Nobel Prize in Literature
Naguib Mahfouz (winner)

World Fantasy
Everett F Bleiler (winner)

John W. Campbell
Judith Moffett (winner)

Agatha Award
Dead Crazy by Nancy Pickard
Mischief in Maggody by Joan Hess
Paying the Piper by Sharyn McCrumb
Something Wicked by Carolyn Hart (winner)
The Widow's Club by Dorothy Cannell

Anthony Awards
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman (winner)

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Aegypt by John Crowley
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Drowning Towers by George Turner (winner)
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
Grainne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H F Saint
Replay by Ken Grimwood

Bram Stoker
Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson
Live Girls by Ray Garton
Misery by Stephen King (winner)
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon (winner)
Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn

British Fantasy Society
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell (winner)

Carnegie Medal
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond by Charlotte MacLeod
Nursery Crimes by B M Gill
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (winner)
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
A Trouble Of Fools by Linda Barnes

Guardian Fiction Prize
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (winner)

Hugo
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
The Uplift War by David Brin (winner)
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Drowning Towers by George Turner
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis (winner)

Macavity Awards
Marriage Is Murder by Nancy Pickard (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

National Book Award for Fiction
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (winner)

Nebula
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (winner)
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
The Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
The Uplift War by David Brin
Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton and Alan Moore
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick and Scott Baker
That Night by Alice McDermott and George R R Martin
World's End by T C Boyle and Lucius Shepard (winner)

Philip K Dick Award
Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul McAuley
Neon Lotus by Marc Laidlaw
Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen
Rendezvous by David Alexander Smith
Wetware by Rudy Rucker (winner)

Prometheus Award
Circuit Breaker by Melinda M Snodgrass
First Citizen by Thomas T Thomas
The Jehovah Contract by Victor Koman (winner)
The Uplift War by David Brin
Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R Dickson

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison (winner)

Rita Awards
Does Your Nose Get in the Way, Too? by Arlene Erlbach (winner)
The Gamble by LaVyrle Spencer (winner)
In Defense of Love by Kathleen Creighton (winner)
It Takes a Thief by Rita Rainville (winner)
Stolen Moments by Janice Kaiser (winner)
The Sugar Rose by Susan Carroll (winner)
Twilight Whispers by Barbara Delinsky (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
The Juniper Bush by Audrey Howard (winner)

Shamus Awards
A Tax in Blood by Benjamin Schutz (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Lost Father by Marina Warner
Nice Work by David Lodge
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (winner)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Utz by Bruce Chatwin

World Fantasy
Aegypt by John Crowley
Misery by Stephen King
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Replay by Ken Grimwood (winner)
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Bram Stoker
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards
The Manse by Lisa W Cantrell (winner)
Slob by Rex Miller

Whitbread Prize
The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer (winner)

Hugo
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
Eye for Eye [short story] by Orson Scott Card (winner)
The Forest of Time [short story] by Michael Flynn
Mother Goddess of the World by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Secret Sharer [short story] by Robert Silverberg

Nebula
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
Fugue State by John M Ford
The Secret Sharer [short story] by Robert Silverberg
The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts
The Unconquered Country [short story] by Geoff Ryman
Witness by Walter Jon Williams

World Fantasy
Best Friends by Edward Bryant
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)

Bram Stoker
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers (winner)
Pamela's Get by David J Schow
Resurrec Tech by S P Somtow

Hugo
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams
Dream Baby [short story] by Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Nebula
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin
Dream Baby [short story] by Bruce McAllister
The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short story] by Octavia E Butler
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy (winner)
Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis