Free Speculative Fiction Online: Awards 1953-1989

Awards 1953-1989

Eric Frank Russell: Allamagoosa (Analog (Astounding), May 1955)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1955.
Notes:

Murray Leinster: Exploration Team [vt Combat Team] (Analog (Astounding), March 1956)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo for Best Novelette 1956.
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Fritz Leiber: The Big Time (Galaxy, March 1958)
Hugo for Best Novel 1958.
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Manly Wade Wellman: Nine Yards of Other Cloth (F & SF, November 1958)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1959.
Notes:

Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle For Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
Hugo for Best Novel 1961.
Notes:
A radio drama adaptation of the classic novel.

In the public domain.

Murray Leinster: The Pirates of Zan [vt The Pirates of Ersatz] (Analog (Astounding), February 1959)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1960.
Notes:

Ralph Williams: Cat and Mouse (Analog (Astounding), June 1959)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1960.
Notes:

Randall Garrett & Laurence M. Janifer: That Sweet Little Old Lady [vt Brain Twister] (Analog (Astounding), September 1959)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1960.
Notes:

Theodore Sturgeon: The Man Who Lost the Sea (F & SF, October 1959)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1960.
Notes:

Harry Harrison: Deathworld (Analog (Astounding), January 1960)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1961.
Notes:

Pauline Ashwell: The Lost Kafoozalum (Analog, October 1960)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1961.
Notes:

Lloyd Biggle, Jr.: Monument (Analog, June 1961)
A sample from this anthology.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
Notes:

Mack Reynolds: Status Quo (Analog, August 1961)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
Notes:

James H. Schmitz: Lion Loose (Analog, October 1961)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1962.
Notes:

H. Beam Piper: Little Fuzzy (Avon, 1962)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1963.
Notes:

Rick Raphael: Code Three (Analog, February 1963)
Available as part of this anthology. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1964.
Notes:

Keith Laumer: A Plague of Demons (Berkley, 1965)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1965.
Notes:

James H. Schmitz: Planet of Forgetting [vt Forget It] (Galaxy, February 1965)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1965.
Notes:

James H. Schmitz: Balanced Ecology (Analog, March 1965)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1965.
Notes:

James H. Schmitz: Goblin Night (Analog, April 1965)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1965.
Notes:

James H. Schmitz: The Witches of Karres (Chilton, 1966)
Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1967.
Notes:

Fred Saberhagen: Mr. Jester (If, January 1966)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1967.
Notes:

Bob Shaw: Light of Other Days (Analog, August 1966)
Available as part of this magazine. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1967.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1966.
Notes:

Recommended!

Keith Laumer: Once There Was a Giant (F & SF, November 1968)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1968.
Notes:

Gene Wolfe: The Island of Doctor Death and other Stories (Orbit Anthology #7, 1970)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
Notes:
Mistakenly announced as Nebula winner - In fact no award was given for Best Short Story in 1970.

Keith Laumer: In the Queue (Orbit Anthology #7, 1970)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1971.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
Notes:

Harry Harrison: By the Falls (If, January 1970)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1970.
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Robert Silverberg: When We Went to See the End of the World (Universe Anthology #2, 1972)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1973.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1972.
Notes:

Vonda McIntyre: Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand (Analog, October 1973)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1974.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1973.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Craig Strete: Time Deer (Red Planet Earth #4, 1974)
Available as part of this collection. Available as part of this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1975.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Robert Silverberg: Schwartz Between the Galaxies (Stellar #1, 1974)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1975.
Notes:

Jerry Pournelle: Extreme Prejudice (Analog, July 1974)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1975.
Notes:

Craig Strete: The Bleeding Man (Galaxy, December 1974)
Available as part of this collection. Available as part of this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1975.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

David Drake: The Barrow Troll (Whispers #8, December 1975)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
Notes:

Howard Waldrop: Mary Margaret Road-Grader (Orbit Anthology #18, 1976)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
Notes:

Jake Saunders: Back to the Stone Age (Lone Star Universe Anthology, 1976)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1976.
Notes:

Edward Bryant: Particle Theory (Analog, February 1977)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1977.
Notes:

Joan D. Vinge: View from a Height (Analog, June 1978)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1979.
Notes:

Michael Swanwick: Ginungagap (TriQuarterly #49, Fall 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
Notes:

Michael Swanwick: The Feast of Saint Janis (New Dimensions Anthology #11, 1980)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1980.
Notes:

Jeff Duntemann: Guardian (Asimov's, September 1980)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1981.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Kim Stanley Robinson: Venice Drowned (Universe Anthology #11, 1981)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1981.
Notes:

Poul Anderson: The Saturn Game (Analog, February 1981)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo for Best Novella 1982.
Nebula for Best Novella 1981.
Notes:

Connie Willis: Fire Watch (Asimov's, February 1982)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1983.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1982.
Notes:

Recommended!

