Ian Watson
Awards Summary
Major Awards: 2
Other Awards: 2
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 59
Times Served as Judge: 2
— Major Awards —
Hugo Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(2 nominations)
1984:
“Slow Birds” (F&SF Jun 1983)
— novelette — nomination
1979:
“The Very Slow Time Machine” (Anticipations)
— short story — nomination
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(2 nominations)
1984:
“Slow Birds” (F&SF Jun 1983)
— novelette — nomination
1976:
The Embedding (Scribner's)
— novel — nomination
Arthur C. Clarke Award — for SF novel published in the UK; juried
(1 nomination)
1989:
Whores of Babylon (Grafton)
— shortlist
British SF Association Awards — for SF works published in the UK, voted by British SF Association members
(7 nominations; 2 wins)
2010:
“The Beloved Time of Their Lives” (by IW & Roberto Quaglia) (The Beloved of My Beloved)
— short fiction — winner
1993:
“The Coming of Vertumnus” (Interzone #56 Feb 1992)
— short fiction — nomination
1987:
“Jingling Geordie's Hole” (Interzone #17 Autumn 1986)
— short story — nomination
1986:
“The People on the Precipice” (Interzone #13 Autumn 1985)
— short fiction — nomination
1982:
“A Cage for Death” (Omni Jan 1981)
— short fiction — nomination
1981:
“The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080”
— short fiction — nomination
1978:
The Jonah Kit
— winner
John W. Campbell Memorial Award — for SF novel published in US or UK; juried
(1 nomination)
1974:
The Embedding (Scribner's)
— second place (tie)
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award — for SF short fiction in English; juried
(1 nomination)
2005:
“An Appeal to Adolf” (Conqueror Fantastic)
— shortlist
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(24 nominations)
2007:
The Butterflies of Memory (PS Publishing)
— collection — 23rd place
2003:
“A Speaker for the Wooden Sea” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
— novella — 24th place
1995:
The Coming of Vertumnus and Other Stories (Gollancz)
— collection — 16th place
1990:
“Nanoware Time” (Asimov's Jun 1989)
— novella — 23rd place
1990:
Salvage Rites and Other Stories (Gollancz)
— collection — 20th place (tie)
1989:
“The Flies of Memory” (Asimov's Sep 1988)
— novella — 18th place
1988:
“The Moon and Michelangelo” (Asimov's Oct 1987)
— novelette — 15th place
1988:
Evil Water and Other Stories (Gollancz)
— collection — 17th place
1987:
“Cold Light” (F&SF Apr 1986)
— novelette — 21st place
1987:
“Windows” (Asimov's Dec 1986)
— novelette — 13th place
1987:
Afterlives: Stories About Life After Death (Pamela Sargent & IW, eds.) (Vintage)
— anthology — 5th place
1986:
The Book of Ian Watson (Mark V. Ziesing)
— collection — 20th place
1986:
Slow Birds and Other Stories (Gollancz)
— collection — 8th place
1985:
“We Remember Babylon” (Habitats)
— novelette — 23rd place
1984:
“The Black Current” (F&SF Nov 1983)
— novelette — 8th place (tie)
1984:
“Slow Birds” (F&SF Jun 1983)
— novelette — 3rd place
1984:
Changes (Michael Bishop & IW, eds.) (Ace)
— anthology — 8th place
1982:
Deathhunter (Gollancz)
— sf novel — 26th place
1981:
The Gardens of Delight (Gollancz)
— sf novel — 19th place (tie)
1981:
“The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080” (F&SF Oct 1980)
— short story — 9th place
1980:
“The Rooms of Paradise” (Rooms of Paradise)
— short story — 17th place
1980:
The Very Slow Time Machine (Gollancz)
— single author collection — 15th place
1979:
“The Very Slow Time Machine” (Anticipations)
— short story — 11th place
1978:
The Martian Inca (Gollancz; Scribners)
— sf novel — 21st place
— Other Awards —
Asimov's Reader Poll — for stories, poems, and art published by Asimov's, polled by readers
(7 nominations)
2004:
“Memory Man” (Asimov's Jul 2003)
— poem — 5th place
2003:
“A Speaker for the Wooden Sea” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
— novella — 8th place
2002:
“Unreal Messages?” (Asimov's Sep 2001)
— poem — 9th place (tie)
1992:
“The Odor of Cocktail Cigarettes” (Asimov's Apr 1991)
— short story — 7th place
1989:
“Joan's World” (Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
— short story — 4th place
1988:
“The Moon and Michelangelo” (Asimov's Oct 1987)
— novelette — 4th place (tie)
1987:
“Windows” (Asimov's Dec 1986)
— novelette — 2nd place
Interzone Readers Poll — for stories published in Interzone magazine, polled by readers
(7 nominations; 1 win)
2002:
“Hijack Holiday” (Interzone #166 Apr 2001)
— fiction — 2nd place (tie)
1998:
“Secrets” (Interzone #124 Oct 1997)
— fiction — 4th place (tie)
1993:
“The Coming of Vertumnus” (Interzone #56 Feb 1992)
— fiction — 8th place (tie)
1993:
“Swimming with the Salmon” (Interzone #63 Sep 1992)
— fiction — 8th place (tie)
1989:
— all-time best sf author — 41st place (tie)
1987:
“The People on the Precipice” (Interzone #13 Autumn 1985)
— fiction — winner
1987:
“When the Timegate Failed” (Interzone #14 Winter 1985/1986)
— fiction — 5th place
Prix Apollo — for novel published in French; suspended 1991
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1975:
The Embedding
— winner
Rhysling Awards — for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(1 nomination)
2002:
“True Love” (Weird Tales Sum 2001)
— short poem — 3rd place
Seiun Awards — for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(4 nominations)
2011:
“The Beloved Time of Their Lives” (by IW & Roberto Quaglia)
— translated story — nomination
2005:
The Embedding
— translated novel — nomination
2002:
Orgasmachine
— translated novel — nomination
1995:
The Book of the River
— foreign novel — nomination
Sidewise Awards — for works of alternate history, juried
(1 nomination)
2014:
“Blair's War” (Asimov's Jul 2013)
— short form — nomination
— As Judge —
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