Conference noted::sf

    Every so often, two fellows named Donald Franson and Howard
    DeVore put out a book entitled A HISTORY OF THE HUGO, NEBULA
    AND INTERNATIONAL FANTASY AWARD WINNERS. I've got an edition
    that's way out of date (circa 1980). If you want to borrow it,
    Andrew, send me your mailstop.
    
    for more recent years, I can try back-tracking through my copies
    of SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE for the lists of nominees for these
    (as well as the World Fantasy Awards).
    
    --- jerry

    I seem to recall the NEBULA AWARD STORIES series lists all that
    years winners/runners up in each edition.  Also, Asimov's THE 
    HUGO WINNERS lists the prev. years winners/runners up.
    
    Maybe someone who has these vols could make copies.  (Mine are 
    all packed away & buried--doing some construction on the house....)
    
    							Don

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    This is a summary of the SFWA Nebula Awards Report for October,
1987. Instead of typing in the entire report (I may do that for the
final report around the end of the year) I'm only going to post the
top ten for each category. I won't include the nominees for each work.
This list is as of October 7, 1987. 
 
Novel (40,000 words or above)
 
Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women (Crown) [22]
Gene Wolfe: Soldier of the Mist (Tor) [22]
Pat Murphy: The Falling Woman (Tor) [20]
Philip K. Dick: Radio Free Albemuth (Arbor House) [17]
Michael Swanwick: Vacuum Flowers (Arbor House) [16]
John Crowley: Aegypt (Bantam) [13]
Connie Willis: Lincoln's Dream (Bantam) [13]
David Brin: The Uplift War (Bantam) [13]
George Alec Effinger: When Gravity Fails (Arbor House) [13]
C.S. Friedman: In Conquest Born (Daw) [12]
 
    [editorial comments: two first novels, by Willis and Friedman
(Friedman is a good book) one second novel, by Murphy (GREAT BOOK!
READ THIS BOOK! If I were voting instead of kibbitzing this would
probably get my vote, with the Wolfe book making it a tough choice).
The only book I disagee with is Swanwick, which is the token Cyberpunk
entry. The Watchmen placed 18th so far...166 books got 1 or more
votes] 
 
Novella: 17,500-39,999 words
 
Geoff Ryman: The Unconquered Country (Bantam, novella length book) [16]
James Patrick Kelly: Glass Cloud (Asim) [14]
Orson Scott Card: Eye for Eye (Asim) [13]
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Blind Geometer (Asim) [12]
Russel Griffin: Saving Time (F&SF) [12]
Walter Jon Williams: Witness (Wild Cards #1) [8]
Michael flynn: The Forest of time (analog) [7]
Harry Turtledove: Superwine (Asim) [7]
Elizabeth Moon: A Delicate Adjustment (Analog) [6]
Robert Silverberg: The Secret Sharer (Asim) [5]
 
[30 titles nominated]
 
Novelette: 17,499 - 7,500 words
 
Pat Murphy: Rachel in Love (Asim) [34]
Bruce McCallister: Dream Baby (Asim) [19]
Walter Jon Williams: Dinosaurs (Asim) [18]
Neal Barett, Jr.: Perpetuity Blues (Asim) [18]
Orson Scott Card: America (Asim) [17]
Bruce Sterling: Flowers of Edo (Asim) [17]
Wayne Wightman: Cage 37 (F&SF) [16]
Lucius Shepard: The Sun Spider (Asim) [14]
Jack McDevitt: Dutchman (Asim) [13]
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Return from Rainbow Ridge (Asim) [12]
 
[105 titles nominated]
 
Short Story: under 7,500 words
 
Pat Cadigan: Angel (Asim) [21]
Karen Joy Fowler: The Faithful Companion at Forty (Asim) [18]
Lisa Goldstein: Cassandra's Photographs (Asim) [15]
Lucius Shepard: The Glassblower's Dragon (F&SF) [14]
Augustine Funnell: MAxie Silas (F&SF) [13]
Susan Shwartz: Temple to a Minor Goddess (Amazing) [12]
George Zebrowski: This Life and Later Ones (Analog) [12]
Lawrence Watt-Evans: Why I left Harry's All-night Hamburgers (Asim) [11]
Jonathan Carroll: Friend's Best Man (F&SF) [10]
Dean Whitlock: The Million-Dollar Wound (F&SF) [10]
James P. Blaylock: Myron Chester and the Toads (Asim) [10]
Brad Strickland: "Oh Tin Man, Tin Man there's No Place Like Home" (F&SF) [10]
 
[somewhere around 200 titles nominated, I didn't count....]
 
    [The total domination of the shorter awards by Asimov's continues.
Gardner Dozois is doing SOMETHING right.... 
 
