1981 Balrog Award

Award Years for Balrog Award

1970's:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1979
1980's:	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	-	-	-	-


Novel
Win	The Wounded Land	Stephen R. Donaldson
Nomination	Ariosto	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Nomination	Firelord	Parke Godwin
Nomination	Firestarter	Stephen King
Nomination	Kill the Dead	Tanith Lee
Nomination	Lord Valentine's Castle	Robert Silverberg
Nomination	On Wings of Song	Thomas M. Disch
Nomination	Shadowland	Peter Straub
Nomination	The Book of Suns	Nancy Springer
Nomination	The Lost Legion	H. Warner Munn
Nomination	The Orphan	Robert Stallman
Nomination	The Parasite (variant of To Wake the Dead)	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	The Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe
Nomination	The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge
Nomination	The Vampire Tapestry	Suzy McKee Charnas

Short Fiction
Win	The Web of the Magi	Richard Cowper
Nomination	A Matter of Ceremony	Sharon Lee
Nomination	A Penny for Your Thoughts	George Clayton Johnson
Nomination	Call for the Dead	Glen Cook
Nomination	Children of the Kingdom	T. E. D. Klein
Nomination	Feesters in the Lake	Bob Leman
Nomination	Nothing in the Dark	George Clayton Johnson
Nomination	The Brave Little Toaster	Thomas M. Disch
Nomination	The Ugly Chickens	Howard Waldrop

Amateur Achievement
Win	for Fantasy Newsletter	Paul C. Allen and Susan Allen
Nomination	for editing Dragonfields	Charles de Lint
Nomination	for fantasy art books	Gerry de la Ree
Nomination	for Fantasy Artists Network	Kathy Hammel
Nomination	for Necronomicon Press	Marc Michaud
Nomination	for promoting sf/fantasy verse	Robert Frazier
Nomination	for Weird Tales Collector and Weird Menaces	Robert Weinberg
Nomination	for Whispers	Stuart David Schiff
Nomination	for work with Small Press Writers & Artists Organization	Charles R. Saunders

Amateur Publication
Win	Fantasy Newsletter	Paul C. Allen
Nomination	Dragon Fields	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Eldritch Tales	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Fantasy	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Fantasy Tales	Stephen Jones and David Sutton
Nomination	Locus	Charles N. Brown
Nomination	Lovecraft Studies	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Rehupa	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Science Fiction Review	Richard E. Geis
Nomination	Shayol	Pat Cadigan and Arnie Fenner
Nomination	Space & Time	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Weird Tales Collector	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Weirdbook	W. Paul Ganley
Nomination	Whispers	Stuart David Schiff

Artist
Win	----	Frank Frazetta
Nomination	----	Alicia Austin
Nomination	----	Thomas Canty
Nomination	----	Toss Chandler
Nomination	----	Stephen Fabian
Nomination	----	Don Maitz
Nomination	----	Rowena Morrill
Nomination	----	Real Musgrave
Nomination	----	J. K. Potter
Nomination	----	Judy King Rieniets
Nomination	----	Michael Whelan
Nomination	----	Bernie Wrightson

Collection/Anthology
Win	Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth	J. R. R. Tolkien
Nomination	Amazons!	Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Nomination	Basilisk	Ellen Kushner
Nomination	Dark Forces	Kirby McCauley
Nomination	Dragons of Light	Orson Scott Card
Nomination	Heroes and Horrors	Fritz Leiber
Nomination	New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	New Terrors	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories	Tom Reamy
Nomination	Shadows 2	Charles L. Grant
Nomination	Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn	Robert Asprin
Nomination	The Keeper's Price and Other Stories	Marion Zimmer Bradley
Nomination	The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII	Karl Edward Wagner
Nomination	Writing for the Twilight Zone	George Clayton Johnson
Nomination	Writing for the Twilight Zone	George Clayton Johnson

