees:
John Clute
Ellen Datlow
David J. Skal
Terri Windling
Mark V. Ziesing

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Marc Michaud

Other Nominees:
Richard T. Chizmar
George Hatch
Brian Stableford
Joe Stefko and Tracy Cocoman

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1994 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: Of all the Campbell Award voting results, this one is the one that seems to me to be the most inexplicable. Somehow the judges decided that there was no science fiction novel published in 1993 that was worthy of being honored, despite the fact that two excellent science fiction novels - Beggars in Spain and Moving Mars - were voted second and third place. How is it possible that "No Winner" was a better choice than either of those two novels? Looking at novels nominated for other awards in the same time frame one has to wonder how "No Winner" was a better choice than Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars, or David Brin's Glory Season, or Gene Wolfe's Nightside of the Long Sun, or any number of other novels. The only real answer here is that the judges for the 1994 Campbell Awards failed, and should be ashamed for returning with this unconscionable result.

Best Novel

Winner:

No Winner

Second Place:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

Third Place:

Moving Mars by Greg Bear

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1994 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Now that the full slate of non-winning nominees for the scholarship awards are available to the public, it is possible to evaluate them to see if they are as balanced as the Mythopoeic Society's fantasy awards have been. And happily, the answer is that they appear to be. Seven of the ten nominees and both of the winners in the fantasy literature categories were works written by women. Four of the nine nominees and one of the winners in the scholarship category were written by women (and one work was a composite work that has no specified author, but did have its introduction written by a woman). In short, it appears that the Mythopoeic Society displays roughly as much balance when it comes to recognizing scholarship as it does when it comes to recognizing fantasy literature.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman

Other Nominees:

The Cygnet and the Firebird by Patricia A. McKillip

Deerskin by Robin McKinley
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
The Little Country by Charles de Lint

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas

Other Nominees:
Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Mystery of the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Nevernever by Will Shetterly

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson

Other Nominees:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World by Colin Manlove
The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend introduction by Judith Priestman
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature edited by Kath Filmer

Other Nominees:

For the Childlike: George MacDonald's Fantasies for Children edited by Roderick McGillis

Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar

The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinivere in Modern Fantasy by Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise

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1994 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Although it didn't win, one has to wonder why Beggars in Spain was nominated for the Prometheus Award. I suspect that its nomination was something of a case of mistaken identity. Originally, Beggars in Spain was published as a novella, and the dominant theme of that novella was the contrast between the productive members of society with those who, through either inability or inclination, were not - a contrast highlighted by an analogy concerning "beggars in Spain" that gave the story its title. Later, Kress expanded the story into a novel, and in the final third of the new version turned around and eviscerated the earlier libertarian premises. I suspect that those who nominated the book were either content with a book that brought up libertarian ideas, even if it then engaged in some criticism of them, or simply didn't read the expanded story and didn't realize that it contained this kind of turnaround in tenor.

Best Novel

Winner:

Pallas by L. Neil Smith

Other Nominees:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

Rainbow Man by M.J. Engh
The Silicon Man by Charles Platt
Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson

Hall of Fame

Winner:

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Other Nominees:
None

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1994 Hugo Award Finalists

Location: Conadian in Winnipeg, Canada.

Comments: 1994 was an interesting year which had several winners that I think were not as good as their competition. In the Best Novel category, I think that Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain should have taken the prize over Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. In the Best Novella category, I think Jack Cady's The Night We Buried Road Dog should have won over Harry Turtledove's Down in the Bottomlands. And in the Best Dramatic Presentation category I think that Babylon 5: The Gathering or The Nightmare Before Christmas should have won over Jurassic Park.

Unfortunately, I can't dictate to the Hugo voters who they should vote for, so they didn't pick the winners the way I would have. I suppose I will have to rectify this when I am made evil overlord of the world and can make the Hugo results come out the way I want them to.

