sf/f/h awards

[truepenny]

So nhw, in a labor of insanity love, has number-crunched the results of everybody who chose to propagate this meme.

As a writer/reader/ardent fan of science fiction and fantasy, I find the results interesting and thought-provoking, and although I am by no means hinting either (a.) that anyone else should inflict this meme upon themselves or (b.) that nhw should then be obliged to crunch more numbers, I do think that a larger statistical sample would be cool. Because the question about any award is: who is it important to? It's important to the people who win, if only for the sake of their egos, and it's important to the people who confer it, ditto ... but who else? I know, for example, that if a book wins the Tiptree, I will be rewarded immesurably for the effort of reading it, so that particular award has value to me as a reader. And nhw's results suggest that the Hugo and the Nebula are fairly accurate reflections of what people are reading. And I think those kinds of things are worth knowing.

Where's the ambiguity? Over there, in a box. The beast is molting and fluff gets up your nose.

Also, in my own act of insanity, I have recompiled the list of award-winners, this time in alphabetical order by author. Which makes it much more possible to use as a checklist when inspecting either one's own bookshelves or the myriad shy treasures of a bookstore.

Arnason, Eleanor, A Woman of the Iron People (Tiptree, 1991).
Asaro, Catherine. The Quantum Rose (Nebula, 2001).
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation's Edge (Hugo, 1983).
---.The Gods Themselves (Nebula, 1972; Hugo, 1973).
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale (Clarke, 1987).
Baxter, Stephen. The Time Ships (Dick, 1996).
---. Vacuum Diagrams: Stories of the Xeelee Sequence (Dick, 1999).
Bear, Greg. Darwin's Radio (Nebula, 2000).
---. Moving Mars (Nebula, 1994).
Benford, Gregory. Timescape (Nebula, 1980).
Berliner, Janet, and George Guthridge. Children of the Dusk (Stoker, 1997).
Bester, Alfred. The Demolished Man (Hugo, 1953).
Bethke, Bruce. Headcrash (Dick, 1995).
Bishop, Michael. No Enemy But Time (Nebula, 1982).
Blaylock, James P. Homunculus (Dick, 1986).
Blish, James. A Case of Conscience (Hugo, 1959).
Brin, David. Startide Rising (Nebula, 1983; Hugo, 1984).
---. The Uplift War (Hugo, 1988).
Brunner, John. Stand on Zanzibar (Hugo, 1969).
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Barrayar (Hugo, 1992).
---. Falling Free (Nebula, 1988).
---. Mirror Dance (Hugo, 1995).
---. Paladin of Souls (Hugo, Nebula, 2004).
---. The Vor Game (Hugo, 1991).
Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Talents (Nebula, 1999).
Cadigan, Pat. Fools (Clarke, 1995).
---. Synners (Clarke, 1992).
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game (Nebula, 1985; Hugo, 1986).
---. Speaker for the Dead (Nebula, 1986; Hugo, 1987).
Chapman, Stepan. The Troika (Dick, 1997).
Charnas, Suzy McKee. The Conqueror's Child (Tiptree, 1999).
Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen (Hugo, 1989).
---. Downbelow Station (Hugo, 1982).
Clarke, Arthur C. The Fountains of Paradise (Nebula, 1979; Hugo, 1980).
---. Rendezvous with Rama (Nebula, 1973; Hugo, 1974).
Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Hugo, WFA, 2005).
Clifton, Mark. They'd Rather Be Right (Hugo, 1955).
Crowley, John. Little, Big (WFA, 1982).
Delany, Samuel R. Babel-17 (Nebula, 1966).
