Asimov's Reader Poll 1990
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco CA :
April 28, 1990
Eligibility Year: 1989
Eligibility Year: 1989
Novella
- Winner: “A Touch of Lavender”, Megan Lindholm (Asimov's Nov 1989)
- “Pageant Wagon”, Orson Scott Card (Asimov's Aug 1989)
- “Tiny Tango”, Judith Moffett (Asimov's Feb 1989)
- “The True Nature of Shangri-La”, Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's Dec 1989)
- “The Father of Stones”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Sep 1989)
- “Red Planet Blues”, Allen Steele (Asimov's Sep 1989)
- “The Egg”, Steven Popkes (Asimov's Jan 1989)
- “Time-Out”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Jul 1989)
- “In Another Country”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Mar 1989)
- “Destroyer of Worlds”, Charles Sheffield (Asimov's Feb 1989)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Loch Moose Monster”, Janet Kagan (Asimov's Mar 1989)
- “The Return of the Kangaroo Rex”, Janet Kagan (Asimov's Oct 1989)
- “Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Jun 1989)
- “Dogwalker”, Orson Scott Card (Asimov's Nov 1989)
- “The Price of Oranges”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Apr 1989)
- “Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man”, Megan Lindholm (Asimov's Jan 1989)
- “Surrender”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Aug 1989)
- (tie): “Not Without Honor”, Judith Moffett (Asimov's May 1989)
- “Fast Cars”, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Oct 1989)
- “Ride to Live, Live to Ride”, Allen Steele (Asimov's Nov 1989)
Short Story
- Winner: “Windwagon Smith and the Martians”, Lawrence Watt-Evans (Asimov's Apr 1989)
- “Dilemma”, Connie Willis (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- “Zelle's Thursday”, Tanith Lee (Asimov's Oct 1989)
- “Boobs”, Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's Jul 1989)
- “Computer Friendly”, Eileen Gunn (Asimov's Jun 1989)
- “The Color of Grass, The Color of Blood”, R. V. Branham (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- “The Dragon Line”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Jun 1989)
- “The Few, the Proud”, Harlan Ellison (Asimov's Mar 1989)
- “The Goat Man”, Peni R. Griffin (Asimov's May 1989)
- “Iridescence”, Dean Whitlock (Asimov's Jan 1989)
Poem
- Winner: “Old Robots Are the Worst”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Oct 1989)
- “When I See Rigel's Light Sleeting Through the Side of Heinlein Station”, Lawrence Watt-Evans (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- (tie): “The Curse of the Sasquatch's Wife”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Aug 1989)
- (tie): “Three Evocations of the Mutant Rain Forest”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- (tie): “Toads”, Jane Yolen (Asimov's Jun 1989)
- “First Contact”, Roger Dutcher (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- “Afterlife”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's mid-Dec 1989)
- “The Curse of the Ghost's Wife”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Jan 1989)
- “Balanced Scales”, Jack C. Haldeman II (Asimov's Nov 1989)
- “Galileo's Blindness”, Mary A. Turzillo (Asimov's Jul 1989)
- “Life as Candyland”, Scott Edelman (Asimov's Nov 1989)
- “Turning Into Animals”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Apr 1989)
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