1988

Agatha Award
Dead Crazy by Nancy Pickard
Mischief in Maggody by Joan Hess
Paying the Piper by Sharyn McCrumb
Something Wicked by Carolyn Hart (winner)
The Widow's Club by Dorothy Cannell

Anthony Awards
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman (winner)

Booker Prize
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Lost Father by Marina Warner
Nice Work by David Lodge
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (winner)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Utz by Bruce Chatwin

Bram Stoker
Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson
Live Girls by Ray Garton
Misery by Stephen King (winner)
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon (winner)
Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn

British Fantasy Society
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond by Charlotte MacLeod
Nursery Crimes by B M Gill
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (winner)
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
A Trouble Of Fools by Linda Barnes

Guardian Fiction Prize
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (winner)

Hugo
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
The Uplift War by David Brin (winner)
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Drowning Towers by George Turner
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis (winner)

Macavity Awards
Marriage Is Murder by Nancy Pickard (winner)

Nebula Awards
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (winner)
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
The Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
The Uplift War by David Brin
Vergil in Averno by Avram Davidson
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Newbery Medal
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Prometheus Award
Circuit Breaker by Melinda M Snodgrass
First Citizen by Thomas T Thomas
The Jehovah Contract by Victor Koman (winner)
The Uplift War by David Brin
Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R Dickson

Rita Awards
Does Your Nose Get in the Way, Too? by Arlene Erlbach (winner)
The Gamble by LaVyrle Spencer (winner)
In Defense of Love by Kathleen Creighton (winner)
It Takes a Thief by Rita Rainville (winner)
Stolen Moments by Janice Kaiser (winner)
The Sugar Rose by Susan Carroll (winner)
Twilight Whispers by Barbara Delinsky (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
The Juniper Bush by Audrey Howard (winner)

Shamus Awards
A Tax in Blood by Benjamin Schutz (winner)

World Fantasy
Aegypt by John Crowley
Misery by Stephen King
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Replay by Ken Grimwood (winner)
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Anthony Awards
Caught Dead in Philadelphia by Gillian Roberts (winner)

Betty Trask Award
Burning Your Own by Glenn Patterson
A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
Left of North by James Friel

Bram Stoker
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards
The Manse by Lisa W Cantrell (winner)
Slob by Rex Miller

Whitbread Prize
The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer (winner)

Bram Stoker
Day-Tay-Vao by F Paul Wilson
The Deep End by Robert R McCammon (winner)
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll
This Old Man by Charles L Grant
Traps by F Paul Wilson

Hugo
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm
Night of the Cooters [short story] by Howard Waldrop
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers [short story] by Lawrence Watt-Evans (winner)

Nebula Awards
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Cassandra's Photographs by Lisa Goldstein
The Faithful Companion at Forty by Karen Joy Fowler
Forever Yours, Anna by Kate Wilhelm (winner)
Kid Charlemagne by Paul Di Filippo
Temple To A Minor Goddess by Susan Shwartz
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers [short story] by Lawrence Watt-Evans

World Fantasy
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll (winner)
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands [short story] by Garry Kilworth
In the House of Gingerbread by Gene Wolfe
Pamela's Get by David J Schow
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale by Douglas E Winter

Bram Stoker
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers (winner)
Pamela's Get by David J Schow
The Pear-Shaped Man [short story] by George R R Martin (winner)
Resurrec Tech by S P Somtow

Hugo
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
Dinosaurs by Walter Jon Williams
Dream Baby [short story] by Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy

Nebula Awards
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin
Dream Baby [short story] by Bruce McAllister
The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short story] by Octavia E Butler
Flowers of Edo by Bruce Sterling
Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy (winner)
Schwarzschild Radius by Connie Willis

Hugo
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson
Eye for Eye [short story] by Orson Scott Card (winner)
The Forest of Time [short story] by Michael Flynn
Mother Goddess of the World by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Secret Sharer [short story] by Robert Silverberg

Nebula Awards
The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
Fugue State by John M Ford
The Secret Sharer [short story] by Robert Silverberg
The Tiger Sweater by Keith Roberts
The Unconquered Country [short story] by Geoff Ryman
Witness by Walter Jon Williams

World Fantasy
Best Friends by Edward Bryant
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
A Hypothetical Lizard by Alan Moore
Nesting Instinct by Scott Baker
The Pear-Shaped Man [short story] by George R R Martin
Shades by Lucius Shepard

Bram Stoker
The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison (winner)
Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past by Howard Waldrop

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Unconquered Countries by Geoff Ryman

World Fantasy
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (winner)
Polyphemus by Michael Shea
Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Aegypt by John Crowley
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Drowning Towers by George Turner (winner)
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
Grainne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H F Saint
Replay by Ken Grimwood

Carnegie Medal
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price (winner)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read (winner)

John W. Campbell
In Conquest Born by C S Friedman
Pennterra by Judith Moffett (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

National Book Award for Fiction
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Libra by Don DeLillo
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (winner)
Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
Wheat That Springeth Green by J F Powers

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
That Night by Alice McDermott
World's End by T C Boyle (winner)

Philip K Dick Award
Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul McAuley
Neon Lotus by Marc Laidlaw
Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen
Rendezvous by David Alexander Smith
Wetware by Rudy Rucker (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison (winner)
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
That Night by Alice McDermott

Anthony Awards
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais (winner)

Shamus Awards
Wild Night by L J Washburn (winner)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Naguib Mahfouz (winner)

World Fantasy
Everett F Bleiler (winner)

John W. Campbell
Judith Moffett (winner)