---. The Einstein Intersection (Nebula, 1967).
Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle (Hugo, 1963).
Dorsey, Candas Jane. Black Wine (Tiptree 1997).
Emshwiller, Carol. The Mount (Dick, 2002).
Erdrich, Louise. The Antelope Wife (WFA, 1999).
Farmer, Philip Jose. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Hugo, 1972).
Ford, Jeffrey. The Physiognomy (WFA, 1998).
Ford, John M. The Dragon Waiting (WFA, 1984).
---. Growing Up Weightless (Dick, 1993).
Gaiman, Neil. American Gods (Stoker, 2001; Hugo, Nebula, 2002).
Geary, Patricia. Strange Toys (Dick, 1987).
Ghosh, Amitav. The Calcutta Chromosome (Clarke, 1997).
Gibson, William. Neuromancer (Dick, Nebula, 1984; Hugo, 1985).
Gloss, Molly. Wild Life (Tiptree, 2000).
Goto, Hiromi, The Kappa Child (Tiptree, 2001).
Grant, Richard. Through the Heart (Dick, 1992).
Greenland, Colin. Take Back Plenty (Clarke, 1991).
Griffith, Nicola. Ammonite (Tiptree, 1993).
---. Slow River (Nebula, 1996).
Grimwood, Ken. Replay (WFA, 1988).
Haldeman, Joe. Camouflage (Tiptree, 2004).
---. Forever Peace (Hugo, Nebula, 1998).
---. The Forever War (Nebula, 1975; Hugo, 1976).
Hand, Elizabeth. Waking the Moon (Tiptree, 1995).
Harris, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs (Stoker, 1988).
Harrison, M. John. Light (Tiptree, 2002).
Heinlein, Robert. Double Star (Hugo, 1956).
---. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Hugo, 1967).
---. Starship Troopers (Hugo, 1960).
---. Stranger in a Strange Land (Hugo, 1962).
Herbert, Frank. Dune (Nebula, 1965; Hugo, 1966).
Holder, Nancy. Dead in the Water (Stoker, 1994).
Holdstock, Robert. Mythago Wood (WFA, 1985).
Hughart, Barry. The Bridge of Birds (WFA, 1985).
Jones, Gwyneth. Bold as Love (Clarke, 2002).
---. Life (Dick, 2004).
---. The White Queen (Tiptree, 1991).
Joyce, Graham. The Facts of Life (WFA, 2003).
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon (Nebula, 1966).
King, Stephen. Bag of Bones (Stoker, 1998).
---. The Green Mile (Stoker, 1996).
---. Misery (Stoker, 1987).
Kotzwinkle, William. Doctor Rat (WFA, 1977).
Kushner, Ellen. Thomas the Rhymer (WFA, 1991).
Laymon, Richard. The Traveling Vampire Show (Stoker, 2000).
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed (Nebula, 1974; Hugo, 1975).
---. The Left Hand of Darkness (Nebula, 1969; Hugo, 1970).
---. The Other Wind (WFA, 2002).
---. Tehanu (Nebula, 1990).
Leiber, Fritz. The Big Time (Hugo, 1958).
---. Our Lady of Darkness (WFA, 1978).
---. The Wanderer (Hugo, 1965).
Lynn, Elizabeth A. Watchtower (WFA, 1980).
Matheson, Richard. Bid Time Return (WFA, 1976).
McAuley, Paul J. Fairyland (Clarke, 1996).
McCammon, Robert R. Boy's Life (Stoker, 1991; WFA, 1992).
---. Mine (Stoker, 1990).
---. Swan Song (Stoker, 1987).
McDonald, Ian. King of Morning, Queen of Day (Dick, 1991).
McHugh, Maureen. China Mountain Zhang (Tiptree, 1992).
McIntyre, Vonda N. Dreamsnake (Nebula, 1978; Hugo, 1979).
---. The Moon and the Sun (Nebula, 1997).
McKillip, Patricia. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (WFA, 1975).
---. Ombria in Shadow (WFA 2003).
Miéville, China. Iron Council (Clarke, 2005).
---. Perdido Street Station (Clarke, 2001).
Miller, Walter, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz (Hugo, 1961).
Monteleone, Thomas F. Blood of the Lamb (Stoker, 1992).
Moon, Elizabeth. Speed of Dark (Nebula, 2003).
Moorcock, Michael. Gloriana (WFA, 1979).
Morgan, Richard K. Altered Carbon (Dick, 2003).
