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The 1980 Rhysling Anthology and Awards




The 1980 Rhysling Awards


Short Poem Category

Winners (tie)

  • Encased in the Amber of Eternity by Robert Frazier
  • The Migration of Darkness by Peter Payack
  • Long Poem Category

    Winner

  • The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes by Andrew Joron




  • The Rhysling Awards 1980


    The 1980 Rhysling Anthology             Graphics: Robert Frazier, Karen G. Jollie & M.M. Roessner-Herman
                Cover Art: Karen G. Jollie
                SFPA Secretary and Factotum: Suzette Haden Elgin
                Published in Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 1980


    Rhysling Award nominees published in 1979

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

    SHORT POEMS

  • Neal Wilgus • Metamorphosis • Braincandy, July 1979
  • Peter Payack • The Migration of Darkness • Asimov's Science Fiction, Aug. 1979
  • Bruce Boston • If Gravity Was Like Weather • Star*Line, June 1979
  • Duane Ackerson • The Stars, Crucified on Thier Limbs of Light • Star*Line, 1979
  • Dave Calder • we came in peace for all mankind • Spaced, Toulouse Press, 1979
  • Ursula K. Le Guin • Siva and Kama • Kenyon Review, 1979
  • Robert Frazier • Encased in the Amber of Eternity • The Future at War, Vol. 1, 1979
  • Duane Ackerson • After • Uranus, Issue 1, 1979


    LONG POEMS

  • David Calder • spaceman • Spaced, Toulouse Press, 1979
  • Andrew Joron • The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes • New Worlds, Issue 216, 1979


    Nominees not included in the anthology:
    Steve Eng • Questionnaire • Space & Time, July 1979
    John Hollander • Blue Wine • Kenyon Review, 1979
    H. Warner Munn • How Farmer Shore Came to Valhalla • The Book of Munn, 1979






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