Hugo Nominees, 1986 (thing)

Novel Category:

• Blood Music by Greg Bear (Arbor House/Ace)
• Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia/DAW)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor)
• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Del Rey)
• The Postman by David Brin (Bantam/Spectra)

Novella Category:

• "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson (Asimov's 9/85)
• "The Only Neat Thing To Do" by James Tiptree Jr. (F&SF 10/85)
• "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg (Asimov's 2/85)
• "The Scapegoat" by C. J. Cherryh (Alien Stars 1 Baen)
• "Twenty-four Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai" by Roger Zelazny (Asimov's 7/85)

Novelette Category:

• "Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson (Omni 7/85)
• "The Fringe" by Orson Scott Card (F&SF 10/85)
• "A Gift From the Graylanders" by Michael Bishop (Asimov's 9/85)
• "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (Twilight Zone Magazine 12/85)
• "Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin (Asimov's 11/85)

Short Story Category:

• "Dinner in Audoghast" by Bruce Sterling (Asimov's 5/85)
• "Fermi and Frost" by Fred Pohl (Asimov's 1/85)
• "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll" by Howard Waldrop (Omni 1/85)
• "Hong's Bluff" by William F. Wu (Omni 3/85)
• "Snow" by John Crowley (Omni 11/85)

Non-Fiction Book Category:

• Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf by Algis Budrys (Southern Illinois University Press)
• An Edge in My Voice by Harlan Ellison (Donning)
• Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror by Douglas E. Winter (Berkley)
• The John W. Campbell Letters Volume I Perry Chapdelaine, Tony Chapdelaine and George Hay, eds. (A C Projects Inc.)
• The Pale Shadow of Science by Brian Aldiss (Serconia)
• Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller (Houghton Mifflin)

Dramatic Presentation Category:

• Back to the Future
• Brazil
• Cocoon
• Enemy Mine
• Ladyhawke

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