Best Novel

Winner:
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Finalists:
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Glory Season by David Brin
Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Virtual Light by William Gibson

Best Novella

Winner:

Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove

Other Finalists:
An American Childhood by Pat Murphy
Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
Mefisto In Onyx by Harlan Ellison

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

Other Finalists:
Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress
Deep Eddy by Bruce Sterling
The Franchise by John Kessel
The Shadow Knows by Terry Bisson

Best Short Story

Winner:

Death on the Nile by Connie Willis

Other Finalists:
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
Mwalimu in the Squared Circle by Mike Resnick
The Story So Far by Martha Soukup

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

Other Finalists:
The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions by Michael Whelan
Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Robert Bloch

PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Jurassic Park

Other Finalists:
Addams Family Values
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Groundhog Day
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
Mike Resnick
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Bob Eggleton

Other Finalists:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Don Maitz
Michael Whelan

Best Original Artwork

Winner:

Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet by Stephen Hickman

Other Finalists:
Keith Parkinson for Cold Iron by Michael Swanwick
Thomas Canty for The Little Things by Bridget McKenna

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter

Other Finalists:
Interzone edited by David Pringle
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert K.J. Killheffer, and Gordon van Gelder

Pulphouse edited by Dean Wesley Smith
Tomorrow Speculative Fiction edited by Algis Budrys

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Mimosa edited by Dick Lynch and Nicki Lynch

Other Finalists:
Ansible edited by Dave Langford
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
STET edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and Dick Smith

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Sharon Farber
Mike Glyer
Andy Hooper
Evelyn C. Leeper

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Brad W. Foster

Other Finalists:
Teddy Harvia
Linda Michaels
Peggy Ranson
William Rotsler
Stu Shiffman

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Amy Thomson

Other Finalists:
Holly Lisle
Jack Nimersheim
Carrie Richerson
Elizabeth Willey

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1994 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.

Comments: In 1994 the Best Art Book category was revived and Michael Whelan promptly won it with The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions. The probably unexpected side-effect of reviving the Best Art Book category is that the Best Nonfiction, Reference, or Related Book category was starved for nominees, and the category was reduced to a mere seven entries as all of the art books which had previously been nominated in this category, were shifted over into the Art Book category.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:
2.   Moving Mars by Greg Bear
3.   Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
4.   Virtual Light by William Gibson
5.   Glory Season by David Brin
6.   Hard Landing by Algis Budrys
7.   The Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card
8.   A Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper
9.   Harvest of Stars by Poul Anderson
10. Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
11. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
12. Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
13. Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
14. The Broken God by David Zindell
15. Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford
16. Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony
17. Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
18. Elvissey by Jack Womack
19. Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner
20. Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
21. Red Dust by Paul J. McAuley
22. The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
23. Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
24. Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter
25. Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle

Other Nominees:
2.   The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
3.   To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams
4.   The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
5.   Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon by Lisa Goldstein
6.   The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
7.   Deerskin by Robin McKinley
8.   Dog Wizard by Barbara Hambly
9.   Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr
10. The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
11. Faery in Shadow by C.J. Cherryh
12. The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman
13. Winter of the Wolf (aka The Belly of the Wolf) by R.A. MacAvoy
14. The Far Kingdoms by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch
15. The Cygnet and the Firebird by Patricia A. McKillip
16. The Wizard's Apprentice by S.P. Somtow
17. Bones of the Past by Holly Lisle
18. Dragon Star Book III: Skybowl by Melanie Rawn
19. The Robin & the Kestrel by Mercedes Lackey

Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   The Golden by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:
2.   Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
3.   Agyar by Steven Brust
4.   Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz
5.   Lasher by Anne Rice
6.   Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
7.   X, Y by Michael Blumlein
8.   Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee
9.   Making Love by Melanie Tem and Nancy Holder
10. Blood Pact by Tanya Huff
11. Blackburn by Bradley Denton

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   Cold Allies by Patricia Anthony

Other Nominees:
2.   Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
3.   The Drylands by Mary Rosenblum
4.   CrashCourse by Wilhelmina Baird
5.   Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson
6.   Mutagenesis by Helen Collins
7.   Warpath by Tony Daniel
8.   Flying to Valhalla by Charles Pellegrino
9.   The Rising of the Moon by Flynn Connolly
10. Passion Play by Sean Stewart
11. The Devil You Say by Elisa DeCarlo
12. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
13. Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann
14. The Well-Favored Man by Elizabeth Willey
15. Afterage by Yvonne Navarro

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:

2.   Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress

3.   The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

4.   Flashback by Dan Simmons
5.   Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams
6.   Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove
7.   An American Childhood by Pat Murphy
8.   The Ten O'Clock People by Stephen King
9.   Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
10. Vampire Junkies by Norman Spinrad
11. Sister Alice by Robert Reed
12. Alien Bootlegger by Rebecca Ore
13. A Far Countrie by Avram Davidson
14. Ships in the Night by Jack McDevitt
15. The Last Castle of Christmas by Alexander Jablokov
16. Walt and Emily by Paul Di Filippo
17. Testing by Charles Oberndorf

