1994 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

Rhysling Chair: J.C. Hendee

Cover Image:  Charles Fallis

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place (tie): Bruce Boston • Spacer’s Compass • Specula, Talisman, 1993

First Place (tie): Jeff VanderMeer • Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over • The Silver Web, Winter/Spring 1993

Long Poem Category

First Place W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier • Basement Flats • Air Fish, Catseye Books, 1993

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

  • John Grey • The Tired Astronaut • Unreality, Issue 3, 1993
  • Deborah P. Kolodji • Ship Stowaway • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993
  • Laurel Winter • The Grandmother Paradox • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 12, 1993
  • Keith Allen Daniels & Marge Ballif Simon • Triplets for Thomas Wiloch • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 4, 1993
  • Keith Allen Daniels • Essence of Poet • Xenophilia, Issue 6, 1993
  • J. W. Donnelly • Like a Rock • Scavenger’s Newsletter, Issue 118, 1993
  • Harry Davidov • Praise and Invocation • Diet Soap, Issue 3, 1993
  • William John Watkins • These Angels in Our Midst • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1993
  • Bruce Boston • Spacer’s Compass • Specula, Talisman, 1993
  • Charlee Jacob • The Once and Future Robot • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 3, 1993
  • Jeff VanderMeer • Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over • The Silver Web, Winter/Spring 1993
  • Michael R. Collings • Spatio-Temporal Spectacles • Space & Time, Issue 81, 1993
  • Keith Allen Daniels • Numbers of the Beast • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nov. 1993
  • Wendy Rathbone • Poem from the Stars • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1993
  • Steve Sneyd • Why Vampires Do Not Use Their Vote • Prisoners of the Night, Issue 7, 1993
  • A. J. Wells • Labor Unrest in High Orbit • Xizquil, Oct. 1993
  • William John Watkins • Once More at Thermopylae • Figment, Issue 15, 1993
  • Richard Mathews • Videroid Left • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 4, 1993
  • William John Watkins • Xenophobe’s Eulogy for Prometheus • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Winter 1993
  • Wayne Edwards • Thump: Thump • Night Songs, Summer 1993
  • Amy Gerstler • Mr. Right • Urbanus/RaiZirr, Issue 4, 1993
  • Barbara Genovese • Gravediggers Don’t Farewell Lowering Children • Fuel, Issue 5, 1993
  • Ann K. Schwader • Mutant Autumn • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 5, 1993
  • Charlee Jacob • The Waxing During Earthquake • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 40, 1993
  • John Grey • The Watch on Larry • Not One of Us, Nov. 1993

Long Poems

  • Errol Miller • The Imagery of Grieving • The Kore, Issue 1, 1993
  • Ray Bradbury & Jonathan V. Post • Quatrains from The Martian Chronicles • Space & Time, Issue 81, 1993
  • Uncle River • A Shaman • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993
  • Jacie Ragan • Astaroth • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 3, 1993
  • Marianne J. Dyson • Blind Date • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1993
  • Andrew Joron • Seven Gnomonic Measurements • Talisman, Issue 11, 1993
  • Eileen Kernaghan • Circle Dance • On Spec, Spring 1993
  • t. Winter-Damon • To a Fig Tree • Xizquil, May 1993
  • J. C. Hendee • Man-End (from the Choir of Beasts) • The Leading Edge, Issue 27, 1993
  • Andrew Darlington • Beautiful Pagan/On Quantum Physics at the Edge of Chaos • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 5, 1993
  • Bruce Boston & t. winter-damon • Holocaustic Museum Fragments for Binary Extrapolation • Specula, Talisman, 1993
  • G. Sutton Breiding • untitled • Star*Line, Vol. 16 Issue 6/7, 1993
  • Bruce Boston • The Last Existentialist • Chris Drumm Books, 1993
  • W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier • Basement Flats • Air Fish, Catseye Books, 1993
  • Jonathan V. Post • Science Fiction and the Search for Transcendence • Space & Time, Issue 82, 1993
  • Charlee Jacob • Our Crimes of Passion • Prisoners of the Night, Issue 7, 1993
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