1990

Agatha Award
Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard (winner)
Deadly Valentine by Carolyn Hart
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris

Anthony Awards
The Sirens Sang Of Murder by Sarah Caudwell (winner)

Booker Prize
Amongst Women by John McGahern
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
Possession by A S Byatt (winner)
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

Bram Stoker
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (winner)
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
In a Dark Dream by Charles L Grant
Midnight by Dean Koontz
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R McCammon

British Fantasy Society
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (winner)

Edgar Awards
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (winner)
The Booster by Eugene Izzi
The Death of A Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill
Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield

Hugo
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger
Grass by Sheri S Tepper
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (winner)
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

John W Campbell Memorial Award
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (winner)
Farewell Horizontal by K W Jeter
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel

Macavity Awards
A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart (winner)

Nebula Awards
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (winner)
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen

Newbery Medal
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (winner)
Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

Prometheus Award
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
Henry Martyn by L Neil Smith
Infinity Hold by Barry B Longyear
The Mirror Maze by James P Hogan
Solomon's Knife by Victor Koman (winner)

Rita Awards
The Bride by Julie Garwood (winner)
The Ice Cream Man by Kathleen Korbel (winner)
Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer (winner)
Night of the Hunter by Jennifer Greene (winner)
Out of the Blue by Alaina Hawthorne (winner)
Perchance to Dream by Kathleen Korbel (winner)
Private Relations by Diane Chamberlain (winner)
The Rake and the Reformer by Mary Jo Putney (winner)
Renee by Vivian Schurfranz (winner)
Rhapsody in Bloom by Mona Van Wieren (Karen Van Der Zee) (winner)
The Silver Noose by Patricia Gardner Evans (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Passing Glory by Reay Tannahill (winner)

Shamus Awards
Dead Irish by John Lescroart
Extenuating Circumstances by Jonathan Valin (winner)
The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane
Out on the Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block
The Shape of Dread by Marcia Muller
The Skintight Shroud by Wayne D Dundee

Whitbread Prize
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley (winner)

World Fantasy
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
In a Dark Dream by Charles L Grant
Madouc by Jack Vance (winner)
The Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

Anthony Awards
Katwalk by Karen Kijewski (winner)

Betty Trask Award
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson (winner)
The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick

Bram Stoker
The Dwelling by Tom Elliot
Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg
Laying The Music To Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva
Sunglasses after Dark by Nancy A Collins (winner)

Whitbread Prize
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi (winner)

Bram Stoker
Bodies and Heads by Steve Rasnic Tem
Each Night, Each Year by Kathryn Ptacek
Eat Me by Robert R McCammon (winner)
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said by Chet Williamson

Hugo
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas (winner)
Computer Friendly by Eileen Gunn
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
Lost Boys [short story] by Orson Scott Card
The Return of William Proxmire by Larry Niven

Nebula Awards
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary Aldridge
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys [short story] by Orson Scott Card
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A Landis (winner)

World Fantasy
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
The Illusionist by Steven Millhauser (winner)
Mr Fiddlehead by Jonathan Carroll
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
Varicose Worms by Scott Baker
'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said by Chet Williamson

Bram Stoker
At First Just Ghostly by Karl Edward Wagner
The Confessions of St. James by Chet Williamson
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R Lansdale (winner)
Phantom by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Hugo
At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Dogwalker by Orson Scott Card
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg (winner)
Everything But Honor by George Alec Effinger
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
The Prince of Oranges by Nancy Kress

Nebula Awards
At the Rialto by Connie Willis (winner)
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters [short story] by Greg Bear

Hugo
The Fathers of Stones by Lucius Shepard
The Mountains of Mourning [short story] by Lois McMaster Bujold (winner)
Time-out by Connie Willis
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm

Nebula Awards
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marid Changes his Mind by George Alec Effinger
The Mountains of Mourning [short story] by Lois McMaster Bujold (winner)
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
Weatherman by Lois McMaster Bujold

World Fantasy
Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
A Dozen Tough Jobs [short story] by Howard Waldrop
The Father of Stones [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Great Work of Time by John Crowley (winner)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R Lansdale

Bram Stoker
Blue World by Robert R McCammon
By Bizarre Hands by Joe R Lansdale
Collected Stories, Vol. 1 by Richard Matheson (winner)
Patterns by Pat Cadigan
Soft and Others by F Paul Wilson

World Fantasy
Blue World by Robert R McCammon
By Bizarre Hands by Joe R Lansdale
Collected Stories, Vol. 1 by Richard Matheson (winner)

Arthur C. Clarke Award
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (winner)
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Ivory by Mike Resnick
A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
Neverness by David Zindell

Carnegie Medal
Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine (winner)

Dagger Awards
Rough Treatment by John Harvey

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (winner)

John W. Campbell
The Eight by Katherine Neville
Orbital Decay by Allen Steele
Sing by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (winner)
Sunglasses after Dark by Nancy A Collins
Twistor by John Cramer

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A McKillip
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

National Book Award for Fiction
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (winner)
Paradise by Elena Castedo

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Affliction by Russell Banks
Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow (winner)
The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
On the Island by Josephine Jacobsen

Philip K Dick Award
Clarke County, Space by Allen Steele
The Oxygen Barons by Gregory Feeley
The Schizogenic Man by Raymond Harris
Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (winner)

Anthony Awards
Honeymoon With Murder by Carolyn Hart (winner)

Shamus Awards
Hell's Only Half Full by Rob Kantner (winner)

World Fantasy
R A Lafferty (winner)

John W. Campbell
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (winner)