Thomas Disch: Understanding Human Behavior (F & SF, February 1982)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1982.
Notes:

Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants (Analog, June 1982)
A sample from this collection. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1983.
Notes:

Lewis Shiner: Frontera (Baen, 1983)
Alternate link.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novel 1984.
Notes:
'A surreal and riveting ode to the sixties.'

Kim Stanley Robinson: Black Air (F & SF, March 1983)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1983.
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella 1984.
Notes:

Jack McDevitt: Cryptic (Asimov's, April 1983)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1983.
Notes:

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Lucky Strike (Universe Anthology #14, 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Notes:
Finished below "No Award" in the Hugo voting.

Recommended!

David Brin: The Crystal Spheres (Analog, January 1984)
Hugo for Best Short Story 1985.
Notes:

Kim Stanley Robinson: Ridge Running (F & SF, January 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Notes:

Octavia E. Butler: Bloodchild (Asimov's, June 1984)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1985.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1984.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Michael Swanwick: Trojan Horse (Omni, December 1984)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Notes:

Harlan Ellison: Paladin of the Lost Hour (Universe Anthology #15, 1985)
Hugo for Best Novelette 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Joe Haldeman: More Than the Sum of His Parts (Playboy, May 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Notes:

Lucius Shepard: The Jaguar Hunter (F & SF, May 1985)
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1985.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Notes:

Recommended!

John Crowley: Snow (Omni, November 1985)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1986.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1985.
Notes:

David Brin: Thor Meets Captain America (F & SF, July 1986)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1987.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu (Asimov's, September 1986)
Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1987.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 1986.
Notes:
A serialized podcast. Part 2. Part 3.

Pat Murphy: Rachel in Love (Asimov's, April 1987)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1987.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Falling Free (Analog, December 1987)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 1989.
Nebula for Best Novel 1988.
Notes:

David Brin: The Giving Plague (Interzone #23, Spring 1988)
Alternate link.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Notes:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web. Recommended!

Jack McDevitt: The Fort Moxie Branch (Full Spectrum Anthology #1, 1988)
A sample from this collection. Available as part of this magazine.
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1988.
Notes:

Joe R. Lansdale: Night They Missed the Horror Show (Silver Scream Anthology, 1988)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 1989.
Notes:

Mike Resnick: Kirinyaga (F & SF, November 1988)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo for Best Short Story 1989.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1988.
Notes:

Michael Swanwick: A Midwinter's Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1984.
Notes:

Greg Bear: Sisters (Tangents Collection, 1989)
A sample from this collection.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Notes:

Lois McMaster Bujold: The Mountains of Mourning (Analog, May 1989)
Available as part of this collection. Also available on this freely distributable CD.
Hugo for Best Novella 1990.
Nebula for Best Novella 1989.
Notes:

Mike Resnick: For I Have Touched the Sky (F & SF, December 1989)
A sample from this collection.
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1990.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 1989.
Notes:

Free Speculative Fiction Online

Awards 1953-1989

Eric Frank Russell: Allamagoosa (Analog (Astounding), May 1955)

Murray Leinster: Exploration Team [vt Combat Team] (Analog (Astounding), March 1956)

Fritz Leiber: The Big Time (Galaxy, March 1958)

Manly Wade Wellman: Nine Yards of Other Cloth (F & SF, November 1958)

Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle For Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)

Murray Leinster: The Pirates of Zan [vt The Pirates of Ersatz] (Analog (Astounding), February 1959)

Ralph Williams: Cat and Mouse (Analog (Astounding), June 1959)

Randall Garrett & Laurence M. Janifer: That Sweet Little Old Lady [vt Brain Twister] (Analog (Astounding), September 1959)

Theodore Sturgeon: The Man Who Lost the Sea (F & SF, October 1959)

Harry Harrison: Deathworld (Analog (Astounding), January 1960)

