The Hugos were awarded on Saturday, August 30 at the Marriott River Center Hotel in San Antonio, Texas at LoneStarCon2. Neal Barrett, Jr. served as Master of Ceremonies. 1997 Hugo winners.
356 ballots cast
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon (Baen)
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
209 ballots cast
"Immersion" by Gregory Benford (SF Age 3/96)
"Blood of The Dragon" by George R. R. Martin (Asimov's 7/96)
"Time Travelers Never Die" by Jack McDevitt (Asimov's 5/96)
"The Cost to Be Wise" by Maureen F. McHugh (Starlight 1)
"Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion (F&SF 12/96)
"Gas Fish" by Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's 2/96)
Note: There are six nominees due to a tie vote.
221 ballots cast
"Age of Aquarius" by William Barton (Asimov's 5/96)
"Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast" by Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's 3/96)
"Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Asimov's 8/96)
"The Land of Nod" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 6/96)
"Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (Intersections; Asimov's 10/96)
254 ballots cast
"Gone" by John Crowley (F&SF 9/96)
"Decency" by Robert Reed (Asimov's 6/96)
"The Dead" by Michael Swanwick (Starlight 1)
"Un-Birthday Boy" by James White (Analog 2/96)
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society..." by Connie Willis (Asimov's 4/96; War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches)
163 ballots cast
Look at the Evidence by John Clute (Serconia Press)
Time & Chance by L. Sprague de Camp (Grant)
The Silence of the Langford by Dave Langford (NESFA Press)
The Faces of Fantasy by Patti Perret (Tor)
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones (Gollancz/Vista)
283 ballots cast
Independence Day (Centropolis Film Productions/20th Century Fox Film) Directed by Roland Emmerich, Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, Produced by Dean Devlin
Mars Attacks! (Warner Bros.) Directed by Tim Burton, Written by Jonathan Gems, Produced by Tim Burton & Larry Franco
Babylon 5 "Severed Dreams" (Warner Bros.) Directed by David J. Eagle, Written by J. Michael Straczynski, Produced by John Copeland
Star Trek: First Contact (Paramount Pictures) Directed by Jonathan Frakes, Story by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga & Rick Berman, Screenplay by Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga, Produced by Rick Berman
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Trials and Tribble-ations" (Paramount Pictures) Directed by Jonathan West, Written by Ronald D. Moore & Rene Echevarria, Story by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler & Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Executive Producers Ira Steven Behr & Rick Berman. Based upon the original series Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles by David Gerrold.
Note: Two Babylon 5 episodes, "War without End" and "Z'Ha'Dum," received enough votes to be nominated but J. Michael Straczynski declined.
248 ballots cast
Gardner Dozois (Asimov's)
Scott Edelman (SF Age)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (F&SF)
Stanley Schmidt (Analog)
226 ballots cast
Thomas Canty
David Cherry
Bob Eggleton
Don Maitz
Michael Whelan
223 ballots cast
Interzone (David Pringle, ed.)
Locus (Charles N. Brown, ed.)
The New York Review of Science Fiction (Kathryn Cramer, Tad Dembinski, Ariel Haméon, David G. Hartwell and Kevin Maroney, eds.)
Science Fiction Chronicle (Andrew Porter, ed.)
Speculations (Kent Brewster, ed.)
224 ballots cast
Ansible (Dave Langford, ed.)
File 770 (Mike Glyer, ed.)
Mimosa (Dick & Nicki Lynch, ed.)
Nova Express (Lawrence Person, ed.)
Tangent (Dave Truesdale, ed.)
202 ballots cast
Sharon Farber
Mike Glyer
Andy Hooper
Dave Langford
Evelyn C. Leeper
177 ballots
Ian Gunn
Joe Mayhew
Peggy Ranson
William Rotsler
Sherlock
Note: Brad Foster and Teddy Harvia declined their nominations.
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156 ballots cast
Michael A. Burstein2
Raphael Carter1
Richard Garfinkle1
Katya Reimann1
Sharon Shinn2
1 - first year of eligibility
2 - second and final year of eligibility