1986

Anthony Awards
B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (winner)

Booker Prize
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey
An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (winner)
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies

British Fantasy Society
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw (winner)

Edgar Awards
City of Glass by Paul Auster
A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
The Suspect by L R Wright (winner)
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell

Guardian Fiction Prize
Continent by Jim Crace (winner)

Hugo
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Cuckoo's Egg by C J Cherryh
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (winner)
Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Postman by David Brin

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Kiteworld by Keith Roberts
The Postman by David Brin (winner)

Nebula Awards
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (winner)
Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
The Postman by David Brin
The Remaking of Sigmund Freud by Barry N Malzberg
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling

Newbery Medal
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (winner)

Prometheus Award
The Cybernetic Samurai by Victor Milán (winner)
Elegy for a Soprano by Kay Nolte Smith
The Gallatin Divergence by L Neil Smith
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook
Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K Dick

Rita Awards
Banish Misfortune by Anne Stuart (winner)
The Beauty's Daughter by Monette Cummings (winner)
The Crystal Unicorn by Doreen Owens Malek (winner)
From This Day Forward by Kathleen Karr (winner)
A Much Needed Holiday by Joan Hohl (winner)
Not So Wild a Dream by Francine Rivers (winner)
Today, Tomorrow, Always by Georgia Bockoven (winner)
Waiting for Amanda by Cheryl Zach (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
A Song Twice over by Brenda Jagger (winner)

Shamus Awards
B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (winner)

Whitbread Prize
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (winner)

World Fantasy
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (winner)
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Winterking by Paul Hazel

Anthony Awards
When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman (winner)

Betty Trask Award
Family Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson
Mzungu's Wife by Philippa Blake
The Prodigal Father by Kate Saunders
Tongues of Flame by Tim Parks (winner)
Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale

Whitbread Prize
Continent by Jim Crace (winner)

Hugo
Dinner in Audoghast by Bruce Sterling
Fermi and Frost by Frederik Pohl (winner)
Flying Saucer Rock and Roll by Howard Waldrop
Hong's Bluff by William F Wu
Snow by John Crowley

Nebula Awards
Flying Saucer Rock and Roll by Howard Waldrop
The Gods of Mars by Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Heirs of the Perisphere by Howard Waldrop
Hong's Bluff by William F Wu
More than the Sum of His Parts by Joe Haldeman
Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress (winner)
Paper Dragons by James P Blaylock
Snow by John Crowley

World Fantasy
The Jaguar Hunter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Paper Dragons by James P Blaylock (winner)
Return of the Dust Vampires by Sharon N Farber
The Slovo Stove by Avram Davidson

Hugo
Dogfight by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
The Fringe by Orson Scott Card
A Gift from the GrayLanders by Michael Bishop
Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison (winner)
Portraits of His Children [short story] by George R R Martin

Nebula Awards
Dogfight by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
The Fringe by Orson Scott Card
A Gift from the GrayLanders by Michael Bishop
The Jaguar Hunter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison
Portraits of His Children [short story] by George R R Martin (winner)
Rockabye Baby by S C Sykes

Hugo
24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny (winner)
Green Mars [short story] by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree Jr
Sailing to Byzantium [short story] by Robert Silverberg

Nebula Awards
24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
Green Days in Brunei by Bruce Sterling
The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree Jr
Sailing to Byzantium [short story] by Robert Silverberg (winner)

World Fantasy
Dead Image by David Morrell
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Flight by Peter Dickinson
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
Nadelman's God by T E D Klein (winner)

World Fantasy
Black Venus by Angela Carter
Books of Blood Volume 4 by Clive Barker
Dragonfield by Jane Yolen
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Carnegie Medal
Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland (winner)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Persephone by Jenny Joseph (winner)

John W. Campbell
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Game Beyond by Melissa Scott (winner)
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
Tailchasers Song by Tad Williams

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (winner)
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Láinez

National Book Award for Fiction
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Whites by Norman Rush
World's Fair by E L Doctorow (winner)

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson

Philip K Dick Award
Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler
The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt
A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson
Homunculus by James P Blaylock (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (winner)

Anthony Awards
Say No to Murder by Nancy Pickard (winner)

Shamus Awards
Poverty Bay by Earl W Emerson (winner)

World Fantasy
Avram Davidson (winner)

John W. Campbell
Melissa Scott (winner)