Rhysling Award

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Rhysling Award
Awarded forBest speculative poetry of the prior year
CountryUnited States
Presented byScience Fiction Poetry Association

The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth".[1] The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines.[1]

The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. The nominated works are then compiled into an anthology called , and members of the Association then vote on the final winners. From 2005 to 2011, the Awards were presented in July at a ceremony at Readercon. While the "Best Short Poem" category allows very short poems to be entered the SFPA also has the Dwarf Stars Award which is for poems from one to ten lines.[2]

In 2005, the SFPA published an anthology of the winning poems, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase.[3][4]

Best Long Poem winners[]

  • 1978: Gene Wolfe, The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps
  • 1979: Michael Bishop, For the Lady of a Physicist
  • 1980: Andrew Joron, The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes
  • 1981: Thomas M. Disch, On Science Fiction
  • 1982: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Well of Baln
  • 1983: Adam Cornford, Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide
  • 1984: Joe Haldeman, Saul's Death: Two Sestinas
  • 1985: Siv Cedering, A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
  • 1986: Andrew Joron, Shipwrecked on Destiny Five
  • 1987: W. Gregory Stewart, Daedalus
  • 1988: Lucius Shepard, White Trains
  • 1989 (tie): Bruce Boston, In the Darkened Hours; John M. Ford, Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
  • 1990: Patrick McKinnon, dear spacemen
  • 1991: , The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire
  • 1992: W. Gregory Stewart, the button and what you know
  • 1993: , To Be from Earth
  • 1994: W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier, Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale
  • 1995: , Pilot, Pilot
  • 1996: Margaret B. Simon, Variants of the Obsolete
  • 1997: , Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes
  • 1998: Laurel Winter, why goldfish shouldn't use power tools
  • 1999: Bruce Boston, Confessions of a Body Thief
  • 2000: Geoffrey A. Landis, Christmas (after we all get time machines)
  • 2001: Joe Haldeman, January Fires
  • 2002: Lawrence Schimel, How to Make a Human
  • 2003 (tie): and Mike Allen, Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy; Sonya Taaffe, Matlacihuatl's Gift
  • 2004: Theodora Goss, Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
  • 2005: Tim Pratt, Soul Searching
  • 2006: and , The Tin Men
  • 2007: Mike Allen, The Journey to Kailash
  • 2008: Catherynne M. Valente, The Seven Devils of Central California
  • 2009: Geoffrey A. Landis, Search
  • 2010: and Samantha Henderson, In the Astronaut Asylum
  • 2011: C. S. E. Cooney, The Sea King's Second Bride
  • 2012: , The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages
  • 2013: , Into Flight[5]
  • 2014: Mary Soon Lee, Interregnum
  • 2015: F.J. Bergmann, 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien
  • 2016: (tie) Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, It Begins With A Haunting; , Keziah
  • 2017: Theodora Goss, Rose Child
  • 2018: Neil Gaiman, The Mushroom Hunters[6]
  • 2019: , Ursula le Guin in the Underworld[7]
  • 2020: Rebecca Buchanan, "Heliobacterium daphnephilum"[8]

Best Short Poem winners[]

  • 1978 (tie): Duane Ackerson, "The Starman"; Andrew Joron, "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night"; Sonya Dorman, "Corruption of Metals"
  • 1979 (tie): Duane Ackerson, "Fatalities"; , "Storybooks and Treasure Maps"
  • 1980 (tie): Robert Frazier, "Encased in the Amber of Eternity"; , "The Migration of Darkness"
  • 1981: , "Meeting Place"
  • 1982: , "On the Speed of Sight"
  • 1983: Alan P. Lightman, "In Computers"
  • 1984: , "Two Sonnets"
  • 1985: Bruce Boston, "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets"
  • 1986: Susan Palwick, "The Neighbor's Wife"
  • 1987 (tie): , "Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope"; , "A Dream of Heredity"
  • 1988 (tie): Bruce Boston, "The Nightmare Collector"; Suzette Haden Elgin, "Rocky Road to Hoe"
  • 1989: Robert Frazier, "Salinity"
  • 1990: G. Sutton Breiding, "Epitaph for Dreams"
  • 1991: Joe Haldeman, "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh"
  • 1992: , "Song of the Martian Cricket"
  • 1993: Jane Yolen, "Will"
  • 1994 (tie): Bruce Boston, "Spacer's Compass"; Jeff VanderMeer, "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over"
  • 1995: , "Skin of Glass"
  • 1996: Bruce Boston, "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation"
  • 1997: W. Gregory Stewart, "Day Omega"
  • 1998: , "Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother"
  • 1999: Laurel Winter, "egg horror poem"
  • 2000: , "Grimoire"
  • 2001: Bruce Boston, "My Wife Returns as She Would Have It"
  • 2002: William John Watkins, "We Die as Angels"
  • 2003: Ruth Berman, "Potherb Gardening"
  • 2004: , "Just Distance"
  • 2005: Greg Beatty, "No Ruined Lunar City"
  • 2006: Mike Allen, "The Strip Search"
  • 2007: , "The Graven Idol's Godheart"
  • 2008: F.J. Bergmann, "Eating Light"
  • 2009: Amal El-Mohtar, "Song for an Ancient City"
  • 2010: , "To Theia"
  • 2011: Amal El-Mohtar, "Peach-Creamed Honey"
  • 2012: , "The Library, After"
  • 2013: , "The Cat Star"[5]
  • 2014: Amal El-Mohtar, "Turning the Leaves"[9]
  • 2015: Marge Simon, "Shutdown"
  • 2016: Ruth Berman, "Time Travel Vocabulary Problems"
  • 2017: Marge Simon, "George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts"
  • 2018: Mary Soon Lee, "Advice to a Six-year-old"[10]
  • 2019: Beth Cato, "After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls"[11]
  • 2020: , "Taking, Keeping"[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b David Langford, "Rhysling Award." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 February 2013
  2. ^ The Science Fiction Poetry Association: Dwarf Stars
  3. ^ and Mike Allen, ed. (2005). The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase. Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books. p. 170 pp. ISBN 0-8095-1162-2. This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.
  4. ^ Elizabeth Barrette, Review: The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, edited by Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, Strange Horizons, 8 February 2006 (accessed 16 Sept. 2016)
  5. ^ a b Silver, Steven H (September 3, 2013). "Rhysling Award". SF Site. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  6. ^ "2018 Rhysling Award Winners". 6 July 2018.
  7. ^ http://sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/19rhysling.html/
  8. ^ "Science Fiction Poetry Association".
  9. ^ "News". 3 December 2013.
  10. ^ http://sfpoetry.com/sl/edchoice/40.2-4.html
  11. ^ http://sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/19rhysling.html
  12. ^ "Science Fiction Poetry Association".

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