Der Rhysling Award ist ein jährlich vergebener Preis für Gedichte aus den Genres Science-Fiction, Fantasy und Horror.
Er wurde erstmals 1978 vergeben. Die Mitglieder der Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) nominieren jeweils ein kurzes Gedicht (short poem) und ein langes Gedicht (long poem; mindestens 50 Verse). Die nominierten Gedichte werden dann in der Anthologie The Rhysling Anthology gesammelt und die Mitglieder stimmen über die Gewinner in den beiden Kategorien ab. Bei Stimmengleichstand kann auch mehrfach vergeben werden. Um nominiert zu werden, muss ein Gedicht im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlicht worden sein. Außerdem wurden in einigen Jahren Autoren für ihr Lebenswerk als Grand master poet ausgezeichnet. Der Preis wird seit 2005 im Juli auf der Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts, verliehen.
Der Name des Preises bezieht sich auf den fiktiven Dichter Rhysling in Robert A. Heinleins Kurzgeschichte Die grünen Hügel der Erde.
Für sehr kurze Gedichte von bis zu 10 Versen wird von der SFPA seit 2006 der Dwarf Stars Award verliehen.
Gewinner 1978 Short poem: Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night, Andrew Joron; Corruption of Metals, Sonya Dorman; The Starman, Duane Ackerson Long poem: The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps, Gene Wolfe 1979 Short poem: Fatalities, Duane Ackerson; Story Books and Treasure Maps, Steve Eng Long poem: For the Lady of a Physicist, Michael Bishop 1980 Short poem: The Migration of Darkness, Peter Payack; Encased in the Amber of Eternity, Robert Frazier Long poem: The Sonic Waterfall of Primes, Andrew Joron 1981 Short poem: Meeting Place, Ken Duffin Long poem: On Science Fiction, Thomas M. Disch 1982 Short poem: On the Speed of Light, Raymond DiZazzo Long poem: The Well of Baln, Ursula K. Le Guin 1983 Short poem: In Computers, Alan Lightman Long poem: Your Time and You, Adam Cornfield 1984 Short poem: Two Sonnets, Helen Ehrlich Long poem: Saul's Death, Joe Haldeman 1985 Short poem: For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets, Bruce Boston Long poem: A Letter from Caroline Herschel, Siv Cederling 1986 Short poem: The Neighbor's Wife, Susan Palwick Long poem: Shipwrecked on Destiny Five, Andrew Joron 1987 Short poem: A Dream of Heredity, John Calvin Rezmerski; Before the Big Bang, Jonathan V. Post Long poem: Daedalus, W. Gregory Stewart 1988 Short poem: Rocky Road to Hoe, Suzette Haden Elgin; The Nightmare Collector, Bruce Boston Long poem: White Trains, Lucius Shepard 1989 Short poem: Salinity, Robert Frazier Long poem: Winter Solstice, Camelot Station, John M. Ford; In the Darkened Hours, Bruce Boston 1990 Short poem: Epitaph for Dreams, G. Sutton Breiding Long poem: dear spacemen, Patrick McKinnon 1991 Short poem: Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh, Joe Haldeman Long poem: The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire, David Memmott 1992 Short poem: Song of the Martian Cricket, David Lunde Long poem: The button, and what you know, W. Gregory Stewart 1993 Short poem: Will, Jane Yolen Long poem: To Be from Earth, William Daciuk 1994 Short poem: Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over, Jeff VanderMeer; Spacer's Compass, Bruce Boston Long poem: Basement Flats, W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier 1995 Short poem: Skin of Glass, Dan Raphael Long poem: Pilot, Pilot, David Lunde 1996 Short poem: Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation, Bruce Boston Long poem: Variants of the Obsolete, Marge Simon 1997 Short poem: Day Omega, W. Gregory Stewart Long poem: Spottings UFOs While Canning Tomatoes, Terry Garey 1998 Short poem: Explaining Frankenstein To His Mother, John Grey Long poem: why goldfish shouldn't use power tools, Laurel Winter Grand master poet: Bruce Boston 1999 Short poem: Confessions of a Body Thief, Bruce Boston Long poem: egg horror poem, Laurel Winter 2000 Short poem: Grimoire, Rebecca Marjesdatter Long poem: Christmas (after we all got time machines), Geoffrey A. Landis 2001 Short poem: My Wife Returns As She Would Have It, Bruce Boston Long poem: January Fires, Joe Haldeman 2002 Short poem: We Die As Angels, William John Watkins Long poem: How to Make a Human, Lawrence Schimel 2003 Short poem: Potherb Gardening, Ruth Berman Long poem: Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy, Charles Saplak & Mike Allen; Matlacihuatl's Gift, Sonya Taaffe 2004 Short poem: Just Distance, Roger Dutcher Long poem: Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks, Theodora Goss Grand master poet: Robert Frazier 2005 Short poem: No Ruined Lunar City, Greg Beatty Long poem: Soul Searching, Tim Pratt 2006 Short poem: The Strip Search, Mike Allen Long poem: The Tin Men, Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel 2007 Short poem: The Graven Idol's Godheart, Rich Ristow Long poem: The Journey to Kailash, Mike Allen Grand master poet: Ray Bradbury 2008 Short poem: Eating Light, F. J. Bergmann Long poem: The Seven Devils of Central California, Catherynne M. Valente 2009 Short poem: Song for an Ancient City, Amal El-Mohtar Long poem: Search, Geoffrey A. Landis Grand master poet: Jane Yolen 2010 Short poem: To Theia, Ann K. Schwader Long poem: In the Astronaut Asylum, Kendall Evans & Samantha Henderson 2011 Short poem: Peach-Creamed Honey, Amal El-Mohtar Long poem: The Sea King's Second Bride, C. S. E. Cooney 2012 Short poem: The Library, After, Shira Lipkin Long poem: The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages, Megan Arkenberg 2013 Short poem: Into Flight, Andrew Robert Sutton Long poem: The Cat Star, Terry Garey 2014 Short poem: Turning the Leaves, Amal El-Mohtar Long poem: Interregnum, Mary Soon Lee Grand master poet: Marge Simon; Steve Sneyd 2015 Short poem: Shutdown, Marge Simon Long poem: 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien, F. J. Bergmann 2016 Short poem: Time Travel Vocabulary Problems, Ruth Berman Long poem: It Begins with a Haunting, Krysada Panusith Phounsiri; Keziah, Ann K. Schwader 2017 Short poem: George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts, Marge Simon Long poem: Rose Child, Theodora Goss 2018 Short poem: Advice to a Six-Year-Old, Mary Soon Lee Long poem: The Mushroom Hunters, Neil Gaiman 2019 Short poem: After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls, Beth Cato Long poem: Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld, Sarah Tolmie 2020 Short poem: Taking, Keeping, Jessica J. Horrowitz Long poem: Heliobacterium daphnephilum, Rebecca Buchanan 2021 Short poem: Summer Time(lessness), Linda D. Addison Long poem: Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London, Jenny Blackford 2022 Short poem: "Confessions of a Spaceport AI", Mary Soon Lee Long poem: "The Bookstore", Beth Cato 2023 Short poem: "Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon", Jennifer Crow Long poem: "Machine (r)Evolution", Colleen Anderson 2024 Short poem: "No one now remembers", Geoffrey A. Landis Long poem: "Little Brown Changeling", Lauren Scharhag
Siehe auch Elgin Award Dwarf Stars Award
Weblinks
Rhysling Award, Website der Science Fiction Poetry Association (engl.) Rhysling Awards, Eintrag in der Science Fiction Awards+ Database Rhysling Award, Übersicht in der Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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