| Hugo |
Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh |
| Nebula |
The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe |
| World Fantasy |
Little, Big, John Crowley |
Campbell Memorial (winner) |
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban |
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Locus (sf novel) |
The Many-Colored Land, Julian May |
Locus (fantasy novel) |
The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe |
Locus (first novel) |
Starship & Haiku, Somtow Sucharitkul |
Apollo (none) |
The Idiot King, Scott Baker |
British Fantasy (August Derleth Award (novel)) |
Cujo, Stephen King |
| British SF |
The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe [1980] |
Ditmar (long Australian sf or fantasy) |
The Man Who Loved Morlocks, David J. Lake |
Ditmar (international fiction) |
The Affirmation, Christopher Priest |
Seiun (foreign novel) |
The Genesis Machine, James P. Hogan [1978] |
| Balrog |
Camber the Heretic, Katherine Kurtz |
Mythopoeic (fantasy) |
Little, Big, John Crowley |
| Prometheus |
The Probability Broach, L. Neil Smith [1980] |
AnLab (serial) |
"Dawn", Dean McLaughlin |
| SF Chronicle |
The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe |