Anthology Information
Rhysling Chair/Editor: [uncredited]
Cover Image: Mark Neville
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

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Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place (tie): Robert Frazier • Salinity • Fantasy & Science Fiction, Feb. 1988
Long Poem Category
First Place (tie): Bruce Boston • In the Darkened Hours • The Nightmare Collector, 2AM, 1988
First Place (tie): John M. Ford • Winter Solstice, Camelot Station • Invitation to Camelot, Ace, 1988
All Nominated Poems
Short Poems
- Bruce Boston • Against the Ebon Rush of Night • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Sep./Oct. 1988
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson • The Crone • Eldritch Tales, Issue 15, 1988
- t. Winter-Damon • He Whispers the Secrets of Those Souls Blind of Morning’s Blue • Nocturne, Issue 1, 1988
- Christine & Jonathan V. Post • I’m Coming Home • Amazing, May 1988
- Wayne Allen Sallee • In the Meat Time • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 23, 1988
- Tom Whalen • The Larger Bodies • Ice River, Issue 3, 1988
- Wendy Rathbone • The Man With Black Wings • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 25, 1988
- Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier • Night Fishing on the Caribbean Littoral of the Mutant Rain Forest • Tropical Chills, Avon, 1988
- Tom Henighan • Paolo to Francesca • Star*Line, July/Aug. 1988
- Mary E. Choo • Sailing to Mars • Star*Line, July/Aug. 1988
- Robert Frazier • Salinity • Fantasy & Science Fiction, Feb. 1988
- Ruth Roston • Secretly • Pandora, Issue 19, 1988
- Camilla Decarnin • Toddaid • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 4, 1988
Long Poems
- W. Gregory Stewart • ...be written down/in History... • Star*Line, May/June 1988
- Melanie A. Rawls • Beauty’s Beast • Star*Line, March/April 1988
- Robert Frazier • The Daily Chernobyl • Synergy #2, HBJ Harvest, 1988
- Elspeth Aubrey • Hawkshop • Star*Line, Jan./Feb. 1988
- Bruce Boston • In the Darkened Hours • The Nightmare Collector, 2AM, 1988
- Tom Digby • Time Gum • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 3, 1988
- John M. Ford • Winter Solstice, Camelot Station • Invitation to Camelot, Ace, 1988
Poems Not Included in Anthology
- Fred Behrendt • Cauldron of Rain • Space & Time, Winter 1988