Final Ballot covering the 1998 Award Year
The winners were announced at the November 1999 World Fantasy Conventionin Providence, RI.
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo)
The Martyring by Thomas Sullivan (Forge)
Mockingbird by Sean Stewart (Ace)
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay (Simon & Schuster/Earthlight (UK), Viking (Canada), HarperPrism (US)
Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint (Tor)
"Cold" by A. S. Byatt (Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Random House, Chatto & Windus)
"Dragonfly" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Legends, Robert Silverberg, ed., Tor, Voyager)
"The Hedge Knight" by George R.R. Martin (Legends, Robert Silverberg, ed., Tor, Voyager)
"Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub (Murder for Revenge, Otto Penzler, ed., Delacorte)
"The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov's, Nov 1998)
"The Death of the Duke" by Ellen Kushner (Starlight 2, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed., Tor)
"Every Angel is Terrifying" by John Kessel (F&SF, Oct/Nov 1998)
"Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" by Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman, Avon Books)
"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (Event Horizon Nov 15, 1998)
"Travels with the Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Volume 1, Number 1 1997/1998; Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.)
The Best of Crank! Bryan Cholfin, ed. (Tor)
Dark Terrors 4 Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
Dreaming Down-Under Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, eds. (HarperCollins Australia/Voyager)
Legends Robert Silverberg, ed. (Tor, Voyager)
Starlight 2 Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed. (Tor)
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt)
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson (Tor)
Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism)
Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton (British Fantasy Society)
The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady (DreamHaven Books)
Jim Burns
Tom Canty
Alan Clark
Bob Eggleton
Charles Vess
Les Daniels for Superman: The Complete History
Jo Fletcher for editing
David Pringle for Interzone
Robert Silverberg & Grania Davis for editing The Avram Davidson Treasury
Jim Turner for Golden Gryphon Press
Richard Chizmar for Cemetery Dance Publications
David Marshall for Pumpkin Books
Stephen Pasechnick for Edgewood Press
Jacob Weisman for Tachyon Publications
Nominees are not pre-announced in the Life Achievement category.