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

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Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: G. Sutton Breiding • Epitaph for Dreams • Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, 1989
Long Poem Category
First Place Patrick McKinnon • dear spacemen, • Vice Versa, Vol. 4 Issue 3, 1989
All Nominated Poems
Short Poems
- James Patrick Kelly • Turning into Animals • Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1989
- Denise D. Dumars • The Bamboo Cage • Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, 1989
- John B. Rosenman • Moon • Aboriginal Science Fiction, Sept./Oct. 1989
- G. Sutton Breiding • Epitaph for Dreams • Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, 1989
- M. Shayne Bell • One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution, 7 November 1917 to 7 November 2017: Novaya Moskva, Mars • Amazing, Sept. 1989
- Keith Allen Daniels • Xobanhaltun • Late Knocking, 1989
- Andrew Darlington • Daredevils of the Stratosphere/The Solid Space Mystery • The Reluctant Famulus, 1989
- H. J. Cording • Return of the Poison Dwarf • Scavenger’s Newsletter, Issue 69, 1989
- Andrew Darlington • The Wave-Particle Paradox • Poly: New Speculative Writing, Ocean View Books, 1989
- Michael F. Flynn • The Engineer Discourses Upon His Love • Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March 1989
- David Lunde • In Winter • Star*Line, May/June 1989
- Susan Palwick • Having Technology • Ice River, Issue 4 1989
- Joe W. Haldeman • The Star • Star*Line, Sept./Dec. 1989
- Wendy Rathbone • Wendy’s Wish • Pandora, Issue 23, 1989
- Alan Catlin • A Book of Revelations • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 28, 1989
- Maryanne K. Snyder • Mass Murderers Book Club • Grue, Issue 9, 1989
- David Chorlton • The Emperor, Ming Huang • Ellipsis, Issue 2, 1989
- Todd Mecklem, Jonathan Falk & Steven Gardiner • The Dung-Eating Hermits • Vice Versa, Vol. 4 Issue 2, 1989
- Ace G. Pilkington • Witch’s Progress • Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989
- Peter Redgrove • Vibes • Poly: New Speculative Writing, Ocean View Books, 1989
Long Poems
- Andrew Darlington • Steelworks on a Monetarist Landscape/Annihilating Angel • Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, 1989
- W. Gregory Stewart • Star Whales • Star*Line, May/June 1989
- Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier • Return to the Mutant Rain Forest • Masques #3, 1989
- Ruth Berman • The Sorrel Nag Remembers • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 5, 1989
- t. Winter-Damon • Those Scarlet Nights in Babylon • Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, 1989
- Sandra J. Lindow • Matreshka: Cracking Universal Mystery • Amazing, May 1989
- Jeff VanderMeer • Four Theories of Earth-Moon System Formation • Amazing, Sept. 1989
- Patrick McKinnon • dear spacemen, • Vice Versa, Vol. 4 Issue 3, 1989
- H. D. Moe • Magical News • Lost and Found Times, Issue 25, 1989
- John M. Ford • A Holiday in the Park • Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989
- Elisabeth Belile • Poems/October 13, Friday/titles given to me • WE, Issue 12, 1989
- Amy Schaefer • Emeretha • Amazing, May 1989
- Margaret Kathryn Erickson • Cinderella • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 5, 1989
- David R. Bunch • The Heartacher and the Warehouseman • Poly: New Speculative Writing, Ocean View Books, 1989