Where and When:
NASFiC '95/Dragon*Con,
Atlanta GA :
July 14, 1995
Eligibility Year:
1994
Sf Novel
- Winner: Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows)
- Foreigner, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Mother of Storms, John Barnes (Tor)
- Beggars and Choosers, Nancy Kress (Tor)
- Heavy Weather, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra)
- Worldwar: In the Balance, Harry Turtledove (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Rama Revealed, Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
- Caldé of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- The Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- Furious Gulf, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra)
- The Stars Are Also Fire, Poul Anderson (Tor)
- Shadow's End, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra)
- Summer of Love, Lisa Mason (Bantam Spectra)
- Necroville (US title: Terminal Café), Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
- Tripoint, C. J. Cherryh (Warner Aspect)
- The Voices of Heaven, Frederik Pohl (Tor)
- Feersum Endjinn, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)
- Half the Day is Night, Maureen F. McHugh (Tor)
- Ring, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins UK)
- Permutation City, Greg Egan (Millennium)
- Genetic Soldier, George Turner (Morrow AvoNova)
- Climbing Olympus, Kevin J. Anderson (Warner Aspect)
- Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Jack Womack (HarperCollins UK; Atlantic Monthly)
- Wildlife, James Patrick Kelly (Tor)
- End of an Era, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace)
- Solis, A. A. Attanasio (HarperCollins)
- Pasquale's Angel, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz; Morrow AvoNova)
- Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson (Bantam Spectra)
- The Jericho Iteration, Allen Steele (Ace)
Fantasy Novel
- Winner: Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop (Bantam)
- Towing Jehovah, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace)
- Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan (Tor)
- Finder, Emma Bull (Tor)
- Memory & Dream, Charles de Lint (Tor)
- Love & Sleep, John Crowley (Bantam)
- Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust (Tor)
- Storm Warning, Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
- Larque on the Wing, Nancy Springer (Morrow AvoNova)
- Summer King, Winter Fool, Lisa Goldstein (Tor)
- Merlin's Wood, Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK)
- A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer (Tor)
- The Warrior's Tale, Allan Cole & Chris Bunch (Legend; Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Forest House, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Michael Joseph; Viking)
- Slow Funeral, Rebecca Ore (Tor)
- Shadow of a Dark Queen, Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins UK; Morrow)
- Temporary Agency, Rachel Pollack (Orbit; St. Martin's)
- Rhinegold, Stephan Grundy (Michael Joseph; Bantam)
- The Dubious Hills, Pamela Dean (Tor)
- Exiles 1: The Ruins of Ambrai, Melanie Rawn (DAW)
Dark Fantasy/horror Novel
- Winner: Fires of Eden, Dan Simmons (Putnam)
- Bride of the Rat God, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Insomnia, Stephen King (Mark V. Ziesing; Viking)
- Everville, Clive Barker (HarperCollins UK & US)
- Taltos, Anne Rice (Knopf)
- Sacred Ground, Mercedes Lackey (Tor)
- Wild Blood, Nancy A. Collins (NEL; Roc)
- Night Relics, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
- From the Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll (HarperCollins UK; Doubleday)
- The Quorum, Kim Newman (Simon & Schuster UK; Carroll & Graf)
- The Priest, Thomas M. Disch (Millennium)
- Darkness, I, Tanith Lee (Little, Brown UK)
- The Carnival of Destruction, Brian Stableford (Pocket UK; Carroll & Graf)
- Revenant, Melanie Tem (Headline; Dell Abyss)
- Dead in the Water, Nancy Holder (Dell Abyss)
First Novel
- Winner: Gun, With Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem (Harcourt Brace)
- Queen City Jazz, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
- Rhinegold, Stephan Grundy (Michael Joseph; Bantam)
- Witch and Wombat, Carolyn Cushman (Warner Questar)
- Vurt, Jeff Noon (Ringpull; Crown)
- Midshipman's Hope, David Feintuch (Warner Aspect)
- Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind (Millennium; Tor)
- Aurian, Maggie Furey (Legend; Bantam Spectra)
- Love Bite, Sherry Gottlieb (Warner)
- The Woman Between the Worlds, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (Dell)
- Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls, Jane Lindskold (AvoNova)
- Becoming Human, Valerie J. Freireich (Roc)
- Mistwalker, Denise Lopes Heald (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Aggressor Six, Wil McCarthy (Roc)
