1968

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1968 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Yasunari Kawabata (winner)

1968 Best Novel Awards

Carnegie Medal
The Owl Service by Alan Garner (winner)

Hugo
The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson
Chthon by Piers Anthony
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (winner)
Thorns by Robert Silverberg

Nebula
Chthon by Piers Anthony
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delany (winner)
The Eskimo Invasion by Hayden Howard
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Thorns by Robert Silverberg

1968 Best Novella Awards

Hugo
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg
Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (winner)
The Star Pit by Samuel R Delany
Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey (winner)

Nebula
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (winner)
Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg
If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon
Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer
Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey

1968 Best Novellette Awards

Hugo
Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K Dick
Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (winner)
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison
Wizard's World by Andre Norton

Nebula
Flatlander by Larry Niven
Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (winner)
The Keys to December by Roger Zelazny
The Mortal Mountain by Roger Zelazny
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison

1968 Best Short Story Awards

Hugo
Aye, and Gomorrah... by Samuel R Delany
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (winner)
The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven

Nebula
Answering Service by Fritz Leiber
Aye, and Gomorrah... by Samuel R Delany (winner)
Baby, You Were Great by Kate Wilhelm
The Doctor by Ted Thomas
Driftglass by Samuel R Delany
Earthwoman by Reginald Bretnor