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Death in Bangkok (aka Dying in Bangkok) by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
3.   The Shadow Knows by Terry Bisson
4.   Deep Eddy by Bruce Sterling
5.   Cush by Neal Barrett, Jr.
6.   Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield
7.   England Underway by Terry Bisson
8.   The Beauty Addict by Ray Aldridge
9.   The Franchise by John Kessel
10. Inn by Connie Willis
11. Darker Angels by S.P. Somtow
12. Swan Song by Gregory Bennett
13. Chaff by Greg Egan
14. The Spook-Box of Theodore Delafont De Brooks by Avram Davidson
15. Suicidal Tendencies by Dave Smeds
18. Papa by Ian R. MacLeod
19. The Hound of Merin by Eleanor Arnason
20. The Arrival of Truth by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
21. Chemistry by James Patrick Kelly
22. Friendship Bridge by Brian W. Aldiss
23. The Death Addict by Barry B. Longyear

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Close Encounter by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:

2.   Mwalimu in the Squared Circle by Mike Resnick

3.   The Story So Far by Martha Soukup
4.   The Bone Woman by Charles de Lint
5.   Martin on a Wednesday by Nancy Kress
6.   The Battle of Long Island by Nancy Kress
7.   Feedback by Joe Haldeman
8.   I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Wood by Kathe Koja
9.   The Face by Ed Gorman
10. Useful Phrases by Gene Wolfe
11. Sacred Cow by Bruce Sterling
12. (tie) The Extra by Greg Egan
      (tie) The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
13. The Sri Lanka Position by Robert Silverberg
14. The Plot to Save Hitler by W.R. Thompson
15. Love Toys of the Gods by Pat Cadigan
16. Everything that Rises, Must Converge by Michael A. Armstrong
17. Sinner-Saints by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
18. Carriers by Brian Stableford
19. (tie) 'Forever,' Said the Duck by Jonathan Lethem
      (tie) Sea-Scene, or, Vergil and the Ox-Thrall by Avram Davidson
20. Cliffs That Laughed by R.A. Lafferty

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   Impossible Things by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
2.   Lovedeath by Dan Simmons

3.   The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith

4.   Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
5.   Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
6.   Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
7.   The Aliens of Earth by Nancy Kress
8.   Dirty Work by Pat Cadigan

9.   Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger

10. The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
11. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
12. Rude Astronauts by Allen M. Steele
13. Departures by Harry Turtledove
14. Antiquities by John Crowley
15. Swamp Foetus by Poppy Z. Brite
16. Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories by Rebecca Ore
17. Nightshades by Tanith Lee
18. Bunch! by David R. Bunch
19. Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
20. Driftglass/Starshards by Samuel R. Delany
21. A Tupolev Too Far by Brian W. Aldiss

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

2.   Full Spectrum 4 edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell

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

4.   Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

5.   The Norton Book of Science Fiction edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery

6.   Alternate Warriors edited by Mike Resnick

7.   Confederacy of the Dead edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

8.   Nebula Awards 27 edited by James Morrow
9.   Omni Best Science Fiction Three edited by Ellen Datlow
10. Christmas Forever edited by David G. Hartwell
11. New Worlds 3 edited by David Garnett

12. Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Twelve: The Last Issue edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

13. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI edited by Karl Edward Wagner

14. The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women edited by A. Susan Williams

15. Best New Horror 4 edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
16. Strange Dreams edited by Stephen R. Donaldson
17. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF edited by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls

Other Nominees:

2.   Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography by Robert Bloch

3.   The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal

4.   PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell

5.   The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology by Albert I. Berger

6.   Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar
7.   Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index: 1985-1991 edited by Hal W. Hall

Best Art Book
Winner:

1.   The Art of Michael Whelan: Scenes/Visions by Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz by Don Maitz
3.   A Hannes Bok Treasury by Hannes Bok
4.   Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
5.   Virgil Finlay's Strange Science by Virgil Finlay
6.   Virgil Finlay's Phantasms by Virgil Finlay
7.   Tolkien's World edited by Anonymous

8.   The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Nancy Willard; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

9.   Carl Lundgren: Great Artist by Carl Lundgren
10. Switch on the Night by Ray Bradbury; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
11. Pastures in the Sky by Patrick Woodroffe

