1972

Booker Prize
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
G. by John Berger (winner)
Pasmore by David Storey

Edgar Awards
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (winner)

Hugo
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (winner)

Nebula Awards
The Byworlder by Poul Anderson
The Devil Is Dead by R A Lafferty
Half Past Human by T J Bass
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin
Margaret and I by Kate Wilhelm
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (winner)

Whitbread Prize
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill (winner)

Hugo
All the Last Wars at Once by George Alec Effinger
The Autumn Land [short story] by Clifford D Simak
The Bear with the Knot on His Tail by Stephen Tall
Inconstant Moon [short story] by Larry Niven (winner)
Sky by R A Lafferty
Vaster than Empires and More Slow by Ursula K Le Guin

Nebula Awards
Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg (winner)
Heathen God by George Zebrowski
Horse of Air by Gardner Dozois
The Last Ghost by Stephen Goldin

Nebula Awards
The Encounter by Kate Wilhelm
Mount Charity by Edgar Pangborn
Poor Man, Beggar Man by Joanna Russ
The Queen of Air and Darkness [short story] by Poul Anderson (winner)
A Special Kind of Morning by Gardner Dozois

Hugo
Dread Empire by John Brunner
The Fourth Profession by Larry Niven
A Meeting with Medusa [short story] by Arthur C Clarke
The Queen of Air and Darkness [short story] by Poul Anderson (winner)
A Special Kind of Morning by Gardner Dozois

Nebula Awards
Being There [short story] by Jerzy Kosinski
The God House by Keith Roberts
The Infinity Box [short story] by Kate Wilhelm
The Missing Man [short story] by Katherine MacLean (winner)
The Plastic Abyss by Kate Wilhelm

Carnegie Medal
Josh by Ivan Southall (winner)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
G. by John Berger (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Children of Llyr by Evangeline Walton
The Forest of Forever by Thomas Burnett Swann
Grendel by John Gardner
The Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock
The Light Maze by Joan North
Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant (winner)
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders by Isidore Haiblum

National Book Award for Fiction
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (winner)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Heinrich Böll (winner)