    And, speaking of Cyberpunk, if it is the wave of the future, where
are the award nominations? None of the major cyberpunk authors are
represented in any of the categories to any extent. Is the cyberpunk
fad fading already? Film at 11...] 
 
chuq
Chuq Von Rospach					[email protected]
Editor, OtherRealms					Delphi: CHUQ

    Here is a list of the Hugo Award winners (in novels) from 1953-1987:
    
    1953: The Demolished Man		Alfred Bester
    1954: No Hugos awarded
    1955: They'd Rather Be Right        Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
    1956: Double Star			Robert Heinlein
    1957: No Hugos for individual authors
    1958: The Big Time			Fritz Leiber
    1959: A Case of Conscience		James Blish
    1960: Starship Troopers		Robert Heinlein
    1961: A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter Miller
    1962: Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert Heinlein
    1963: The Man in the High Castle	Philip Dick
    1964: Way Station			Clifford Simak
    1965: The Wanderer			Fritz Leiber
    1966: TIE --
          Dune				Frank Herbert
          This Immortal			Roger Zelazny
    1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress  Robert Heinlein
    1968: Lord of Light			Roger Zelazny
    1969: Stand on Zanzibar		John Brunner
    1970: The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula LeGuin
    1971: Ringworld			Larry Niven
    1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go   Philip Jose Farmer
    1973: The Gods Themselves		Isaac Asimov
    1974: Rendezvous with Rama		Arthur C. Clarke
    1975: The Dispossessed		Ursula LeGuin
    1976: The Forever War		Joe Haldeman
    1977: Where Late the Sweet Birds    Kate Wilhelm
                               Sang
    1978: Gateway			Frederik Pohl
    1979: Dreamsnake			Vonda McIntyre
    1980: The Foundations of Paradise   Arthur C. Clarke
    1981: The Snow Queen		Joan Vinge
    1982: Downbelow Station		C.J. Cherryh
    1983: Foundation"s Edge		Isaac Asimov
    1984: Startide Rising		David Brin
    1985: Neuromancer			William Gibson
    1986: Ender's Game			Orson Scott Card
    
    I have a little more information on the 1987 Hugo Winners:
    
    Novel:
    Speaker for the Dead		Orson Scott Card
    (This was the first time that a novel and it's sequel had both won
     Hugo and Nebula awards: Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
      ---both are excellent!)
    
    Novella:
    Gilgamesh in the Outback		Robert Silverberg
    
    Novellette:
    Permafrost				Roger Zelazny
    
    Short Story:
    Tangents				Greg Bear
    
    The above info came from an article in Xignals, a publication from
    Waldenbooks Otherworlds Club.
    
    Hope it's helpful,
    Karen
    
    

News hot from the Nebula Awards Banquet held Saturday, May 21, 1988:

The winners of the 1987 Nebula Awards are as follows:
 
Short story:  "Forever Yours, Anna"  by Kate Wilhelm, Omni, July 1987
 
Novelette:  "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy, Asimov's, April 1987
 
Novella:  "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson, Asimov's, August 1987
 
Novel:  The Falling Woman, by Pat Murphy, Tor
 
In addition, Alfred Bester received the Grandmaster Award, posthumously.
He had been informed a month before he died that he would receive it.]
Julius Schwartz accepted it for him.
 
Norman Spinrad was an exemplary emcee, going only slightly berserk when there
were early problems with the sound system.  Fred Pohl gave a nice
appreciation of Clifford Simak (recently deceased), and Jerry Pournelle rose
to the occasion by doing likewise for Robert Heinlein.

Hugo Nominees. Information courtesy of Chuq Von Rospach, editor of
"Other Realms" magazine


	Novel:
	    The Forge of God, Greg Bear (Tor)
	    The Uplift War, David Brin (Phantasia/Bantam-Spectra)
	    Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
	    When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger (Bantam-Spectra)
	    The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
 
	Novella:
	    Eye for Eye, Orson Scott Card (IASFM, March)
	    The Forest of Time, Michael Flynn (Amazing, June)
	    The Blind Geometer, Kim Stanley Robinson (IASFM, Aug)
	    Mother Goddess of the World, Kim Stanley Robinson (IASFM, Oct)
	    The Secret Sharer, Robert Silverberg (IASFM, Sep)
 
	Novelette:
	    Buffalo Fals Won't you Come Out Tonight, Ursula K. Le Guin
		(F&SF, Oct)
	    Dream Baby, Bruce McAllister (In the Field of Fire, Tor; IASFM, Oct)
	    Rachel in Love, Pat Murphy (IASFM, Apr)
	    Flowers of Edo, Bruce Sterling (IASFM, May)
	    Dinosaurs, Walter Jon Williams (IASFM, Jun)
 
