HOMer Award
The HOMer Award was a literary prize that was awarded from 1991 to 2001 for works in the field of science fiction . Fantasy and horror novels also received awards in the first two years . From 1996 onwards, prizes were also awarded in a category for SF films and series episodes.
The prize was awarded by the participants in the science fiction and fantasy forum on CompuServe , after which the prize was also named - the forum Home and Hobby Forum Number 9 was selected using the abbreviation HOM-9 , which is why the participants call themselves "Homers" called. With a number of participants ranging between 18,000 and 40,000, the HOMer Awards were the audience award with the broadest base in their time . During the award ceremony, it was criticized that the participation of award candidates in the forum discussions would have been too important. The winners were announced in Locus Magazine and the winners received a calligraphic certificate.
Awards were given in the following categories:
- SF Novel: science fiction novel
- Fantasy Novel: Fantasy novel
- Horror Novel: horror novel
- First novel: first novel
- Novella: short novel
- Novelette: narrative
- Short Story: short story
- Dramatic Presentation: film and series episode
Similar to the categories of the Nebula Awards , texts were assigned to the Novel , Novella , Novelette and Short Story categories based on the length of the text (number of words).
List of award winners
Multiple allocation in a year is indicated by a separating slash ("/").
- SF Novel
- 2001 Robert J. Sawyer for Calculating God
- 2000 Catherine Asaro for The Veiled Web
- 1999 Mike Resnick for Kirinyaga
- 1998 Anne Marston for Broken Blade
- 1997 Robert J. Sawyer for Starplex
- 1996 Robert J. Sawyer for The Terminal Experiment (also as Hobson's Choice )
- 1995 Robert J. Sawyer for End of an Era
- 1994 Robert J. Sawyer for Fossil Hunter
- 1993 Robert J. Sawyer for Far-Seer
- 1992 Anne McCaffrey for All the Weyrs of Pern / Lois McMaster Bujold for (tie) Barrayar
- 1991 John E. Stith for Redshift Rendezvous
- Fantasy novel
- 1992 Charles de Lint for The Little Country
- 1991 Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts for Servant of the Empire
- Horror novel
- 1992 Robert Holdstock for The Fetch
- 1991 SP Somtow for Moon Dance
- First novel
- 1991 Robert J. Sawyer for Golden Fleece
- Novella
- 2001 Catherine Asaro for A Roll of the Dice
- 2000 Mike Resnick for Hunting the Snark
- 1999 Catherine Asaro for Aurora in Four Voices
- 1997 Jack McDevitt for Time Travelers Never Die
- 1996 Mike Resnick and Susan Shwartz for Bibi
- 1995 Mike Resnick for Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
- 1994 Jack Cady for The Night We Buried Road Dog
- 1993 Maureen F. McHugh for Protection
- 1992 Kristine Kathryn Rusch for The Gallery of His Dreams
- 1991 John E. Stith for Naught for Hire
- Novelette
- 2001 Ron Collins for The Taranth Stone
- 2000 Eleanor Arnason for Stellar Harvest
- 1999 Kristine Kathryn Rusch for Echea
- 1997 Paul Levinson for The Copyright Notice Case
- 1996 Mike Resnick for When the Old Gods Die
- 1995 David Gerrold for The Martian Child
- 1994 George Alec Effinger for Beast
- 1993 Mike Resnick for Song of a Dry River
- 1992 Pat Cadigan for Dispatches from the Revolution
- 1991 Mike Resnick for The Manamouki
- Short story
- 2001 Mike Resnick for The Elephants on Neptune
- 2000 Mike Resnick for Hothouse Flowers
- 1999 Barbara Galler-Smith for Face of God
- 1998 Louise Rowder for The Symmetry of Duty
- 1997 Robert J. Sawyer for Above It All
- 1996 Robert J. Sawyer for You See But You Do Not Observe
- 1995 Joe Haldeman for None So Blind
- 1994 Mike Resnick for Mwalimu in the Squared Circle
- 1993 Barbara Delaplace for Black Ice
- 1992 Connie Willis for In the Late Cretaceous
- 1991 Harry Turtledove for Designated Hitter
- Dramatic Presentation
- 2001 Tiger and Dragon
- 2000 matrix
- 1999 Babylon 5 : Sleeping in Light
- 1998 Contact
- 1997 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : Trials and Tribble-ations
- 1996 Babylon 5: Comes the Inquisitor
Web links
- HOMer Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- HOMer Award , overview in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- HOMer Award , entry in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer Award , page by Robert J. Sawyer , accessed June 19, 2019.