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Tuesday 12 September 2000

Awards

Several awards, in addition to the Hugos, were presented at Chicon 2000 over Labor Day weekend.

The fifth annual Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were presented on September 2, 2000:

Long Form

Resurrection Day, Brendan DuBois (Putnam)

Short Form

''The Eight Register'', Alain Bergeron (Northern Suns, ed. David G. Hartwell & Glenn Grant; Tor)

Special Achievement Award

Randall Garrett, for the Lord Darcy series

Winners of the Prometheus Awards for libertarian SF:

Prometheus Award

A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

''The Emperor's New Clothes'', Hans Christian Andersen

The Golden Duck Awards, given to children's SF, were presented by Hal Clement:

Picture Book Award

Hush, Little Alien, Daniel Kirk, illustrator (Hyperion)

Middle Grades Award

I Was a 6th Grade Alien, Bruce Coville (Simon & Schuster)

Hal Clement Award

The Game of Worlds: Out of Time, Roger MacBride Allen (Avon; series editor David Brin)

Honorary Award

J.K. Rowling, for the Harry Potter series as a gateway to good reading for children and adults

The Webs of Wonder contest, for educational websites that use SF to help educators teach difficult subjects, was won by James Van Pelt and Andrew E. Love, who shared the $1000 prize. The award is sponsored by Analog magazine and David Brin. Van Pelt's winning website is The High School Teacher's Time Machine Page, Love's is Andy's "Using Science Fiction for Education" Page.

And winners of the Chesley Awards for SF and fantasy art, given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA), are as follows and can be viewed on this page.

Service to ASFA

Wizards of the Coast

Best Unpublished Monochrome

Rick Berry for "Artemis"

Best Unpublished Color

Steve Hickman for "At the Entmoot"

Best Three Dimensional

Johnna Klukas for "The Astrologer's Anteroom" (a set of furniture)

Best Art Director

Ron Spears for Wizards of the Coast

Best Magazine Cover

Bob Eggleton for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1999

Best Game-Related

Brom for the insert poster for the Duelist, "Warriors of Heaven/Guide to Hell"

Best Product Illustration

Richard Bober for "Cleopatra", plate art for the Bradford Exchange

Best Interior Illustration

James Gurney for Dinotopia: First Flight by James Gurney (HarperCollins, October '99)

Best Cover Illustration Paperback

John Jude Palencar for The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley (Ace, June '99)

Best Cover Illustration Hardback Book

Michael Whelan for The Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams (DAW Books, Sept.99)

Artistic Achievement

Steve Hickman