Hugo Awards 1981
Winners and nominees of the 1981 Hugo Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆The Snow Queen — Joan D. Vinge (winner)
- ✦Beyond the Blue Event Horizon — Frederik Pohl(nominee)
- ✦Lord Valentine's Castle — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦The Ringworld Engineers — Larry Niven(nominee)
- ✦Wizard — John Varley (nominee)
Best Dramatic Presentation
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back — Irvin Kershner (winner)
- 🏆 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (winner)
- 🏆Raiders of the Lost Ark — Lawrence Kasdan (winner)
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back — Lawrence Kasdan (winner)
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi — Lawrence Kasdan (winner)
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back — Leigh Brackett(winner)
- 🏆Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back — George Lucas (winner)
- ✦The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin(nominee)
- ✦The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
Best Fan Writer
- 🏆 Susan Wood (winner)
Best Fanzine
- 🏆 Locus (winner)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Cloak and the Staff — Gordon R. Dickson(winner)
- ✦The Lordly Ones — Keith Roberts(nominee)
- ✦Beatnik Bayou — John Varley (nominee)
- ✦The Autopsy — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦The Ugly Chickens — Howard Waldrop (nominee)
- ✦Savage Planet — Barry B. Longyear(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Lost Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson(winner)
- ✦One-Wing — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Nightflyers — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦All the Lies That Are My Life — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦One-Wing — Lisa Tuttle(nominee)
- ✦The Brave Little Toaster — Thomas M. Disch (nominee)
Best Related Work
- 🏆Cosmos — Carl Sagan (winner)
Best Short Story
- 🏆Grotto of the Dancing Deer — Clifford D. Simak(winner)
- ✦Our Lady of the Sauropods — Robert Silverberg (nominee)
- ✦Spidersong — Susan C. Petrey (nominee)
- ✦Cold Hands — Jeff Duntemann (nominee)
- ✦Guardian — Jeff Duntemann (nominee)
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