Beachcomber
Carl L Biemiller
John Coleman Burroughs
Harry Carmichael
Forrest Carter
Rupert Croft-Cooke
J G Farrell
James T Farrell
Malcolm Hulke
Joseph Kessel
Alexander Key
Phyllis Matthewman
Richard C Meredith
Nicholas Monsarrat
Breece D'J Pancake
Virgilio Pinera
Jean Rhys
Jean Stafford
Margaret Summerton
Jeff Sutton
Immanuel Velikovsky
Mika Waltari
Gertrude Chandler Warner

World Fantasy
Jorge Luis Borges (winner)
Manly Wade Wellman
John Myers Myers
H Warner Munn
L Sprague de Camp
John Collier

Nobel Prize in Literature
Odysseus Elytis (winner)

John W. Campbell
Stephen Donaldson (winner)

British Fantasy Society
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (winner)

Hugo
Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre (winner)
The Kesrith by C J Cherryh
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Darkness Visible by William Golding (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky
And Having Writ... by Donald R Benson (winner)
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (winner)

Nebula
Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre (winner)
Kalki by Gore Vidal
The Kesrith by C J Cherryh
Strangers by Gardner Dozois

Prometheus Award
Wheels within Wheels by F Paul Wilson (winner)

The Booker Prize
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
Joseph by Julian Rathbone
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (winner)
Praxis by Fay Weldon

Whitbread Prize
The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston (winner)

World Fantasy
The Black Castle by Les Daniels
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (winner)
Night's Master by Tanith Lee
The Sound of Midnight by Charles L Grant
The Stand by Stephen King

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (winner)

World Fantasy
Heroes and Horrors by Fritz Leiber
Night Shift by Stephen King
Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner
The Redward Edward Papers by Avram Davidson

Hugo
Enemies of the System by Brian Aldiss
Fireship by Joan D Vinge
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (winner)
Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe
The Watched by Christopher Priest

Nebula
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (winner)
Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe

Hugo
The Barbie Murders by John Varley
Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing
Hunter's Moon by Poul Anderson (winner)
The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M Disch
Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card

Nebula
Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing
A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye by Charles L Grant (winner)
Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card

Hugo
Cassandra by C J Cherryh (winner)
Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison
Stone by Edward Bryant
The Very Slow Time Machine by Ian Watson
View from a Height by Joan D Vinge

Nebula
Cassandra by C J Cherryh
A Quiet Revolution for Death by Jack Dann
Stone by Edward Bryant (winner)

World Fantasy
Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose by Charles L Grant
The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven
Naples by Avram Davidson
Sleep Well of Nights by Avram Davidson
Within the Walls of Tyre by Michael Bishop