1989 Hugos
Awarded September 3, 1989, at Noreascon 3.
- Best Novel: Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
- Best Novella: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis
- Best Novelette: "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
- Best Short Story: "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick
- Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957–1965 by Samuel R. Delany
- Best Dramatic Presentation: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
- Best Professional Artist: Michael Whelan
- Best Semiprozine Hugo: Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
- Best Fanzine: File 770 ed. by Mike Glyer
- Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
- Best Fan Artist: (tie) Brad W. Foster and Diana Gallagher Wu
- Campbell Award: Michaela Roessner
Noreascon 3 made two special committee awards:
- Saul Jaffe - for the SF-LOVERS Digest
- Alex Schomburg - a Noreascon 3 Special Art Award
Consecutively Numbered Money Orders[edit]
“Consecutively numbered money orders” refers to what was considered an attempt to game the 1989 Hugos, when a bloc of nominations of one candidate for the Best Novel Hugo were accompanied by new Worldcon membership applications with fees paid with a series of money orders all from one post office in Brooklyn. At least some of the people whose names appeared on the ballots denied having submitted them — the Worldcon concom was alerted when they inquired as to why they were receiving publications.
The perpetrator was never publicly identified, but after investigating, the 1989 Hugo subcommittee reported that it was confident that the "beneficiaries" of the fraud had not approved it, known about it, or been involved in it.
After the news leaked, all fandom was plunged into war, the novel in question was withdrawn, and Hugo nominations rules were subsequently changed so that in order to nominate, one must have joined WSFS before the nominations period opens. In 2021, the WSFS Business Meeting ratified a constitutional change making the joining deadline January 31 of the awarding year.
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