Agatha Award
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (winner)
Defend and Betray by Anne Perry
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
The Snake, The Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Southern Ghost by Carolyn Hart

Anthony Awards
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey (winner)

Bram Stoker
Boy's Life by Robert R McCammon (winner)
The M.D. by Thomas M Disch
Needful Things by Stephen King
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
The Waste Lands by Stephen King

British Fantasy Society
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll (winner)

Edgar Awards
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (winner)
Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
Palindrome by Stuart Woods
Prior Convictions by Lia Matera

Guardian Fiction Prize
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (winner)

Hugo
All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (winner)
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
The Summer Queen by Joan D Vinge
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton (winner)
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Silicon Man by Charles Platt
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

Macavity Awards
I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard (winner)

Nebula Awards
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick (winner)
Synners by Pat Cadigan

Newbery Medal
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (winner)

Prometheus Award
D'Shai by Joel Rosenberg
Distant Drums by Diane Carey
Fallen Angels by Michael Flynn, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (winner)
Me by Thomas T Thomas
The Rift by Peter David
A Tale of the Wind by Kay Nolte Smith
The Tery by F Paul Wilson

Rita Awards
Angel for Hire by Justine Davis (winner)
Candle in the Window by Christina Dodd (winner)
Courting Miss Hattie by Pamela Morsi (winner)
Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon (winner)
Emily and the Dark Angel by Jo Beverley (winner)
Every Kind of Heaven by Bethany Campbell (winner)
A Human Touch by Glenda Sanders (winner)
A Man to Die for by Eileen Dreyer (winner)
Night Shift by Nora Roberts (winner)
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Lurlene McDaniel (winner)
A Rose for Maggie by Kathleen Korbel (winner)
The Tender Texan by Jodi Thomas (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Sandstorm by June Knox-Mawer (winner)

Shamus Awards
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
A Fistful of Empty by Benjamin Schutz
Second Chance by Jonathan Valin
Stolen Away by Max Allan Collins (winner)
Where Echoes Live by Marcia Muller

The Man Booker Prize
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (winner)
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (winner)
Serenity House by Christopher Hope

Whitbread Prize
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (winner)

World Fantasy
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
Boy's Life by Robert R McCammon (winner)
Hunting the Ghost Dancer by A A Attanasio
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
The Paper Grail by James P Blaylock

Anthony Awards
Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry (winner)

Bram Stoker
The Cipher by Kathe Koja (winner)
Prodigal by Melanie Tem
Unearthed by Ashley McConnell
Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
Winter Scream by and Lisa Dean

Whitbread Prize
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington (winner)

Bram Stoker
The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire by Poppy Z Brite
The Braille Encyclopedia by Grant Morrison
Lady Madonna by Nancy Holder (winner)
Love Doll: A Fable by Joe R Lansdale
Richard's Head by Al Sarrantonio
Wolf Winter by Maxine O'Callaghan

Hugo
Buffalo by John Kessel
Dog's Life by Martha Soukup
In the Late Cretaceous by Connie Willis
One Perfect Morning, With Jackals by Mike Resnick
Press Ann by Terry Bisson
A Walk in the Sun [short story] by Geoffrey A Landis (winner)
Winter Solstice by Mike Resnick

Nebula Awards
Buffalo by John Kessel
The button, and what you know by W Gregory Stewart
The Dark by Karen Joy Fowler
Dog's Life by Martha Soukup
Ma Qui by Alan Brennert (winner)
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson

World Fantasy
The Better Boy by Fred Chappell
The Conjure Man by Charles de Lint
Pity the Monsters by Charles de Lint
The Somewhere Doors by Fred Chappell (winner)

Bram Stoker
Advocates by Suzy McKee Charnas and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves by David Morrell (winner)
Death Leaves an Echo by Charles de Lint
Fetish [short story] by Edward Bryant
Magpie by Stephen Gallagher

Hugo
Dispatches from the Revolution by Pat Cadigan
Fin de Cycle by Howard Waldrop
Gold [short story] by Isaac Asimov (winner)
Miracle [short story] by Connie Willis
Understand by Ted Chiang

Nebula Awards
The All-Consuming by Robert Frazier and Lucius Shepard
Black Glass [short story] by Karen Joy Fowler
Gate of Faces by Ray Aldridge
Getting Real by Susan Shwartz
Guide Dog by Michael Conner (winner)
The Happy Man by Jonathan Lethem
Standing in Line with Mr Jimmy by James Patrick Kelly

Hugo
And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress
Beggars in Spain [short story] by Nancy Kress (winner)
The Gallery of His Dreams [short story] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Griffin's Egg [short story] by Michael Swanwick
Jack by Connie Willis

Nebula Awards
Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
Beggars in Spain [short story] by Nancy Kress (winner)
Bully! [short story] by Mike Resnick
Jack by Connie Willis
Man Opening a Door by

World Fantasy
The Gallery of His Dreams [short story] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Gwydion and the Dragon by C J Cherryh
Our Lady of the Harbour [short story] by Charles de Lint
The Pavilion of Frozen Women [short story] by S P Somtow
The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (winner)
To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer

Bram Stoker
The Naked Flesh of Feeling by J N Williamson
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons (winner)
Sex Punks and Savage Sagas by Richard Sutphin
Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell

World Fantasy
The Bone Forest by Robert Holdstock
The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard
Lafferty In Orbit by R A Lafferty
More Shapes Than One by Fred Chappell
Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Eternal Light by Paul McAuley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
Synners by Pat Cadigan (winner)
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones

Carnegie Medal
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty (winner)

Dilys Awards
Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
Hour of the Hunter by J A Jance
Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen (winner)
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
We Wish You a Merry Murder by Valerie Wolzien

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain (winner)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F McHugh (winner)

John W. Campbell
Into the Dark Lands by Michelle Sagara
Moonwise by Greer Gilman

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Beauty by Sheri S Tepper
Moonwise by Greer Gilman
The Sorceress and the Cygnet by Patricia A McKillip
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (winner)
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Lost in the City by Edward P Jones
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
The Almanac Branch by Bradford Morrow
Extraordinary People by Paul Gervais
Frog by Stephen Dixon
Mao II by Don DeLillo (winner)

Philip K Dick Award
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
In the Mothers' Land by Élisabeth Vonarburg
Iron Tears by R A Lafferty
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland
Through the Heart by Richard Grant

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Jernigan by David Gates
Mao II by Don DeLillo
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (winner)

Shamus Awards
The Cool Blue Tomb by Paul Kemprecos (winner)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Derek Walcott (winner)

John W. Campbell
Ted Chiang (winner)