Richard A. Lovett
Awards Summary
Awards Won: 13
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 54
Analog Readers Poll — for stories, articles, and art published by Analog, polled by readers
(54 nominations; 13 wins)
2024:
“Fish Kill on the Tanis” (Analog Sep/Oct 2023)
— science fact — 2nd place
2022:
“Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable” (Analog Jul/Aug 2021)
— fact article — 3rd place
2021:
“Space Dust: How an Asteroid Altered Life on Earth” (Analog May/Jun 2020)
— fact article — winner
2018:
“The Quest for the 2:00 Marathon” (Analog Sep/Oct 2017)
— fact article — winner
2018:
“Rendezvous With a Comet: How ESA's Rosetta Mission is Decoding Ancient Planetary Mysteries” (Analog Jan/Feb 2017)
— fact article — 5th place
2017:
“Dawn Comes to the Asteroid Belt”
— fact article — 2nd place
2017:
“Energy for the Future” (Analog Jul/Aug 2016)
— fact article — winner
2016:
“Defender of Worms”
— novella — 2nd place
2016:
“The Wormhole War”
— novelette — 4th place (tie)
2016:
“Brain Hacking: The Legal, Social, and Scientific Ramifications of the Latest (Very Real) Mind-Reading Techniques”
— fact article — 4th place
2016:
“New Horizons at Pluto: The Grand Tour Finally Completed”
— fact article — 3rd place
2015:
“Music to Me” (Analog Jan/Feb 2014)
— novella — winner
2015:
“Saturn's 'Jet-Propelled' Moon and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (Analog Sep 2014)
— fact article — 2nd place (tie)
2014:
“The Golden Age Comes to Seattle”
— fact article — 2nd place
2013:
“Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light” (by William Gleason & RAL)
— novella — winner
2013:
“Cats Know”
— short story — 4th place
2013:
“Tech Support”
— short story — 3rd place (tie)
2013:
“The Day the Sun Exploded”
— fact article — 3rd place
2013:
“Planets (Oops, Planetoids) X, Y, Z, and W: What the Kuiper Belt Teaches About the Dawn of the Solar System”
— fact article — 4th place
2012:
“Jak and the Beanstalk”
— novelette — winner (tie)
2012:
“Poisons, Temperature, and Climate Change: Will Global Warming Make Everything Else Worse?”
— fact article — 3rd place (tie)
2011:
“Phantom Sense” (by RAL & Mark Niemann-Ross) (Analog Nov 2010)
— novella — winner
2011:
“Phantom Science: The Facts Behind 'Phantom Sense'” (by RAL & Mark Niemann-Ross) (Analog Nov 2010)
— fact article — 3rd place
2011:
“Visit to the Forgotten Planet: What Scientists Are Learning as MESSENGER Prepares to Orbit Mercury” (Analog Oct 2010)
— fact article — 2nd place
2011:
“What's In a Kiss: The Wild, Wonderful World of Phlematology” (Analog Apr 2010)
— fact article — 4th place
2010:
“Attack of the Grub-Eaters” (Analog Jun 2009)
— short story — 4th place
2010:
“From Atlantis to Canoe-Eating Trees: Geomythology Comes of Age” (Analog Sep 2009)
— fact article — winner
2010:
“Geology, Geohistory, and 'Psychohistory': The (Continuing) Debate Between Uniformitarians and Catastrophists” (Analog May 2009)
— fact article — 2nd place
2010:
“Plate Tectonics, Goldilocks, and the Late Heavy Bombardment: Why Earth Isn't Mars or Venus” (Analog Dec 2009)
— fact article — 3rd place
2009:
“Brittney's Labyrinth” (Analog Jun 2008)
— novella — 3rd place
2009:
“Here There Be Dragons” (Analog Oct 2008)
— fact article — 4th place
2009:
“Nuclear Autumn” (Analog Apr 2008)
— fact article — 3rd place (tie)
2008:
“The Sands of Titan” (Analog Jun 2007)
— novella — 3rd place
2008:
“After Gas: Are We Ready for the End of Oil?” (Analog Jan/Feb 2007)
— fact article — 3rd place
2008:
“The Ice Age that Wasn't” (Analog Apr 2007)
— fact article — winner
2008:
“The Search for World's First Equestrians” (Analog Nov 2007)
— fact article — 4th place
2007:
“A Pound of Flesh” (Analog Sep 2006)
— novella — 3rd place
2007:
“Dinosaur Blood” (Analog Jan/Feb 2006)
— novelette — 2nd place
2007:
“Original Sin” (Analog Jun 2006)
— novelette — 4th place (tie)
2007:
“Nigerian Scam” (Analog Oct 2006)
— short story — 2nd place
2007:
“From Fimbulwinter to Dante's Hell: The Strange Saga of Snowball Earth” (Analog Jan/Feb 2006)
— fact article — 2nd place
2007:
“The Great Sumatran Earthquakes of 2004-5” (Analog Oct 2006)
— fact article — winner
2006:
“A Few Good Men” (Analog Jan/Feb 2005)
— novella — 3rd place
2006:
“NetPuppets” (by RAL & Mark Niemann-Ross) (Analog Jun 2005)
— novelette — winner
2006:
“Gene Doping and Other Olympic Scandals of the (Not-So-Distant) Future” (Analog Jun 2005)
— fact article — 4th place
2006:
“The Prehistory of Global Climate Change” (Analog Mar 2005)
— fact article — 2nd place
2005:
“Fat Mice, Eating Machines, and Biochemical Treason” (Analog Nov 2004)
— fact article — 2nd place
2005:
“Forensic Seismology: The Big Science of Minor Shake-Ups” (Analog Apr 2004)
— fact article — 5th place
2005:
“The Transience of Memory” (Analog Jun 2004)
— fact article — 4th place
2004:
“Tiny Berries” (Analog Sep 2003)
— novelette — winner
2004:
“Moving Beyond 'Life As We Know It'” (Analog Nov 2003)
— fact article — 4th place
2004:
“The Search for Extraterrestrial Oceans” (Analog May 2003)
— fact article — 5th place
2002:
“Up in Smoke: How Mt. St. Helens Blasted Conventional Scientific Wisdom” (Analog Apr 2001)
— fact article — winner
2000:
“Tricorders, Yactograms, and the Future of Analytical Chemistry” (Analog Apr 1999)
— fact article — 4th place
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