Fantasy year 1976
Overview
◄◄ | ◄ | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | Fantasy year 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | ► | ►►
Other events
Literary prizes
World Fantasy Award
| World Fantasy Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Richard Matheson | Bid time return | Best novel | |
| Fritz Leiber | Belsen Express | Best short story | |
| Avram Davidson | The Inquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy | Best anthology | |
| Frank Frazette | Best artist | ||
| Donald M. Grant | Special - Pro | ||
| Karl Edward Wagner | Special - Non-Pro | ||
| Fritz Leiber | For life's work | ||
British Fantasy Awards
| British Fantasy Award | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| author | Original title | German edition | category |
| Michael Moorcock | The Hollow Lands | The deep land | Best novel / August Derleth Award |
| Fritz Leiber | The Second Book of Fritz Leiber | Best short story | |
| Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | The knights of the coconut | Best movie |
| Roy Thomas & John Buscema | Savage Sword of Conan | Best comic | |
New publications literature
| German title |
Year of publication in German |
Original title | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The tides of Kregen | 1979 | The Tides of Kregen | Kenneth Bulmer | (as Alan Burt Akers) |
| The renegades of Kregen | 1979 | Renegades of Kregen | Kenneth Bulmer | (as Alan Burt Akers) |
| Escape to Opar | 1980 | Flight to Opar | Philip José Farmer | |
| The hand of Oberon | 1978 | The Hand of Oberon | Roger Zelazny | |
| The broken chain | 1978 | The Shattered Chain | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| The tribesmen of Gor | 1977 | Tribesmen of Gor | John Norman | |
| Where the chants end | 1984 | The end of all songs | Michael Moorcock | |
| Legends of the end of time | 1984 | Legends from the end of time | Michael Moorcock | |
| The Sea of Destiny | 1979 | The Sailor on the Seas of Fate | Michael Moorcock | |
| The school of puzzlers | 1981 | The Riddlemaster of Hed | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| Dragon song | 1981 | Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey | |
| Lord of the Storms | 1980 | The Storm Lord | Tanith Lee | |
| Camber from Culdi | 1979 | Camber of Culdi | Katherine Kurtz | |
| The night of the dragons | 1980 | The Dragon and the George | Gordon R. Dickson |
Film awards
New releases computer games
| German title | Original title | Studio | genre | platform | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure | Colossal Cave Adventure | William Crowther , Don Woods | Text adventure | PLATO | is generally considered the first computer game in the adventure category |
Conventions
- The 2nd World Fantasy Convention, at The Statler Hotel , New York , New York , guests of honor: CL Moore , Michael Moorcock , chairman: Thom Anderson
Born
Died
- Thomas Burnett Swann (* 1928)