Fantasy Film Hall of Fame
Win	The Wizard of Oz (IMDB)	L. Frank Baum and Noel Langley and Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
Nomination	Bambi (IMDB)	Chuck Couch and Carl Fallbberg and Larry Morey and Felix Salten and Melvin Shaw and George Stallings and Ralph Wright
Nomination	Dracula (IMDB)	John L. Balderston and Louis Bromfield and Hamilton Deane and Garrett Fort and Dudley,Stevens,Louis Murphy and Bram Stoker
Nomination	King Kong (IMDB)	Merian C. Cooper and James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose and Edgar Wallace
Nomination	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (IMDB)	Dorothy Ann Blank and Richard Creedon and Merrill De Maris and Otto Englander and Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm and Earl Hurd and Dick Rickard and Ted Sears and Webb Smith
Nomination	Superman (IMDB)	Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Mario Puzo and David Newman and Leslie Newman and Robert Benton
Nomination	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (IMDB)	Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer
Nomination	The Empire Strikes Back (IMDB)	George Lucas and Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan
Nomination	The Lord of the Rings (IMDB)	J. R. R. Tolkien and Peter S. Beagle and Chris Conkling
Nomination	The Thief of Bagdad (IMDB)	Lajos Biro and Miles Malleson
Nomination	Watership Down (IMDB)	Richard Adams and Martin Rosen
Nomination	Wizards (IMDB)	Ralph Bakshi

Poet
Win	----	H. Warner Munn
Nomination	----	Joseph Payne Brennan
Nomination	----	Thomas M. Egan
Nomination	----	Steve Eng
Nomination	----	Frederick J. Mayer
Nomination	----	Diana L. Paxson
Nomination	----	Stephanie Stearns

Professional Achievement
Win	for contributions, including the Star Wars saga	George Lucas
Nomination	for a lifetime of fiction writing	Fritz Leiber
Nomination	for a lifetime of writing contributions	H. Warner Munn
Nomination	for articles and interviews	Jeffrey Elliot
Nomination	for contributions to fantasy literature	Harlan Ellison
Nomination	for editing at Gregg Press, Pocket Books, and Simon & Schuster	David G. Hartwell
Nomination	for editing Dark Forces	Kirby McCauley
Nomination	for his Kane series and editing	Karl Edward Wagner
Nomination	for life work in the field of fantasy	Frank Kelly Freas and Polly Freas
Nomination	for popularizing horror/fantasy fiction	Stephen King
Nomination	for publication of fine fantasy works	Donald M. Grant
Nomination	for publishing efforts	Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller
Nomination	for publishing his father's work	Christopher Tolkien

Professional Publication
Win	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	Edward L. Ferman
Nomination	Amazing Science Fiction Stories	Ted White
Nomination	Asimov's Science Fiction	George H. Scithers
Nomination	Fangoria	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Heavy Metal	Unknown-Mags
Nomination	Omni	Ben Bova
Nomination	Starlog	Howard Zimmerman
Nomination	Whispers Press	Stuart David Schiff
Nomination	Writing for the Twilight Zone	George Clayton Johnson

SF Film Hall of Fame
Win	The Empire Strikes Back (IMDB)	George Lucas and Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan
Nomination	A Clockwork Orange (IMDB)	Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick
Nomination	Alien (IMDB)	Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon and David Giler and Walter Hill
Nomination	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (IMDB)	Steven Spielberg
Nomination	Dark Star (IMDB)	John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon
Nomination	Forbidden Planet (IMDB)	Alan J. Adler and Irving Block and Cyril Hume
Nomination	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (IMDB)	Jack Finney and W. D. Richter
Nomination	Metropolis (IMDB)	Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou
Nomination	Silent Running (IMDB)	Steve Bocho and Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn
Nomination	Superman (IMDB)	Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Mario Puzo and David Newman and Leslie Newman and Robert Benton
Nomination	The Day the Earth Stood Still (IMDB)	Harry Bates and Edmund H. North
Nomination	The Lathe of Heaven (IMDB)	Ursula K. Le Guin
Nomination	Things to Come (IMDB)	H. G. Wells
Nomination	War of the Worlds (IMDB)	Barre Lyndon and H. G. Wells

Special Award
Win	----	Jorge Luís Borges
Win	----	Fritz Leiber

1981 Balrog Award

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Award Years for Balrog Award