Hugo Awards 1978
Winners and nominees of the 1978 Hugo Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Gateway — Frederik Pohl(winner)
- ✦Dying of the Light — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Lucifer's Hammer — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Time Storm — Gordon R. Dickson(nominee)
- ✦The Forbidden Tower — Marion Zimmer Bradley(nominee)
- ✦Lucifer's Hammer — Jerry Pournelle(nominee)
Best Dramatic Presentation
- 🏆 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (winner)
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope — George Lucas (winner)
- ✦The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien(nominee)
Best Fan Writer
- 🏆 Richard E. Geis (winner)
Best Fanzine
- 🏆Locus — Dena Brown (winner)
- 🏆 Locus (winner)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Eyes of Amber — Joan D. Vinge (winner)
- ✦Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Screwfly Solution — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Prismatica — Samuel R. Delany(nominee)
- ✦The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs — Carter Scholz (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Stardance — Spider Robinson (winner)
- 🏆Stardance — Jeanne Robinson (winner)
- ✦Aztecs — Vonda N. McIntyre (nominee)
- ✦A Snark in the Night — Gregory Benford(nominee)
- ✦In the Hall of the Martian Kings — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Wonderful Secret — Keith Laumer(nominee)
Best Professional Artist
- 🏆 Rick Sternbach (winner)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Jeffty Is Five — Harlan Ellison(winner)
- ✦Lauralyn — Randall Garrett(nominee)
- ✦Dog Day Evening — Spider Robinson (nominee)
- ✦Time-Sharing Angel — Alice Bradley Sheldon (nominee)
- ✦Air Raid — John Varley (nominee)
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