Ditmar Awards 1980
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1979
Australian Fiction
- Winner: Australian Gnomes, Robert Ingpen
- Displaced Person, Lee Harding
- Moon in the Ground, Antill
- One Clay Foot, Jack Wodhams
International Fiction
- Winner: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Castle Roogna, Piers Anthony
- Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
- The Flight of Dragons, Peter Dickinson
- Titan, John Varley (Analog Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 1979)
Australian Fanzine
- Winner: SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
- Bionic Rabbit, Damian Brennan
- Chunder, John Foyster
- Forerunner, Jack Herman
- The Wasffan, Roy Ferguson
Australian Fan Writer
Australian Fantasy/sf Artist
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- Winner: “Paradox as Paradigm: A Review of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson”, Jack Herman (Forerunner May 1979)
- “The Art of Xenography”, Terry Dowling (Science Fiction #3)
- “Delany: A Victim of the Great Applause”, George Turner (Yggdrasil Mar 1979)
- “The Man Who Filled the Void” and (“By Our Fruits“), Bruce Gillespie (SF Commentary #55/56 Jan/Oct 1979)
Pat Terry Award
- Winner: Douglas Adams
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