Where and When:
The Grand Palace Restaurant, New York City :
April 21, 1989
Eligibility Year:
1988
Novella
- Winner: “The Last of the Winnebagos”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Jul 1988)
- “The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter”, Lucius Shepard (Asimov's Sep 1988)
- “Surfacing”, Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Apr 1988)
- “The Limit of Vision”, John Barnes (Asimov's Jul 1988)
- “At Winter's End”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Jan 1988)
- “Trapping Run”, Harry Turtledove (Asimov's Feb 1988)
- “Waiting for the Olympians”, Frederik Pohl (Asimov's Aug 1988)
- “The Madonna of the Wolves”, Somtow Sucharitkul (Asimov's Nov 1988)
- “Gilgamesh in Uruk”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Jun 1988)
- “We Are For the Dark”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Oct 1988)
Novelette
- Winner: “Dowser”, Orson Scott Card (Asimov's Dec 1988)
- “The Hob”, Judith Moffett (Asimov's May 1988)
- “Under the Covenant Stars”, John Barnes (Asimov's Mar 1988)
- “The Function of Dream Sleep”, Harlan Ellison (Asimov's Jun 1988)
- “Nicoji”, M. Shayne Bell (Asimov's Mar 1988)
- “Glacier”, Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's Sep 1988)
- “Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus”, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's Feb 1988)
- “The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew”, James Tiptree, Jr. (Asimov's May 1988)
- “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?”, Howard Waldrop (Asimov's Aug 1988)
- “The Lunatics”, Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
Short Story
- Winner: “A Midwinter's Tale”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Dec 1988)
- “Ripples in the Dirac Sea”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Oct 1988)
- “Christmas Without Rodney”, Isaac Asimov (Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
- “Joan's World”, Ian Watson (Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
- “Ado”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Jan 1988)
- “Live from the Mars Hotel”, Allen M. Steele (Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
- “Dying in Hull”, D. Alexander Smith (Asimov's Nov 1988)
- “Stairs”, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's Sep 1988)
- “Home Front”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1988)
- “Vacuum States”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Jul 1988)