	Short Story:
	    Angel, Pat Cadigan (IASFM, May)
	    The Faithful Companion at Forth, Karen Joy Fowler, (IASFM, Jul)
	    Cassandra's Photographs, Lisa Goldstein (IASFM, Aug)
	    Night of teh Cooters, Howard Waldrop (Omni, Apr)
	    Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers, Lawrence Watt-Evans
		(IASFM, Jul)
	    Forever Yours, Anna, Kate Wilhelm (Omni, Jul)
 
	Editors:
	    Ed Ferman, F&SF
	    Stan Schmidt, Analog
	    Gardner Dozois, IASFM
	    Dave Hartwell, Arbor House
	    Brian Thompson, Warner/Questar
 
	Pro Artist:
	    Mike Whelan
	    J.K. Potter
	    David Cherry
	    Bob Eagleton
	    Tom Kidd
	    Don Maitz
 
	Other Forms:
	    Watchmen (DC)
	    I, Robot, Harlan Ellison (Screenplay, IASFM)
	    Culture Made Stupid
	    Wild Cards series
	    The Essential Ellison
	
	Non-Fiction:
	    Anatomy of Wonder, 3rd Edition (Bowker)
	    SF/Fantasy/Horror 1988, C. Brown, ed. (Locus Press)
	    Imaginations: The work of David Cherry, Cherry (Starblaze)
	    The Battle of Brazil, Matthews (Crown)
	    Whelen Works of Wonder, Whelan (Del Rey)
	
	Best Dramatic
	    Predator
	    Princess Bride
	    Robocop
	    Witches of Eastwick
	    Star Trek 93: The Journey Goes On
 
	Fan Artist:
	    Brad Foster
	    Steve Fox
	    Teddy Harvia
	    Mike Insignia
	    Taral Wayne
	    Diana Gallager Woo
 
	Best Semi-Prozine
	    Aboriginal SF
	    Interzone
	    Locus
	    Thrust
	    SF Chronicle
 
	Best Fanzine
	    File 770
	    Fosfax
	    Lan's Lantern
	    Mad 3 Party
	    Texas SF Enquirer
 
	Best Fan Writer
	    Mike Glyer
	    Arthur Hlavaty
	    Dave Langford
	    Guy H. Lillian III
	    Leslie Turek
 
	John W. Campbell Award
	    C.S Friedman
	    Loren MacGregor
	    Judith Moffett*
	    Rebecca Brown Ore*
	    Martha Soukup*
 
	    * last year of eligibility
 
There were 418 legitimate ballots. There were 122 ballots with best fanzine
nominations (29%, a high number). There were 182 ballots for Other Forms.
 
Other nominations for Other Forms included: the 1987 tax forms; Reagan's
1987 budget and the Minnesota Twins. :-)

RE: 532.8

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	    Star Trek 93: The Journey Goes On
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		.

...and on, and on, and on,...

:-)
(it was too good to pass up)

      Re 532.8 
       
	>Fan Artist:
	>    Mike Insignia

      That's Merle Insinga.
      
      Dave C.

re: .8

looks like kind of a weak field in the novel category this year...

RE: .8 & .11 (.8 being the Hugo Nominations report)

> looks like kind of a weak field in the novel category this year...

The one thing I found most surprising is for the first time in a long
time, the novel that won the Nebula Award was not even nominated for the
Hugo.  For the last few years, the Nebulas have been a pretty good
predictor of the Hugos.  (And an indication that, as a rule, SFWA members
have no better taste than the rest of us.)  Has this changed?  (Has their
taste gotten worse? :-)

				Andrew

    re:.8
    
    �looks like kind of a weak field in the novel category this year...�
    
    Well, I hate to point out the obvious, but isn't that just a
    matter of taste? There have been stronger years, certainly, but
    how weak can a year be in which novel by David Brin is probably
    the weakest of the bunch?
    
    (Actually, to be honest, I haven't read the Bear or Card novels,
    but I think that both the Effinger and Wolfe books are definitely
    Hugo-worthy.)
    
    --- jerry

    re: .8

    For once I've read all of the Hugo nominee novels, and it's far 
    from a weak field.  "The Forge of God" has a spectacular physical 
    concept at its core, "The Uplift War" continues one of the most 
    interesting future histories, and "When Gravity Fails" is a nice 
    piece of SF noir.  Either "Seventh Son" (folk magic in 19th century
    America) or "The Urth of the New Sun" (further tales of Severian 
    the torturer/redeemer) would compare well with previous winners.
    What is unusual is that so many nominees are part of continuing 
    series.  Only "The Forge of God" and "When Gravity Fails" stand 
    on their own, and even they could be expanded.  I suppose it's 
    not surprising in a summer when every other movie has roman 
    numerals after its title.
    
    /jlr