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The 1988 Rhysling Anthology and Awards

The 1988 Rhysling Awards

Short Poem Category

Winners (tie)

The Nightmare Collector by Bruce Boston

Rocky Road to Hoe by Suzette Haden Elgin

Long Poem Category

Winner

White Trains by Lucius Shepard

Rhysling Anthology 1988
Nominees for the Best Science Fiction Poetry of 1987

The 1988 Rhysling Anthology Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association

Rhysling Award nominees published in 1987

      Awards Key
            First Place winner
            More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

SHORT POEMS

Bruce Boston • The Nightmare Collector • Night Cry, Spring 1987

Bruce Boston • The Spider • Star*Line, May 1987

Jack Butler • Kybernetikos • Star*Line, July 1987

Marcia Cohee • Incubus • Star*Line, March 1987

S. R. Compton • The Drowners • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Jan. 1987

S. R. Compton • And at that moment... • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Jan. 1987

Denise D. Dumars • I am myself—What the others said was true— • Grue, Issue 4, 1987

Suzette Haden Elgin • Rocky Road to Hoe • Star*Line, Sept. 1987

Robert Frazier • Tracking Through the Mutant Rain Forest • Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1987

Albert Goldbarth • The Way the Novel Functions • Poetry, Oct. 1987

John Grey • Chinese Food, That Last Time • Dreams & Nightmares, Aug. 1987

Eileen Kernaghan • Tales from the Holograph Woods • Prism International, Vol. 25 Issue 4, 1987

Sandra J. Lindow • What to Do with a Dead Dragon • Pandora, Issue 17, 1987

Hank Mannheimer • Col. Barry Fields (Ret.) • Star*Line, July 1987

Mark Rich • On Escaping • Ice River, Issue 2, 1987

Tom Riley • Ruby Angels • Star*Line, Nov./Dec., 1987

Marilyn Shea • Om • Star*Line, Nov./Dec., 1987

LONG POEMS

Gregory Benford • Bleak Velocities • Synergy #1, HBJ Harvest, 1987

Bruce Boston • Interstellar Tract • Nuclear Futures, Velocities Chapbook Series, 1987

Roger L. Dutcher & Robert Frazier • Nazca Lines • Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1987

Ron Ellis • Wind Gauge • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, April 1987

Thomas Glave, Jr. • Landscape in Black • Pulpsmith, Winter 1987

Paul Merchant • from A Life of Copernicus • Ice River, Issue 1, 1987

John Calvin Rezmerski • Challengers • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 2, 1987

Mark Rich • Descent • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, April 1987

Lucius Shepard • White Trains • Night Cry, Spring 1987

Steve Sneyd • On the Line of the Ecliptic • Oddities, Issue 7, 1987

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