Morrow, James. Only Begotten Daughter (WFA, 1991).
---. Towing Jehovah (WFA, 1995).
Murphy, Pat. The Falling Woman (Nebula, 1987).
---. Points of Departure (Dick, 1990).
Niven, Larry. Ringworld (Nebula, 1970; Hugo, 1971).
Noon, Jeff. Vurt (Clarke, 1994).
Oates, Joyce Carol. Zombie (Stoker, 1995).
Panshin, Alexei. Rite of Passage (Nebula, 1968).
Piccirilli, Thomas. The Night Class (Stoker, 2002).
Piercy, Marge. Body of Glass (Clarke, 1993).
Pohl, Frederik. Gateway (Nebula, 1977; Hugo, 1978).
---. Man Plus (Nebula, 1976).
Pollack, Rachel. Godmother Night (WFA, 1997).
---. Unquenchable Fire (Clarke, 1989).
Powers, Tim. The Anubis Gates (Dick, 1983).
---. Declare (WFA, 2001).
---. Dinner at Deviant's Palace (Dick, 1985).
---. Last Call (WFA, 1993).
Priest, Christopher. The Prestige (WFA, 1996).
Priest, Christopher. The Separation (Clarke, 2003).
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars (Hugo, 1997).
---. Green Mars (Hugo, 1994).
---. Red Mars (Nebula, 1993).
Roszak, Theodore. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Tiptree, 1995).
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hugo, 2001).
Rucker, Rudy. Software (Dick, 1982).
---. Wetware (Dick, 1988).
Ruff, Matt. Set This House in Order (Tiptree, 2003).
Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow (Tiptree, 1996; Clarke, 1998).
Russo, Richard Paul. Ship of Fools (Dick, 2001).
---. Subterranean Gallery (Dick, 1989).
Ryman, Geoff. The Child Garden (Clarke, 1990).
---. 253: The Print Remix (Dick, 1998).
Sawyer, Robert J. Hominids (Hugo, 2003).
Sawyer, Robert J. The Terminal Experiment (Nebula, 1995).
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer's War (Nebula, 1989).
Scott, Martin. Thraxas (WFA, 2000).
Shea, Michael. Nifft the Lean (WFA, 1983).
Shiner, Lewis. Glimpses (WFA, 1994).
Silverberg, Robert. A Time of Changes (Nebula, 1971).
Simak, Clifford. Way Station (Hugo, 1964).
Simmons, Dan. Song of Kali (WFA, 1986).
---. Carrion Comfort (Stoker, 1989).
---. Hyperion (Hugo, 1990).
Sinisalo, Johanna. Not Before Sundown (US title, Troll: A Love Story) (Tiptree, 2004).
Smith, Michael Marshall. Only Forward (Dick, 2000).
Springer, Nancy. Larque on the Wing (Tiptree, 1994).
Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age (Hugo, 1996).
Stephenson, Neal. Quicksilver (Clarke, 2004).
Sterling, Bruce. Distraction (Clarke, 2000).
Stewart, Sean. Galveston (WFA, 2001).
Straub, Peter. In the Night Room (Stoker, 2004).
---. Koko (WFA, 1989).
---. lost boy lost girl (Stoker, 2003).
---. Mr. X (Stoker, 1999).
---. The Throat (Stoker, 1993).
Sullivan, Tricia. Dreaming in Smoke (Clarke, 1999).
Suskind, Patrick. Perfume (WFA, 1987).
Swanwick, Michael. Stations of the Tide (Nebula, 1991).
Turner, George. The Sea and Summer (Clarke, 1988).
Vance, Jack. Madouc (WFA, 1990).
Vinge, Joan D. The Snow Queen (Hugo, 1981).
Vinge, Vernor. A Deepness in the Sky (Hugo, 2000).
---. A Fire Upon the Deep (Hugo, 1993).
Walton, Jo. Tooth and Claw (WFA, 2004).
Wilhelm, Kate. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Hugo, 1977).
Willis, Connie. Domesday Book (Nebula, 1992; Hugo, 1993).
---. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Hugo, 1999).
Wilson, Robert Charles. Mysterium (Dick, 1994).
Wolfe, Gene. The Claw of the Conciliator (Nebula 1981).
---. The Shadow of the Torturer (WFA, 1981).
Womack, Jack. Elvissey (Dick, 1993).
Zelazny, Roger. ... And Call Me Conrad (Hugo, 1966).
---. Lord of Light (Hugo, 1968).