- This Side of Judgment, J. R. Dunn (Harcourt Brace)
- The Imperium Game, K. D. Wentworth (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Changing Fate, Elisabeth Waters (DAW)
Novella
- Winner: “Forgiveness Day”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's Nov 1994)
- “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, Mike Resnick (F&SF Oct/Nov 1994)
- “Via Roma”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Apr 1994)
- “Cri de Coeur”, Michael Bishop (Asimov's Sep 1994)
- “Soon Comes Night”, Gregory Benford (Asimov's Aug 1994)
- “Les Fleurs du Mal”, Brian Stableford (Asimov's Oct 1994)
- Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Ian McDonald (Bantam Spectra)
- “Haunted Humans”, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (F&SF Jul 1994)
- “Last Summer at Mars Hill”, Elizabeth Hand (F&SF Aug 1994)
- “The Last Time”, Lucius Shepard (Little Deaths)
- “Melodies of the Heart”, Michael F. Flynn (Analog Jan 1994)
- “A Fall of Angels, or On the Possibility of Life Under Extreme Conditions”, Geoff Ryman (Unconquered Countries)
- “Remains of Adam”, A. A. Attanasio (Asimov's Jan 1994)
- “Fan”, Geoff Ryman (Unconquered Countries; Interzone #81 Mar 1994)
- “The Last Plague”, Gregory Bennett (Analog Apr 1994)
- “The Madonna of Futurity”, Brian W. Aldiss (Universe 3)
- “Symphony for Skyfall”, Rick Cook & Peter L. Manly (Analog Jul 1994)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Martian Child”, David Gerrold (F&SF Sep 1994)
- “Adaptation”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 1994)
- “Solitude”, Ursula K. Le Guin (F&SF Dec 1994)
- “Cocoon”, Greg Egan (Asimov's May 1994)
- “Nekropolis”, Maureen F. McHugh (Asimov's Apr 1994)
- “A Little Knowledge”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Apr 1994)
- “The Hole in the Hole”, Terry Bisson (Asimov's Feb 1994)
- “The Lovers”, Eleanor Arnason (Asimov's Jul 1994)
- “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Aug 1994)
- (tie): “Paris in June”, Pat Cadigan (Omni Sep 1994)
- (tie): “The Singular Habits of Wasps”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog Apr 1994)
- “The Matter of Seggri”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
- “Good with Rice”, John Brunner (Asimov's Mar 1994)
- “Our Lady of Chernobyl”, Greg Egan (Interzone #83 May 1994)
- “Rat”, Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's Oct 1994)
- “The God Who Slept with Women”, Brian W. Aldiss (Asimov's May 1994)
- “Summer and Ice”, Alexander Jablokov (Asimov's May 1994)
- “Tin Angel”, G. David Nordley & H. G. Stratmann (Analog Jul 1994)
- “Artistic License”, Carrie Richerson (F&SF Dec 1994)
- “The Tree of Life”, Brian Stableford (Asimov's Sep 1994)
- “Stride”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Nov 1994)
- “The Joe Show”, Terry Bisson (Playboy Aug 1994)
Short Story
- Winner: “None So Blind”, Joe Haldeman (Asimov's Nov 1994)
- “I Know What You're Thinking”, Kate Wilhelm (Asimov's Nov 1994)
- “Dead Man's Curve”, Terry Bisson (Asimov's Jun 1994)
- “The Changeling's Tale”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Jan 1994)
- “Virtual Love”, Maureen F. McHugh (F&SF Jan 1994)
- “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower”, James Morrow (F&SF Jun 1994)
- “Mrs. Lincoln's China”, M. Shayne Bell (Asimov's Jul 1994)
- “Unchosen Love”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Amazing Stories Fall 1994)
- “Manhattan 99”, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's mid-Dec 1994)
- “Barnaby in Exile”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Feb 1994)
- “Understanding Entropy”, Barry N. Malzberg (Science Fiction Age Jul 1994)
- “The Narcissus Plague”, Lisa Goldstein (Asimov's Jul 1994)
- “The Sawing Boys”, Howard Waldrop (Black Thorn, White Rose)
- “Margin of Error”, Nancy Kress (Omni Oct 1994)
- “Bloodletting”, Kate Wilhelm (Omni Jun 1994)
- “Blinker”, Jack McDevitt (Analog Mar 1994)
- “Inspiration”, Ben Bova (F&SF Apr 1994)
- “Hitler at Nuremburg”, Barry N. Malzberg (By Any Other Fame; Pulphouse #17)
- “Queen of Angels”, Kathe Koja (Omni Jul 1994)
- “Jukebox Gifts”, Dean Wesley Smith (F&SF Jan 1994)
- “The Pandora Probe”, Jerry Oltion (Analog Dec 1994)
- “The Mask”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr 1994)
- “Big Guy”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1994)
- “The Blood of Angels”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Dec 1994)
- “The Fire that Scours”, Edward Bryant (Omni Oct 1994)
Collection
- Winner: Otherness, David Brin (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)
- A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin (HarperPrism)
- Matter's End, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra)
