Balrog Awards 1982
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Fool*Con V,
Kansas City KS :
April 2, 1982
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April 4, 1982
Eligibility Year: 1981
Eligibility Year: 1981
Novel
- Winner: Camber the Heretic, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Centaur Aisle, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Cujo, Stephen King (Viking)
- The Keep, F. Paul Wilson (Morrow)
- Little, Big, John Crowley (Bantam)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “A Thief in Korianth”, C. J. Cherryh (Flashing Swords #5: Demons and Daggers)
- “Because Our Skins Are Finer”, Tanith Lee (Twilight Zone Nov 1981)
- “Grail”, Harlan Ellison (Twilight Zone Apr 1981)
- “Parting Gifts”, Diane Duane (Flashing Swords #5: Demons and Daggers)
- “The River of Night's Dreaming”, Karl Edward Wagner (Whispers III)
- “Sea Change”, George Clayton Johnson
Collection/anthology
- Winner: Shadows of Sanctuary, Robert Lynn Asprin, ed. (Ace)
- The City of the Singing Flame, Clark Ashton Smith (Pocket)
- Creep to Death, Joseph Payne Brennan
- Dark Forces, Kirby McCauley, ed. (Viking)
- Elsewhere, Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold, eds. (Ace)
- Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch (Zebra)
- Shadows 4, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Doubleday)
- Whispers III, Stuart David Schiff, ed. (Doubleday)
- The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX, Karl Edward Wagner, ed. (DAW)
Poet
Artist
Amateur Publication
- Winner: Eldritch Tales
- Fantasy Newsletter
- Fantasy Tales
- Kadath
- Night Voyages
- Shayol
- Space and Time
Professional Publication
- Winner: Omni
- Amazing Stories
- Asimov's
- F&SF
- NY City (by H.R. Giger)
- Science Fiction Chronicle
- Starlog
- Twilight Zone
Amateur Achievement
- Winner: Robert A. Collins, for saving Fantasy Newsletter
- Charles R. Saunders, for SPWAO
- Millea Kenin, for Owlflight
- Stephen Jones, for British Fantasy Society, and Fantasy Tales
- Kathy Hammel, for Fantasy Artists Network
- Jeffrey Elliot, for author interviews
- Paul C. Allen & Susan Allen, for Fantasy Newsletter
- Crispin Burnham, for Eldritch Tales
Professional Achievement
Sf Film Hall Of Fame
- Winner: Forbidden Planet
- Alien
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Metropolis
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Silent Running
- Superman II
Fantasy Film Hall Of Fame
- Winner: King Kong
- Excalibur
- The Lord of the Rings
- Popeye
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Time Bandits
- Watership Down
- Wizards
Judges' Choice
- Winner: Leo & Diane Dillon
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