Where and When: 
Noreascon Three,  
Boston MA : 
September 1, 1989
Eligibility Year: 
1988
 
Cover Illustration, Hardback
-  Winner: Don Maitz for Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh (Warner)
 
-  Michael Whelan for Catspaw by Joan Vinge (Warner)
 
-  Will Cormier for Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (Bantam Spectra)
 
-  Mark Harrison for The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart (Doubleday Foundation)
 
-  Thomas Canty for The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson (Morrow)
 
  
 
Cover Illustration, Paperback
-  Winner: Jody Lee for The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey (DAW)
 
-  Dean Morrissey for Moon Dreams by Brad Strickland (NAL Signet)
 
-  Bob Eggleton for Necroscope by Brian Lumley (Tor)
 
-  Richard Bober for The Storyteller and the Jann by Stephen Goldin (Bantam Spectra)
 
-  Steve Hickman for THE VANG: The Military Form by Christopher B. Rowley (Ballantine Del Rey)
 
  
 
Cover Illustration, Magazine
  
 
Interior Illustration
-  Winner: Alan Lee for Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (Gollancz)
 
-  Lela Dowling for Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist (Hill House)
 
-  Bob Walters for “Father to the Man” by Timothy Robert Sullivan (Asimov's Oct 1988)
 
-  Janet Aulisio for “Long Song” by J. Brian Clarke (Analog Aug 1988)
 
-  Larry Elmore for Rose of the Prophet, Volume 1: The Will of the Wanderer by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Bantam Spectra)