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The 1994 Rhysling Anthology and Awards

The 1994 Rhysling Awards

Short Poem Category

Winners (tie)

Spacer’s Compass by Bruce Boston

Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over by Jeff VanderMeer

Long Poem Category

Winner

Basement Flats by W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier

The 1994 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 1993

            Rhysling Chair: J.C. Hendee
            Cover art: Charles Fallis
            Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association
                 in cooperation with Emerald City Publishing and Figment Press

Rhysling Award nominees published in 1993

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

SHORT POEMS

John Grey • The Tired Astronaut • Unreality, Issue 3, 1993

Deborah P. Kolodji • Ship Stowaway • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993

Laurel Winter • The Grandmother Paradox • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 12, 1993

Keith Allen Daniels & Marge Ballif Simon • Triplets for Thomas Wiloch • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 4, 1993

Keith Allen Daniels • Essence of Poet • Xenophilia, Issue 6, 1993

J. W. Donnelly • Like a Rock • Scavenger’s Newsletter, Issue 118, 1993

Harry Davidov • Praise and Invocation • Diet Soap, Issue 3, 1993

William John Watkins • These Angels in Our Midst • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1993

Bruce Boston • Spacer’s Compass • Specula, Talisman, 1993

Charlee Jacob • The Once and Future Robot • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 3, 1993

Jeff VanderMeer • Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over • The Silver Web, Winter/Spring 1993

Michael R. Collings • Spatio-Temporal Spectacles • Space & Time, Issue 81, 1993

Keith Allen Daniels • Numbers of the Beast • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nov. 1993

Wendy Rathbone • Poem from the Stars • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1993

Steve Sneyd • Why Vampires Do Not Use Their Vote • Prisoners of the Night, Issue 7, 1993

A. J. Wells • Labor Unrest in High Orbit • Xizquil, Oct. 1993

William John Watkins • Once More at Thermopylae • Figment, Issue 15, 1993

Richard Mathews • Videroid Left • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 4, 1993

William John Watkins • Xenophobe’s Eulogy for Prometheus • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Winter 1993

Wayne Edwards • Thump: Thump • Night Songs, Summer 1993

Amy Gerstler • Mr. Right • Urbanus/RaiZirr, Issue 4, 1993

Barbara Genovese • Gravediggers Don’t Farewell Lowering Children • Fuel, Issue 5, 1993

Ann K. Schwader • Mutant Autumn • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 5, 1993

Charlee Jacob • The Waxing During Earthquake • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 40, 1993

John Grey • The Watch on Larry • Not One of Us, Nov. 1993

LONG POEMS

Errol Miller • The Imagery of Grieving • The Kore, Issue 1, 1993

Ray Bradbury & Jonathan V. Post • Quatrains from The Martian Chronicles • Space & Time, Issue 81, 1993

Uncle River • A Shaman • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993

Jacie Ragan • Astaroth • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 3, 1993

Marianne J. Dyson • Blind Date • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1993

Andrew Joron • Seven Gnomonic Measurements • Talisman, Issue 11, 1993

Eileen Kernaghan • Circle Dance • On Spec, Spring 1993

t. Winter-Damon • To a Fig Tree • Xizquil, May 1993

J. C. Hendee • Man-End (from the Choir of Beasts) • The Leading Edge, Issue 27, 1993

Andrew Darlington • Beautiful Pagan/On Quantum Physics at the Edge of Chaos • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 5, 1993

Bruce Boston & t. winter-damon • Holocaustic Museum Fragments for Binary Extrapolation • Specula, Talisman, 1993

G. Sutton Breiding • untitled • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993

Bruce Boston • The Last Existentialist • Chris Drumm Books, 1993

W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier • Basement Flats • Air Fish, Catseye Books, 1993

Jonathan V. Post • Science Fiction and the Search for Transcendence • Space & Time, Issue 82, 1993

Charlee Jacob • Our Crimes of Passion • Prisoners of the Night, Issue 7, 1993

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