1971

Booker Prize
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
In a Free State by V S Naipaul (winner)
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
St Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler

Edgar Awards
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (winner)

Hugo
Ringworld by Larry Niven (winner)
Starlight by Hal Clement
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

Nebula Awards
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Fourth Mansions by R A Lafferty
Ringworld by Larry Niven (winner)
The Steel Crocodile by D G Compton
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

Whitbread Prize
The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles (winner)

Hugo
Brillo by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
Continued on Next Rock by R A Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
Jean Dupres by Gordon R Dickson
Slow Sculpture [short story] by Theodore Sturgeon (winner)

Nebula Awards
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
A Cold Night Dark With Snow by Kate Wilhelm
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R A Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
The Island of Doctor Death [short story] by Gene Wolfe

Nebula Awards
Asian Shores by Thomas M Disch
Continued on Next Rock by R A Lafferty
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas

Hugo
Beastchild [short story] by Dean Koontz
Ill Met in Lankhmar [short story] by Fritz Leiber (winner)
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D Simak
The World Outside by Robert Silverberg

Nebula Awards
April Fool's Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
Ill Met in Lankhmar [short story] by Fritz Leiber (winner)
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D Simak

Carnegie Medal
The God Beneath the Sea by Léon Garfield and Edward Blishen (winner)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (winner)
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

National Book Award for Fiction
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (winner)