Balrog Awards 1980
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
FoolCon III,
Overland Park KS :
April 4, 1980
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April 6, 1980
Eligibility Year: 1979
Eligibility Year: 1979
Novel
- Winner: Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum)
- The Dead Zone, Stephen King (Viking)
- Death's Master, Tanith Lee (DAW)
- The Drawing of the Dark, Tim Powers (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Fires of Azeroth, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)
- Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip (Atheneum)
- The Road to Corlay, Richard Cowper (Pocket)
- The Stand, Stephen King (Doubleday)
- The Starfollowers of Coramonde, Brian Daley (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Strange Eons, Robert Bloch
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Last Defender of Camelot”, Roger Zelazny (Asimov's SF Adventure Summer 1979)
- “'All You Zombies—'”, Robert A. Heinlein (F&SF Mar 1959)
- “The Button Molder”, Fritz Leiber (Whispers #13/14 Oct 1979)
- “Dreams of the Dreamer”, Joseph Hammond
- “The Dreamstone”, C. J. Cherryh (Amazons!)
- “The Fane of the Grey Rose”, Charles de Lint (Swords Against Darkness IV)
- “Northern Chess”, Tanith Lee (Amazons!)
- “The Ocean of Souls”, Adrian Cole (Fantasy Crossroads #15 Jan 1979)
- “Sandkings”, George R. R. Martin (Omni Aug 1979)
- “Spareen Among the Tartars”, Susan C. Petrey (F&SF Sep 1979)
- “Vision”, Ben Bova (Analog Jan 1980)
- “The Well at the Half-Cat”, John Tibbetts (Eldritch Tales #5 1979)
Collection/anthology
- Winner: Night Shift, Stephen King (Doubleday)
- Alchemy and Academe, Anne McCaffrey, ed. (Doubleday)
- Amazons!, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, ed. (DAW)
- The Book of Munn, H. Warner Munn
- Champions of the Road, Tanith Lee
- Fireflood and Other Stories, Vonda N. McIntyre (Houghton Mifflin)
- Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance, Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller)
- Heroic Fantasy, Gerald Page & Hank Reinhardt, eds. (DAW)
- The Howard Collector, Glenn Lord, ed.
- The Princess of All Lands, Russell Kirk
- Shadows 2, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Doubleday)
- Swords Against Darkness IV, andrew j. offutt, ed. (Zebra)
- Swords Against Darkness V, andrew j. offutt, ed. (Zebra)
- Thieves' World, Robert Asprin, ed. (Ace)
- Webs of Time, Joseph Payne Brennan
- Whispers II, Stuart David Schiff, ed. (Doubleday)
- The Year's Finest Fantasy, Volume 2, Terry Carr, ed. (Berkley)
Poet
Artist
Amateur Publication
- Winner: Fantasy Newsletter
- Eldritch Tales
- Fantasy
- Night Voyages
- Pandora
- Robert E. Howard United Press Association
- Shayol
- Space and Time
- Weirdbook
- Whispers
Professional Publication
- Winner: Omni
- Analog, for fantasy contributions
- Asimov's
- The Book of Munn, H. Warner Munn
- F&SF
- Heavy Metal
- Locus, for fantasy news and reviews
- Lovecraft's Providence, H. P. L. Beckwith (Donald M. Grant)
- Starlog
- Swords Against Darkness, andrew j. offutt, ed. (Zebra) (series)
- Whispers (anthologies)
Amateur Achievement
- Winner: Paul Allen, for Fantasy Newsletter and "Of Swords and Sorcery"
- Adrian Cole, for "Voidal" tales and other fiction
- Gerry de la Ree, for fantasy art series
- Jann Frank, for art contributions to various fanzines
- Wendy Pini, for fantasy illustration
- Marc Michaud, for Lovecraft publications, Necronomicon Press
- Gordon Linzner, for ten years of publishing Space and Time
- Robert Frazier, for T.A.S.P. magazine and promoting speculative fiction poetry
- Stuart David Schiff, for Whispers magazine
Professional Achievement
Sf Film Hall Of Fame
- Winner (tie): 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Winner (tie): Star Wars
- Alien
- The Black Hole
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Dark Star
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Forbidden Planet
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Metropolis
- Planet of the Apes
- Silent Running
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- The Thing
- Things to Come
- The War of the Worlds
Fantasy Film Hall Of Fame
- Winner: Fantasia
- The Hobbit
- King Kong
- The Lord of the Rings
- Nosferatu
- Superman: The Movie
- The Thief of Baghdad
- Watership Down
- Wizards
Special Award
- Winner: Ian Ballantine & Betty Ballantine
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