Where and When:
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Kansas City MO :
April 19, 1997
Eligibility Year:
1996
Novelette
- Winner: “The Flowers of Aulit Prison”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1996)
- “Age of Aquarius”, William Barton (Asimov's May 1996)
- “A Dry, Quiet War”, Tony Daniel (Asimov's Jun 1996)
- “Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast”, Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's Mar 1996)
- “The Land of Nod”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jun 1996)
- “Mountain Ways”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's Aug 1996)
- “The Edge of the Universe”, Terry Bisson (Asimov's Aug 1996)
- (tie): “Cloud Cuckoo”, Charles Sheffield (Asimov's Jul 1996)
- (tie): “Pyros”, George M. Ewing (Asimov's Jan 1996)
- “The Peacock Throne”, Charles Sheffield (Asimov's Feb 1996)
- “The Miracle of Ivar Avenue”, John Kessel (Asimov's Sep 1996)
Short Story
- Winner: “Decency”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Jun 1996)
- “On Sequoia Time”, Daniel Keys Moran (Asimov's Sep 1996)
- “The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Apr 1996)
- “The Joys of the Sidereal Long Distance Runner”, Tony Daniel (Asimov's Mar 1996)
- “The Last Sunset”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Feb 1996)
- “Gifts”, S. N. Dyer (Asimov's Dec 1996)
- “Cider”, Tom Purdom (Asimov's Jan 1996)
- “In Coppelius's Toyshop”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 1996)
- (tie): “Community”, Gardner Dozois (Asimov's Sep 1996)
- (tie): “Mortal Clay”, S. N. Dyer (Asimov's Apr 1996)
- “Breakaway, Backdown”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1996)
Poem
- Winner: “Curse of the Science Fiction Writer's Wife”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Jan 1996)
- (tie): “Star-Rigger”, David Lunde (Asimov's Jun 1996)
- (tie): “This Neat Sheet”, James Tiptree, Jr. (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1996)
- (tie): “The Year of the Dragon”, Karawynn Long (Asimov's Jul 1996)
- (tie): “Pendragon”, William John Watkins (Asimov's Mar 1996)
- (tie): “This Is Just to Say”, Mary A. Turzillo (Asimov's Aug 1996)
- (tie): “Dinosaurs May Be Ancestors of More Than Birds”, Mary A. Turzillo (Asimov's Aug 1996)
- (tie): “The Robots' Wasteland”, William John Watkins (Asimov's May 1996)
- (tie): “time”, Danny Daniels (Asimov's Dec 1996)
- (tie): “Astronaut Boneyard”, Wendy Rathbone (Asimov's Jan 1996)
- (tie): “Love Song of the Holo-Celebs”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Jun 1996)
- “Day Omega”, W. Gregory Stewart (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1996)
- “Dragon Skin”, W. Gregory Stewart (Asimov's Jul 1996)
- “Dodoes”, Steven Utley (Asimov's Apr 1996)
- “In Memoriam: For a Colleague, Departed”, Tom Disch (Asimov's Mar 1996)
- “Pteranodon”, Steven Utley (Asimov's Feb 1996)