NOVEL

• Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
• Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling (Orion; Bantam Spectra)
• Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon (Baen)
• Starplex, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Analog Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct 1996)

NOVELLA

• "Blood of the Dragon", George R. R. Martin (Asimov's Jul 1996)
• "Abandon in Place", Jerry Oltion (F&SF Dec 1996)
• "The Cost to Be Wise", Maureen F. McHugh (Starlight 1)
• "Gas Fish", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's Feb 1996)
• "Immersion", Gregory Benford (Science Fiction Age Mar 1996)
• "Time Travelers Never Die", Jack McDevitt (Asimov's May 1996)

NOVELETTE

• "Bicycle Repairman", Bruce Sterling (Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology; Asimov's Oct/Nov 1996)
• "Age of Aquarius", William Barton (Asimov's May 1996)
• "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast", Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's Mar 1996)
• "The Land of Nod", Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jun 1996)
• "Mountain Ways", Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's Aug 1996)

SHORT STORY

• "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective", Connie Willis (Asimov's Apr 1996; War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches)
• "The Dead", Michael Swanwick (Starlight 1)
• "Decency", Robert Reed (Asimov's Jun 1996)
• "Gone", John Crowley (F&SF Sep 1996)
• "Un-Birthday Boy", James White (Analog Feb 1996)

NONFICTION BOOK

• Time & Chance: An Autobiography, L. Sprague de Camp (Donald M. Grant)
• The Faces of Fantasy, Patti Perret (Tor)
• Look at the Evidence, John Clute (Serconia Press)
• The Silence of the Langford, David Langford (NESFA Press)
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Diana Wynne Jones (Vista)

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

• Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams" (Warner Bros.; directed by David J. Eagle, written by J. Michael Straczynski, produced by John Copeland)
• Independence Day (Centropolis Film Productions/20th Century Fox Film; directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, produced by Dean Devlin)
• Mars Attacks! (Warner Bros.; directed by Tim Burton, written by Jonathan Gems, produced by Tim Burton and Larry Franco)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Trials and Tribble-ations" (Paramount; directed by Jonathan West, written by Ronald D. Moore & Rene Echevarria, story by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler & Robert Hewitt Wolfe, executive producers Ira Steven Behr & Rick Berman)
• Star Trek: First Contact (Paramount Pictures; directed by Jonathan Frakes, story by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga & Rick Berman, screenplay by Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga, produced by Rick Berman)

PROFESSIONAL EDITOR

• Gardner Dozois
• Scott Edelman
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Stanley Schmidt

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

• Bob Eggleton
• Thomas Canty
• David A. Cherry
• Don Maitz
• Michael Whelan

SEMIPROZINE

• Locus, Charles N. Brown
• Interzone, David Pringle
• The New York Review of Science Fiction, Kathryn Cramer, Tad Dembinski, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell & Kevin Maroney
• Science Fiction Chronicle, Andrew I. Porter
• Speculations, Kent Brewster

FANZINE

• Mimosa, Dick & Nicki Lynch
• Ansible, Dave Langford
• File 770, Mike Glyer
• Nova Express, Lawrence Person
• Tangent, Dave Truesdale

FAN WRITER

• Dave Langford
• Sharon Farber
• Mike Glyer
• Andy Hooper
• Evelyn C. Leeper

FAN ARTIST

• William Rotsler
• Ian Gunn
• Joe Mayhew
• Peggy Ranson
• Sherlock