NOVEL

• Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh (Warner)
• Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen; Analog Dec,mid-Dec 1987,Jan,Feb 1988)
• The Guardsman, P. J. Beese & Todd Cameron Hamilton (Pageant [nomination deleted])
• Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling (Morrow/Arbor House)
• Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
• Red Prophet, Orson Scott Card (Tor)

NOVELLA

• "The Last of the Winnebagos", Connie Willis (Asimov's Jul 1988)
• "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians", Bradley Denton (F&SF Jun 1988)
• "Journals of the Plague Years", Norman Spinrad (Full Spectrum)
• The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter, Lucius Shepard (Mark V. Ziesing; Asimov's Sep 1988)
• "Surfacing", Walter Jon Williams (Asimov's Apr 1988)

NOVELETTE

• "Schrödinger's Kitten", George Alec Effinger (Omni Sep 1988)
• "Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?", Howard Waldrop (Asimov's Aug 1988)
• "The Function of Dream Sleep", Harlan Ellison (Midnight Graffiti Jun 1988; Asimov's mid-Dec 1988)
• "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus", Neal Barrett, Jr. (Asimov's Feb 1988)
• "Peaches for Mad Molly", Steven Gould (Analog Feb 1988)

SHORT STORY

• "Kirinyaga", Mike Resnick (F&SF Nov 1988)
• "The Fort Moxie Branch", Jack McDevitt (Full Spectrum)
• "The Giving Plague", David Brin (Interzone #23 Spring 1988)
• "Our Neural Chernobyl", Bruce Sterling (F&SF Jun 1988)
• "Ripples in the Dirac Sea", Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Oct 1988)
• "Stable Strategies for Middle Management", Eileen Gunn (Asimov's Oct 1988)

NONFICTION BOOK

• The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965, Samuel R. Delany (Arbor House/Morrow)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, Robert Weinberg (Greenwood)
• First Maitz, Don Maitz (Ursus Imprints)
• The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, James Gunn, ed. (Viking)
• Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1987, Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento (Locus Press)

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Alien Nation
• Beetlejuice
• Big
• Willow

PROFESSIONAL EDITOR

• Gardner Dozois
• Edward L. Ferman
• David G. Hartwell
• Charles C. Ryan
• Stanley Schmidt

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

• Michael Whelan
• Thomas Canty
• David A. Cherry
• Bob Eggleton
• Todd Cameron Hamilton (nomination deleted)
• Don Maitz

SEMI-PROZINE

• Locus, Charles N. Brown
• Interzone, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley
• The New York Review of Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Susan Palwick & Kathryn Cramer
• Science Fiction Chronicle, Andrew I. Porter
• Thrust, D. Douglas Fratz

FANZINE

• File 770, Mike Glyer
• FOSFAX, Timothy Lane
• Lan's Lantern, George "Lan" Laskowski
• Niekas, Edmund R. Meskys, Mike Bastraw & Anne Braude
• OtherRealms, Chuq Von Rospach

FAN WRITER

• Dave Langford
• Avedon Carol
• Mike Glyer
• Arthur D. Hlavaty
• Guy H. Lillian III
• Chuq Von Rospach

FAN ARTIST (tie)

• Brad W. Foster
• Diana Gallagher Wu
• Teddy Harvia
• Merle Insinga
• Stu Shiffman
• Taral Wayne