Ditmar Awards 1978
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1977
Australian Novel
- Winner: The Luck of Brin's Five, Cherry Wilder
- The Right Hand of Dextra, David J. Lake
- The Weeping Sky, Lee Harding
- The Wildings of Westron, David J. Lake
Australian Short Fiction
- Winner: “Albert's Bellyfull”, Francis Payne (Yggdrasil Feb 1977)
- “Ignorant of Magic”, Philippa C. Maddern (The View from the Edge: A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories)
- “The Long Fall”, A. Bertram Chandler (Amazing Stories Jul 1977)
- “The Two Body Problem”, Bruce Barnes (The View from the Edge: A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories)
International Fiction
- Winner: The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (Allen & Unwin)
- A Dream of Wessex, Christopher Priest (Faber & Faber)
- Gateway, Frederik Pohl (St. Martin's)
- “The House of Compassionate Sharers”, Michael Bishop (Cosmos #1 May 1977)
- “In the Hall of the Martian Kings”, John Varley (F&SF Feb 1977)
- Our Lady of Darkness (serial title “The Pale Brown Thing“), Fritz Leiber (Berkley/Putnam; F&SF Jan,Feb 1977)
- Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper (Chatto & Windus)
Australian Amateur Publication
- Winner: Enigma, Van Ikin
- Epsilon Eridani Express, Neville J. Angove
- Fanew Sletter, Leigh Edmonds
- Minardor, Marc Ortlieb
- Yggdrasil, Dennis Callegari & Alan Wilson
William Atheling Jr. Award For Criticism Or Review
- “The Martian Art of SF Criticism”, George Turner (Yggdrasil Feb,May,Aug 1977)
- “The Novels of D.G. Compton”, Andrew Whitmore (SF Commentary #52 Jun 1977)
- “Review of 'Going'”, Van Ikin
- Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, Robert S. Scholes & Eric S. Rabkin (Oxford University Press)
- “The Silverberg Phenomenon”, George Turner (SF Commentary #51 Mar 1977)
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