Hugo Awards 1991
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Chicon V,
Chicago IL :
August 29, 1991
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September 2, 1991
Eligibility Year: 1990
Associated Awards: John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Worldcon Special Convention Award (also listed below)
Eligibility Year: 1990
Associated Awards: John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Worldcon Special Convention Award (also listed below)
Novel
- Winner: The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- Earth, David Brin (Bantam Spectra)
- The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Doubleday Foundation)
- Queen of Angels, Greg Bear (Warner Questar)
- The Quiet Pools, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Ace)
Novella
- Winner: “The Hemingway Hoax”, Joe Haldeman (Asimov's Apr 1990)
- “Bones”, Pat Murphy (Asimov's May 1990)
- Bully!, Mike Resnick (Axolotl)
- “Fool to Believe”, Pat Cadigan (Asimov's Feb 1990)
- A Short, Sharp Shock, Kim Stanley Robinson (Mark V. Ziesing; Asimov's Nov 1990)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Manamouki”, Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jul 1990)
- “A Braver Thing”, Charles Sheffield (Asimov's Feb 1990)
- “The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk”, Dafydd ab Hugh (Asimov's Aug 1990)
- “Over the Long Haul”, Martha Soukup (Amazing Stories Mar 1990)
- “Tower of Babylon”, Ted Chiang (Omni Nov 1990)
Short Story
- Winner: “Bears Discover Fire”, Terry Bisson (Asimov's Aug 1990)
- “Cibola”, Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec 1990)
- “Godspeed”, Charles Sheffield (Analog Jul 1990)
- “The Utility Man”, Robert Reed (Asimov's Nov 1990)
- “VRM-547”, W. R. Thompson (Analog Feb 1990)
Nonfiction Book
- Winner: How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, Orson Scott Card (Writer's Digest Books)
- Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's, Brian W. Aldiss (Avernus; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Hollywood Gothic, David J. Skal (Norton)
- Science Fiction in the Real World, Norman Spinrad (Southern Illinois University Press)
- Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith, eds. (Writer's Notebook Press)
Dramatic Presentation
- Winner: Edward Scissorhands
- Back to the Future III
- Ghost
- Total Recall
- The Witches
Professional Editor
Professional Artist
Semi-prozine
- Winner: Locus, Charles N. Brown, ed.
- Interzone, David Pringle, ed.
- The New York Review of Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer & Gordon Van Gelder, eds.
- Quantum, D. Douglas Fratz, ed. (formerly Thrust)
- Science Fiction Chronicle, Andrew Porter, ed.
Fanzine
- Winner: Lan's Lantern, George "Lan" Laskowski, ed.
- File 770, Mike Glyer, ed.
- FOSFAX, Janice Moore & Timothy Lane, eds.
- Mainstream, Jerry Kaufman & Suzanne Tompkins, eds.
- Mimosa, Dick & Nicki Lynch, ed.
Fan Writer
Fan Artist
— Associated Awards —
Winner
Finalists
Special Award
- Winner: Elst Weinstein, for starting up and continuing the Hogus
- Winner: Andrew I. Porter, for many years of excellence in editing Science Fiction Chronicle
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