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Hugo Nebula Philip K Dick Arthur C Clarke World Fantasy British Fantasy British sf Bram Stoker


Hugo (aka. Science Fiction Achievement Award)
Named in honour of pioneering editor Hugo Gernsback, and awarded at the World SF Convention since 1953. They are voted for by fans (paid members of Worldcon), and the award itself is in the form of a rocketship mounted upright on fins. Hugos are awarded in many categories, including editing, artwork, film and tv. The following are the winners of best novel published in the preceding year:

  1. Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
  2. No award
  3. Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, They'd Rather be Right
  4. Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star
  5. No award
  6. Fritz Leiber, The Big Time
  7. James Blish, A Case of Conscience
  8. Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
  9. Walter M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz
  10. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
  11. Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
  12. Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
  13. Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
  14. Roger Zelazny, "…And Call Me Conrad" and Frank Herbert, Dune (tie)
  15. Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  16. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
  17. John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
  18. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  19. Larry Niven, Ringworld
  20. Philip Jose Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  21. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
  22. Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
  23. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  24. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
  25. Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
  26. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
  27. Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
  28. Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
  29. Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen
  30. C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station
  31. Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge
  32. David Brin, Startide Rising
  33. William Gibson, Neuromancer
  34. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
  35. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
  36. David Brin, The Uplift War
  37. C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen
  38. Dan Simmons, Hyperion
  39. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
  40. Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar
  41. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep and Connie Willis Doomsday Book
  42. Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
  43. Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance
  44. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
  45. Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
  46. Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
  47. Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
  48. Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

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Nebula
Award given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America since 1966, funded from the royalties of an annual anthology of award-winning fiction. There are 4 categories: Novel (over 40,000 words), Novella (17,500-40,000 words), Novelette (7500-17,500 words), and short story (under 7500 words). Unlike the Hugos, the Nebulas are dated by year of publication not presentation. The award itself is a metallic-glitter spiral nebula suspended over a rock crystal, embedded in clear lucite. The winners of best novel have been:

  1. Frank Herbert, Dune
  2. Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, and Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 (tie)
  3. Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection
  4. Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
  5. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  6. Larry Niven, Ringworld
  7. Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes
  8. Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
  9. Arthur C. Clarke, Rendexvous With Rama
  10. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  11. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
  12. Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
  13. Frederik Pohl, Gateway
  14. Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
  15. Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
  16. Gregory Benford, Timescape
  17. Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
  18. Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
  19. David Brin, Startide Rising
  20. William Gibson, Neuromancer
  21. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
  22. Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
  23. Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
  24. Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
  25. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
  26. Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
  27. Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
  28. Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
  29. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
  30. Greg Bear, Moving Mars
  31. Robert J Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment
  32. Nicola Griffith, Slow River
  33. Vonda N McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun
  34. Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
  35. Octavia E Butler, The Parable of the Talents
  36. Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

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Philip K. Dick Award
Suggested by Thomas M. Disch, it is given to a distinguished work of sf or fantasy first published in paperback (as much of Dick's classic fiction was). The award, including a plaque provided by the PKD estate and a cash prize, is made each year at NorWestCon in Washington state.

  1. Rudy Rucker, Software
  2. Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates
  3. William Gibson, Neuromancer
  4. Tim Powers, Dinner at Deviant's Palace
  5. James P. Blaylock, Homunculus
  6. Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
  7. Paul J. McAuley, 400 Billion Stars, and Rudy Rucker, Wetware
  8. Richard Paul Russo, Subterranean Gallery
  9. Pat Murphy, Points of Departure (collection)
  10. Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day
  11. Richard Grant, Through the Heart and Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
  12. Jack Womack, Elvissey and John M Ford, Growing Up Weightless
  13. Robert Charles Wilson, Mysterium
  14. Bruce Bethke, Headcrash
  15. Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships
  16. Stepan Chapman, The Troika
  17. Stephen Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams
  18. Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

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Arthur C. Clarke Award
Given to the best sf novel whose UK edition was published during the previous year, is administered by the Science Fiction Foundation (of which Clarke is patron), the British Science Fiction Association, and the International Science Policy Foundation and results in a plaque and cash prize for the winner.

  1. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  2. George Turner, The Sea and Summer
  3. Rachel Pollack, Unquenchable Fire
  4. Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden
  5. Colin Greenland, Take Back Plenty
  6. Pat Cadigan, Synners
  7. Marge Piercy, Body of Glass
  8. Jeff Noon, Vurt
  9. Pat Cadigan, Fools
  10. Paul J McAuley, Fairyland
  11. Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome
  12. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
  13. Tricia Sullivan, Dreaming in Smoke
  14. Bruce Sterling, Distraction
  15. China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

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World Fantasy Award
Presented at the annual World Fantasy Convention since 1975, and voted on by members of the convention.

