Hugo Awards 1979
Winners and nominees of the 1979 Hugo Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre (winner)
- ✦The White Dragon — Anne McCaffrey(nominee)
- ✦The Faded Sun: Kesrith — C. J. Cherryh(nominee)
- ✦Blind Voices — Tom Reamy (nominee)
Best Dramatic Presentation
- 🏆Superman — Mario Puzo(winner)
- 🏆 Superman (winner)
- 🏆Superman — Richard Donner (winner)
- 🏆Superman — Jerry Siegel (winner)
- 🏆Superman — Joe Shuster (winner)
- 🏆Superman — David Newman (winner)
- 🏆Superman — Robert Benton (winner)
- 🏆Superman — Leslie Newman (winner)
- ✦Invasion of the Body Snatchers — Jack Finney(nominee)
- ✦The Lord of the Rings — Peter S. Beagle (nominee)
- ✦Watership Down — Richard Adams(nominee)
- ✦ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (nominee)
- ✦Watership Down — Martin Rosen (nominee)
Best Fan Writer
- 🏆 Bob Shaw (winner)
Best Fanzine
- 🏆Science Fiction Review — Richard E. Geis (winner)
Best Novelette
- 🏆Hunter's Moon — Poul Anderson(winner)
- ✦Devil You Don't Know — Dean Ing (nominee)
- ✦Mikal's Songbird — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦The Barbie Murders — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Had No Idea — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Persistence of Vision — John Varley (winner)
- ✦Enemies of the System — Brian Aldiss(nominee)
- ✦Fireship — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Seven American Nights — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦The Watched — Christopher Priest(nominee)
Best Professional Editor
- 🏆Ben Bova(winner)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Cassandra — C. J. Cherryh(winner)
- ✦The Very Slow Time Machine — Ian Watson(nominee)
- ✦View from a Height — Joan D. Vinge (nominee)
- ✦Count the Clock That Tells the Time — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦Stone — Edward Bryant (nominee)
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