Pauline Ashwell: The Lost Kafoozalum (Analog, October 1960)

Lloyd Biggle, Jr.: Monument (Analog, June 1961)

Mack Reynolds: Status Quo (Analog, August 1961)

James H. Schmitz: Lion Loose (Analog, October 1961)

H. Beam Piper: Little Fuzzy (Avon, 1962)

Rick Raphael: Code Three (Analog, February 1963)

Keith Laumer: A Plague of Demons (Berkley, 1965)

James H. Schmitz: Planet of Forgetting [vt Forget It] (Galaxy, February 1965)

James H. Schmitz: Balanced Ecology (Analog, March 1965)

James H. Schmitz: Goblin Night (Analog, April 1965)

James H. Schmitz: The Witches of Karres (Chilton, 1966)

Fred Saberhagen: Mr. Jester (If, January 1966)

Bob Shaw: Light of Other Days (Analog, August 1966)

Keith Laumer: Once There Was a Giant (F & SF, November 1968)

Gene Wolfe: The Island of Doctor Death and other Stories (Orbit Anthology #7, 1970)

Keith Laumer: In the Queue (Orbit Anthology #7, 1970)

Harry Harrison: By the Falls (If, January 1970)

Robert Silverberg: When We Went to See the End of the World (Universe Anthology #2, 1972)

Vonda McIntyre: Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand (Analog, October 1973)

Craig Strete: Time Deer (Red Planet Earth #4, 1974)

Robert Silverberg: Schwartz Between the Galaxies (Stellar #1, 1974)

Jerry Pournelle: Extreme Prejudice (Analog, July 1974)

Craig Strete: The Bleeding Man (Galaxy, December 1974)

David Drake: The Barrow Troll (Whispers #8, December 1975)

Howard Waldrop: Mary Margaret Road-Grader (Orbit Anthology #18, 1976)

Jake Saunders: Back to the Stone Age (Lone Star Universe Anthology, 1976)

Edward Bryant: Particle Theory (Analog, February 1977)

Joan D. Vinge: View from a Height (Analog, June 1978)

Michael Swanwick: Ginungagap (TriQuarterly #49, Fall 1980)

Michael Swanwick: The Feast of Saint Janis (New Dimensions Anthology #11, 1980)

Jeff Duntemann: Guardian (Asimov's, September 1980)

Kim Stanley Robinson: Venice Drowned (Universe Anthology #11, 1981)

Poul Anderson: The Saturn Game (Analog, February 1981)

Connie Willis: Fire Watch (Asimov's, February 1982)

Thomas Disch: Understanding Human Behavior (F & SF, February 1982)

Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants (Analog, June 1982)

Lewis Shiner: Frontera (Baen, 1983)

Kim Stanley Robinson: Black Air (F & SF, March 1983)

Jack McDevitt: Cryptic (Asimov's, April 1983)

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Lucky Strike (Universe Anthology #14, 1984)

David Brin: The Crystal Spheres (Analog, January 1984)

Kim Stanley Robinson: Ridge Running (F & SF, January 1984)

Octavia E. Butler: Bloodchild (Asimov's, June 1984)

Michael Swanwick: Trojan Horse (Omni, December 1984)

Harlan Ellison: Paladin of the Lost Hour (Universe Anthology #15, 1985)

Joe Haldeman: More Than the Sum of His Parts (Playboy, May 1985)

Lucius Shepard: The Jaguar Hunter (F & SF, May 1985)

John Crowley: Snow (Omni, November 1985)

David Brin: Thor Meets Captain America (F & SF, July 1986)

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu (Asimov's, September 1986)

Pat Murphy: Rachel in Love (Asimov's, April 1987)

Lois McMaster Bujold: Falling Free (Analog, December 1987)

David Brin: The Giving Plague (Interzone #23, Spring 1988)

Jack McDevitt: The Fort Moxie Branch (Full Spectrum Anthology #1, 1988)

Joe R. Lansdale: Night They Missed the Horror Show (Silver Scream Anthology, 1988)

Mike Resnick: Kirinyaga (F & SF, November 1988)

Michael Swanwick: A Midwinter's Tale (Asimov's, December 1988)

Greg Bear: Sisters (Tangents Collection, 1989)

Lois McMaster Bujold: The Mountains of Mourning (Analog, May 1989)

Mike Resnick: For I Have Touched the Sky (F & SF, December 1989)