  1. Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
  2. Richard Matheson, Bid Time Return
  3. William Kotzwinkle, Doctor Rat
  4. Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness
  5. Michael Moorcock, Gloriana
  6. Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower
  7. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
  8. John Crowley, Little, Big
  9. Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean
  10. John M. Ford, The Dragon in Waiting
  11. Robert P. Holdstock, Mythago Wood and Barry M. Hughart, The Bridge of Birds
  12. Dan Simmons, Song of Kali
  13. Patrick Suskind, Perfume
  14. Ken Grimwood, Replay
  15. Peter Straub, Koko
  16. Jack Vance, Madouc
  17. Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer, and James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
  18. Robert McCammon, Boy's Life
  19. Tim Powers, Last Call
  20. Lewis Shiner, Glimpses
  21. James Morrow, Towing Jehovah
  22. Christopher Priest, The Prestige
  23. Rachel Pollack, Godmother Night
  24. Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy
  25. Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
  26. Martin Scott, Thraxas

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British Fantasy Award
Awarded by the British Fantasy Society since 1971, the award for best novel is named in honour of August Derleth, and all awards consist of a statuette of Cthulhu (from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, with which Derleth was long associated). Dark fantasy and horror have come to dominate over the years.

  1. Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords
  2. Michael Moorcock, The King of the Swords
  3. Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga
  4. Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands
  5. Gordon R. Dickson, The Dragon and the George
  6. Piers Anthony, A Spell For Chameleon
  7. Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
  8. Tanith Lee, Death's Master
  9. Ramsey Campbell, To Wake the Dead
  10. Stephen King, Cujo
  11. Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
  12. Peter Straub, Floating Dragon
  13. T.E.D. Klein, The Ceremonies
  14. Bob Shaw, The Ragged Astronauts
  15. Stephen King, It
  16. Ramsey Campbell, The Influence
  17. Dam Simmons, Carrion Comfort
  18. Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun
  19. Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
  20. Graham Joyce, Dark Sister
  21. Ramsey Campbell, The Long Lost
  22. Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
  23. Graham Joyce, Requiem
  24. Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy
  25. Chaz Brenchley, Tower of the Kings Daughter
  26. Stephen King, Bag of Bones
  27. Graham Joyce, Indigo

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British Science Fiction Award
Sponsored by the British Science Fiction Association, and awarded to a writer from 1966-9, thereafter to a book. Originally required UK authorship but later only UK publication. They are announced at Eastercon, but have never succeeded in counteracting the US-dominated Hugos and Nebulas.

  1. 1970 John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
  2. John Brunner, The Ragged Orbit
  3. Brian W. Aldiss, The Moment of Eclipse
  4. No award
  5. Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
  6. Christopher Priest, Inverted World
  7. Bob Shaw, Orbitsville
  8. Michael G. Coney, Brontomek!
  9. Ian Watson, The Jonah Kit
  10. Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  11. J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company
  12. Gregory Benford, Timescape
  13. Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
  14. Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Spring
  15. John T. Sladek, Tik-Tok
  16. Robert P. Holdstock, Mythago Wood
  17. Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter
  18. Bob Shaw, The Ragged Astronauts
  19. Keith Roberts, Grainne
  20. Robert P. Holdstock, Lavondyss
  21. Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
  22. Colin Greenland, Take Back Plenty
  23. Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
  24. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
  25. Christopher Evans, Aztec Century
  26. Iain M Banks, Feersum Endjinn
  27. Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships
  28. Iain M Banks, Excession
  29. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
  30. Christopher Priest, The Extremes
  31. Ken MacLeod, The Sky Road
  32. Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

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Bram Stoker Award
Given annually by the Horror Writers of America for work of dark fantasy and horror published in the previous year.

  1. Stephen King, Misery, and Robert McCammon, Swan Song
  2. Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
  3. Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
  4. Robert McCammon, Mine
  5. Robert McCammon Boy's Life
  6. Thomas E. Monteleone, The Blood of the Lamb
  7. Peter Straub, The Throat
  8. Nancy Holder, Dead in the Water
  9. Joyce Carol Oates, Zombie
  10. Stephen King, The Green Mile
  11. Janet Berliner and George Guthridge, Children of the Dusk
  12. Stephen King, Bag of Bones
  13. Peter Straub, Mr X
  14. Richard Laymon, The Travelling Vampire Show

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