Where and When: 
Westercon,  
San Diego CA : 
July 3, 1998
Eligibility Year: 
1997
 
Sf Novel
-  Winner: The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra)
-  Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager)
-  Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
-  Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Walter M. Miller, Jr., with Terry Bisson (Orbit; Bantam)
-  Finity's End, C. J. Cherryh (Warner)
-  / Slant, Greg Bear (Legend; Tor)
-  Diaspora, Greg Egan (Millennium; HarperPrism)
-  Fool's War, Sarah Zettel (Warner Aspect)
-  Titan, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism)
-  3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey)
-  The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton (Macmillan; Warner Aspect)
-  God's Fires, Patricia Anthony (Ace)
-  Corrupting Dr. Nice, John Kessel (Tor)
-  Destiny's Road, Larry Niven (Tor)
-  Eternity Road, Jack McDevitt (HarperPrism)
-  The Black Sun, Jack Williamson (Tor)
-  The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon)
-  Glimmering, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism)
-  Secret Passages, Paul Preuss (Tor)
-  The Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson (Tor)
-  Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
-  The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh (Picador; Ravi Dayal 1995)
-  (tie): Dreaming Metal, Melissa Scott (Tor)
-  (tie): Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Charles Sheffield (Bantam Spectra)
-  The Dazzle of Day, Molly Gloss (Tor)
-  Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon (Baen)
-  Einstein's Bridge, John Cramer (Avon)
-  Deception Well, Linda Nagata (Bantam Spectra)
  
 
Fantasy Novel
-  Winner: Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers (Tor)
-  Jack Faust, Michael Swanwick (Avon)
-  City on Fire, Walter Jon Williams (HarperPrism)
-  The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant)
-  Assassin's Quest, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra)
-  The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre (Pocket)
-  Freedom & Necessity, Steven Brust & Emma Bull (Tor)
-  Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor)
-  The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
-  Winter Tides, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
-  The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (Knopf)
-  Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow)
-  Dogland, Will Shetterly (Tor)
-  King's Dragon, Kate Elliott (DAW)
-  Lord of the Isles, David Drake (Tor)
-  Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, Robert Holdstock (Roc)
-  Running with the Demon, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey)
-  The Mines of Behemoth, Michael Shea (Baen)
-  My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due (HarperCollins)
-  The Night Watch, Sean Stewart (Ace)
-  The Stars Dispose, Michaela Roessner (Tor)
-  The Blackgod, J. Gregory Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey)
  
 
First Novel
-  Winner: The Great Wheel, Ian R. MacLeod (Harcourt Brace)
-  Expendable, James Alan Gardner (AvoNova)
-  Black Wine, Candas Jane Dorsey (Tor)
-  An Exchange of Hostages, Susan R. Matthews (AvoNova)
-  Mars Underground, William K. Hartmann (Tor)
-  The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
-  The Merro Tree, Katie Waitman (Ballantine Del Rey)
-  Lightpaths, Howard V. Hendrix (Ace)
-  A Thousand Words for Stranger, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
-  Waking Beauty, Paul Witcover (HarperPrism)
-  The Troika, Stepan Chapman (The Ministry of Whimsy Press)
-  The Stone Prince, Fiona Patton (DAW)
-  Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
-  Iron Dawn, Matthew Woodring Stover (Roc)
-  The Seventh Heart, Marina Fitch (Ace)
-  The Seraphim Rising, Elisabeth DeVos (Roc)
  
 
Novella
-  Winner: “…Where Angels Fear to Tread”, Allen Steele (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
-  “Giant Bones”, Peter S. Beagle (Giant Bones)
-  “The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich”, Fritz Leiber (Omni Online Feb 1996; Tor)
-  “Everything's Eventual”, Stephen King (F&SF Oct/Nov 1997)
-  “Marrow”, Robert Reed (Science Fiction Age Jul 1997)
-  “The Golden Keeper”, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
-  The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter, S. P. Somtow (Atheneum)
-  “Ecopoiesis”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Science Fiction Age May 1997)
-  “A Cold Dry Cradle”, Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre (Science Fiction Age Nov 1997)
-  “Messengers of Chaos”, G. David Nordley (Asimov's Jan 1997)
-  “Quinn's Deal”, L. Timmel Duchamp (Asimov's Apr 1997)
-  “The Black Blood of the Dead”, Brian Stableford (Interzone #103 Jan, #104 Feb 1997)
-  “Coppola's Dracula”, Kim Newman (The Mammoth Book of Dracula)
-  “In the Furnace of the Night”, James Sarafin (Asimov's May 1997)
-  The Veil of Snows, Mark Helprin (Viking Ariel)
-  “The Funeral March of the Marionettes”, Adam-Troy Castro (F&SF Jul 1997)
-  Briar Rose, Robert Coover (Grove/Atlantic)
-  “Izzy and the Father of Terror”, Eliot Fintushel (Asimov's Jul 1997)
  
