Best Novel

• Winner: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, published by Galaxy Science Fiction, If, and Doubleday
• The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, published by Harper & Row
• What Entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger, published by Doubleday
• When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold, published by Nelson Doubleday and Ballantine
• Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg, published by Galaxy Science Fiction and Scribner’s
• The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg, published by Scribner’s
• The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad, published by Avon

Best Novella

• Winner: “A Meeting with Medusa” by Arthur C. Clarke, published by Playboy
• “Son of the Morning” by Phyllis Gotlieb, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “The Word for World Is Forest” by Ursula K. Le Guin
• “The Gold at the Starbow’s End” by Frederik Pohl, published by Analog
• “With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama” by Richard Lupoff
• “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” by Gene Wolfe

Best Novelette

• Winner: “Goat Song” by Poul Anderson, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “The Animal Fair” by Alfred Bester, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “A Kingdom by the Sea” by Gardner Dozois
• “Basilisk” by Harlan Ellison, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “In the Deadlands” by David Gerrold
• “Patron of the Arts” by William Rotsler
• “The Funeral” by Kate Wilhelm

Best Short Story

• “On the Downhill Side” by Harlan Ellison
• Winner: “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ
• “Shaffery Among the Immortals” by Frederik Pohl, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “When We Went to See the End of the World” by Robert Silverberg
• “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” by James Tiptree Jr., published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• “Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe