Asimov's Reader Poll 1998
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM :
May 2, 1998
Eligibility Year: 1997
Eligibility Year: 1997
Novella
- Winner: “…Where Angels Fear to Tread”, Allen Steele (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
- “Messengers of Chaos”, G. David Nordley (Asimov's Jan 1997)
- “In the Furnace of the Night”, James Sarafin (Asimov's May 1997)
- “Quinn's Deal”, L. Timmel Duchamp (Asimov's Apr 1997)
- “The Golden Keeper”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
- “Izzy and the Father of Terror”, Eliot Fintushel (Asimov's Jul 1997)
Novelette
- Winner: “We Will Drink a Fish Together...”, Bill Johnson (Asimov's May 1997)
- (tie): “Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 1997)
- (tie): “The Undiscovered”, William Sanders (Asimov's Mar 1997)
- “Lethe”, Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Sep 1997)
- “The Flag on Gorbachev Crater”, Charles L. Harness (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- “One Good Juror”, Mary Rosenblum & James Sarafin (Asimov's Feb 1997)
- “Newsletter”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 1997)
- “Guest Law”, John C. Wright (Asimov's Jul 1997)
- (tie): “House of Dreams”, Michael F. Flynn (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
- (tie): “On the Ice Islands”, Gregory Feeley (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
- “Blood and Judgment”, John Brunner (Asimov's Apr 1997)
- “Death Do Us Part”, Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Aug 1997)
Short Story
- Winner: “The 43 Antarean Dynasties”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Dec 1997)
- “Payback”, Sonia Orin Lyris (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jan 1997)
- (tie): “The Holy Stomper vs. the Alien Barrel of Death”, R. Neube (Asimov's Jul 1997)
- (tie): “The Nostalginauts”, S. N. Dyer (Asimov's Mar 1997)
- “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- (tie): “After I Killed Her”, Tanith Lee (Asimov's Jul 1997)
- (tie): “The Language of Ghosts”, Michael H. Payne (Asimov's Aug 1997)
- “Zemlya”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Jan 1997)
- (tie): “Black Canoes”, Tony Daniel (Asimov's Jul 1997)
- (tie): “Beluthahatchie”, Andy Duncan (Asimov's Mar 1997)
- (tie): “Never Despair”, Jack McDevitt (Asimov's Apr 1997)
- (tie): “Killed in the Ratings”, Daniel Marcus (Asimov's Jan 1997)
- (tie): “Winter Fire”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Aug 1997)
- “Ouroboros”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Jan 1997)
Poem
- Winner: “why goldfish shouldn't use power tools”, Laurel Winter (Asimov's Dec 1997)
- “Report to Moctezuma”, Steven Utley (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- “In the Star's Mouth”, W. Gregory Stewart (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
- “A Reflection on the Apollo Moon Missions”, Robert Frazier (Asimov's Sep 1997)
- “System Crash”, Peg Healy (Asimov's Feb 1997)
- “Curse of Medusa's Husband”, Bruce Boston (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- “Our Brave Terranaut”, Steven Utley (Asimov's Apr 1997)
- “17 Questions the Judges at Nuremberg Forgot to Ask”, William John Watkins (Asimov's Feb 1997)
- “On Distance”, Sandra J. Lindow (Asimov's Jun 1997)
- “Why the Mummy Kills”, William John Watkins (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
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