 
Novelette
-  Winner: “Newsletter”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 1997)
-  “Moon Six”, Stephen Baxter (Science Fiction Age Mar 1997)
-  “Lethe”, Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Sep 1997)
-  “Galaxia”, Gregory Benford (Science Fiction Age Jul 1997)
-  “Reasons to be Cheerful”, Greg Egan (Interzone #118 Apr 1997)
-  “Julie's Unicorn”, Peter S. Beagle (The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and other odd acquaintances)
-  “Mother Grasshopper”, Michael Swanwick (A Geography of Unknown Lands)
-  “We Will Drink a Fish Together...”, Bill Johnson (Asimov's May 1997)
-  “The Pipes of Pan”, Brian Stableford (F&SF Jun 1997)
-  “Escape Route”, Peter F. Hamilton (Interzone #121 Jul 1997)
-  “Echoes”, Alan Brennert (F&SF May 1997)
-  “Beauty in the Night”, Robert Silverberg (Science Fiction Age Sep 1997)
-  “Blood and Judgment”, John Brunner (Asimov's Apr 1997)
-  “Second Skin”, Paul J. McAuley (Asimov's Apr 1997)
-  “Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 1997)
-  “London Bone”, Michael Moorcock (New Worlds)
-  “The Dragons of Springplace”, Robert Reed (F&SF Feb 1997)
-  “El Castillo de la Perseverancia”, Howard Waldrop (Asimov's Dec 1997)
-  “After Kerry”, Ian McDonald (Asimov's Mar 1997)
-  “On the Ice Islands”, Gregory Feeley (Asimov's Oct/Nov 1997)
-  “The Undiscovered”, William Sanders (Asimov's Mar 1997)
-  “Quinn's Way”, Dale Bailey (F&SF Feb 1997)
-  “The Botanist”, Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's Aug 1997)
-  “Crossing Chao Meng Fu”, G. David Nordley (Analog Dec 1997)
-  “Residuals”, Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman (Asimov's Jun 1997)
  
 
Short Story
-  Winner: “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Jun 1997)
-  “Scientifiction”, Howard Waldrop (Going Home Again; Asimov's Mar 1998)
-  “Zemlya”, Stephen Baxter (Asimov's Jan 1997)
-  “The 43 Antarean Dynasties”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Dec 1997)
-  “Get a Grip”, Paul Park (Omni Online Mar 1997; F&SF Dec 1997)
-  “The Wisdom of Old Earth”, Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Dec 1997)
-  “On the Inside”, Robert Silverberg (Science Fiction Age Nov 1997)
-  “No Planets Strike”, Gene Wolfe (F&SF Jan 1997)
-  “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion”, Nancy Kress (Asimov's Jan 1997)
-  “Standing Room Only”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's Aug 1997)
-  “The Hand You're Dealt”, Robert J. Sawyer (Free Space)
-  “Glass Earth Inc.”, Stephen Baxter (Odyssey Nov/Dec 1997)
-  “Winter Fire”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Aug 1997)
-  “Gulliver at Home”, John Kessel (The Pure Product)
-  “An Office Romance”, Terry Bisson (Playboy Feb 1997)
-  “The Heart of Whitenesse”, Howard Waldrop (New Worlds)
-  “Flash Company”, Gene Wolfe (The Horns of Elfland)
-  “Orphanogenesis”, Greg Egan (Interzone #123 Sep 1997)
-  “Booming Ice”, Robert Reed (Science Fiction Age Jan 1997)
  
 
Collection
-  Winner: Slippage, Harlan Ellison (Mark V. Ziesing; Houghton Mifflin)
-  His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth, C. M. Kornbluth (NESFA Press)
-  Axiomatic, Greg Egan (Millennium; HarperPrism)
-  Virtual Unrealities, Alfred Bester (Vintage)
-  Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, James Patrick Kelly (Golden Gryphon Press)
-  Thunder and Roses: Volume IV: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon, edited by Paul Williams (North Atlantic Books)
-  Giant Bones, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
-  Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager)
-  Going Home Again, Howard Waldrop (Eidolon Publications)
-  The Pure Product, John Kessel (Tor)
-  Barnacle Bill the Spacer and other stories, Lucius Shepard (Orion)
-  The Forest of Time and Other Stories, Michael Flynn (Tor)
-  A Geography of Unknown Lands, Michael Swanwick (Tigereyes Press)
-  Back in the USSA, Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman (Mark V. Ziesing)
-  The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and other odd acquaintances, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
-  Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner (Fedogan & Bremer)
-  (tie): The Arbitrary Placement of Walls, Martha Soukup (DreamHaven)
-  (tie): Voyages by Starlight, Ian R. MacLeod (Arkham House)
-  Eating Memories, Patricia Anthony (First Books/Old Earth Books)
-  Fractal Paisleys, Paul Di Filippo (Four Walls Eight Windows)
-  Fabulous Harbours, Michael Moorcock (Millennium; Avon)
  
 
Anthology
-  Winner: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
-  The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
-  Year's Best SF 2, David G. Hartwell, ed. (HarperPrism)
-  The Science Fiction Century, David G. Hartwell, ed. (Tor)
-  Millennium (US title: Revelations), Douglas E. Winter, ed. (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism)
-  The Best of Interzone, David Pringle, ed. (HarperCollins Voyager; St. Martin's)
-  Black Swan, White Raven, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Avon)
-  The Horns of Elfland, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman & Donald G. Keller, eds. (Roc)
-  Nebula Awards 31, Pamela Sargent, ed. (Harcourt Brace)
-  New Worlds, David Garnett, ed. (White Wolf)
-  Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds. (White Wolf)
-  Love in Vein II, Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (HarperPrism)
-  The New Hugo Winners Volume IV, Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Baen)
-  Dying For It, Gardner Dozois, ed. (HarperPrism)
-  Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures, Orson Scott Card & Keith Ferrell, eds. (DAW)
-  Modern Classics of Fantasy, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
-  A Century of Science Fiction, 1950-1959, Robert Silverberg, ed. (MJF)
  
 
Nonfiction
-  Winner: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. (Orbit; St. Martin's)
-  Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science, and Other Matters, Robert Silverberg (Underwood Books)
-  Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, Revised Edition, James Gunn (Scarecrow Press)
-  Outposts: Literatures of Milieux, Algis Budrys (Borgo Press)
-  St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, David Pringle, ed. (St. James Press)
-  Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nina Auerbach & David J. Skal, eds. (Norton)
-  Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, Brooks Landon (Twayne)
-  Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry, Jack Zipes (Routledge)
-  A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosopy of H.P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi (Borgo Press)
-  Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index: 1992-1995, Hal W. Hall, ed. (Libraries Unlimited)
  
 
Art Book
-  Winner: Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art, Vincent Di Fate (Penguin Studio)
-  Spectrum 4: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner eds., with Jim Loehr (Underwood Books)
-  Something in My Eye: Excursions into Fear, Michael Whelan; Arnie Fenner & Cathy Fenner eds. (Mark V. Ziesing)
-  "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Rick Berry (Underwood Books)
-  www HRGiger com, H. R. Giger (Taschen)
-  The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King, illustrated by Dave McKean (Donald M. Grant)
-  (tie): A Treasury of Great Children's Book Illustrators, Susan E. Meyer (Harry N. Abrams)
-  (tie): The Veil of Snows, Mark Helprin, illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (Viking Ariel)
  
 
 
 
Magazine
-  Winner: Asimov's
-  F&SF
-  Science Fiction Age
-  Analog
-  Interzone
-  Realms of Fantasy
-  The New York Review of Science Fiction
-  Science Fiction Chronicle
  
 
Publisher
-  Winner: Tor/St. Martin's
  
 
Book Publisher
-  Bantam/Dell
-  HarperCollins (US)
-  Putnam/Ace
-  Random House/Del Rey
-  Baen
-  Avon/Morrow
-  DAW
-  Penguin/Roc
-  Warner
-  White Wolf
-  Mark V. Ziesing
-  NESFA Press