Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 1
Major Awards: 5
Locus Awards: 5
Other Awards: 10
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 75
Forry Award
for lifetime achievement, presented by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
winner
Hugo Awards
for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(12 nominations; 3 wins)
Kiln People (Tor)
novel nomination
Brightness Reef (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
Glory Season (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
Earth (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
“The Giving Plague ” (Interzone #23 Spring 1988)
short story nomination
The Uplift War (Phantasia; Bantam Spectra)
novel winner
“Thor Meets Captain America ” (F&SF Jul 1986)
novelette nomination
The Postman (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
“Cyclops” (Asimov's Mar 1984)
novella nomination
“The Crystal Spheres ” (Analog Jan 1984)
short story winner
Startide Rising (Bantam)
novel winner
“The Postman” (Asimov's Nov 1982)
novella nomination
Nebula Awards
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(3 nominations; 1 win)
The Uplift War (Phantasia; Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
The Postman (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
Startide Rising (Bantam)
novel winner
(1 nomination)
Kil'n People (Orbit)
shortlist
(1 nomination)
Glory Season (Bantam Spectra)
long list
(3 nominations; 1 win)
Existence (Tor)
finalist
Kiln People (Tor)
second place
The Postman (Bantam Spectra)
winner
Locus Awards
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(26 nominations; 5 wins)
Existence (Tor)
sf novel 24th place
Kiln People (Tor)
sf novel 2nd place
“Reality Check ” (Nature 16 Mar 2000)
short story 22nd place
Infinity's Shore (Bantam Spectra)
sf novel 27th place
Brightness Reef (Bantam Spectra)
sf novel 2nd place
Otherness (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)
collection winner
Glory Season (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)
sf novel 5th place
“What Continues, What Fails... ” (Interzone #54 Dec 1991)
novelette 8th place
Earth (Bantam Spectra)
sf novel 2nd place
“Dr. Pak's Preschool” (F&SF Jul 1990)
novelette 2nd place
“Piecework ” (Interzone #33 Jan/Feb 1990)
novelette 8th place
“Privacy ” (F&SF Sep 1989)
short story 3rd place
“The Giving Plague ” (Interzone #23 Spring 1988)
short story 4th place
The Uplift War (Phantasia; Bantam Spectra)
sf novel winner
“Thor Meets Captain America ” (F&SF Jul 1986)
novelette winner
The River of Time (Dark Harvest)
collection 6th place
The Postman (Bantam Spectra)
sf novel winner
The Practice Effect (Bantam)
sf novel 27th place
“Cyclops” (Asimov's Mar 1984)
novella 14th place
“The Crystal Spheres ” (Analog Jan 1984)
short story 2nd place
Startide Rising (Bantam)
sf novel winner
“The Postman” (Asimov's Nov 1982)
novella 4th place
“Coexistence” (Asimov's May 1982)
short story 17th place
“The Loom of Thessaly ” (Asimov's 23 Nov 1981)
novella 15th place
Sundiver (Bantam)
first novel 3rd place
(8 nominations; 4 wins)
“Mars Opposition ” (Analog Jan/Feb 2005)
novelette 2nd place
“A Professor at Harvard ” (Analog Jul/Aug 2003)
short story 2nd place (tie)
“Stones of Significance ” (Analog Jan 2000)
novelette winner
“Just How Dangerous Is the Galaxy?” (Analog Jul 1985)
fact article winner
“The Crystal Spheres ” (Analog Jan 1984)
short story winner
“The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kilo-parsecs” (Analog May 1984)
fact article winner
“Xenology: The New Science of Asking, 'Who's Out There?'” (Analog May 1983)
fact article 2nd place
“The Tides of Kithrup ” (Analog 25 May 1981)
novella/novelette 5th place
Balrog Awards
for fantasy works, presented an annual FoolsCon in Kansas City
(1 nomination; 1 win)
The Practice Effect (Bantam)
novel winner
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Sky Horizon: Colony High, Book One (by cannot find David_Brin in
David Brin, illustrated by
Scott Hampton) (Subterranean Press)
Hal Clement Award (young adult)
winner
(4 nominations; 1 win)
“Piecework ” (Interzone #33 Jan/Feb 1990)
fiction 10th place (tie)
“The Giving Plague ” (Interzone #23 Spring 1988)
fiction winner
“The Giving Plague ” (Interzone #23 Spring 1988)
fiction 2nd place
all-time best sf author 17th place (tie)
Italia Awards
for SF/F works published in Italy, voted by members of annual Italcon
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Infinity's Shore
international novel winner
Phantastik Preis
for SF/F works published in Germany, polled by readers of Phantastik.de website
(1 nomination)
Existence
foreign novel 5th place
Prometheus Awards
for SF works on libertarian themes, voted by members of the Libertarian Futurist Society
(1 nomination)
The Uplift War (Bantam Spectra)
novel nomination
(5 nominations)
“What Continues, What Fails... ” (Interzone #54 Dec 1991)
novelette 3rd place
Earth (Bantam Spectra)
novel 2nd place
“Thor Meets Captain America ” (F&SF Jul 1986)
novelette 3rd place
The Postman (Bantam Spectra)
novel 2nd place
Startide Rising (Bantam)
novel 3rd place (tie)
Seiun Awards
for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(5 nominations; 2 wins)
Kiln People
translated long form nomination
Heaven's Reach
translated novel winner
“What Continues, What Fails... ”
translated short story nomination
Brightness Reef
translated novel nomination
The Uplift War
foreign novel winner