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3.   Ellen Datlow
4.   Stanley Schmidt
5.   David G. Hartwell
6.   Mike Resnick
7.   David Pringle
8.   Terri Windling
9.   Scott Edelman
10. Algis Budrys
11. Lou Aronica
12. Martin H. Greenberg
13. Kim Mohan

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

Other Nominees:
2.   Fantasy & Science Fiction
3.   Analog
4.   Science Fiction Age
5.   Interzone
6.   Amazing Stories
7.   Omni
8.   Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
9.   Science Fiction Chronicle
10. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
11. Aboriginal SF
12. Weird Tales
13. The New York Review of Science Fiction
14. Science Fiction Eye
15. Cemetery Dance
16. Pulphouse

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

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Random House
4.   Baen
5.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
6.   DAW
7.   Avon/Morrow
8.   Ziesing/Ursus
9.   Penguin/Roc/Viking
10. Underwood-Miller
11. Science Fiction Book Club
12. Carroll & Graf
13. HarperCollins (unspecified U.S. or U.K.)
14. HarperCollins U.K.

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Don Maitz
3.   Thomas Canty
4.   Bob Eggleton
5.   Jim Burns
6.   W.J. Hodgson
7.   Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
8.   David A. Cherry
9.   Darrell K. Sweet
10. Frank Kelly Freas
11. Boris Vallejo

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1994 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon.

Comments: 1994 reflected the renewed interest in Mars among the science fiction community. The win for Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars marked the beginning of a period in which books focused on Mars, mostly written by Robinson and Greg Bear, dotted the award ballots. Mars has always been a popular topic in science fiction, but interest in it seems to ebb and flow, and in the mid-1990s, interest seemed to flow. Personally, I preferred Nancy Kress' genetic engineering novel Beggars in Spain, but Red Mars is a fine novel and I can't fault the Nebula jurors for not sharing my taste.

In my opinion, the most well-deserved win in 1994 was for Jack Cady's The Night We Buried Road Dog. Cady's story is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever read, but his science fiction output other than this story seems to be fairly limited. Which is a shame.

Best Novel

Winner:
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Other Nominees:
Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress
Hard Landing by Algis Budrys
Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

Best Novella

Winner:

The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (reviewed in Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 116, No. 2 (February 2009))

Other Nominees:
The Beauty Addict by Ray Aldridge
Dancing on Air by Nancy Kress
Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
Wall, Stone, Craft by Walter Jon Williams

Best Novelette

Winner:

Georgia on My Mind by Charles Sheffield

Other Nominees:
Death on the Nile by Connie Willis
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Franchise by John Kessel
The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan
Things Not Seen by Martha Soukup

Best Short Story

Winner:
Graves by Joe Haldeman

Other Nominees:
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
All Vows by Esther M. Friesner
The Beggar in the Living Room by William John Watkins
The Good Pup by Bridget McKenna
The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore by Harlan Ellison

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1994 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: Irish Center in London, United Kingdom.

Comments: After years of reporting both the winner and the runner-up, the Clarke Award judges decided to change things up a bit in 1994 and forego announcing the runner-up. As a result, in this year we only know the identity of the winner of the award and the shortlist of books that provided the competition. As usual, there seems to have been no particular reason for this change other than the random whims of the organizers of the award.

Winner
Vurt by Jeff Noon

Shortlist
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
The Broken God by David Zindell
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

What Are the Arthur C. Clarke Awards?

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1993 Campbell Award Nominees

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

Comments: Even though 1993 is reasonably recent - a mere twenty-one years ago - the result of the Campbell Awards are once again an example of how some books age better than others. At the time, I doubt if anyone would have questioned the placement of Charles Sheffield's Brother to Dragons as the first place finisher in the voting. But now, two decades later, I suspect that most people who you asked would rank these books in the reverse order from the order they appear here, with Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep taking first place, and Sheffield's book relegated to the third spot.

Best Novel

Winner:

Brother to Dragons by Charles Sheffield

Second Place:

Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper

Third Place:

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

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1993 World Fantasy Award Nominees

Location: World Fantasy Convention, Bloomington, Minnesota.

Comments: In 1993, the World Fantasy Awards handed a Lifetime Achievement honor to Harlan Ellison. The only real question I have is what took them so long. Ellison's fantasy fiction is among the most imaginative and thought-provoking ever written, so the idea that it took the World Fantasy awards almost two decades to get around to honoring him is simply mystifying.

The rest of the 1993 World Fantasy Awards seem to have been fairly ordinary. James Gurney won one award and was nominated for another, Charles de Lint got three nominations, and Martin H. Greenberg got two, but neither of them won any awards, and no on else got more than one nomination. For the most part the World Fantasy Awards seem to be better at spreading the recognition around than either the Hugos or the Nebulas, where the same authors seem to get nominated time and again, and in some years the awards are dominated by a handful of names. I'm not sure why this is, but it might be that the fantasy genre has never been dominated by individual personalities the way science fiction was historically dominated by individuals like Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and John W. Campbell.

Best Novel

Winner:
Last Call by Tim Powers

Other Nominees:
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi
Was by Geoff Ryman

Best Novella

Winner:
The Ghost Village by Peter Straub

Other Nominees:
Paperjack by Charles de Lint
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
Unmasking by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Best Short Fiction

Winner:
(tie) Graves by Joe Haldeman
(tie) This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
Bridges by Charles de Lint
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite
The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario

Best Anthology

Winner:

MetaHorror edited by Dennis Etchison

Other Nominees:
Freak Show edited by F. Paul Wilson

Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

Narrow Houses edited by Peter Crowther
Northern Frights edited by Don Hutchison

Best Collection

Winner:
The Sons of Noah and Other Stories by Jack Cady

Other Nominees:
Bear's Fantasies by Greg Bear
Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock
Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel
Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint

Lifetime Achievement

Winner:
Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
None

Best Artist

Winner:
James Gurney

Other Nominees:
Jill Bauman
James Christensen
Alan M. Clark
Harry O. Morris

Special Award, Professional

Winner:
Jeanne Cavelos

Other Nominees:
Martin H. Greenberg
James Gurney
Grant Morrison and Klaus Janson
Terri Windling

Special Award, Non-Professional

Winner:
Doug Lewis and Tomi Lewis

Other Nominees:
John Betancourt and Kim Betancourt
Richard T. Chizmar
George Hatch
Joe Stefko and Tracy Cocoman
Stanislaus Tal

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1993 Clarke Award Nominees

Location: United Kingdom.

Comments: I have not read any of the books that were nominated for the 1993 Clarke Award. I say this not because I think that there was something wrong with this slate of nominees, but rather to highlight the massive bounty that confronts a science fiction fan in the modern era. In the 1950s and 1960s (and even for most of the 1970s), the science fiction field was so small that one could reasonably expect most fans to have read the bulk of the material that was published. But in more recent years, the sheer volume of science fiction available means that no one but the most completely dedicated science fiction fan simply won't keep up, and even the most completely dedicated science fiction fan will often be unable to read everything. While some people bemoan the resulting fracturing of the science fiction fan-base, I think that the explosion of science fiction into a myriad of subgenres is a mark of the maturity of the genre.

Winner
Body of Glass by Marge Piercy

Runner-Up
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Third Place
(tie) Correspondence by Sue Thomas
(tie) Hearts, Hands, and Voices by Ian McDonald

Shortlist
Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

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1993 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1993, after flirting with the book for years, the Libertarian Futurist Society finally decided to induct Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed into its Hall of Fame. On the one hand, this was a good choice, because The Dispossessed is a better novel than many of the previous inductees into the Prometheus Awards Hall of Fame. On the other hand, when one read The Dispossessed, it becomes readily apparent that the tenor of the novel is decidedly not sympathetic towards libertarian position, and in fact is highly critical of the ideology. This isn't new for the Prometheus Awards - they have previously nominated and awarded works that are only related to libertarianism to the extent that they are highly critical of it. I don't know if this is because the members of the Libertarian Futurist Society are trying to be broad-minded and include criticisms of their espoused ideology among the works they honor, or if they are simply so politically tone-deaf that they don't realize their position is being skewered and just assume if libertarianism is mentioned in a book it must be friendly to it.

Best Novel

Winner:

The Multiplex Man by James P. Hogan

Other Nominees:

The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Steel Beach by John Varley
Timemaster by Robert L. Forward
A Woman's Place by Rex Denver Borough

Hall of Fame

Winner:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
None

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1993 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: By 1993, the Mythopoeic Awards had developed into their fully formed modern version. All four of the current categories had been established by the Mythopoeic Society. All four of the award categories listed both the winning entry and the full slate of non-winning nominees. Although the Mythopoeic Awards had long been leaps and bounds ahead of most other genre awards in terms of things like genre equity, they had lagged behind when it came to their reporting methods, so the change made in 1992 and stuck with in 1993 and thereafter was a welcome development.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Other Nominees:

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Grail of Hearts by Susan Shwartz
Last Call by Tim Powers
The Paper Grail by James P. Blaylock

Best Children's Fantasy Literature

Winner:
Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

Other Nominees:
The Ancient One by T.A. Barron
Fish Soup by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hobkin by Peni R. Griffin
Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:

Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy by David C. Downing

Other Nominees:
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend introduction by Judith Priestman
The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by Roma A. King, Jr.
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Winner:

Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery

Other Nominees:
Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber by Bruce Byfield
Contours of the Fantastic edited by Michele K. Lanford

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1993 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: ConFrancisco in San Francisco, California.

Comments: In 1992 the Best Novel voting resulted in a tie between Connie Willis' quirky time travel novel Doomsday Book, and Vernor Vinge's bizarrely imaginative novel about varying physics A Fire Upon the Deep. Either would have been a credible winner on its own, as would Kim Stanley Robinson's non-winning nominee Red Mars, which speaks to the strength of printed science fiction in the early years of the 1990s.

After six Star Trek movies featuring the original series cast and zero Hugo wins, an entirely new version of the franchise finally managed to end the Star Trek losing streak, winning for its episode The Inner Light, which bears a little bit of resemblance to the Hugo winning Arthur C. Clarke story The Star. Granted, it didn't face a lot of particularly noteworthy competition, but it is nice to see Star Trek back on top at least for a little while.

The second year for the Best Original Artwork award resulted in a win for James Gurney's Dinotopia, probably one of the most substantial victors in the short history of the award.

Best Novel

Winner:
(tie) Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
(tie) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Other Finalists:
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Steel Beach by John Varley

Best Novella

Winner:

Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard

Other Finalists:
Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
Stopping at Slowyear by Frederik Pohl
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll

Best Novelette

Winner:

The Nutcracker Coup by Janet Kagan

Other Finalists:
Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent
In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg
Suppose They Gave a Peace. . . by Susan Shwartz
True Faces by Pat Cadigan

Best Short Story

Winner:

Even the Queen by Connie Willis

Other Finalists:
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
The Lotus and the Spear by Mike Resnick
The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress
The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work

Winner:

A Wealth of Fable: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the 1950s by Harry Warner, Jr.

Other Finalists:
The Costumemaker's Art edited by Thom Boswell

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith

Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Dave Langford
Monad: Essays on Science Fiction #2 edited by Damon Knight
Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages by Virgil Finlay

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Inner Light

Other Finalists:
Aladdin
Alien 3
Batman Returns
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Best Professional Editor

Winner:
Gardner Dozois

Other Finalists:
Ellen Datlow
Beth Meacham
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stanley Schmidt

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Don Maitz

Other Finalists:
Thomas Canty
David A. Cherry
Bob Eggleton
James Gurney

Best Original Artwork

Winner:

Dinotopia by James Gurney

Other Finalists:
Jim Burns for Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
Michael Whelan for Asimov's Science Fiction: November 1992
Michael Whelan for Illusion by Paula Volsky
Ron Walotsky for Fantasy & Science Fiction: October/November 1992

Best Semi-Prozine

Winner:

Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter

Other Finalists:
Interzone edited by David Pringle
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown

The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell, Donald G. Keller, Robert K.J. Killheffer, and Gordon van Gelder

Pulphouse edited by Dean Wesley Smith

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Mimosa edited by Dick Lynch and Nicki Lynch

Other Finalists:
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
FOSFAX edited by Timothy Lane and Janice Moore
Lan's Lantern edited by George "Lan" Laskowski
STET edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and Dick Smith

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Dave Langford

Other Finalists:
Mike Glyer
Andy Hooper
Evelyn C. Leeper
Harry Warner, Jr.

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Peggy Ranson

Other Finalists:
Teddy Harvia
Merle Insinga
Linda Michaels
Stu Shiffman
Diana Harlan Stein

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Winner:
Laura Resnick

Other Finalists:
Barbara Delaplace
Nicholas A. DiChario
Holly Lisle
Carrie Richerson
Michelle Sagara

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1993 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.

Comments: In 1993 Dan Simmons won the Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel category for the second year in a row with Children of the Night following up his 1992 win for Summer of Night. This came on the heels of his 1990 and 1991 wins for Best Science Fiction Novel for Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. This is a rare feat as not only did Simmons win back to back Locus awards, he did it twice, in two different categories. No matter how one looks at this accomplishment, it is definitely impressive and places Simmons in a very select category of writers.

