1979

Booker Prize
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
Joseph by Julian Rathbone
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (winner)
Praxis by Fay Weldon

British Fantasy Society
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson (winner)

Edgar Awards
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (winner)

Hugo
Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre (winner)
Kesrith by C J Cherryh
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky
And Having Writ... by Donald R Benson (winner)
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (winner)

Nebula Awards
Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre (winner)
Kalki by Gore Vidal
Kesrith by C J Cherryh
Strangers by Gardner Dozois

Newbery Medal
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Prometheus Award
Wheels within Wheels by F Paul Wilson (winner)

Whitbread Prize
The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston (winner)

World Fantasy
The Black Castle by Les Daniels
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (winner)
Night's Master by Tanith Lee
The Sound of Midnight by Charles L Grant
The Stand by Stephen King

Hugo
Cassandra by C J Cherryh (winner)
Count the Clock That Tells the Time by Harlan Ellison
Stone by Edward Bryant
The Very Slow Time Machine [short story] by Ian Watson
View from a Height by Joan D Vinge

Nebula Awards
Cassandra by C J Cherryh
A Quiet Revolution for Death by Jack Dann
Stone by Edward Bryant (winner)

World Fantasy
Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose by Charles L Grant
The Magic Goes Away [short story] by Larry Niven
Naples by Avram Davidson
Sleep Well of Nights by Avram Davidson
Within the Walls of Tyre by Michael Bishop

Hugo
The Barbie Murders [short story] by John Varley
Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing
Hunter's Moon by Poul Anderson (winner)
The Man Who Had No Idea [short story] by Thomas M Disch
Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card

Nebula Awards
Devil You Don't Know by Dean Ing
A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye by Charles L Grant (winner)
Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card

Hugo
Enemies of the System [short story] by Brian Aldiss
Fireship [short story] by Joan D Vinge
The Persistence of Vision [short story] by John Varley (winner)
Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe
The Watched by Christopher Priest

Nebula Awards
The Persistence of Vision [short story] by John Varley (winner)
Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe

World Fantasy
Heroes and Horrors by Fritz Leiber
Night Shift by Stephen King
Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner
The Redward Edward Papers by Avram Davidson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Darkness Visible by William Golding (winner)

John W. Campbell
Godsfire by Cynthia Felice
Inherit the Stars by James P Hogan
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (winner)

World Fantasy
Jorge Luis Borges (winner)
John Collier
L Sprague de Camp
H Warner Munn
John Myers Myers
Manly Wade Wellman

John W. Campbell
Stephen Donaldson (winner)