2000 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

Rhysling Chair: Deborah Shepard

Layout and Production: David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association and Stone Lightning Press

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place: Rebecca Marjesdatter • Grimoire • Tales of the Unanticipated 20, 1999

Second Place (tie): David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Clark the Ripper • Dreams & Nightmares 53, 1999

Second Place (tie): Ann K. Schwader • The Au Pair from Out There • Star*Line 22.5, 1999

Second Place (tie): Peggy J. Taylor • Brigit • Calyx, Summer 1999

Third Place (tie): Ruth Berman • Silicon Trade Agreement • Ruth Berman • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 20. 1999

Third Place (tie): G. O. Clark • The Unfinished Map of the Sky • Fantasque 2, 1999

Third Place (tie): David Lunde • A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant • Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1999

Third Place (tie): Wendy Rathbone • The Language of Rain • Dreams & Nightmares 54, 1999

Third Place (tie): W. Gregory Stewart • song of a last duckbill • Star*Line 22.2, 1999

Long Poem Category

First Place: Geoffrey A. Landis • Christmas (after we all get time machines) • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1999

Second Place: Rebecca Marjesdatter • Handwork • Women of Other Worlds (University of Western Australia Press, 1999)

Third Place (tie): Corrine De Winter • Salem Town • Gathering Darkness, Oct. 1999

Third Place (tie): Charlee Jacob • Impressions from Giger’s Necronomicons • Dreams & Nightmares 53, 1999

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

  • Michael A. Arnzen • umbilicle • Frisson, Issue 14, 1999
  • Ruth Berman • Silicon Trade Agreement • Ruth Berman • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 20. 1999
  • Bruce Boston • Another Short Horror Story • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 1999
  • Bruce Boston • What If the Aliens Have Come? • Handshake 38, 1999
  • G. O. Clark • The Unfinished Map of the Sky • Fantasque 2, 1999
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Clark the Ripper • Dreams & Nightmares 53, 1999
  • David Lunde • A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant • Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 1999
  • Rebecca Marjesdatter • Grimoire • Tales of the Unanticipated 20, 1999
  • Wendy Rathbone • The Language of Rain • Dreams & Nightmares 54, 1999
  • Michelle Scalise & Tom Piccirilli • Badges of Either’s Woe • Edgar: Digested Verse 4, 1999
  • Ann K. Schwader • The Au Pair from Out There • Star*Line 22.5, 1999
  • W. Gregory Stewart • song of a last duckbill • Star*Line 22.2, 1999
  • Peggy J. Taylor • Brigit • Calyx, Summer 1999
  • Laurel Winter • When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 1999

Long Poems

  • Lee Ballentine • Renounce the Emerald Piety • Talisman, 19, 1999
  • Corrine De Winter • Salem Town • Gathering Darkness, Oct. 1999
  • Charlee Jacob • Impressions from Giger’s Necronomicons • Dreams & Nightmares 53, 1999
  • Charlee Jacob • The Whole Behold • Star*Line 22.4, 1999
  • Geoffrey A. Landis • Christmas (after we all get time machines) • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1999
  • Rebecca Marjesdatter • Handwork • Women of Other Worlds (University of Western Australia Press, 1999)
  • Carol D. Page • The VR Screen • Star*Line 22.2, 1999
  • Scott Urban • Safeguard • Skull Job (Hatchet Job Press, 1999)
  • Ian Watson • Ode to My Screen Saver • Weird Tales, Spring 1999
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