World Fantasy
L Sprague de Camp (winner)
Richard Matheson (winner)
E Hoffmann Price (winner)
Jack Vance (winner)
Donald Wandrei (winner)

John W. Campbell
R A MacAvoy (winner)

British Fantasy Society
Floating Dragon by Peter Straub (winner)

Carnegie Medal
Handles by Jan Mark (winner)

Edgar Awards
La Brava by Elmore Leonard (winner)
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
Texas Station by Christopher Leach

Hugo
Millennium by John Varley
Moreta by Anne McCaffrey
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising by David Brin (winner)
Tea with the Black Dragon by R A MacAvoy

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard (winner)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica by John Calvin Batchelor
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe (winner)
Tik-Tok by John Sladek

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
When Voiha Wakes by Joy Chant (winner)

Nebula
Against Infinity by Gregory Benford
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
Startide Rising by David Brin (winner)
Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
Tea with the Black Dragon by R A MacAvoy
The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad

Newbery Medal
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (winner)

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick
Ironweed by William Kennedy

Philip K Dick Award
The Alchemists by Geary Gravel
Emergence by David R Palmer
Frontera by Lewis Shiner
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
Neuromancer by William Gibson (winner)
Them Bones by Howard Waldrop
Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh
The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson

Prometheus Award
Double Crossing by Erika Holzer
The Nagasaki Vector by L Neil Smith
Orion Shall Rise by Poul Anderson
Thendara House by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ironweed by William Kennedy (winner)

Rita Awards
The Clergyman's Daughter by Julia Jeffries (winner)
Destiny's Sweet Errand by Deirdre Mardon (winner)
Hummingbird by LaVyrle Spencer (winner)
Julie's Magic Moment by Barbara Bartholomew (winner)
Memory and Desire by Eileen Bryan (winner)
This Magic Moment by Nora Roberts (winner)
Untamed by Nora Roberts (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
A Highly Respectable Marriage by Sheila Walsh (winner)

Shamus Awards
True Detective by Max Allan Collins (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner (winner)
In Custody by Anita Desai
Small World by David Lodge

Whitbread Prize
Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope (winner)

World Fantasy
The Dragon Waiting by John M Ford (winner)
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
Tea with the Black Dragon by R A MacAvoy
The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Láinez

Hugo
Cascade Point [short story] by Timothy Zahn (winner)
Hardfought [short story] by Greg Bear
Hurricane Claude by Hilbert Schenck
In the Face of My Enemy [short story] by Joseph H Delaney
Seeking by David R Palmer

Nebula
Esterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention by Michael Bishop
The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis by Michael Bishop and George R R Martin
Hardfought [short story] by Greg Bear (winner)
Her Habiline Husband by Michael Bishop
Homefaring by Robert Silverberg
Transit by Vonda N McIntyre

World Fantasy
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
The Lurking Duck by Scott Baker
The Monkey's Bride by Michael Bishop
Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
The Red Hawk [short story] by Elizabeth A Lynn

Hugo
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blood Music [short story] by Greg Bear (winner)
The Monkey Treatment by George R R Martin
The Sidon in the Mirror by Connie Willis
Slow Birds [short story] by Ian Watson

Nebula
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blind Shemmy by Jack Dann
Blood Music [short story] by Greg Bear (winner)
Cicada Queen by Bruce Sterling
The Monkey Treatment by George R R Martin
The Sidon in the Mirror by Connie Willis
Slow Birds [short story] by Ian Watson