title: Rhysling Award
text: De Rhysling Award is de jaarlijkse onderscheiding voor het beste sciencefiction-, fantasy- of horrorgedicht. De prijs is genoemd naar een fictief persoon: de blinde dichter Rhysling uit het sciencefictionverhaal The Green Hills of Earth van Robert A. Heinlein.
  
  De onderscheiding wordt uitgereikt in twee categorieën: het beste korte gedicht tot en met 50 regels en het beste lange gedicht, vanaf 50 regels. Gedichten worden genomineerd door leden van de Science Fiction Poetry Association SFPA. Elk lid mag een gedicht nomineren in beide categorieën. De genomineerde gedichten worden in The Rhysling Anthology gebundeld. De leden kiezen vervolgens de winnaars.
  
  Behalve de Rhysling Award reikt de SFPA ook speciale onderscheidingen uit voor zeer korte gedichten, een tot tien regels: de Dwarf Stars Awards.
  
  Winnaars van het beste lange gedicht 
   1978 – Gene Wolfe The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps
   1979 – Michael Bishop For the Lady of a Physicist
   1980 – Andrew Joron The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes
   1981 – Thomas M. Disch On Science Fiction
   1982 – Ursula K. Le Guin The Well of Baln
   1983 – Adam Cornford Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide
   1984 – Joe Haldeman Saul's Death: Two Sestinas
   1985 – Siv Cedering A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
   1986 – Andrew Joron Shipwrecked on Destiny Five
   1987 – W. Gregory Stewart Daedalus
   1988 – Lucius Shepard White Trains
   1989 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston In the Darkened Hours en John M. Ford Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
   1990 – Patrick McKinnon dear spacemen
   1991 – David Memmott The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire
   1992 – W. Gregory Stewart the button and what you know
   1993 – William J. Daciuk To Be from Earth
   1994 – W. Gregory Stewart en Robert Frazier Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale
   1995 – David Lunde Pilot, Pilot
   1996 – Margaret B. Simon Variants of the Obsolete
   1997 – Terry A. Garey Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes
   1998 – Laurel Winter why goldfish shouldn't use power tools
   1999 – Bruce Boston Confessions of a Body Thief
   2000 – Geoffrey A. Landis Christmas (after we all get time machines)
   2001 – Joe Haldeman January Fires
   2002 – Lawrence Schimel How to Make a Human
   2003 – ex aequo: Charles Saplak, Mike Allen Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy en Sonya Taaffe Matlacihuatl's Gift
   2004 – Theodora Goss Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
   2005 – Tim Pratt Soul Searching
   2006 – Kendall Evans en David C. Kopaska-Merkel The Tin Men
   2007 – Mike Allen The Journey to Kailash
   2008 – Catherynne M. Valente The Seven Devils of Central California
   2009 – Geoffrey A. Landis Search
   2010 – Kendall Evans en Samantha Henderson In the Astronaut Asylum
   2011 – C.S.E. Cooney The Sea King's Second Bride
   2012 – Megan Arkenberg The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages
   2013 – Andrew Robert Sutton Into Flight
   2014 – Mary Soon Lee Interregnum
   2015 – F.J. Bergmann 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien
   2016 – ex aequo Krysada Panusith Phounsiri It Begins With A Haunting en Ann K. Schwader Keziah
   2017 – Theodora Goss Rose Child
  
  Winnaars van het beste korte gedicht 
   1978 – ex aequo: Duane Ackerson The Starman, Andrew Joron Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night en Sonya Dorman Corruption of Metals
   1979 – ex aequo: Duane Ackerson Fatalities en Steve Eng Storybooks and Treasure Maps
   1980 – ex aequo: Robert Frazier Encased in the Amber of Eternity en Peter Payack The Migration of Darkness
   1981 – Ken Duffin Meeting Place
   1982 – Raymond DiZazzo On the Speed of Sight
   1983 – Alan P. Lightman In Computers
   1984 – Helen Ehrlich Two Sonnets
   1985 – Bruce Boston For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
   1986 – Susan Palwick The Neighbor's Wife
   1987 – ex aequo: Jonathan V. Post Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope en John Calvin Rezmerski A Dream of Heredity
   1988 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston The Nightmare Collector en Suzette Haden Elgin Rocky Road to Hoe
   1989 – Robert Frazier Salinity
   1990 – G. Sutton Breiding Epitaph for Dreams
   1991 – Joe Haldeman Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh
   1992 – David Lunde Song of the Martian Cricket
   1993 – Jane Yolen Will
   1994 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston Spacer's Compass en Jeff VanderMeer Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over
   1995 – Dan Raphael Skin of Glass
   1996 – Bruce Boston Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation
   1997 – W. Gregory Stewart Day Omega
   1998 – John Grey Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother
   1999 – Laurel Winter egg horror poem
   2000 – Rebecca Marjesdatter Grimoire
   2001 – Bruce Boston My Wife Returns as She Would Have It
   2002 – William John Watkins We Die as Angels
   2003 – Ruth Berman Potherb Gardening
   2004 – Roger Dutcher Just Distance
   2005 – Greg Beatty No Ruined Lunar City
   2006 – Mike Allen The Strip Search
   2007 – Rich Ristow The Graven Idol's Godheart
   2008 – F.J. Bergmann Eating Light
   2009 – Amal El-Mohtar Song for an Ancient City
   2010 – Ann K. Schwader To Theia
   2011 – Amal El-Mohtar Peach-Creamed Honey
   2012 – Shira Lipkin The Library, After
   2013 – Terry A. Garey The Cat Star
   2014 – Amal El-Mohtar Turning the Leaves
   2015 – Marge Simon Shutdown
   2016 – Ruth Berman Time Travel Vocabulary Problems
   2017 – Marge Simon George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts
   2018 – Mary Soon Lee Advice to a Six-year-old
  
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