Best Science Fiction Novel
Winner:
1.   Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:
2.   Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.   The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
4.   A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
5.   Steel Beach by John Varley
6.   Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
7.   Chanur's Legacy by C.J. Cherryh
8.   Mars by Ben Bova
9.   The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card
10. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
11. Worlds Enough and Time by Joe Haldeman
12. Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
13. Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop
14. Hellburner by C.J. Cherryh
15. Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper
16. Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
17. Labyrinth of Night by Allen M. Steele
18. Mining the Oort by Frederik Pohl
19. Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock
20. Hearts, Hands and Voices (aka The Broken Land) by Ian McDonald
21. A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
22. Jaran by Kate Elliott
23. Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon
24. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
25. A Deeper Sea by Alexander Jablokov
26. Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
27. Æstival Tide by Elizabeth Hand

Best Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Last Call by Tim Powers

Other Nominees:
2.   The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold
3.   Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
4.   A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
5.   Was by Geoff Ryman
6.   Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey
7.   The Magicians of Night (aka Magicians of the Night) by Barbara Hambly
8.   The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
9.   Domes of Fire by David Eddings
10. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
11. Last Refuge by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
12. The Cutting Edge by Dave Duncan
13. A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones
14. The Gypsy by Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm
15. Forest of the Night by S.P. Somtow
16. Flying in Place by Susan Palwick

Best Horror or Dark Fantasy Novel
Winner:
1.   Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Other Nominees:
2.   Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
3.   The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
4.   The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
5.   Bad Brains by Kathe Koja
6.   Dark Dance by Tanith Lee
7.   Blood Lines by Tanya Huff
8.   Valentine by S.P. Somtow
9.   Wilding by Melanie Tem
10. Wolf Flow by K.W. Jeter
11. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
12. Young Blood by Brian Stableford
13. Ghostwright by Michael Cadnum
14. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Best First Novel
Winner:
1.   China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

Other Nominees:
2.   Jumper by Steven Gould
3.   Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
4.   Flying in Place by Susan Palwick
5.   Fatherland by Robert Harris
6.   Fire in the Mist by Holly Lisle
7.   The Mountain Made of Light by Edward Meyers
8.   Sheltered Lives by Charles Oberndorf
9.   The Meri by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Best Novella
Winner:
1.   Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard

Other Nominees:

2.   Stopping at Slowyear by Frederik Pohl

3.   Naming the Flowers by Kate Wilhelm
4.   Cleon the Emperor by Isaac Asimov
5.   The Territory by Bradley Denton
6.   Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg
7.   Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
8.   Deus X by Norman Spinrad
9.   Resurrection by Katharine Kerr
10. Grownups by Ian R. MacLeod
11. Protection by Maureen F. McHugh
12. Synthesis by Mary Rosenblum
13. Death of Reason by Tony Daniel
14. The Virgin and the Dinosaur by R. Garcia y Robertson

Best Novelette
Winner:
1.   Danny Goes to Mars by Pamela Sargent

Other Nominees:
2.   True Faces by Pat Cadigan
3.   Looking for the Fountain by Robert Silverberg
4.   Beast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard
5.   Into Darkness by Greg Egan
6.   Dust by Greg Egan
7.   Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love by Roger Zelazny
8.   In the Stone House by Barry N. Malzberg
9.   Horse Meat by Brian W. Aldiss
10. Vanilla Dunk by Jonathan Lethem
11. Jumping the Road by Jack Dann
12. The Vulture Maiden by Marc Laidlaw
13. Breakfast Cereal Killers by R. Garcia y Robertson
14. The Satanic Illusion by L. Sprague de Camp
15. The Stone Garden by Mary Rosenblum
16. Chimaera by Barry B. Longyear
17. Suppose They Gave a Peace . . . by Susan Shwartz
18. Prison Dreams by Paul J. McAuley

19. Sepoy by Tom Purdom (reviewed in Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons)

20. Trail of Crumbs by Melanie Tem
21. The Best and the Rest of James Joyce by Ian McDonald
22. In the Month of Athyr by Elizabeth Hand
23. Innocents by Ian McDonald

Best Short Story
Winner:

1.   Even the Queen by Connie Willis

Other Nominees:

2.   The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress

3.   Graves by Joe Haldeman
4.   The Last Robot by Adam-Troy Castro
5.   In Concert by Michael Swanwick
6.   (tie) A Little Night Music by Lucius Shepard
      (tie) The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario
8.   The Lotus and the Spear by Mike Resnick
9.   The Message from Mars by J.G. Ballard
10. In Memoriam by Poul Anderson
11. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
12. The Kennedy Enterprise by David Gerrold
13. The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
14. 50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm by Pat Cadigan
15. Good Intentions by John Varley
16. The Company of Storms by Kathe Koja
17. All Vows by Esther M. Friesner
18. C-Change by Charles Sheffield
19. The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or A Shameless Lie by Thomas M. Disch
20. The Effects of Alienation by Howard Waldrop
21. (tie) Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
      (tie) Steelcollar Worker by Vonda N. McIntyre
23. Two Guys from the Future by Terry Bisson
24. (tie) Planck Zero by Stephen Baxter
      (tie) Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies by Greg Egan
26. The Rock that Changed Things by Ursula K. Le Guin
27. The Round-Eyed Barbarians by L. Sprague de Camp
28. The Sound of the River by M. Shayne Bell
29. Ship Full of Jews by Barry N. Malzberg

Best Collection
Winner:

1.   The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:
2.   Speaking in Tongues by Ian McDonald
3.   Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel
4.   Globalhead by Bruce Sterling
5.   Geodesic Dreams by Gardner Dozois
6.   Home by the Sea by Pat Cadigan
7.   And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm
8.   Slightly Off-Center by Neal Barrett, Jr.
9.   Iron Tears by R.A. Lafferty
10. Unwillingly to Earth by Pauline Ashwell
11. Blue Tyson by Terry Dowling
12. The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady
13. Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge

Best Anthology
Winner:

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

Other Nominees:

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

3.   Alternate Kennedys edited by Mike Resnick
4.   Universe 2 edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber

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

6.   Tales of Riverworld edited by Philip José Farmer and Martin H. Greenberg
7.   New Worlds 2 edited by David Garnett
8.   MetaHorror edited by Dennis Etchison
9.   Nebula Awards 26 edited by James Morrow
10. Foundations of Fear edited by David G. Hartwell
11. Omni Best Science Fiction One edited by Ellen Datlow
12. The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX edited by Karl Edward Wagner
13. Omni Best Science Fiction Two edited by Ellen Datlow
14. The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey

15. Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories: 25 (1963) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

16. Best New Horror 3 edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
17. Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick

Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Book
Winner:

1.   Dinotopia by James Gurney

Other Nominees:

2.   Odyssey: The Authorised Biography of Arthur C. Clarke (aka Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography) by Neil McAleer

3.   Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages by Virgil Finlay

4.   Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Third Edition edited by Noelle Watson and Paul E. Schellinger

5.   Inside Science Fiction: Essays on Fantastic Literature by James E. Gunn

6.   Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1991 by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

7.   Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle by Colin Greenland
8.   Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991 by Robert Reginald

9.   The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling

10. Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Michael Burgess

11. The Profession of Science Fiction edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James

12. Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative edited by George E. Slusser and Tom Shippey

13. Monad: Essays on Science Fiction #2 edited by Damon Knight
14. Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery

Best Editor
Winner:
1.   Gardner Dozois

Other Nominees:
2.   Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3.   Ellen Datlow
4.   Stanley Schmidt
5.   David G. Hartwell
6.   Martin H. Greenberg
7.   David Pringle
8.   Kim Mohan
9.   Mike Resnick
10. Terri Windling
11. Beth Meacham
12. Scott Edelman

Best Magazine or Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Asimov's

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

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

Other Nominees:
2.   Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
3.   Ballantine/Del Rey/Random House
4.   Putnam/Berkley/Ace
5.   DAW
6.   Baen
7.   Avon/Morrow
8.   Ziesing/Ursus
9.   Penguin/Roc/Viking
10. Warner/Questar
11. Pulphouse/Axolotl
12. Gollancz
13. Arkham House
14. Simon & Schuster/Pocket
15. Science Fiction Book Club

Best Artist
Winner:
1.   Michael Whelan

Other Nominees:
2.   Thomas Canty
3.   James Gurney
4.   Bob Eggleton
5.   Don Maitz
6.   Jim Burns
7.   David A. Cherry
8.   Boris Vallejo
9.   Darrell K. Sweet
10. Vincent Di Fate
11. W.J. Hodgson
12. J.K. Potter
13. Keith Parkinson
14. Frank Kelly Freas

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