- Crashlander, Larry Niven (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Unconquered Countries, Geoff Ryman (St. Martin's)
- Travellers in Magic, Lisa Goldstein (Tor)
- The Girl Who Heard Dragons, Anne McCaffrey (Tor)
- The Early Fears, Robert Bloch (Fedogan & Bremer)
- The Breath of Suspension, Alexander Jablokov (Arkham House)
- Noctuary, Thomas Ligotti (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- The Passage of the Light: The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg, Barry N. Malzberg, edited by Mike Resnick & Anthony R. Lewis (NESFA Press)
- (tie): Black Leather Required, David J. Schow (Mark V. Ziesing)
- (tie): Nameless Sins, Nancy A. Collins (Gauntlet)
- A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow)
- Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton)
- The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories, Ian Watson (Gollancz)
Anthology
- Winner: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
- The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Tor)
- Black Thorn, White Rose, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Morrow AvoNova)
- Love in Vein, Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (HarperPrism)
- Little Deaths, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Millennium)
- Xanadu 2, Jane Yolen, ed. (Tor)
- Universe 3, Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, eds. (Bantam Spectra)
- Northern Stars, David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant, eds. (Tor)
- The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII, Karl Edward Wagner, ed. (DAW)
- Nebula Awards 28, James Morrow, ed. (Harcourt Brace)
- The New Hugo Winners: Volume III, Connie Willis & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Baen)
- New Worlds 4, David Garnett, ed. (Gollancz)
- The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, Tom Shippey, ed. (Oxford University Press)
- Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Best New Horror 5, Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell, eds. (Robinson; Carroll & Graf)
- The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology, Edward L. Ferman & Kristine Kathryn Rusch, eds. (St. Martin's)
- Alien Shores, Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch, eds. (Aphelion)
- Nebula Award-Winning Novellas, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. (Barnes & Noble)
Nonfiction
- Winner: I. Asimov: A Memoir, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday)
- Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics, Samuel R. Delany (University Press of New England/Wesleyan)
- Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, Michael Andre-Driussi (Sirius Fiction)
- Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Edward James (Oxford University Press)
- Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale, Jack Zipes (University Press of Kentucky)
- The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide, Jerry Hewett & Daryl F. Mallett (Borgo Press; Underwood-Miller)
- Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology, Paul Alkon (Twayne)
- The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Robert Irwin (Penguin)
- Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution, John J. Pierce (Greenwood)
- Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future, Robert Crossley (Syracuse Univ. Press)
Art Book
- Winner: Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Burnett & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
- Mind Fields, Harlan Ellison, text; Jacek Yerka, art (Morpheus International)
- I, Robot: the Illustrated Screenplay, Harlan Ellison & Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Mark Zug (Warner Aspect)
- Still Weird, Gahan Wilson (Forge)
- Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, Terry Jones, text; Brian Froud, illustrator (Turner; Pavillion UK)
- Virgil Finlay's Far Beyond, Virgil Finlay (Charles F. Miller)
- The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka, Jacek Yerka (Morpheus International)
- Ship of Dreams, Dean Morrissey (Abrams/Mill Pond Press)
- Horripilations: The Art of J.K. Potter, J. K. Potter (Paper Tiger)
- The Art of James Christensen: A Journey of the Imagination, James Christensen (Greenwich Workshop)
- The Three Golden Keys, Peter Sis (Doubleday)
Magazine
- Winner: Asimov's
- F&SF
- Analog
- Science Fiction Age
- Interzone
- Realms of Fantasy
- Omni
- Crank!
- Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
- Science Fiction Chronicle
- The New York Review of Science Fiction
- Amazing Stories
Book Publisher
- Winner: Tor/St. Martin's
- Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
- Ballantine/Del Rey/Random House
- Putnam/Berkley/Ace
- Baen
- DAW
- Mark V. Ziesing
- HarperCollins/HarperPrism
- Avon/Morrow
- Penguin/Roc/Viking
- Warner Aspect
- Gollancz